Influential Rock And Roll Band: Pink Floyd
Music 1091
Pink Floyd, Final Paper
Pink Floyd is one of the most well-respected and influential rock and roll bands of all time. Pink Floyd brought something new to the table of Rock and Roll. They created a sense of psychedelic hallucinations through their music and the lights they used during their performances.
The band did not immediately come up with the name “Pink Floyd.” The group first went by “Sigma 6” then “Architectural Abdabs” before finally settling on the name Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd is comprised of four members. Syd Barrett and David Gilmour both play guitar and are the vocals of the band. Nick Mason is on drums, while Roger Waters plays bass, synthesizer, and sings some vocals. Rick Wright also plays the keyboard …show more content…
The band released a double album titled Ummagumma which I found very interesting. The album had two discs, the first was many of their live performances and the second was and individual piece by each band member. In all, Pink Floyd released eighteen different albums but one album stands out from the rest. In 1973 the band released an album titled “Dark Side of the Moon.” This album broke all records and stayed on the Top 200 charts for an astonishing seven hundred and forty one weeks! The album was released in 1973 and stayed on the Top 200 chart until 1988. But the band did not stop there. Pink Floyd released another wildly popular album titled “The Wall.” Roger Waters told Rolling Stones magazine in 1982 that he “wanted to make comparisons between rock and roll concerts and war” and that is just what he did in this album. Another theme of this album, according to Walters, is “The idea that we, as individuals, generally find it necessary to avoid or deny the painful aspects of our experience, and often in fact use them as bricks in a wall behind which we may sometimes find shelter…” The band performed the song “Another Brick in the Wall,” which has three different parts, twenty four times all over the country, in a very theatrical manner. Each time the band performed this song an actual wall was built in front of the band which collapsed at the end of the song. “The Wall” is said to be the most pessimistic album to ever reach number
Pink Floyd, Final Paper
Pink Floyd is one of the most well-respected and influential rock and roll bands of all time. Pink Floyd brought something new to the table of Rock and Roll. They created a sense of psychedelic hallucinations through their music and the lights they used during their performances.
The band did not immediately come up with the name “Pink Floyd.” The group first went by “Sigma 6” then “Architectural Abdabs” before finally settling on the name Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd is comprised of four members. Syd Barrett and David Gilmour both play guitar and are the vocals of the band. Nick Mason is on drums, while Roger Waters plays bass, synthesizer, and sings some vocals. Rick Wright also plays the keyboard …show more content…
The band released a double album titled Ummagumma which I found very interesting. The album had two discs, the first was many of their live performances and the second was and individual piece by each band member. In all, Pink Floyd released eighteen different albums but one album stands out from the rest. In 1973 the band released an album titled “Dark Side of the Moon.” This album broke all records and stayed on the Top 200 charts for an astonishing seven hundred and forty one weeks! The album was released in 1973 and stayed on the Top 200 chart until 1988. But the band did not stop there. Pink Floyd released another wildly popular album titled “The Wall.” Roger Waters told Rolling Stones magazine in 1982 that he “wanted to make comparisons between rock and roll concerts and war” and that is just what he did in this album. Another theme of this album, according to Walters, is “The idea that we, as individuals, generally find it necessary to avoid or deny the painful aspects of our experience, and often in fact use them as bricks in a wall behind which we may sometimes find shelter…” The band performed the song “Another Brick in the Wall,” which has three different parts, twenty four times all over the country, in a very theatrical manner. Each time the band performed this song an actual wall was built in front of the band which collapsed at the end of the song. “The Wall” is said to be the most pessimistic album to ever reach number