Experimentation is a part of rock and roll. The need to experiment, to create and the stretch the boundaries is essential. The overgrowing technology has certainly helped to the cause, without it rock and roll wouldn't be the same as it is today....
Inspired by the Beatles' 1965 release, Rubber Soul, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wanted to create the "greatest record ever". The result was Pet Sounds (1966), where Wilson's growing mastery of studio recording and his increasingly sophisticated songs and complex arrangements would reach a creative peak. Influenced by psychedelic drugs, Brian Wilson turned his attention inward and probe his deep-seated self-doubts and emotional longings. The album's meticulously layered harmonies and inventive instrumentation set a new standard for pop and rock music. Wilson was a pioneer of the 'studio as instrument' concept, exploiting novel combinations of sounds that sprang from the use of multiple electric instruments and voices in an ensemble and combining them with echo and reverberation. He often doubled bass, guitar and keyboard parts, blending them with reverberation and adding other unusual instruments. It remains one of the most evocative releases of the decade.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most important rock and roll album ever made, an unsurpassed adventure in concept, sound, songwriting, cover art and studio technology by the one of greatest rock & roll groups of all time. This album is also rock's ultimate declaration of change. For the Beatles, it was a decisive goodbye to matching suits, world tours and assembly-line record-making. Producer George Martin's innovative and lavish production included the orchestra usage and hired musicians ordered by the band. Genres such as music hall, jazz, rock and roll, western classical, and traditional Indian music are covered. Several then-new production effects feature extensively on the recordings. The use of multi-tracking , a new idea back then, is prevalent throughout the album...
Beginning with the sound of a heartbeat, Pink Floyd "Breathes" air into their 1973 release of the legendary The Dark Side of the Moon. Recorded in the famous Abbey Roads Studios between May 1972 and January 1973, the band were assigned staff engineer Alan Parsons (you know who he is) to oversee the recording of the Dark Side of the Moon. The recording sessions made use of some of the most advanced studio techniques of the time; the studio was capable of 16 track mixes, which offered a greater degree of flexibility than the eight- or four-track mixes they had previously used, although the band often used so many tracks that to make more space available second-generation copies were made. The sound effects on "Money" were created by splicing together Waters' recordings of clinking coins, tearing paper, a ringing cash register, and a clicking adding machine, which were used to create a 7-beats effects loop. And that's the tip of the iceberg...
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Somewhere my "Pet Sounds" album sits upstairs, still In the Merchants Delivery box It was put into 20 years ago, when we moved here. I suppose Rubber Soul Is still In one of the boxes also. BOTH were GREAT albums.
Yes Toad, they both GREAT albums-way ahead of their tine...Maybe a dusting off the records would bring back good memories.
All three songs, albums, and bands are classics. Doesn't Dark Side of the Moon hold the record for staying on the charts the longest?
One of my favorite Beach Boys songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeD_6Y3GQc
You can't beat Pink. I saw them two times in the old County Stadium, Dark Side of the Moon and Animals.
A few years back, I saw Aussie Pink Floyd at the Riverside in Milwaukee. They were spectacular! You would have thought it was the original band. They had the whole thing going: fabulous sound, laser light show, funky (meaning cool) visual movie backdrop, costumed back up singers. It was so good, I went back the next year when they returned. What a disappointment. Members of the band changed, and I'm assuming the people doing the sound mixing were different too. A totally disappointing performance.
Yes it does orbs, it stayed on the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. It also has sold an estimated 45 million copies worldwide.
As for "Good Vibrations", it was recorded during the Pet Sounds sessions. Released only as a single.
Pink Floyd is one band that I have dying to see for years. Unfortunately with the death of keyboardist Rick Wright a couple of years ago, that is unlikely to happen. I do would bootlegs of Pink Floyd during both DSOTM and Animals Tours.
I did a little research The Australian Pink Floyd Show. It would seem that they are more popular than I thought-playing shows worldwide. It did come to my attention that they did play for guitarist David Gilmour on his 50th birthday. Who would of thunk a tribute band playing for a member of the real thing?
Yes, drew, Aussie did play for him... and he loved it. I heard that Gilmour even asked to play some of the instruments, saying are there any tricks you want to show me on how to fly this thing. There was a real give and take between them.
The first show we saw was really awesome. Not so sure what went terribly wrong the second time. Could maybe have been too many personnel changes in too short of a time before the concert.
Aaaargg...I hate it when I find typos in my comments after I hit the publish button... It was supposed to be I HAVE bootlegs. What was I thinking? Anyways, the weirdest Pink Floyd bootleg was a show from Colmar, France in 1974. The band was experimenting with new material that would eventually end up on Animals.
Personnel changes can change the chemistry of most any band. I've seen this happen all the time. One the reasons why I'm so reluctant to see certain groups perform in concert.
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