Knight of Swords

If anyone's into Pink Floyd here, you'll probably know about the gig that inspired The Wall (the Monteal gig where Roger Waters spat on someone in the crowd).

I heard a bit of that gig, where he goes to start playing Pigs On The Wing. Someone was letting off fireworks. Just before the singing starts, Roger Waters stops and says "For fuck sake, I'm trying to play a fucking song here. If you want to let off fireworks go outside and do it. Do you want to hear the song? I don't give a shit. I'm sure plenty of other people in here want to hear it. I want to hear it."

Can't remember the quote exactly, but that's all in it somewhere.

Dave Gilmour also walked off the stage before the end of the gig. You can hear from the recording that the crowd were making more noise than the band. Pink Floyd would have been as well just hooking a record player up the the PA and leaving the crowd to it.

Sorry to regurgitate a thread that hasn't been posted on for a wee while, but I think there's something nobody's really being saying. Bush isn't that stupid. Undoubtedly, he makes an arse of his lines and struggles to act without advisors etc, but this doesn't mean he's a moronic puppet of people who work outwith the public eye (although I accept that business has a lot more control over politics than anyone ever lets on).

Firstly, the American political system being so PR based, it's imperative for someone like Bush to react on the basis of advice, especially as he knows he tends to say the wrong thing. Taking the September 11th thing mentioned a few posts above, if Bush had immediately went to the media, he wouldn't have had time to prepare a statement and would have said the wrong thing, as I don't doubt most people would. It may be hard to personally know how to react to such a situation, but the PR teams were bound to have contingency plans for that kind of event.

Secondly, Bush has a public image of someone who says what he thinks, which comes across as more important than actually saying the right thing. On top of this, hasn't anyone noticed that despite Bush seemingly being an idiot, the Democrats have never been able to make the most of this? This suggests two things to me. Either, the Democrats are collectively as stupid as Bush, or Bush isn't as stupid as he appears. It seems unlikely that the whole Democratic Party are thick, so I tend to go for the second option.

I'd also agree with the person who said that the Democrats put up bad candidates against Bush. It's the same reason why Thatcher and Blair have had successful reigns.

Since I'm new here, I'm wondering what the predominant types on music on the Aberdeen scene are. Glasgow seems to be biased towards either heavy metal, punk or grunge. My band definitely fall more into spacey rock music, probably Brit Rock. Also, let me know what's worth checking out up your way...

Phaedra does a fantastic job of sending me to sleep every night!

That album and Rubycon are both good for that. You realise the rarity of meeting someone who listens to Tangerine Dream? I only know about a dozen people who've actually heard of them.

One of my pals managed to get chucked out of a Mogwai gig. He'd been desperate to see them for a few years, then got horsed before the gig and started getting on everyone's tits. You basically had this drunken twat jumping around bashing into everyone, while the rest of the crowd was stoned and enjoying the music.

Did anyone know that the Led Zep IV drum sound came from recording in an old hall with one microphone hanging over a balcony above the kit? I'm sure you can hear the squeeky bass drum pedal on that album too.

Phaedra by Tangerine Dream is creepy, although when I was wee, the funny duck noises at the end of Bike by Pink Floyd used to freak me out a bit.

Garage tends to be over 18. Definitely don't go down without checking first because you'll probably be disappointed.