Pink Floyd Deep Dive #5: I'm Going To Start My Own Theme Park With Hookers and Blackjack

It's been some time since catching back in on this project, but it's about time to get back into it. With the LPs lined up...it was a bit difficult to determine how to proceed.

In the end, there will be three more posts about this band. This post is just about the Roger Waters Solo catalog.

All in all, he's released four solo records, not counting the three-ish solo records with Pink Floyd.

After these, I'm going to do two more posts featuring only live records and they'll be in a shoot out style.

PEW PEW PEW!!!

Now it's time to crane our collective necks to the redoubtable Mr. Waters's first solo excursion: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking.

Pink Floyd Deep Dive #4: I'm The Man

We Miss You Floyd

Before, I get back to this project....It's time to get a couple of things off of my chest.

In the past month, my family has experienced some serious losses. Neither of which were related to the current pandemic, thankfully.

In early April, my stepfather died. I've known that man longer and spent more time with him than my biological father.

He's actually met my wife. It was wholly unexpected and was very, very painful.

Before he died, I noticed my kitten, Randall Pink Floyd, was losing weight. He wasn't nearly as active as he once was. I decided I needed to contact the vet and get him fixed up.

Well, we couldn’t  fix him up. He had a very rare disease and we had to put him to sleep that day. Then, a week or two later, I get the Facebook memories about my last cat we had to put to sleep.

Pink Floyd Deep Diving #3: Becoming God Sized

Please note: This deep dive is now moving past the following albums: More, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, and Obscured by Clouds.

Let's be honest...that's a pretty significant chunk of music to be moving past, but there were bits and bobs of it in the Relics portion of #2.

So, I hope you Nick Mason fans really enjoyed that. As for me, my spending money hasn't gone to acquire my least favorite era of Pink Floyd on vinyl all that much.

Today, I begin the run of albums that the conscious rock hive mind thinks of when we hear the words Pink Floyd.

It all started with an album, a departure project that caused a schism in the world. Something so powerful, the world could never eject it from its collective psyche.

Today...we revisit....

Pink Floyd Deep Diving #2: The Jurassic Period

The first post to contain actual music will be this one. Perhaps it should've started with number one, but it did not.

I begin with Piper At The Gates of Dawn. This album, along with the following, is the A Nice Pair pressing from 1974.

This set was purchased at The Record Exchange on Hampton Ave in St. Louis, MO. I'd seen this pressing at an antique mall I routinely frequent for records as well.

More on that place later in the series, but I'd always placed it back on the rack because... I have Relics and that's enough of this era for me right?

Wrong.

I'm going to make one thing quite clear.

I find the Syd Barrett era of Pink Floyd to be a novelty. Now would be a spectacular time for you to either send me a nasty email or for you to comment below about how I'm a terrible human being, I don't understand Pink Floyd, and certainly my writing is subpar compared to the other semi-pro music bloggers in the world.

Pink Floyd Deep Diving #1: Adjusting The Lens

Source Material

Good afternoon.

During the mandatory at home orders we have in the City of St. Louis, I'm going to need to do something to fill my time a little bit. The idea here is to create a nexus of everything Glacially Musical is about and many, many things it's not about.

For starters, my blog is dedicated to the metal underground, but Pink Floyd is one of those bands that most metalheads of my generation and generations to come all seem to love.

They're not metal, but they are heavy in many different ways....which we'll get into as time wears on.

So, let's discuss what's happening with this series. For starters, this is bonus content and will not take any space way from what I already do. But, without the 2 hours a day in the car, there's a bit more time for writing.

This is is my project.