It is true that obtaining the inspiration to create music is hard unless one can apply creative thoughts into the song writing mission. Bradley Spalter music has the power to connect with people because the words are real to each and everyone. Still, enhancing ideas with further composition is not a simple task to accomplish. Not for Bradley. He has been a veteran in the music industry, composing songs and producing them with the use of modern amenities to create an influential music track that people will love. The songs cover a vast genre so that those from an older era can also take part in enjoying his music.

Bradley allows the listener to imagine a memory in great detail – colors, sounds, smells and carefully described emotions that will give a good image and a story to dwell upon, such as the lyrics in Simple Days sung by Babyface:

“Bring back those simple times of yesterday
When a man was a man
And a friend was a friend
Bring back those simple times of yesterday
When you said what you meant
And you meant what you said…”

This is a message of struggle to achieve the simple life, an imagined time when everything returns to an uncomplicated state like when people are not so busy spinning lies and are able show their real self toward others. Does the message cover several generations? Absolutely! Yet Bradley Spalter does not only create forceful lyrics. He also puts a good melody so that it becomes a song that resonates well. What results is good, sentimental music with a deep message. It makes one strive to live a life free from trouble.

Anyone who has sung songs by Bradley Spalter will even look for more. In a world full of shallowness and superficial remedies to life’s problems, old school music will never fail to inspire. Bradley Spalter’s music carries with it the finesse of superbly created lyrics paired with advanced musical production.

This version is edited down from a VHS tape to fit the 10 minute YouTube limit, but offers better video camera angles than the newer DVD version.

It has received over 20 million views on YouTube and this video represents Syd Barrett’s life – from Earl’s Court in London England October 1994. Enjoy!

Original YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U

Pink Floyd Time Lyrics:

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

BREATHE REPRISE
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

This version is edited down from a VHS tape to fit the 10 minute YouTube limit, but offers better video camera angles than the newer DVD version.

It has received over 20 million views on YouTube and this video represents Syd Barrett’s life – from Earl’s Court in London England October 1994. Enjoy!

Original YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqgjCKm9nQ

Roger Waters and David Gilmour were recently reunited in London for a live stage performance of Comfortably Numb caught on this YouTube video. Roger Waters was in the middle of his tour performance of The Wall at the London O2. Shortly after they were joined by Nick Mason making it 30 years since they had last performed The Wall in London. Enjoy this video and SHARE it on Facebook and Twitter!

Here is another video showing Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason reunited together.

Original YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRSChj6w4c

The year was 1977. Pink Floyd had taken over the psychedelic minds of Teenagers around the Universe. After a spectacular performance in Cleveland, I was invited along with my girlfriend to a back stage party. David Gilmour was a Brit from Cambridge where we had been neighbors and school chums for a brief period in the early 60′s. As the gathering wore on, I had the good fortune to speak to David for the first and final time since he had become a big star. He shared some funny accounts about what had happened to some of our old mates back in England. However, I let him know that what was really on my mind. I wanted to hear all about the band’s musical plans. Like every other diehard fan, I wanted to know if there were any works in the offing to reprise Dark Side of the Moon. He told me that with the success of Wish You Were Here and the mediocre fan reaction to Animals he was now looking for a totally new sound to the music which would of course manifest a couple years later as The Wall. As the party was winding down, I made it a point to tell David that like a lot of fellow mood enhanced spiritual travelers I would never lose hope that he would eventually reprise DSOTM because of the remarkable achievement I felt that the recording represented.

Fate is a spectacular soul mate if you are a true believer. A month later, after spending a beautiful day in a boat on Lake Michigan celebrating way too much with some friends from Jam Productions, I ended up at an Aerosmith concert in Chicago. At Jam’s groupie gathering after the gig, I got into a spirited conversation with a then very young Cameron Crowe and a curious keyboard player named Greg Halpern who was a little hung up on how both his parents were born on March 6, and how it was oddly enough David Gilmour’s birthday too. When I overheard how passionately they were fantasizing about putting together a reprise to Dark Side of the Moon I interrupted the conversation by mentioning that they were talking about an old pal of mine and I let them know my opinion that I thought Gilmour and Company would go in an adventurous new direction instead of trying to recapture the immense magic of DSOTM.

Halpern did not accept my statement and he became more intense than ever going so far as to promise to deliver a sequel recording himself if he had to. While I found the concept irresistible and Halpern’s enthusiasm infectious, I recall laughing noticeably at the prospect of anyone other than Pink Floyd being able to turn such a dream into a reality.

Nearly 25 years goes by while more than 40 million copies of the original Floyd work are sold, and I get this wild looking CD in my mail with the title Dim Side of Mars and a note that read as follows:

“Dear Boomer: It only took six studios, 34 musicians, a few rewrites and seven engineers to figure out how they did it. Finally, I have a response to Dark Side that I feel I can be proud of. DSOTM was either divinely inspired, or it was some intense acid that Waters and Gilmour took on their trip to the top of the musical journey mountain. Anyway, I got so much older trying to build this project in my spare time, that when I finally figured out how to do it, I realize I had been on a natural high for almost 25 years. After a great creative struggle, and a lot of lousy recordings, I finally figured out how to create the magic wall of sound that has endured for three decades. So I hope it knocks you out. By the way, there is no band. It’s just a group of musicians I assembled to make it happen. I put the name Boomer on the cover to honor our fateful meeting in Chicago along time ago. You inspired me man. Truly Your Crazy Diamond, GJH”

When I saw it, I literally almost flipped over backwards. The cover graphic was freakishly cool on par with something old Storm Thorgerson would do at Hipgnosis Design which peaked my curiosity to the max. To use another old-timers phrase, I was jazzed to the limit trying to imagine whether or not it had any real Mr. Natural power like the original. So as any decent old rocker historian would do, I put on my best old Koss headphones, laid down on the bed in the dark and listened to it start to finish – twice before finally dozing off at 2:00AM. It blew me away, more the second time than the first as I began to hear many sounds I missed the on the initial listening. The entire work has quite a bit of the awe-inspiring, thought-provoking, psychedelic, mood enhanced attitude and inventiveness Waters and Gilmour brought to DSOTM. Much of the musicianship and writing style Floyd had used were here on Dim Side of Mars too – including swing and waltz beats, bending Fenders Stratocasters and VCS1 swelling synth sounds. Start to finish, and without a wasted moment, I felt the music may some day gain enough recognition to be mentioned in the same historical sentence as DSOTM.

According to Halpern, several other planetary based sequels will be released whenever he gets around to it in the years to come. A wacky footnote: he claims to actually have come up with a magic formula he can use to create more recordings that evoke the big hall sound of DSOTM. He plans to bring it to Australian Pink Floyd and get them to tour with the new original music. I did a little digging with an old friend who was with Sony A & R in early 2000 and he said they didn’t care for the lack of originality of Dim Side because it sounded way too much like songs that could have been on Dark Side of the Moon. Well I guess they missed the whole point dude!

After listening to Dim Side all day and night it became my top 10 all-time favorites partly because like a lot of fanatic rockers of the theme album era, it was like a reincarnation. I was so inspired that I gleefully offered to write this introduction, but then I didn’t hear another word from Halpern for six more years about any launch so I just figured he and the project had drowned in Lake Michigan. He finally finished whatever else he was doing and gave me the go ahead so here’s my opinion for whatever it’s worth.

Dim Side of Mars is definitely an inspired rainbow colored journey of lyrical and musical moods and textures. The one truly relevant point that comes to mind about this recording is that if you loved Dark Side of the Moon the way I have, and the way countless millions of first, second, third and now fourth generation listeners have over the past several decades, then I know you will absolutely fall head-over-heels in love with Dim Side because this newer work was truly an outgrowth of its predecessor in ways that you can only appreciate by listening to it from beginning to end in a dark private place. In my humble opinion, you will not be at all disappointed by the hypnotic experience and adventure this music causes which is like traveling back in a machine through time and space…

Shine on,
Boomer

Symbolic Analysis Review by Ray Horton

Most art music, dance, painting, sculpture, movies, literature has been built on an influence of what has proceeded it. In the case of Dim Side of Mars that influence is Pink Floyd. Through the effective use of symbolism, and a musical score highly reminiscent of Dark Side of the Moon, G. J. Halpern’s lyrics warn us of the dangers of lust, greed and society’s apathetic values that can prevent us from pursuing an existentially authentic life. The following are interpretive summaries of each of the seven songs on the recording:

Alpha State – If you are looking for meaning in life, but you are apathetic, you will be ‘Searching hard for nothin’.
Heartbeat – Youthful lust can result in hurt so deep that it can’t even be fully understood.
Writing on the Wall – If you lead a life of ‘standardization’ based on society’s norms, you ‘obliterate’ any chance for an authentic life.
Greed – When you worship your ‘Worldly Goods’, greed will be at the expense of any possible deeper spiritual reality.
Political Jujitsu – Political solutions are deceivingly seductive, but such political games are actually crimes against citizens.
No Reflection – ‘If we avoid pretension – we can just forget convention’ and then we have a chance for self-discovery.
Myopia – Viewed from the point of view of a person near death in a nursing home, it would be terrible to have wasted our life pursuing the myopic values of society.

There are thousands of Pink Floyd related pictures across the web.  In this post we have decided to organize over 40 of them into a clean Pink Floyd photo album for your enjoyment.  If you have a picture that you would like to see on this page, please leave a link to it in the comments below.

We plan to grow this list over time into several hundred pictures, so any comments you leave will help us improve this page.

The discography of English rock band Pink Floyd consists of 14 studio albums (one of which is a mixture of live and studio), three live albums (not re-counting the mixed album), six compilations, three box sets, one EP, 26 singles, 10 music videos, and four video albums. Formed in 1965, Pink Floyd initially earned recognition for their psychedelic or space rock music and, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. They are known for philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and elaborate live shows. One of rock music’s most successful acts, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million certified units in the United States alone.

As a psychedelic band led by Syd Barrett in the late 1960s, Pink Floyd had moderate mainstream success and were one of the most popular bands in the London underground music scene; however, Barrett’s erratic behaviour eventually forced his colleagues to replace him with guitarist and singer David Gilmour. After Barrett’s departure the band released Ummagumma. The album was released as a double disc, the first disc containing songs performed live, the other containing new studio-recorded songs. Singer and bass player Roger Waters gradually became the dominant and driving force in the mid-1970s, until his eventual departure from the group in 1985. The band recorded several albums, achieving worldwide success with The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979); all except Animals peaked at number one on the United States record chart. The Dark Side of the Moon is one of the best-selling albums in the world. The Wall is considered to be the best selling multiple-disc album of all time in the U.S. In 1985, Waters declared Pink Floyd “a spent force”, but the remaining members, led by Gilmour, continued recording and touring under the name Pink Floyd. Waters sued the remaining members for the rights to the name. Following an out-of-court settlement, the band enjoyed worldwide success with A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) and The Division Bell (1994).

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Released: August 4, 1967 Label: Columbia (EMI), Tower, Capitol Format: Mono LP, Stereo LP, cassette, 8-track, CD The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the only one made under founding member Syd Barrett’s leadership. The album contains whimsical lyrics about space, scarecrows, gnomes, bicycles and fairy tales, along with psychedelic instrumental songs. The album was initially released in 1967 by Columbia/EMI in the United Kingdom and Tower/Capitol in the United States. Special limited editions were issued to mark its thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries in 1997 and 2007, respectively.

A Saucerful of Secrets Released: June 28th, 1968 Label: Columbia (EMI), Tower, Capitol Format: Mono LP, Stereo LP, cassette, 8-track, CD A Saucerful of Secrets is the second studio album by English rock group Pink Floyd. It was recorded at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios on various dates from August 1967 to April 1968. It is both the last Pink Floyd album on which Syd Barrett would appear and the only studio album in which all 5 band members contributed.

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Released: August 4, 1967 Label: Columbia (EMI), Tower, Capitol Format: Mono LP, Stereo LP, cassette, 8-track, CD The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the only one made under founding member Syd Barrett’s leadership. The album contains whimsical lyrics about space, scarecrows, gnomes, bicycles and fairy tales, along with psychedelic instrumental songs. The album was initially released in 1967 by Columbia/EMI in the United Kingdom and Tower/Capitol in the United States. Special limited editions were issued to mark its thirtieth and fortieth anniversaries in 1997 and 2007, respectively.

Syd Barrett Biography

Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter. He is most remembered as a founding member of the psychedelic/progressive rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use.

Barrett was active as a rock musician for about seven years, recording three singles, two albums, and several unreleased songs with Pink Floyd, and two solo albums before going into self-imposed seclusion lasting more than thirty years. In his post rock-band life, he focused on his art and on gardening; he died in 2006. A number of biographies have been written about him since the 1980s and Pink Floyd wrote and recorded several tributes to him after he left, the most known being the 1975 album Wish You Were Here.

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Syd Barrett Pictures

Syd Barrett Videos on YouTube

Syd Barrett Quotes

“A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I’m quite happy doing what I’m doing.” – Syd Barrett

“Fairy-tales are nice.” – Syd Barrett

“Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.” – Syd Barrett

“Have you seen the roses? There’s a whole lot of colours.” – Syd Barrett

“I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.” – Syd Barrett

“I don’t really read a lot. Maybe I should.” – Syd Barrett

“I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway.” – Syd Barrett

“I like songs that are simple.” – Syd Barrett

“I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.” – Syd Barrett

“I think it’s good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.” – Syd Barrett

“I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.” – Syd Barrett

“I wasn’t always this introverted.” – Syd Barrett

“I’d like to be rich. I’d like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.” – Syd Barrett

“I’m disappearing, avoiding most things.” – Syd Barrett

“I’m full of dust and guitars.” – Syd Barrett

“I’m sorry I can’t speak very coherently.” – Syd Barrett

“I’m treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.” – Syd Barrett

“I’ve just had an operation, but nothing too serious.” – Syd Barrett

“If I’d stayed at college I would have become a teacher.” – Syd Barrett

“It’s always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I’m a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn’t reach that point.” – Syd Barrett

“Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it’s so clean.” – Syd Barrett

“The only work I’ve done the last two years is interviews. I’m very good at it.” – Syd Barrett

“When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.” – Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett Interviews

Floydians are on the web in huge numbers talking about the title of the latest Transformers movie, Dark of the Moon, mostly positive in suggesting that the name is a “nod” to Pink Floyd. Rumors are floating that Michael Bay did this on purpose to pay respect, while others are talking about how Michael Bay is just trying to cash in on the Pink Floyd hit song Dark Side of the Moon.

Regardless of what each side of the debate suggests, it is clear that Pink Floyd is going to have yet another spike in albums sales continuing to make them one of the most popular bands in the world, with record numbers in album sales and die hard loyal fans often referred to as “Floydians“.

Two very prominent Floydian Fan Bands have created follow up albums to Dark Side of the Moon which are titled Bright Side of the Sun and Dim Side of Mars. These albums are doing well on iTunes and fans are happy with the homage that was paid to Pink Floyd by creating beautiful songs with the distinct style you can expect with Floyd. While there is no comparison to the real thing, it is nice to see fans putting together albums and creating more of the music that we have all come to love.

Two more extremely popular songs are “Comfortably Numb“ and “Another Brick in the Wall”, which combined have sold millions up millions of albums as well as amassing nearly 100 million YouTube views combined from just their official releases.

So what are your thoughts on fans creating follow up albums, paying respect to Pink Floyd? And do you believe that Michael Bay has his heart in the right place with this movie title choice or is he just trying to ride Pink Floyd’s popularity without paying royalties? You decide…

Over the years many Floydians have put together albums with a sound and style similar to Pink Floyd, but the best follow up album that we have come across are Dim Side of Mars by Boomer and Bright Side of the Sun by Zodiac Blue. Both of their albums are available on iTunes and below are samples of 5 songs from each album. We would love to hear your feedback in the comments as well as links to any other great Pink Floyd remakes, tribute songs, follow albums and more. Click play on any of the mp3 songs below and adjust your volume to get the best listening experience. Enjoy!