Wed Sep 07, 2016 4:16 pm
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Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:08 pm
Corporal Clegg wrote:Hi. I don't know if I made a typo or if some kinda glitch happened but I know how to spell Corporal. It seems I'm stuck with Corporel Clegg for now. Old timer Pink Floyd fans should know the name from the Roger Waters song. Anyway, just bought my first G&L and am poking around for info. My real name is Jim. I hope to be a good neighbor here. Cheers friends. Jim
Wed Sep 07, 2016 8:20 pm
Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:16 pm
Craig wrote:Corporal Clegg wrote:Hi. I don't know if I made a typo or if some kinda glitch happened but I know how to spell Corporal. It seems I'm stuck with Corporel Clegg for now. Old timer Pink Floyd fans should know the name from the Roger Waters song. Anyway, just bought my first G&L and am poking around for info. My real name is Jim. I hope to be a good neighbor here. Cheers friends. Jim
Hello Jim,
I fixed the spelling of your username. I, too, am a fan and collector of early Pink Floyd, so I knew as soon as I saw you username what you were referring to.
Welcome to our site!
Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:31 pm
guitar_ed wrote:Hi Jim.
Got any pix? USA or Tribute? Model, color, easy stuff??
Welcome to the addiction.
edg
Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:41 pm
sam wrote:Hi Jim,
Welcome to the G&L cult uh, uh club. Looking forward to seeing pics of yer new guitar. Another Floyd fan so I got the Corporal Clegg reference. Did you see/hear the new David Gilmour clip of him doing The Beatles Her, There and Everywhere? VERY good version. He has a new selection out or coming out that should be interesting.
Come around and jump in often.
Fri Sep 09, 2016 12:27 pm
Corporal Clegg wrote:sam wrote:Hi Jim,
Welcome to the G&L cult uh, uh club. Looking forward to seeing pics of yer new guitar. Another Floyd fan so I got the Corporal Clegg reference. Did you see/hear the new David Gilmour clip of him doing The Beatles Her, There and Everywhere? VERY good version. He has a new selection out or coming out that should be interesting.
Come around and jump in often.
No, I haven't seen his Beatles cover yet, but I'll look. I saw his solo concert shows to promote his first two albums back in the day at the Beacon Theater in NY. I saw Pink Floyd 22 times. Once I saw them when I was 16 at Carnegie Hall, I would never miss a show in NY, NJ or CT again. Best was Radio City Musical Hall March '73 when Dark Side was really finished and this was the big rollout tour. I took a weeks vacation from my job in Feb. 1980 to see 4 of the Wall Shows at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Spectacular. Plus I worked in a Kinks concert at St. Johns basketball gym to cap off the week.
Fri Sep 09, 2016 1:46 pm
Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:20 pm
FZTNT wrote:
Massive Floyd fan here too. However they are not Pink Floyd without Rodger Waters, IMO. Saw two shows of The Wall at Nassau Coliseum. Saw the last show performed in the U.S. from the front row. I also had the once in a lifetime opportunity to work for them for four days in Miami during the rehearsals for the '94 world tour (Division Bell I think) at Joe Robbie Stadium. I watched several nights dress rehearsals from where ever I wanted to sit with only about 100 people in the stadium. It was awesome beyond belief, even without Rodger. Best stadium sound system I have ever heard. Sat about 100 feet out from the stage on a cooler full of imported beer with no-one between us and the stage. Like I said, did this three nights in a row and mostly just hung out during the day and messed around on stage when the band was not there. We just had to build and deliver a laser scanner and hang out and make sure it worked. It did. If you ever seen The Floyd, or some other bands, and seen the 90 degree horizontal wave of laser above Gilmore, his favorite laser effect, that's what we built for them. The two they had were sent off for repair and never seen again. It's mostly a front surface mirror mounted on a motor that travels 90 degrees left to right incredibly fast and makes that cool wave of light when you shoot a laser at it.
Anyway, a fun time was had by all. Here's a few pics from The Wall. I have some pics from the '94 but can't put my hands on them currently. One of the best moments was watching the band play "Wish You Were Here" all acoustic and during the day.
Tom
ps...sorry for the slight hijack.
Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:23 pm
cho wrote:Hi Jim. I'm a big Floyd fan too. I was 12 years old in 1980, so I didn't get to see the original band, but saw them in '87 and '94, and saw Gilmour on the About Face tour in '84.
I have two G&L Legacies that are my "tributes" to Gilmour: one is black, with black pickguard, white pickup covers, and a maple fretboard, which looks like his signature guitar. The other is the same but with a rosewood fretboard to match his guitar during the Animals era. Of course, now I will need to post some pics...
Welcome to the forum!
Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:19 am
Sat Sep 10, 2016 12:00 pm
FZTNT wrote:I saw that show at MSG, like you, there were chemicals involved. It was either the 3rd or 4th of July and people were throwing M-80's around both before and during the show. As loud as the band could be, the M-80's would drown them out, echoing around MSG and it was deafening. Rodger actually stopped the show and said "If you continue to throw bombs we are going to have to stop playing."
Another quote from that show was one of my all time favorite Rodger Waters quote. It was the Animals tour so they had the giant inflatable pig. When it came out he said "Do you like my pig? He's not a very nice pig, but he's a BIG pig!"
The surround system was freaky. Wish I had seen the Pros and Cons tour with or without Clapton. Still one of my favorite albums.
Also wish I could have gotten my hands on some of the Hammer arm bands or flags from the wall. I have looked for years on EBAY for them and have never seen one up for sale. I have always wanted a tattoo. One day I finally decided what it is that I wanted inked for eternity on my body. I was forty at the time. Since I couldn't get an arm band:
Kind of a crappy photo, taken in mirror and down rez'd too many times.
Tom
Sun Sep 11, 2016 12:38 pm
Sun Sep 11, 2016 1:48 pm
FZTNT wrote:Fortunately, The Wall shows I saw went off according to plan, as far as I know anyway. I saw the 5th and 7th shows. It's funny, if you look at some accounts, they will tell you that they did 7 shows in LA and 5 in Nassau Coliseum. It is the other way around though. I have a funny story about how I got my tickets to the 5th show but that's for another time and place. Needless to say it involves being thrown out of the venue for trying to sneak into the box office. They later added two more shows and I had a friend that worked the local Ticketron machine. She let me in five minuets early ahead of the hundreds of people waiting in line and the first two tickets were front row inside isle seats. All told I left with 18 tickets all in the first seven rows. Best time ever and perhaps the best show I have ever seen. I sold most of my tickets the next day for twice what I paid and thought I made great money. This was the first concert I recall where tickets were going for 300 bucks the day of the show. I paid 18 and change. I hate the system now where a show like this is priced out of reach for so many people. Not always face value but the big ticket brokers manage to scarf up all the good seats and then charge ten times what they paid. I just hate it, it feels like I am being held hostage. I also think that in most cases the band and promoters are in on the action.
Tom
Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:24 am
Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:43 am
FZTNT wrote:My other tattoo is the Barking Pumpkin Records logo. No photo cause it's on my back shoulder. Needless to say it gets some looks while I am at the pool or beach. Major Zappa fan as you can tell from my screen name. I lived right outside NYC in the '70s and '80s and would practically live in the city when he came to town. We would go to every show, every day. Between the NY venues and colleges in the New England area I have seen him more than 70 times including quite a few shows with Beefheart, what a trip. He used to play in a small club in Westport, CT. sometimes and was a hoot to see his solo acts.
Most of the Zappa shows I went to I had front row seats and also took some great photos when they were not trying to throw me out. Lost a few rolls of film from time to time.
Sounds like you may have lived nearby too.
Tom
Tue Sep 13, 2016 4:33 pm
Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:16 pm
FZTNT wrote:Wow, sounds like a better way to access the venues than I had. We used to have to ride in on the train. Sometimes we stayed in the city for a week like when Zappa was playoff the felt forum or Paladium and the like. I used to play tennis with Lary Coryell's wife and sometimes him too. They lived in my town and I worked at a tennis club where it was part of my job to fill in if one of a foursome didn't show up. Sometimes Chic or Al or even Stanley Clark would be tagging along. Always saw the Return To Forever guys in Westport or Port Orange. Dave Brubeck and his family lived in my town too. My brother took piano lessons from his son Darius and we used to have his band play at our parties. McCoy Tyner lived there too and I went to high school with his son. Many great musicians loved the area so it was a great area to see some of the best acts in very intimate settings. I remember seeing John McLaughlin and L. Shankar at small rooms in NYC where there were only 50 or 60 people in the place. They would sit on Persian carpets and just play acoustic. The music and passion would virtually drive me to tears. Then again, so would some of the Zappa solos I have heard.
We saw all this guys in and around NYC, Devo, The Dead (although I have never owned a Dead album), Alman Bros, Little Feat, the list goes on and on. There wear so many venues and college campuses there wasn't an act you couldn't see if you wanted to. My one big regret is not going to see Bob Marley at the Palladium before he died. It was the '70s and for some reason I didn't want to be the only white guy in Washington Square Park at a Bob Marley concert. Reggae had not quite caught on with the mainstream American White folks yet. Wish I had gone.
When I moved away from the area the music scene was not near what had been going on in the NYC area and I had to come back to continue to see any good shows. I lived in Maine so Boston was ok for some things. Portland had a decent show about once a year but that was about it. Later I got into the recording and live audio business and got to mix some good bands either FOH or often do monitors. Nothing like my hero though, bands like Willie Nelson, George Thoroughgood, Chubby Checker, Michael Bolton and a whole host of other either up coming talent or old school talent. I worked for Disney so all kinds of acts would come through and play for like $50K plus expenses plus a whole VIP vacation for their families. They didn't need to lug a PA or lighting system there so it was a good little thing for them. Like I said, too many to remember them all but I covered a lot of talent and styles.
Tom