Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 977233)

The same could be said of any psychedelic, new age, prog rock music. Have you listened to The Yes Album? Or Foxtrot by Genesis?


I have never abused any drug, legal or otherwise, yet I am a huge Pink Floyd fan as well as prog rock and find Sgt Peppers lonely hearts club band one of the finest albums of all time. Yet I do not feel the need to be stoned or high on drugs to enjoy them.

Just because a musician took drugs, is not a endorsement of them.
In fact David Gilmour did take cocaine during his divorce with then wife Ginger, he refers to the "usual rock star coke lifestyle"

And I quote from another website here:
I must say, Gilmour nails it on the head with one line, and this is a direct quote....."It's a drug that does nothing for anyone." True words, those! Actually it turns people into shells of people. It has the ability to deceive it's user, building up false confidence, "allowing" them to become more talkative and all the rest. "It left me with a prematurely aged heart", was another comment Gilmour made on the subject.

So back to the subject matter, Punk did not kill off Pop music, end of:cool:

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 977321)

Ahhhh...some New Wave! being a Simple Mind myself...
Just in case anyone was forgetting about me;)
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) - YouTube[/URL]

Saw them by chance at a little music festival in Chateaux Arnoux in Provence in 1998 -fab concert, Jim's hair was much shorter, met them after in the village -really nice folks.

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 979076)

Simple Minds aren't new wave they are more like Nu Romantics! Then became rock :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 979397)

Split all the hairs you want...New this or that..:D



Ahhhhhh! Vienna!

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 988828)

Interesting film -isn't it funny how time and distance make something which was seen as shocking and threatening now seem faintly laughable.

Glad I never donned the safety pins and chains myself - might have ended up like the two "old" punks who feature at the end:rolleyes:

They just about prove that punk is, if not dead, then not "wearing well with age"!

Whereas pop lives on..

Another favourite of mine, the dress over trousers is still fashionable and I love the earrings:D

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 990087)

I don't follow the charts these days -can't stand commercial radio stations with all the useless banter and the same songs being played over and over.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 990185)

Its a pity you can't get Vintage TV CHANNEL 369 on Sky mobertol, its great for 50s 60s 70s 80s music, its on all the time in my gaff, its like a backdrop to AccyWeb:D

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 990087)

I don't follow the charts these days -can't stand commercial radio stations with all the useless banter and the same songs being played over and over.

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 977224)

No, the issue here is not that LSD is good, but that it was a major influence on Pink Floyds music - come on you can't deny that their music is Trip music! :alright: