Pink Floyd. Tell me your greatest or best moment with Pink Floyd.

It was 1977. I had just found that my sister had acquired a few tickets to the Pink Floyd concert at the Cleveland Coliseum. Me, my sister and two other girls went. I drove. Hounded by truckers (mostly in truck stops) was something my sister didn't seem to mind. I did. I'm a little old fashion, I guess. Anyway, we made it to the coliseum, went into the grounds and settled down. It wasn't too long before all four of us noticed that we had left the pot in the car. Shit! We all spread out...looking for a high and (me) a better viewing point of this great band. I and another girl had managed to get onto the field, right in front of the stage, which was all dark with no movement. Suddenly, an earsplitting noise....huge.... what is it?....I look up and see a 727 Boeing jet flying very close....too close....way TOO CLOSE!!!! People around are now screaming: "Is he going to crash?" "My god!" "What the fuck?" "Help me! I'm going to die"! The plane flies off behind the stadium and drops little plastic sheep with parachutes. I look at the sheep with a daze. I hear the sound of a phase shifter. Looking at the stage I see Pink Floyd....playing 'Sheep'!

My God, what a show!

smoking turkish black hash watching that amazing pig fly to the heavens

at this concert. This was just after the group got the Okay to proceed from Roger suing them. Were they just as amazing without Roger Waters? I envy you, matcom.

(and again on bootleg DVD. I'll get the official one eventually)

Unfortunately was too young to see any of the previous tours (except for the non-Waters tours and I wasn't interested in those)

Roman Colliseum, stone benches...
Amazing!

I was 16 and spending the summer with my cool older sister. She introduced me to her cool friends and I remember going to a party in a basement and getting tipsy while she and her friends got stoned (I didn't want to try pot then for some reason). One of the girls was in a recliner and totally diggin' Pink Floyd on the turntable. It cracked me up. She was so cooooooool.

Kinda silly.

I quit doing drugs a long, long time ago. I still dig Pink Floyd as much as I dig any accomplished and talented musicians. I especially love music with meaning. It doesn't matter whether other people dig Pink Floyd, I already know I do.... regardless of the input of those around me. Did you know that David Gilmore, (guitar, Pink Floyd) has mentored Kate Bush and even has appeared on a few of her albums? A lot of people don't know that.

My point is that this is not just a rock group, but accomplished musicians and artists.

I also remember being around 7 or 8 and hearing "if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding" and thinking that was so funny. The song means so much more now, but as a little kid they were just fun.

These people in this band are all groundbreakers in music. I'm certain that they can make any simple emotion into a song!

Who remembers 'Several Species Of Small Fury Animals Gathered Together In A Cave Grooving With A Pict'? This is art.

At tOlympia. Orr was it Cobo Hall?

there'd be some sexual memories with Pink Floyd's music. I know I've had a few with them.

Aside form a few sexual connotations, Floyd's' music is mostly about going into oneself, ones mind so to say. Yet, there's an occasional reference to sex and the display of, but I've only found that on The Wall and The Soundtrack To The Movie More. What else do you see? I'm curious.

It's just the mood that some of PF's music creates if you're with someone. The Darkside of the Moon is a great makeout set.

Huh. I've never heard of this being even the slight bit sexually aroused. Huh! This would never have occurred to me. I'm going over the music in my head now.... Nada! I don't know what to say.

incredible to make love to.

She was right... but I dunno if it was her or the music, since I was off-the-charts in love with her.

I've never seen Pink Floyd live, but I've spent many, many hours listening to them. No other music has had such a profound effect on me.

They're gods.

I was 14 and had been given permission to go to my first ever Concert. Berlin has 3 major concert places, 2 of which were in use this night. Chicago was playing at the Deutschlandehall and "someone" called Pink Floyd was at the smaller "Sportzepalast".
I had never heard of this Pink Floyd "guy" so I was interested in seeing Chicago. My friends elder sister and boyfriend wanted to go see Pink Floyd instead so off we went. We arrived outside of the Sportzepalast to the largest crowd I had ever been in...it was claustrophobic.

We had to wait here while sister and boyfriend got their tickets. When they got back to us they informed us that show was sold out!!! This was not looking like much fun and then someone from the band came out on a balcony overlooking the plaza. He had a megaphone. He told us that he was happy to announce that the show was sold out. He was even happier to announce that everyone else without tickets were going to be allowed in free of charge! How cool was that!!!

They not only played a memorable show but they came back for 4 encores! I bought their Umma-Gumma album when it was first released shortly after this show and recognized much from that concert.

Needless to say: "The band was just fantastic and by the way, which one's Pink?"
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You saw the real 'Pink' my friend.

...but no jet...that sounds way cool and way Pink Floyd!
We used something called Lumbrusco to quench our thirst and fill our bong...no cops to harass us. Final memory: We the crowd became one with the music, it flowed through us making us one with each other... It was a strange feeling which no other band has accomplished for me since.

Capitol Center in Largo, MD.
Fantastic concert absolutely floored me.

But that is not my best Pink Floyd moment though. When I was 14 I ran some speaker wires from my room outside to the rec room in the basement so I could here my music downstairs. My grandfather was visiting and was playing solitaire right under the speakers. I put on the alarm clocks from DSOTM and turned it WAY UP. When I went down to see his reaction he told me if I had scared him any worse I would be washing his underwear out.
BTW we were always playing tricks on each other so it just gave him incentive to get me back.

Saw Floyd before, this was the most fun. With friends and 'shrooms. Great memories.

Where we live that's pretty much impossible. The nearest fault line is a thousand miles away.

It was Pink Floyd tuning up to play at the stadium two miles away.

I have never been the same...

RL

Pink Floyd only enhanced my conviction.

First show of the Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour. HUGE stage show. Opened with "Echoes" rarely played on that tour, had the crashing plane and original 1977 pig before court ordered to cease. Awesome show!

oh and one week before saw Roger Waters Radio KAOS show in Columbus. Equally awesome!

on the 1994 "Division Bell" tour at the Metrodome. I had been a fan for nearly 25 years at that point, ant it was the closest thing to a religious experience I have had in my life. They never came to Minneapolis with Roger :(

Not sure. I was just a kid but I remember plain as day the news shows talking about how the LAPD decided that this was the show that was going to be the drug bust of all drug busts, and like half the crowd was hauled away to county jail and drug charges of various sorts. At least that's how I recall it.

Every concert was a deeply spiritual and religious experience.

No one does it like Floyd. NO ONE.

The Floyd were born of the universal aether to alight on this Earth and give us a gift from the very depth and beginnings of the cosmos itself and to reassure us that there is something beyond, something truly other beyond our facile ability to sense or comprehend.

They exist on a musical and performance plane that is so far above and removed from anyone else, it's not fair to the other groups to compare them.

I've been to a shitload of concerts, and seen most of the very best and most incredible musicians of classical and rock traditions; and I've seen some fucking amazing concerts. But Floyd's concerts stand so far above even the best of the others, that they can only be of something else.

I think it was "Walk This Way".

LOUD.

Me and my girlfriend at the time where heading to the beach.
Driving on Scenic Hwy. in Pensacola Florida. On one side of the road are homes set back behind trees and the other is a cliff leading down to Escambia Bay. We both had just got high, much more stoned than we had intended, and it is night and very dark.
I put in Wish You Were Here and Welcome to the Machine starts up. All of a sudden we
are in a hoover car. Future world cyber punk style. Floating, cruising thru the black night
of some strange altered world. The dash lights are foreign controls and the wheel is now an airplane yoke.The lights are suspended from hidden wires. A complete auditory induced illusion. When the song was over it was like being released from a trance, like a visor had been raised and reality rolled back in.

It was Awesome.

He was absolutely amazing, he played a lot of his old Pink Floyd hits along with his solo work. For some reason a lot of Pink Floyd fans seem to ignore Roger Waters solo career, but I would strongly encourage everyone to go out and buy Amused to Death and Radio KAOS, because both of these albums were way ahead of their time. Listen to the lyrics and you will see they resonate very well today.

"Hey bartender over hear, two more shots and two more beers. Sir, turn up the tv sound, the war has started on the ground. Just love those laser guided bombs, they're really great for righting wrongs, they hit the target we play the game from almost 3000 miles away, 3000 miles away. We play the game with the bravery of being out of range. We zap and maim with the bravery of being out of range."

Those are lyrics that should be played for every single chickenhawk that supports this war.

I have to settle for seeing them on my VCR, the Division Bell tour.

It is awesome