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Zabriskie Point (album)
''Zabriskie Point'' is a soundtrack album to the Michelangelo Antonioni film of the same name. It was originally released in March 1970 and features songs recorded by contemporary rock acts of Antonioni's choosing, including Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, and the Kaleidoscope. A 1997 re-release includes four bonus tracks each from Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd that were used in the film, but not the original soundtrack. Jim Morrison of The Doors wrote the track "L'America" for the film, but was rejected by Antonioni ("L'America" was later released on The Doors' album '' L.A. Woman''). A Rolling Stones track, " You Got the Silver", is featured in the film but not included on this album. Pink Floyd Pink Floyd's contributions to the album were recorded in November and December 1969, after the release of ''Ummagumma''. " Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up" is a re-recording of " Careful with That Axe, Eugene," originally released as a b-side in December 1968. "Love Scene (Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s. Although he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader of the band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a member of the Grateful Dead. As one of its founders, Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead for the band's entire 30-year career (1965–1995). Garcia also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders–Garcia Band (with longtime friend Merl Saunders), the Jerry Garcia Band, Old & In the Way, the Garcia/ Grisman and Garcia/Kahn acoustic duos, Legion of Mary, and New Riders of the Purple Sage (which he co-founded with John Dawson and David Nelson). He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why Pink Floyd?
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate Pink Floyd live performances, live shows. They became a leading band of the progressive rock genre, cited by some as the greatest progressive rock band of all time. Pink Floyd were founded in 1965 by Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals), and Richard Wright (musician), Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals). Under Barrett's leadership, they released two charting singles and the successful debut album ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' (1967). Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour joined in December 1967; Barrett left in April 1968 due to deteriorating mental health. Waters became the primary lyricist and thematic leader, devising the concept album, concepts behind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Violent Sequence
"Us and Them" is a song by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, from their 1973 album ''The Dark Side of the Moon''. The music was written by Richard Wright with lyrics by Roger Waters. It is sung by David Gilmour, with harmonies by Wright. The song is 7minutes and 49 seconds, the longest on the album. "Us and Them" was released as the second single from ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' in the United States, peaking at No. 72 on the ''Cash Box'' Top 100 Singles chart in March 1974. The single peaked at No. 85 in the Canadian chart. Composition Richard Wright introduces the song with harmonies on his Hammond organ, and put a piano chordal backing and short piano solo afterwards on the arrangement. The tune was originally written on the piano by Wright for the film ''Zabriskie Point'' in 1969 and was titled "The Violent Sequence". In its original demo form it was instrumental, featuring only piano and bass. Director Michelangelo Antonioni rejected it on the grounds that it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unknown Song
"Unknown Song" is an instrumental track written and recorded by the Great Britain, British progressive rock group Pink Floyd. It has been released only on a bonus disc included in the 1997 re-release of the Zabriskie Point (album), soundtrack to Michelangelo Antonioni's movie ''Zabriskie Point (film), Zabriskie Point''. Music The track is simple and consists of melodies that were used later; the riff that starts to play at 1:54 is a faster tempo version of the "Funky Dung" section of "Atom Heart Mother (suite), Atom Heart Mother Suite". The main melody played by acoustic 12-string guitar throughout the song is somewhat typical to the band's later style – "A Pillow of Winds" or even "Brain Damage (Pink Floyd song), Brain Damage" can be heard as followers of the song's melodies. Other names "Unknown Song" is sometimes called "Rain in the Country" or "Country Rain" on bootleg recordings. Rain in the Country"> Trax and recordings > Unreleased Pink Floyd material > Rain in the Countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Song (Pink Floyd Song)
"Country Song", also known as "The Red Queen Theme", is an untitled country-styled song by Pink Floyd. History David Gilmour provides the lead vocals (though the remastered ''Zabriskie Point'' soundtrack booklet incorrectly states that Roger Waters is providing the lead vocal, though he does share vocals in unison with Gilmour in the chorus sections). It was originally meant to be on the soundtrack to the film ''Zabriskie Point'', but Michelangelo Antonioni didn't want it in the film. However, it can be found on the second disc from the soundtrack album's 1997 reissue. The song uses chess terms as metaphors. Versions of this song were called "The Red Queen Theme", possibly referring to the Red Queen character from ''Through the Looking-Glass ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' (also known as ''Alice Through the Looking-Glass'' or simply ''Through the Looking-Glass'') is a novel published on 27 December 1871 (though indicated as 1872) by Lewis Carroll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wright (musician)
Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was an English musician who was a co-founder of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He played keyboards and sang, appearing on almost every Pink Floyd album and performing on all their tours. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Pink Floyd. Wright grew up in Hatch End, Middlesex and met future Pink Floyd bandmates Roger Waters and Nick Mason while studying architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic, London. After being joined by frontman and songwriter Syd Barrett, the group found commercial success in 1967. Barrett was replaced by David Gilmour in 1968, who, along with Waters and Wright, took over songwriting. Initially contributing more as a singer/songwriter, Wright later acted mainly as an arranger on compositions by Waters and Gilmour. He began to contribute less towards the end of the 1970s and left the band after touring ''The Wall'' in 1981. He rejoined as a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
"Careful with That Axe, Eugene" is an instrumental piece by the British rock band Pink Floyd. It was recorded in November 1968 and released as the B-side to the single " Point Me at the Sky", and featured on the 1971 compilation album ''Relics''. It was re-recorded for the 1970 film ''Zabriskie Point'', retitling it "Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up" The song became a live favourite for Pink Floyd. Live versions can be found on various releases, such as the live half of the double album ''Ummagumma'' and the film '' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii''. It was performed sporadically after 1973, with a final one-off performance in 1977. Various versions, both live and studio recordings, were released as part of the 2016 box set ''The Early Years 1965–1972''. Composition and recording The original studio recording was made at Abbey Road Studios in a single three-hour session on 4 November 1968 and produced by Norman Smith. It was created as part of a desire for Pink Floyd to move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ummagumma
''Ummagumma'' is the fourth album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It is a double album and it was released on 7 November 1969 by Harvest Records. The first disc consists of live recordings from concerts at Mothers Club in Birmingham and the College of Commerce in Manchester that contained part of their normal set list of the time, while the second contains solo compositions by each member of the band recorded at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios). The artwork was designed by regular Floyd collaborators Hipgnosis and features a number of pictures of the band combined to give a Droste effect. It was the last album cover to feature the band. Although the album was well received at the time of release, and was a top five hit in the UK album charts, it has since been looked upon unfavourably by the band, who have expressed negative opinions about it in interviews. Nevertheless, the album has been reissued on CD several times, along with the rest of their catalogue. Title The a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Got The Silver
"You Got the Silver" is a song by the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1969 album ''Let It Bleed''. It was also released as the B-side to the "Let It Bleed (song), Let It Bleed" single in Japan. Recording Recorded on 18 February 1969, "You Got the Silver" is the first Stones song to feature guitarist Keith Richards on solo lead vocal throughout. Richards previously sang separate lead vocals on parts of "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" from ''Between the Buttons'' and on "Salt of the Earth (song), Salt of the Earth" from ''Beggars Banquet''. One of Richards' own compositions, "You Got the Silver" is said to have been written about his then-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg. The band recorded a version of the song with Mick Jagger on lead but opted to use Richards' version for the official release. The Jagger version has since become a well-known bootleg recording. "You Got the Silver" was the last Stones recording released with Brian Jones participatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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