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In Reply to: RE: Meddle? posted by mhardy6647 on May 09, 2008 at 15:53:20
When the initial Floyd had gotten beyond being a wanna-be blues band and perhaps more importantly, when Syd discovered acid, the band exploded into the void in London which opened as a hard core "underground: sought to equal San Francisco. As hardly anyone had been to SF and no records had appeared, it was an imaginary culture that Floyd tried to... not exactly copy but at least be part of.
When they eventually got to play SF, I think there was a shock that they were so radically different from the SF psychedelic bands, playing long improvised pieces that abandoned all melody and often even notes.
Even if Syd had not fallen foul of the acid evangelists who continues to spike him on a near 24 hour a day basis and even if the other band members/friends/managers had pulled him out of the flat at 101 Cromwell Road before his mental instability came to the fore that approach to music/life would not have lasted. Not one of the bands from SF in, say, 66, sounded the same by, again say, 76.
Most had imploded anyway.
But when Syd became impossible to have in the band, it forced their hand and even while their manager was prepared to give them up easily as they had lost their creative centre, the desire to be a band drove them and perhaps Roger Waters in particular to focus on writing.
Essentially the band drew a line under much of their past and started again.
A brave thing to do.
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