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Revista Solomusik Sumario Pink Floyd, el delicado sonido del trueno 4 Revista de música progresiva Edita: SóloMúsiK Avda. Manzanares, 194 Bajo Póster de regalo 10 28026 MADRID Presidente: Ángela Maestro Consejero delegado: Cardenal Richelieu El directo 12 Diseño gráfico: R. Estrada Avda. Manzanares, 194 Bajo 28026 MADRID Impresión: c/ Guttemberg, Discografía 16 s/n. Este número se vende con- junta e inseparablemente con el semanario. El precio de los Cubiertas 18 ejemplares atrasados es el doble del de portada. La revista no se hace respon- R. Waters 26 sable de las opiniones de sus colaboradores, ni de la origi- nalidad o veracidad de los artículos, ni de los fallos o Syd Barret 30 erratas de impresión. Sólo nos hacemos responsables de la pasta que usted se deja Carreras en solitario 32 en el quiosco. 2 3 Pink Floyd EL DELICADO SONIDO DEL TRUENO PINK FLOYD, grupo pionero británico de rock progresivo y psicodélico. Fue de los primeros en producir videos y películas musicales a partir de sus trabajos. En los años 1970 fue el grupo que más discos vendió en todo el mundo. ink Floyd nació en 1964 a partir de tos. Barrett había compuesto la mayor parte lo recordarían con afecto y llegarían a dedi- una banda anterior que utilizó dis- del primer álbum del grupo The Piper at the carle canciones como "Wish You Were PPtintos nombres, (Sigma 6, T-Set, Gates of Dawn (1967) y una pequeña parte Here". De esta forma empezaron a compo- Megadeaths, The Screaming Abdabs, The del segundo álbum A Saucerful of Secrets ner y liderar el grupo Gilmour y Waters. Architectural Abdabs y The Abdabs), lle- gando a denominarse The Pink Floyd Sound, para quedarse posteriormente en [Dark Side of the Moon, estuvo 14 años en la lista The Pink Floyd y finalmente sólo Pink de los 100 principales, rompió varios récords y es Floyd al publicar su primer disco en 1967. El nombre proviene de dos músicos de uno de los álbumes más vendidos de todos los blues, Pink Anderson y Floyd Council. tiempos.] Los componentes originales de Pink Floyd fueron: Bob Klose (guitarra solista), Syd Barrett (voces, guitarra rítmica), (1968). Poco a poco la figura de Barrett se Después de la banda sonora de la pelícu- Richard Wright (voces, teclados), Roger hizo cada vez más ausente, hasta que final- la More (1968), su siguiente disco fue el Waters (voces, bajo) y Nick Mason (bate- mente dejó de participar en los trabajos con doble Ummagumma (grabado entre ría). Syd Barrett dominaba la composición el grupo. Los demás componentes siempre Birmingham y Manchester en 1969), una influido por el rock psicodélico y el rock mezcla de temas en directos por una parte surf, lo que propició la salida de Bob Close, y experimentos de estudio por la otra en la (más cercano al jazz), y dejando un cuarte- cual cada tema fue compuesto por cada uno to más estable. de los miembros de la banda, cuyos temas En 1968, Syd Barrett, cuya salud mental ocupaban la mitad de una cara (unos 10 se había deteriorado, comenzó a hacerse minutos cada uno). cada vez más impredecible y los espectácu- En 1970 lanzaron Atom Heart Mother, los del grupo fueron resintiéndose cada vez (número uno en Reino Unido), en cuya más, por tal motivo, el grupo llamó a David orquestación colaboró Ron Geesin era un Gilmour para asistir a Barrett en la guitarra excelente trabajo que sin embargo pareció y voces cuando este sufriera alguno de sus no satisfacer mucho al grupo. Más acerta- bloqueos mentales, sin embargo esta solu- dos se sintieron con Meddle (1971), que ción no resultó práctica y los demás sim- incluye la mítica "Echoes" con 23 minutos, plemente dejaron de llevarlo a los concier- el estilo pop-jazz de "San Tropez", la 4 5 atmosférica "One of These Days", una obra la composición, perdiendo la senda de la Waters, que devolvió a Pink Floyd a las lis- nizada por Bob Geldof, el líder del grupo último trabajo juntos), que retomaba traba- clásica con una voz distorsionada que ame- simplicidad del rock and roll anterior. tas de éxitos y que actualmente es el tercer Boomtown Rats. La película contiene nota- jos no incluidos en The Wall y que mante- naza con "cortarte en trocitos uno de estos Animals contiene largas canciones asocia- disco más vendido en la historia. Entre bles escenas de animación realizadas por nía su misma atmósfera, algo más oscura días" y "Seamus", en la que dan rienda das a un tema, tomado en parte de la nove- otros, el tema "Another Brick in the Wall, Gerald Scarfe, colaborador desde hacía [Animals contiene largas quizás. También significó la aparición de suelta a su gusto por la experimentación. la Rebelión en la granja (Animal Farm) de Part II", una crítica a la educación infantil, tiempo de los Pink Floyd, y que siguieron canciones asociadas a canciones relacionadas con temas de Un álbum menos conocido, Obscured By George Orwell, que utiliza cerdos, perros y fue número uno y se convirtió casi en la misma línea de sus diseños para la carpe- actualidad, algo impuesto por Roger Clouds, salió en 1972 como la banda sono- ovejas como metáfora de la sociedad con- himno contra el sistema educativo. Otro ta del doble álbum de 1979. En la película un tema, tomado en Waters y que ha seguido haciendo en su ra de la película La Vallee. temporánea, estando más presente en la tema, "Comfortably Numb", que nunca se se incluyeron temas que no figuran en el parte de la novela carrera en solitario, como el corte "The instrumentación la guitarra que en sus editó como single, se convirtió en pieza álbum original y que completan la historia, Fletcher Memorial Home" en el que se otros trabajos. fundamental de todas las listas y hoy en día y lamentablemente excluyeron "Hey You", Rebelión en la granja de refleja la rabia de Waters en relación a la [Dark Side of the Moon En 1979 se publica la opera rock The es una de las canciones más conocidas del una pieza magnífica. George Orwell.] intervención británica en la Guerra de las junto con Wish You Were Wall, concebida principalmente por Roger grupo, teniendo como curiosidad que es la En 1983 vio la luz The Final Cut (literal- Malvinas. Algo más habitual en el grupo única canción de sus últimos cuatro discos mente el último corte, que anunciaba su como la crítica social, pero orientado a otra Here, Animals y The Wall en la que no hay continuidad con la canción se consideran como la anterior ni siguiente. Con The Wall el grupo hizo una gira mundial con un colosal cumbre de la carrera de montaje que incluía la construcción de un Pink Floyd.] muro gigante que iba ocultando el escena- rio y que finalmente era destruido, todo ello siguiendo la historia de esta obra con- A pesar de que Pink Floyd editó pocos ceptual. El álbum fue coproducido por Bob singles, como Arnold Layne, cuando pro- Ezrin, quién fue llamado para servir como dujo el exitoso álbum Dark Side of the mediador entre Gilmour y Waters, debido a Moon, el tema "Money" fue número uno en las continuas discusiones que se producían los Estados Unidos, el disco estuvo alrede- entre ambos. Erzin había producidos discos dor de 14 años en la lista de los 100 princi- para Alice Cooper y el grupo KISS. pales, rompió varios récords y es uno de los Además de como productor, Erzin partici- más vendidos de todos los tiempos. Dark pó en la composición del tema "The Trial". Side of the Moon es una obra conceptual en El carísimo montaje de The Wall generó la que se mezclan referencias a la neurosis, grandes pérdidas económicas y fue una pie- locura y la fama, y técnicamente fue una dra más en los engranajes de la banda, innovación al utilizar un nuevo equipo de unido a que se hizo patente el liderazgo de 16 pistas en los estudios de Abbey Road Roger Waters, creando frecuentes conflic- con el ingeniero de sonido Alan Parsons a tos con los otros miembros del grupo y lle- los mandos de la edición, constituyendo un nuevo estándar en la alta fidelidad. El álbum también es fuente de una leyenda [The Wall es una obra urbana que dice que fue concebida como banda sonora alternativa de la película El conceptual, una opera Mago de Oz de 1939, cosa que fue desmen- rock con una historia tida por el grupo. Dark Side of the Moon junto con los tres completa pensada para siguientes discos, Wish You Were Here, ser llevada al cine] Animals y The Wall se suelen considerar como la cumbre de la carrera de Pink Floyd. gando a provocar la salida de Richard Wish You Were Here se publicó en 1975 Wright, que volvió a participar en algunos como un tributo a Syd Barrett conteniendo conciertos de la gira pero ya contratado por letras explícitas sobre su proceso y separa- un salario fijo, (irónicamente esto permitió ción, destacando el tema "Shine On You que Wright fuera el único que ganara algo Crazy Diamond", básicamente instrumen- de dinero). tal y que recibió los elogios de la crítica, y The Wall es una obra conceptual, una el "Wish You Were Here" que dio título al opera rock con una historia completa pen- álbum. sada para ser llevada al cine, aunque hasta Por 1977, cuando se publicó Animals, 1982 no vio la luz la película Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd comenzó a recibir críticas por The Wall, adaptada por el propio Roger ser excesivamente pretenciosos y flojear en Waters, dirigida por Alan Parker y protago- 6 7 [En 1983 vio la luz The comenzó una batalla legal por los derechos En el año (2000) se publicó el concierto del nombre de la banda, fundamentalmente en vivo y directo de The Wall, correspon- Final Cut, literalmente el entre Roger Waters y David Gilmour, ya diente con la gira de 1980-1981.
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