50 Jahre: Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon

Bevor ich überhaupt von The Dark Side Of The Moon wusste, geschweige denn die Songs des Albums kannte, entdeckte ich Pink Floyd im Sommer 1979 auf der Musikkassette eines Freundes. Careful, With That Axe Eugene, Welcome To The Machine und Shine On You Crazy Diamond hießen die Songs, die mich zum Fan werden ließen.

Dark Side Of The Moon kam definitiv erst später dazu. Es würde mich interessieren, wann ich auf TDSOTM stieß. Aber es könnte ein, zwei Jahre später gewesen sein. Muss das checken ….

ALAN PARSONS

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. To this day, I feel honored to have been a part of such a groundbreaking album. Our goal at the time was to stretch the boundaries of the recording process, and in the process create something magical. And I think many will agree we achieved that goal.

As engineer, I was grateful that the band was open to a number of my suggestions, which included the use of the clocks on the intro to Time, as well as utilization of a very talented vocalist who I had previously worked with named Clare Torry for the vocals on Great Gig in the Sky.

The fact that we are still talking about this album 50 years later is something I never would have dreamed possible. And yet, here we are….

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AN ALBUM ABOUT MADNESS & CREED

SPEAK TO ME

• Chris Adamson (Road-Manager): I’ve been mad for fucking years. Absolutely years. I’ve been over the edge. For yonks. Working with bands, so long I mean, crique.
• Gerry O’Driscoll (Abbey Road Portier): I’ve always been mad.

ON THE RUN

• The Travel Section
• Roger (The Hat) Manifold

THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY

• The Mortality Sequence enthielt readings from the Book Of Ephesians, the Lord’s Prayer and discourses by the controversial broadcaster Malcolm Muggeridge.
• Später im Laufe des Jahres schlug Alan Parsons vor, die Rede von Commander Eugene Cernan prior to his departing the surface of the moon on Apollo 17 (the final manned Apollo mission), on December 14, 1972, dubbed over the piano solo: “As we leave the moon and Taurus Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind… Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.”
• Gerry O’Driscoll und Peter Watts den Tod
• Clare Torry

US AND THEM

Question. When was the last time you were violent?

• Roger “The Hat” Manifold; (Pink Floyd roadie): I’m not gonna kill ya so like if ya give ’em a quick sh, short sharp shock, they don’t do it again, dig it. I mean he got off light cause I could have give him a thrashing, I only hit him once. It’s the only difference of right and wrong isn’t it. I mean good manners don’t cost nothing do they. Hey!

Question. Greed

• Roger Manifold: If I participate in this fucking effort I hope I’m going to get my gold disc at the end of it. Imagine that.

Question: Does death frighten you?

• Gerry O’Driscoll; Why should I be frightened of dying? I see no reason for it, you’ve got to go sometime.
• Unconfirmed: I’m not frightened of dying at all, cause when ya gotta go, you gotta go.

Question: When was the last time you were violent?

• Henry McCullough: I don’t know, I was really drunk at the time.

Question: When you were violent, were you in the right?

• Henry McCullough; Yea, I was in the right
• Unbekannt: Yes. Absolutely in the right.
• Gerry O’Driscoll: I certainly was in the right
• Patricia “Puddie” Watts: Yea, I was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruisin for a bruisin.

Question; Sanity

• Roger Manifold: I once reached a stage in my life where I was completely convinced that I’d gone over the brink. Or that’s what I cared to call it.

BRAIN DAMAGE

• Gerry Driscoll: I’ve always been mad, I know I’ve been mad, like most of us are. Very hard to explain why you are mad, even if you are not mad.
• Pete Watts (Pink Floyd’s road manager) laughs

ECLIPSE

• Gerry Driscoll: There is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact, it’s all dark.

WAYNE COYNE

Was, glauben Sie, macht „The Dark Side Of The Moon“ so zeitlos?

WAYNE COYNE: Es sind einfach wirklich tolle Songs drauf. Es ist perfekt — aber es ist auch immer der gleiche Song, immer und immer wieder. Das Album versucht gar nicht dynamisch zu sein, lauter und leiser zu werden. Es ist derselbe Song mit ein paar seltsamen Instrumentalpassagen dazwischen. Es erzeugt eine Stimmung, eine Geisteshaltung.

Roger Waters, der gar nicht anders kann als immer sauer zu sein — und das in Kombination mit David Gilmour und Richard Wright, zwei sanftmütige, äußerst nette britische Musiker. Die Kombination zwischen diesen Polen macht die Magie aus. Kurz gesagt: tolle Songs, tolle Sounds, toller Gesang, tolle Harmonien, tolle Ideen.

Quelle: „Pink Floyd sind eine Geisteshaltung“: Wayne Coyne im Interview über 50 Jahre „The Dark Side Of The Moon“