Episode 36: Pink Floyd Money year 1973. English Version
00:00:00 - Classics, songs, all time. Classics, songs, all time. Classics, songs, all time.
00:00:19 - This is a rock podcast, welcome. We are back at Classic Rocks All Time.
00:00:25 - Today I present to you a veteran and old but good rock band, Pink Floyd.
00:00:30 - Founded in 1965. Let's go with the presentation.
00:00:42 - Finding classic rocks all time the most incredible stories and anecdotes.
00:00:48 - Musicians Bruce Dickinson want to see us
00:00:52 - People want to see us and you know, I mean first of all we love you know, we love doing it. It's
00:01:00 - It's really a kind of a privilege
00:01:05 - To be you know 51 years old
00:01:09 - I'm being able to go out just still to have a boy
00:01:13 - Let me well they spell differently everything is called orgasm a charm
00:01:16 - I think are useful, just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and...
00:01:30 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley
00:01:32 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't just go and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.
00:01:40 - I think I was very driven, period.
00:01:42 - It was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.
00:02:12 - Without a doubt, Pink Floyd left a legacy in progressive rock, with a lyrical very committed and critical of world reality, religious problems, economic wars, greed and human avarice, this elaborated by the great lyricist of the band Rogers Waters.
00:02:37 - This album, The Dark Side of the Moon, was made in March 1973, recorded at Abbey Road
00:02:44 - Studios in London, between May 1972 and January 1973, and developed and rehearsed during a series of live performances at previous months.
00:03:01 - The Dark Side of the Moon is the ultimate expression of Pink Floyd's sound art.
00:03:06 - The band consisted of Rodgers Waters on vocals and bass, David Gilmore on vocals and guitar,
00:03:12 - Nick Mason on drums, and Richard Wright on keyboards.
00:03:19 - The song Money Is and was one of Pink Floyd's most famous and recognizable songs, it was the only track from Dark Side, to enter the Billboard Hog 100, reaching number 13 in 1973.
00:03:32 - A rhythmic combination of noises and sound effects, of cash register and water's mind.
00:03:38 - Bluesy bass line on the go, with a dense bass, which then turns into an epic, swampy rock style complete with an exceptional guitar solo from Gilmore.
00:03:48 - Dick Perry's work on the saxophone is equally impressive.
00:03:54 - Meanwhile, the lyrics of the song acquire a contemporary relevance, very current, doing it through a lyrical, ironic, that makes us reflect on human greed and consumer capitalism.
00:04:09 - Money is a crime. Share it fairly, but don't take a piece of my pie.
00:04:15 - Gilmore Sings
00:04:21 - Despite the fact that the musicians of the band have become rich with the commercialization of the album. I consider that the criticism of money is a drug that brings out the worst in human beings is very valid and current. Today in the world, most of the conflicts are caused by money, the person is worth more for the money he has, and not for the values and education he has.
00:04:49 - Consumerism is increasingly irrational if it was ever rational, and solidarity with others is not a value that most human beings share.
00:04:57 - There is a line in the song that says, money, they say, is the root of all evil today.
00:05:03 - This phrase is similar to one in the New Testament, Timothy 6-10, for the love of money is the root of all evil.
00:05:23 - A lot of studio effects were used in this song.
00:05:26 - They were using a new 16 track recorder, which allowed them to layer sounds much more easily, but complex studio techniques like this still took a long time in 1973, as there were no digital recorders and samplers available like we have today.
00:05:42 - If you wanted to copy and paste something, you had to do it the hard way, with a razor blade and splice tape.
00:05:49 - Roger Waters put together the cash register tape loop that plays throughout the song.
00:05:55 - It also contains the sounds of paper being ripped, and bags of coins being thrown into an industrial food mixing bowl.
00:06:03 - The intro was recorded by capturing the sounds of an old cash register on tape, meticulously splicing and cutting the tape in a rhythmic pattern to create the cash register loop effect.
00:06:22 - I made up the rhythm tape in a shed at the bottom of the garden.
00:06:30 - My wife then was a potter, and she had a pottery studio at the bottom of the garden.
00:06:35 - I had a little music studio next to it, and she had a big metal mixing bowl for mixing up clay.
00:06:42 - And so I went, oh, I know how to make the rhythm for this.
00:06:47 - And I had a Reeboks A77 that I only had two track machines at the time I had, and so, you know, I got a microphone out and put it by the mixing bowl and threw a handful of coins in.
00:06:57 - Right, that's one of those. And then I tore some paper up. Right, there's another one.
00:07:00 - And then I searched around for the sound of a cash register or something.
00:07:03 - And I thought, oh, it's in seven, eight. Okay, so I cut up seven pieces of tape with the sound effects exactly the same length.
00:07:10 - And spliced them together and, you know, stuck it in the revocs going around a mic stand to hold it like that and press the button. And that was it.
00:07:20 - The album was definitely helped in quite a big way by money being the single.
and money was really the obvious choice.00:07:56 - Money, the dead weight, the dead weight drop it, your pain, you're okay.
00:08:22 - Money
00:08:25 - It's a gas
00:08:29 - Grab that cash with both hands and make a sash
00:08:36 - New car can beat our boss, our daydreams
00:08:40 - And the party at the ball team
00:08:44 - Money, get back, I'm on fire, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack
00:09:01 - My man, it's a hit Don't give me that good, good bullshith
00:09:15 - I'm in the high fidelity First class travelling sector
00:09:21 - Tonight ain't not me legit
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00:12:47 - Don't take a slice of my pie
00:12:52 - My name, so they say
00:12:58 - Is the fruit of all evil to take
00:13:05 - But if you ask for any lies, it's not surprising
00:13:09 - That if you come away
00:13:13 - Away, away
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