11-22-2003, 12:15 PM
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Too lazy to set a custom title
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: My network is hosted at TECHIEMEDIA.net ...Wait, you meant where am *I* located at? Oh... okay, I'm in Winnipeg, Canada. Oops. :)
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I did not know this...
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During the time that Floyd was making "Obscured By Clouds", they had written a 45-minute opus of songs that they played live. This opus was called Eclipse. It was mainly focused on society and how it alienates, controls, and destroys daily life. The original name for the opus was supposed to be Dark Side Of The Moon, but the British Blues band Medicine Head released an album the previous year of the same name. So they let the name go, until they heard that the Medicine Head album flopped on Billboard charts, so they revamped the name Dark Side Of The Moon and also wrote an end song for the opus which was called Eclipse. They turned their opus into an album in 1973, called Dark Side Of The Moon. It is the second highest selling rock record in History, compared to Michael Jackson's Thriller. For the tour, they recruited Dick Parry on Saxophone, and Venetta Fields & Carlena Williams on backup vocals. This is their first tour with extra musicians.
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http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/history2.html
Only problem is, Michael Jackson's "thriller" isn't a rock album. |
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