OK, before anyone starts complaining... I know there have been several Pink Floyd-related threads recently in the O/T forum, and one in the general forum even. For any non-Pink Floyd fans out there, that might seems annoying.

However, based on the interest of many people in those threads, I thought that it would be fun to have a bit of a Pink Floyd trivia game. And after all, it's just one more thread...

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So here's the first question...

What was one of the original names of the band that became "Pink Floyd"?

And I'm not talking about "The Pink Floyd Sound", but rather the pre-Syd Barrett version of the band, circa early-to-mid-1965. As far as I know, there are six correct answers to this question...

- The Architectural Abdabs
- The Screaming Abdabs
- The Tea Set

By that time, Waters, Mason and Wright were students at London Polytechnic School and would play with some schoolmates of theirs... No Barrett yet on the horizon.

I don't know the other answers.

edit: typo

The Megadeaths
Sigma 6
Leonard's Lodgers
The T-Set

I think we got now the six answers.
What is the second question?

ok, second question:

which two suites-although live performed-where never recorded as an album?

The Man / The Journey.

But most of their parts were released under different titles (Cymbaline, Green is the colour, Careful with that Axe Eugene, Pow R Toc H, A saucerful of secrets, ...)

Third question:
What was the name of the band D.Gilmour was playing with before joining Pink Floyd?

BTW:
Do you know where Syd Barrett lives?

In a country house,according to TV Personalities

Jokers Wild

David Gilmour, Clive Welham, John Gordon, Tony Santi and John Altham

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5459

I was really hopping someone would give me that answer



Didn't know about it.
I was thinking about Crew: Dave Gilmore, Alan reeves, Archie Leggett, Gary Wright and (sometimes) Kevin Ayers.

Next question?

Well, I think I never heard of any crew member you mentioned beside D.G.

Well, seems I was wrong.

The last band Dave was playing in before joining Pink Floyd was a trio called Bullit
Dave Gilmour, Ricky Wills and John "Willie" Wilson

Those three were the musicians on Dave's first solo album too.

Syd lives in Cambridge

> Crew: Dave Gilmore, Alan reeves, Archie Leggett, Gary Wright and (sometimes) Kevin Ayers

This may be the same Wright that did Dream Weaver. He was in London in the mid/late 60's.

xen-uno

Kevin Ayers played with Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt was their drumer). Maybe you know Soft Machine?

But, I'm not quite sure about the answer I gave actually. Got it from some book...

4th question, an easy one:

What's the origin of the band name Pink Floyd?

Oooh! One that I know!

The name came from combining the names of two of musicians Syd Barrett liked, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

I wonder how close their name was to becoming Anderson Council instead?

Edit: I was trying to think of a good question to post after my answer, but nyarlathotep beat me to it.

Here's one more anyway, call it Question #6

Keep Smiling People was one of the working titles of a PF song that was later released with what name?

OK
Question #5
Who "sings" background vocals on Seamus (Meddle)?

edit: really sorry, I had to correct the song title.

Seamus the dog sings the backgrounds.

"keep smiling people" was the working title of "careful with that axe, eugene"

Question Seven
What does Ummagumma mean?
(Don't ask me, I don't know).

ummagumma is a slang word for sex

Really! I've learned some really interesting English vocabulary at HA.
Someone with a new question?

8

on which song did Nick Mason the vocals?

one of these days

All right, on "One of These Days" there is another voice in the background. The voice is actually that of an English DJ from BBC Radio 2, who had the distinction of being extremely disliked by the group; a recording of his speech was also used in concert (late 1974) as a loop before "Raving and Drooling" (which was an early version of "Sheep"). For twenty points, what was the name of the DJ?

For thirty points, why did the group - and particularly Roger Waters - dislike him so much?

Lastly, during the final section of the song a familiar melody is heard... played on a VCS-3 Putney synthesizer, controlled via a joystick and patch bay, of all things. For a paltry twenty-five points, from which television show was this particular melody lifted?

- M.

I think the melody heard is the theme from "Doctor Who"

Yes, it is. Twenty-five points, robert.

- M.

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reading this thread makes me realise just how little I know about Pink Floyd; of course I at least heard of the band growing up, but would be hard pressed to identify any of their songs
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I listened and listened, but the only voice I can hear in this song on my copy of Meddle and Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd is Nick: "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces." Am I just not able to hear the other voice, or is there perhaps another recorded version of this song?

Maybe a hint as to where in the song the voice appears?

Bah - that's what I get for writing a trivia question from memory. The voice is there... but only in the original demo version of the song, which I suppose was the version foremost in my mind at the time.

Anyway, to answer the questions I posed (since they were rather unfair, given you might not have heard the demo version of "One of These Days"): The voice belongs to BBC Radio 2 DJ Jimmy Young, who was generally perceived as a likeable enough guy. But the Floyd regarded him as "babbling" and "inane," and in Waters' opinion he was even disturbing. (I would have accepted any of those three words as being correct, since they are the three most generally associated with the explanation in every printed account with which I am familiar.)

Let's see if I can do better with this one!

On July 10, 1969, the group went into the BBC television studios to record a video for an otherwise unreleased* song which has since become known as "Moonhead" (* although the bass line would later be incorporated into "Money"). Ten days later, it was broadcast during the first lunar landing as part of the cultural series Omnibus, and focused on historical perceptions of the moon itself. What was this episode of Omnibus subtitled?

- M.

That was indeed a very hard question.

Now, another one:
Question#9
What made the shows Pink Floyd gave in Marseille (South of France) in November 1972 so special (I mean even more than usually)?

Hmm... if you'll accept a date of December 1 (instead of November) at the Palais des Sports de Llle de la Jatte, St Ouen, my guess would be that it was the first time "Childhood's End" was performed live. It was a good show.

Of course, if that's not it I'm stumped.

- M.

True, but that's not what I was thinking about. Date and place are very important for that question.

edit: I just can say the answer is not related to their music.

@ #9 maybe the "Roland Petit" ballet with music by Pink Floyd:
- Careful with that axe Eugene
- Echoes
- One of these days
- Obscured by Clouds

I remember seeing such performance once on TV late night program

What if it's just green cheese?

Right answer

Question#10
Principal Edwards Magical Theatre
Unicorn
Robert Wyatt
The Damned
Kate Bush
What is the connection bewteen these artists and Pink Floyd (or more precisely: Pink Floyd's members)?

Which song is missing on The Wall movie? ("Because it is too repetitive" quote from Roger Waters")

The Show Must Go On but I'm not sure.

What Shall We Do Now?

I heard that some *early* releases of The Wall LP had this song listed on the sleeve, but it was actually cut from the album and the movie...or so I was told by a friend a while back who is even more of a fan than I am...

True. What Sall We Do Now? is neither on the album nor on the film. But, you can hear it on Pink Floys - The Wall Live.

Do you mean: a song that is on the album but not on the film?
I still think it is The Show Must Go On but am still not sure about that.

Please, also answer to question#10 a few posts above.

"What shall we do now?" is in the movie and was performed live, but was cut from the album.

The song beeing taken out from the movie is "Hey You". It's on the dvd as a bonus.

The answer to #10 is that they were all produced by members of Pink Floyd.


Here's a good question. Roger Waters couldn't hit all of the high notes on the recording of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. How Did they end up getting the vocals "correct"?

http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/...view/wywhe.html

thats right!

hehe
http://quizilla.com/users/Azulio/quizzes/W...20Are%20You%3F/

You are Echoes: The Best of Pink
Floyd
Truly, you are a mix of all the albums, you've
taken a special quality from each of them and
blended together in an all-around goopy
mixutre... yummy!

Funny, I wasn't particularly fond of that album.

maybe you don't like what you are