History Trivia / PinkFloyd

** At one point, the band apparently considered releasing a live album of one of their concerts on "The Man and the Journey" tour, but decided against it due to the overlap of material with More and Ummagumma. Didn't stop fans from bootlegging it, though

** Waters wanted to release ''The Final Cut'' as a solo album, which explains why it was credited as "By Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd."

** Waters wanted to release ''The Final Cut'' as a solo album, which explains way it was credited as "By Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd."

* ChannelHop: The band switched to Columbia records in the U.S. for the release of ''Wish You Were Here'' and stayed there until the rights to the band's post-''Dark Side'' albums transferred back to Capitol in 2000.

* ChannelHop: The band switched to Columbia records in the U.S. for the released of ''Wish You Were Here'' and stayed there until the rights to the band's post-''Dark Side'' albums transferred back to Capitol in 2000.

* OneOfUs: What, you think the ''Series/DoctorWho'' theme got onto "One of These Days" on its own? "Sheep" also seems to be influenced by it. The band would also interrupt recording sessions to watch ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', and also partially funded ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.

** In 1978, Roger sent cassette demos of two projects which were to be the followup to ''Animals'' to the band and Bob Ezrin, asking which project they wanted to make. One, ''Music/TheWall'', was chosen. The other, ''The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking'', was not. Later on, ''Pros And Cons'' became Roger's first true solo album in 1984.

* OneOfUs: What, you think the ''Series/DoctorWho'' theme got onto "One of These Days" on its own? "Sheep" also seems to be influenced by it. The band would also interrupt recording sessions to watch Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, and also partially funded Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.

* ArtistDisillusionment: Waters went through a big bout of this during the ''In The Flesh'' tour supporting ''Animals'', as their new arena audiences would constantly yell (even during the quieter numbers), spend the entire set waiting for their big hits and otherwise be disruptive, in contrast to the previous audiences they were used to (which would only applaud at the end of songs); this came against a background of relations within the band beginning to collapse (Roger would travel to the venue separately and leave immediately afterwards). The culmination of this came on the final show on 6 July 1977 in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}, where Waters stopped during "Pigs on the Wing (Part II)" to deliver [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/1977-07-06_Waters%27_Speech.ogg this]] [[ClusterFBomb blistering]] tirade, and at the end spat in the face of a particularly disruptive fan he'd been irritated by (inspiring ''Music/TheWall'').

** Gilmour has recently lightened up a bit concerning both albums. He considered putting one of his songs from ''Atom Heart Mother'', "Fat Old Sun", into the compilation ''Echoes'', and at a 2008 concert at the Royal Concert of Music, he performed ''Atom Heart Mother'''s title suite with the suite's co-writer Ron Geesin and a choir.

* OneOfUs: What, you think the ''Series/DoctorWho'' theme got onto "One of These Days" on its own? "Sheep" also seems to be influenced by it.

* BadExportForYou: The first two releases of ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''. The first was a butchered version with added and deleted tracks. The second was the double album set ''A Nice Pair'', which was a reissue of the band's first two albums. The album version of "Astronomy Domine" was replaced with the version of ''Ummagumma''. Americans couldn't get a proper version of ''Piper'' until the CD era in TheEighties.

* ArtistDisillusionment: Waters went through a big bout of this during the ''In The Flesh'' tour supporting ''Animals'', as their new arena audiences would constantly yell (even during the quieter numbers), spend the entire set waiting for their big hits and otherwise be disruptive, in contrast to the previous audiences they were used to (which would only applaud at the end of songs); this came against a background of relations within the band beginning to collapse (Roger would travel to the venue separately and leave immediately afterwards). The culmination of this came on the final show on 6 July 1977 in {{Montreal}}, where Waters stopped during "Pigs on the Wing (Part II)" to deliver [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/1977-07-06_Waters%27_Speech.ogg this]] [[ClusterFBomb blistering]] tirade, and at the end spat in the face of a particularly disruptive fan he'd been irritated by (inspiring ''TheWall'').

* BadExportForYou: The first two releases of ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''. The first was a butchered version with added and deleted tracks. The second was the double album set ''A Nice Pair'', which was a reissue of the band's first two albums.The album version of "Astronomy Domine" was replaced with the version of ''Ummagumma''. Americans couldn't get a proper version of ''Piper'' until the CD era in TheEighties.

-->'''David Gilmour, asked about ''Atom Heart Mother'' in 2001''': "I listened to that album recently: God, it's shit, possibly our lowest point artistically. Atom Heart Mother sounds like we didn't have any idea between us, but we became much more prolific after it."\\

-->'''David Gilmour, asked about ''Atom Heart Mother'' in 2001''': "I listened to that album recently: God, it's shit, possibly our lowest point artistically. Atom Heart Mother sounds like we didn't have any idea between us, but we became much more prolific after it."
*** In a BBC Radio 1 interview in June 1984, Waters reiterated his feeling that ''Atom Heart Mother'' is "rubbish" and would never play it even if offered insane amounts of money. Wright simply stated "I like it."

* OneOfUs: What, you think the ''DoctorWho'' theme got onto "One of These Days" on its own? "Sheep" also seems to be influenced by it.

-->'''David Gilmour regarding ''Atom Heart Mother'' and ''Ummagumma''''': "I think both are pretty horrible. Well, the live disc of Ummagumma might be all right, but even that isn't recorded well."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Household Objects'', the original follow-up to ''Dark Side of the Moon'', an album recorded entirely on such items as pieces of string and kitchen appliances. After several months with only eighteen minutes of material to show for it, the band scrapped the project (the only bit that survived, music played on tuned glasses of water, was used as the intro to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond").

* CreatorBacklash / OldShame: Gilmour hated ''The Final Cut'', partly because some of the tracks on that album were rejected songs from ''The Wall'', though he admitted that he liked one or two songs from that album, one of them being "The Fletcher Memorial Home", which has appeared on the band's greatest hits albums ''Echoes'' and ''A Foot in the Door''.

** TheBeachBoys were originally scheduled to add backing vocals to "The Show Must Go On", but Waters cancelled the session at the last possible minute and settled for just Bruce Johnston and Toni Tennille.

** In 1978, Roger sent cassette demos of two projects which were to be the followup to ''Animals'' to the band and Bob Ezrin, asking which project they wanted to make. One, TheWall, was chosen. The other, ''The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking'', was not. Later on, ''Pros And Cons'' became Roger's first true solo album in 1984.