3 comments about PINK FLOYD VOLUME 68 BK/CD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Hal Leonard Guitar Play-Along).

1. Discover the world of a Masterpiece: The Dark Side of the Moon. This edition is a must have for those who want to play and learn Pink Floyd's music from one of their all-time classics. Chords, chord progressions, and scales are applied to songs of the album that was released 30 years ago in 1973. Each song includes a one-page explanation on the lesson. Great format! Standard music notation and guitar tab, lyrics and notation legend, it's all there to make it easy. Print quality is one of the best I have ever seen. Many guitar tabs have really sloppy prints. The other edition of The dark side is one of them. This one on the contrary is absolutely immaculate. I simply love it!



2. I purchased this book thinking it was for guitar, only the whole book is bass tab. You would think it would say so SOMEWHERE on the page...



3. Please look at the dates of the other reviews of this book. If a review is dated before June 2007 it is a review of different book.
   When making a book and CD package like this editors must make compromises in order for it to be useful for the lone guitarist. Many songs on this album contain multiple guitars overdubbed, this tab is supposed to be compromise that blends all the guitar parts together so the lone guitarist can play along. Unfortunately the editors chose not to transcribe the dominate riff in, "Money" instead the rhythm guitar is notated, a BIG MISTAKE. Other than that the tabulate is incredibly accurate and will replace the other DSOTM tab books you may own.
   Now here are the specifics: "Speak to Me" and "Breath" are both transcribed under the title, "Breath." The transcription of, "Time" includes the breath reprise. "On the Run" and "TGGITS" are not transcribed, as there is no guitar on these tracks. The CD contains a demonstration of each track with guitar and then a backing track with the guitar removed. The CD track order is listed incorrectly in the table of contents. There is no information about music theory, scales, or equipment.
   This play along would have received 5 stars if the main riff for, "Money" had been transcribed.

5 comments about Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here GTE (Pink Floyd).

1. I reaaly thought this book was helpful to see the masters art better



2. The tablature is decent, although there are some mistakes as with all tab books.
   
   My main complaint is that the book itself is falling apart (it is brand new and unabused). Pages are falling out which makes playing & reading/flipping pages simultaneously very difficult.
   
   There is a good interview with Roger Waters at the beginning, as well as period photographs, which are always a nice addition.
   
   The songs are not printed in the order they appear on the album, but since the pages are falling out, I suppose you can rearrange them any way you wish.
   
   Overall, this is a very good note-for-note transcription of one of Gilmour's greatest achievments.



3. That being said, I do agree with the reviewer who complained about the songs not being in order. But the Roger and David interview and all the awesome pictures in it, make it all worth it.
   
   Wish You Were Here is my favorite album and its awesome to be playing my favorite songs. Buy this if your a guitar player(and a Floydian) and you won't be dissapointed.



4. Another wonderful album by Pink Floyd. Excellent, not a lot of lyrics mostly great music.
   Must have for PF fans!



5. "Wish You Were Here" is one of PF's great albums musically, despite the fact that the band was going through a tough time due to the success, money and fame that Dark Side of the Moon had brought them. All this is discussed in the interview with Roger Waters that opens the book. There are also some great pictures. Despite these tensions within the band, a great album emerged with PF's distinctive sound.
   
   This guitar tab book includes all the music and guitar parts (multiple parts in places), and is very well done. What you hear on the album is all here. I'm very satisfied with the book and am enjoying learning those parts of the songs that I didn't figure out just by listening to the album. Of the various guitar tab books I've seen, I'd say this is in the top 20% in terms of quality. Also, the pictures and interviews make this a great product for real PF fans. Both solos and rhythm/backing guitar are tab'd here. I hope the other PF tab books are as good as this one!

3 comments about Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Thirty Three and a Third series).

1. Nearly everything that gets written about early Floyd these days focuses on Syd too much. Sure, he was the driving force behind the band in many ways, but there's only so much you can say about drugs and insanity before it just becomes pure speculation and it gets boring. Thankfully John Cavanagh has avoided all of that in this new book about "The Piper at the gates of Dawn." What Cavanagh has done is to interview a lot of the people who surrounded Floyd in their earliest days. Friends of the band, studio engineers, managemenet, etc. Cavanagh has managed to get some very interesting material and comments from most of these people, and what I liked most about this book is the obvious affection that everyone still has for the band and for this album. That comes through strongly here. Cavanagh brings it all together with a good strong narrative and takes you through the album on pretty much a track by track basis. There was a good amount of new information and insight in this book. Cavanagh even tracks down the photographer who took the photograph on the album sleeve, and amusingly there is a photo of the author on the back of this book, using the same type of lens. I know that not all Floyd fans are fans of this album, but it's a good introduction to how the band came into being, and why this album is still so specia.



2. I enjoyed reading Kim Dyson's review of my book and I appreciate the attention to detail in mentioning the photo on the rear cover. There's one point I'd like to clarify: it wasn't taken with a similar sort of lense to the cover of "Piper", it was taken with the exact same lense by Vic Singh, who shot the original Pink Floyd sleeve image. Thought you might like to know!
   I tried to submit this without filling in the star rating box and the form would not go through, so inevitably I had to give it five!!



3. A wonderful little biography about Piper at the Gates of Dawn by (The) Pink Floyd; aka Syd Barrett's only full album with the Floyd. The book doesn't go into much detail about the formation of the band, nor goes into deep specifics about how each track was put together and developed; rather it takes a look at the moment in time when Piper was being made with first source interviews. The focus naturally lingers on Syd and his mental breakdown, but it is not the burden of the book.

No comments about Pink Floyd (Rex Collections).

5 comments about Pink Floyd: The Wall Guitar Tablature Edition (Pink Floyd).

1. This book is great to learning a different techinique of guitar playing - namely Gilmour style - but isn't the best if you're looking to play the licks just like in the album. This is in part because their isn't only one guitar part, despite the fact that there is but one guitarist (there is more than one track of guitar). And, as in any tablature book I have studied, the authors put in every detail that was played in a single song. I imagine they sit down and listen over and over to a song and find every little thing played. I wish that they wouldn't do this, because I think it's better for players to just know the basic things that are played, and then just jam.
   But, I deffinetly recomend this for any aspiring guitarists, and those who are Floyd fans, obviously.



2. My copy's print was so bad, it was not readable in areas. I sent mine back. I can't say anything about the accuracy of the tab.



3. Why can't they publish a book like this with a spiral binding? With a paperback binding it makes it impossible to have a guitar in your hands and the book open to a particular page. I went to OfficeMax and had the binding cut off and a spiral binding put in its place. There...much better now...



4. Beware, the version of The Wall tab pictured is NOT the one that Amazon is selling. It is a newer version. While not bad, I was really expecting the other version after seeing it in a local store. (I liked the older one better...)
   
   Amazon, please update your product image and description.



5. The music is well written and very understandable. The price was right and the book has helped my son learn the songs he loves from this album on piano. Our house is filled with the notes almost every day.

3 comments about Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon, Guitar Tablature Edition (Pink Floyd) (Pink Floyd).

1. If you are a guitarist like me, and enjoy Pink Floyd, this is a great book for you. Internet TABS are unpredictiable and inaccurate. This book clears up the confusion by giving the proper TABS to the songs of one of the best selling records of all time. This book is strong in its accuracy from the first note of Speak to me to the haunting melodies of Eclipse. I suggest this book as a gift to any fan of Pink Floyd that has wanted to play there songs.



2. Attractive book design with perfect guitar tablature of the Pink Floyd classic album 'Dark Side of the Moon'.

   Book comes complete with rare photos and a 1973 interview with the band's Road Manager, Peter Watts. Watts gives a very informative and detailed description of what the band did to achieve their live sound in the early 70's.

   Tablature is perfect and true to the album note for note.




3. Its a good book and all the notes are accurate. My only compliant is the the tabs are a little bit hard to read. The way the lettering is done makes it difficult to see the letters while ur trying to play along with the song.
   
   Besides that its awesome, and a must have for Floyd loving musicians.
   
   -King

No comments about Pink Floyd: The Black Strat: A History of David Gilmour's Black Fender Stratocaster.

2 comments about Pink Floyd Guitar Tab Anthology.

1. The tabs are pretty accurate and intensive as far as covering most of the guitar parts (and some of the keyboard) played in the recordings. My only disappointment was that not one song from "Animals" was included. "Dogs" would have been the one I would have selected. Despite this flaw, it is worth the money.



2. You'll be surprised how well you play Pink Floyd with the help of this book. The transcriptions are excellent and the price is great. I got it because on the DVD of the making of Dark Side, Gilmour and Waters are separately shown playing solo acoustic versions of some songs and they sound great. This book will show you how to do that or sound great plugged in.
   
   Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 1&2), Astronomy Domine, Brain Damage, Breathe, Comfortably Numb, Eclipse, Goodbye Blue Sky, Have a Cigar, Hey You, If, Is there Anybody Out There?, Money, MOther, Not Now John, On the Turning Away, Remember a Day, See Emily Play, Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Part V), Welcome to the Machine and Wish you Were Here.

5 comments about Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd.

1. As a Floyd fan and a musician, I found this book incredibly interesting. Mason does an perfect job in describing Floyd from it's embryonic state to it's final performance, to it's unlikely Live 8 appearance.
   I loved it. I bought it for my girlfriend for Christmas. I ended up reading it from Christmas morning through the following days.
   My only negative criticism was that I wish more time had been spent on the why's and how's the in fighting become so overwhelming and so difficult for these guys that they had no choice but to disband. Other than that a great book.



2. I purchased this item for my son who has been a Pink Flyod/Waters fan since high school. He told me about this book at Christmas, and he is absolutely thrilled with it. The photos are wonderful and the history of Floyd incredible. If you are a die-hard fan, get this book. You won't be disappointed!



3. As a true Pink Floyd fan I can sincerely say that this book does a great job in telling the story of this great band.



4. Detached music journalists and assorted types of hangers-on often attempt to write biographies of famous bands, but for the real goods it's always best to get it from the inside. It also helps if the band member in question can actually write. Nick Mason appears to have an acceptably clear memory on 40 years worth of history and his writing style is enjoyable, making this book the definitive Pink Floyd biography so far. Nick's style is often funny and self-deprecating, and while some of his historical details contradict other sources (such as who sang lead on certain songs) the book certainly has the feel of an authentic source. Also, as the writer Nick is entitled to talk about his own life, but fortunately he does so sparingly and humbly. Just watch out for some of that dry British humor which doesn't always translate too well, or frequent chunks of barely comprehensible Britspeak like "looked after the punts for rent on the Cam."
   
   The great advantage of this book is that unlike many rock biographies, Nick covers all periods of Pink Floyd's history relatively equally, from the early amateur schoolboy days to the overblown megatours of the 1990s, instead of focusing on certain periods that an outside writer (or fan) would find more interesting than others. As a result, we learn a lot about the personalities within the band and their associates, and a fair amount about their creative processes. Most importantly, Nick provides some quite authoritative insights into the band's biggest stories - most notably the sad mental collapse of Syd Barrett, the ugly legal battle between David Gilmour and Roger Waters in the later years, and the 2005 reunion at Live 8. And upon witnessing this book's rich illustrations, you'll be glad that Nick and his friends have been faithfully carrying cameras around for so many years. [~doomsdayer520~]



5. For those looking for the detailed low-down on why Pink Floyd achieved intense fame before the celebrity of their faces being recognized on the street, other reviewers have said 'search elsewhere'. Nick, though a fine writer, reveals few tidbits that the more fanatical PF fan wouldn't know. However, the inadvertant genius of the book is certainly its timing, and I'm fortunate to write this review a few years after its release. Of second mention is that drummer Nick Mason opens a sort of secret door on how small the world artistic community is, even if you don't subscribe to the six-degrees-of-separation theory.
   
   On April 15, 2005, I attended Nick's book signing at Seattle's Experience Music Project, where he simply answered the standard questions fans throw out about Syd, Dark Side of the Moon and the Wall, will the Floyd ever reunite... For my part, I asked how he felt about the recent settlement (for hundreds of thousands of pounds) with Claire Torry, singer on The Great Gig in the Sky. He felt she got paid long ago, but people always seem to want more. He is actually a very quiet, normal guy, and can be transparent in his emotions. If he were American, he'd be watching NASCAR. Nick explained he had to get on and write the book quickly, as people who knew the band's intimate history were already passing. More on that presently.
   
   Well, to everyone's surprise, Pink Floyd reunited to play Live 8 on July 2, 2005, to show their support for African Debt relief. Perhaps we have Nick Mason to thank, as he has undoggedly served as 'negotiator' between Roger Waters and the rest of the band, and not grudgingly maintaining friendship with Waters through all these years.
   
   Throughout Nick's book, it is clear PF has spent an enormous amount of their wealth funding and backing philanthropic enterprises. That they should reunite just once for Live 8 shows their combined continued commitment to causes. For those who missed the show, AOLs broadcast was the best. A literally touching moment came during the stage bow when Richard Wright reached around the shoulder's of Dave and Nick to touch Roger's arm. Recall that Roger vociferously demanded Wright's outing from the band, resulting in Rick's non-appearance on The Final Cut. Nick speaks a lot about Roger's less-than-appreciation of Rick on p.247.
   
   Also, we did lose Syd Barrett in July, 2006.
   
   The book's photos put together in one place a sort of cut-short family album. There are Nick's personal photos of his meeting with Jimi Hendrix. (We don't see Hendrix's photos of Nick.) There's a photo of people on the beach with toddler-age Naomi Watts, daughter of PF road manager Peter Watts. Readers attempting to piece together a broader picture of the band will appreciate Nick's focus on gadgets the band used for sound and image enhancement. In that, one can see the PF propensity for technological superiority and delicateness, before the arms race for decibels reached fever pitch in the 70s.
   
   The naysayers might comment that the book is too picture-bound, but one must strongly consider the band's emphasis throughout their career on imagery. It is commendable that Pink Floyd used every available gimmick to expose their work to the public. Cynics may say that have enough money, but for artists, it is as much a giving relationship through the expression of music and its requisite ancillary cover and stage art. That the band members have private lives is difficult for us to fathom. Nick Mason subtely ensures we're aware of that.

5 comments about Comfortably Numb.

1. I have read a fair few Floyd books now including Nick Masons and i have to say this is by far and away the best and most comprehensive. It starts right back at the begining in the mid 60's right through to 2007, covering literally everything. It also covers their solo ventures during and after Floyd and also gives great info on how all the albums faired in the US and the UK (Solo's included). He must have been working on this book for years. I was very impressed that he mentioned Dave Gilmour turned up on Michael Parkinsons chat show in 1999 as a session guitarist for Paul McCartney who was having a full show dedicated to him. Dave Gilmour was never mentioned on the show and i only noticed myself that he was there playing. Very impressive research. I learn't a lot about the band and its members that i never knew and will have to read it again as its hard to remember everything. Its a great story and also quite sad (Syd's decline). Roger Waters comes out of it the worst, looks like he gave Gilmour a very hard time and the rest of the band also. His ego and tempermant being his main problem. And considering the abuse he has taken, Dave Gilmour comes out of it with dignity in tact.
   
   If your a Floyd fanantic or a casual music listener with a passing interest in the band, its a must buy.



2. Mark Blake has done a yeoman's job putting together a profile of the evolution of the band members associated with Pink Floyd over the past several decades. Whereas Nick Mason's book glossed over some of the grittier aspects of their lives, Blake has dug deep and turned over every stone. It's not a tell-all expose, but a frank look at sex, drugs and rock and roll as it pertained to one of the more mysterious bands of the 20th century. Given how few interviews the band members granted over the years, a lot of it comes down to sometimes conflicting memories of events. When he encounters more than one recollection, he presents both (or all) sides without discernable bias. To his credit, he also keeps up with people who splintered off from the group in parallel with the obvious focus on the central five figures who defined Floyd: Barrett, Gilmour, Mason, Wright and Waters. He keeps tab on Barrett and forks off to Waters' solo career.
   
   Waters fares the worst from Blakes unflinching eye, depicted as a controlling, abrasive personality who seems aware of his character flaws but unwilling or unable to change them. Gilmour is strong-willed and stubborn, but recalictrant and quiet. Mason and Wright are wallflowers, though the conflict between Wright and Waters is an ongoing theme.
   
   All in all, an excellent in-depth treatment that is very readable and perceptive. Blake occasionally reviews the musical content, but that isn't his strength. Getting people to talk and digging out the facts--or the beliefs and suppositions and fading (or drug-addled) memories--is.
   
   Highly recommended for anyone who has ever been a fan of Pink Floyd.



3. Although i enjoyed the history aspect of this book, i found it a rather tedious read.It jumps from quote to quote and the time line repeats and overlaps constantly.Definately written by a reporter.He should have co-written it with some one with biographical experience.Not near enough photos for my tastes.Buy it used.



4. Well documented and an insightful history of the best musical band ever! The one thing that all books on 'history' of Pink Floyd have emphasized on, including this one, is the overarching and everlasting influence of Syd Barrett. However, where most books stop, is in not documenting enough on the influence of the other members and how their lives have shaped the existence of this band. This book does take that step, which is nice to read, but doesn't go too far. But, maybe there may not be too much to dig out. Nevertheless, it is a must read!



5. As an avid fan for over 22 years, I have to say I finally found the book I have been looking for. Two enthusiastic thumbs up for 'Comfortably Numb'. Previously, I had read the late Nicholas Schaffner's 'A Saucerful of Secrets' back when it first came out (he penned 'Beatles Forever' - great book. A certain "Beatles starter" for me way back when). 'Saucerful' was nice, providing a simplistic yet informing overview of the history of the band- suitable for newer fans. 'Comfortably Numb', however, covers their entire history, including in depth details of Barrett's life after Floyd, as well as Roger and Dave's non Floyd ventures (not to mention Nick and Rick). It was easy to hear the soundtrack in my head while reading through each phase of their music. I learned a lot about Syd, as well as pretty much each member (or non-member) of the group. Tons of research must have been done for this book, as the author spoke to pretty much everyone humanly possible about the subject at hand. And what a subject! Live 8, although knowing it was a 1 and done, gave me hope that anything is possible. There is even a point where the book gets me hoping that a real reunion can and may happen, if only Dave gets off his arse. (Have to admit- 'On an Island' and the DVD from the Royal Albert Hall are terrific (Fat Old Sun, title of this review). Hoping to catch Zeppelin in the fall??? Definitely recommended for the true fans of Pink Floyd. Hoping for more docs a la "The Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd Story" and Classic Albums - Dark Side of the Moon...