My friends Richard Metzger and Tara McGinley of Dangerous Minds re-sparked my interest in early Pink Floyd the other night, when I visited their home: they were playing a quadrophonic version of Wish You Were Here on their excellent quad-compliant speaker system, while some of the experimental films the band played during the tour for that album ran on a nearby monitor. It was a great night. Today, Richard shares word of “The Making of Wish You Were Here” (2012), a really cool documentary film about the making of that album, and that era in the band’s evolution.
Snip from the film description:
Wish You Were Here , released in September 1975, was the follow up album to the globally successful The Dark Side Of The Moon and is cited by many fans, as well as band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour, as their favorite Pink Floyd album. On release it went straight to Number One in both the UK and the US and topped the charts in many other countries around the world. This program tells the story of the making of this landmark release through new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason and archive interviews with the late Richard Wright. Also featured are sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover burning man Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the creation of the album. In addition, original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the songs construction.
Richard reviews the documentary here on Dangerous Minds. More Pink Floyd stuff on DM at this link.
- BB reader: “Spot where Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish you Were Here’ album cover was shot? I actually *am* here.”
- “A Long, Drawn Out Trip”: The animated short that introduced Pink Floyd to Gerald Scarfe
- Pink Floyd as chiptunes
- Pink Floyd and seizure warning sign
- Alan Parsons on audiophiles
- Jodorowsky’s Dune: Designed by Giger and Moebius, scored by Pink Floyd