My Fostex F126-E experience

[IslandPink]

Dark Side of the Moon original pressing with solid blue prism on label, gatefold, with stickers and posters ..... £300 in mint condition .

[andrew Ivimey]

ferlippin'eck. I have the half track master version, is it 'Musical Fidelity? I remember going up Tottenham Court Rd and buying it sometime in the 1970s. It was £17.95

I don't remember where my first copy came from but at college having been 'fairly impressed' we rushed out 'The Backside of the Moon - a musical' very quickly. We were rubbish with a few redeeming nuggets. In the college mag there was a review of our first version of Backside and there were quotes from a David Gilmour (who he), but you know, students being what they were in those days (people like me, but with long hair), would you trust the veracity of such a scurilous rag?!?

If I remember we were still playing Backside version ooooo 10 at the end of 1976, so there was some mileage to it and apart from a caper that involved us being in the audience throwing things at the stage (heavy use of tape recorders), no one else ever did.

halcyon days?

I still like DSOTM very much.

[chrisby]

OK, I haven't listened to all of them, but my two favorite Floyd are

"WYWH" - almost impossible to cut it off partway through, -

"the band is just fantastic, that's really what I think

oh, by the way - which one is 'Pink'? "

frankly DSTOM never grabbed me the same way - could have been a couple of hundred too many demos of Brain Damage and Money while working in the hifi trade in the mid-late 70s - we must have cumulatively burned through half a dozen copies of domestic and various flavors of import / special pressings of this album - the MFSL half speed mastered were generally a better listen than the Japanese (something to do with "EQ?") , but frankly not much better than what we over here would call the "British Import"

and for really taxing the remaining brain cell (yes, not a typo - I meant singular) in reminiscence of crazy 70's "UmmaGumma"

from late 60's to mid 70's there was an experimental (for those days) FM radio station in our area that played some pretty interesting album sets after midnight, and listening to "Set the controls" and "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" after partaking in "herbal cigarettes and more" was mindbending to say the least - kinda hard to get too excited about the Beach Boys or Monkees after that



holy freekin crap, I am old

[pre65]

and for really taxing the remaining brain cell (yes, not a typo - I meant singular)

I call my two A & B, but B goes on holiday a lot.

[floppybootstomp]

and for really taxing the remaining brain cell (yes, not a typo - I meant singular)

I call my two A & B, but B goes on holiday a lot.

[ed]

I find it really difficult to compartmentalise dsotm.........

we were into the second black microdot by the time the spitfires attacked knebworth......talk about rose tinted glasses....anything I say would be biased and bullshite....

I think it should be left alone and just accepted as an icon

[floppybootstomp]

Ah, Knebworth. One of the better concerts I've attended with possibly the worst toilets I've ever encountered.

I was on nothing stronger than white wine that day.

[Dave the bass]

Yer'all drinkers and druggerers

I'm outta here!

DTB

[floppybootstomp]

Yer'all drinkers and druggerers

I'm outta here!

DTB

Yours is a pint of IPA young sir?

[Dave the bass]

Yours is a pint of IPA young sir?

DTB

[floppybootstomp]

Yours is a pint of IPA young sir?

DTB

Who let all those ugly people in my room?

[Mike H]

Be honest, if you'd bought a solid triangle 1st DTOTM in 1973 with all the inserts would you have thought, "hold on, better keep this safe an' pristine 'cause in 50 years time it's gonna be worth a mint"

Not a chance! You'd have lit another spliff and turned it over.

Dropping fag ash on it in the process

[pre65]

I've got two DSOTM, but neither has the solid blue triangle.

Just having a listen again, first time for MANY years.

[pre65]

There's someone in my head, but it's not me.

Actually, two of DSOTM is two too many.

As an antidote, I'm now playing some of Tony's Mum's records.

[Bizzie]

I have found 2 copies of DSOTM with solid blue triangle and stamper No. A2 and B3 which makes them first pressing at car boots they were both scratched and didn't have the stickers and poster but each one sold on ebay for 70 something pounds even though they had a full description of of condition.

I kept a first pressing with stamper No. A2/B3 that doesn't have the solid blue triangle this is far superior in sound to later pressing's.