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Jim Morrison, aka The Lizard King, the legendary Doors' frontman was a visionary, a mystic way ahead of his time ... a rebel at heart, he wanted to break down all the barriers to free expression of creativity through his words, his music ... Jim was a Shaman, a wild man ... A legend ! Here is an interesting documentary film made on the last 24 hours in Jim Morrison's life as he breathed his last lying in a bathtub at a hotel in Paris, attributed to an overdose of Heroin.


Morrison historian Laurie writes, "I have found that Jim hated needles and never used heroin. Many of the fights that Jim and Pam had were ignited by the fact that he found out about her heroin use and did not approve of it. Jim went to Paris because he wanted to write, and also to become a poet but the demons of alcoholism finally caught up to him. He was downing 2-3 bottles of whiskey a day and was lucky to have lived as long as he did.

There still seems to be a lot of speculation surrounding Morrison's death ... some say he collapsed in the toilet of a Paris Bar due to an overdose of Heroin and was later taken to his hotel room and placed in the bath tub. The documentary suggests that he snorted Heroin that night which led to his demise ... some wonder if he is really dead ?



Some interesting quotes from the man himself ...

"I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD. I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen once. I don't want to miss it."

- Jim Morrison


"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

― Jim Morrison


Jim had fantasized about telling the world he was dead, and starting a new life elsewhere. He planned to contact his office by an anagram-name he had devised: Mr. Mojo Risin'.

There is one unconfirmed report that Morrison was seen boarding a plane that weekend. :)



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"The Doors" movie is Oliver Stone's homage to the 60's rock outfit "The Doors" which also doubles as a biography of the group's lead vocalist, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27.

The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors' band members had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.


The film opens during the recording of Morrison's An American Prayer and quickly moves to a childhood memory of his family driving along a desert highway. Young Jim sees an elderly native American dying by the roadside. The film picks up with Morrison's arrival in California and his assimilation into the Venice Beach culture, followed by his film school days studying at UCLA; his introduction to his girlfriend Pamela Courson, his first encounters with Ray Manzarek, and the origin of The Doors: Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore.


Reference : The Doors (Wikipedia)

Out here in the perimeter there are no stars ... out here we're stoned immaculate !


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"When You're Strange" is a 90 minute documentary film on "The Doors" ... One of the first ever made about them ! The crowd-pleasing movie has been featured at the Sundance, Berlin, Deauville and San Sebastian Film Festivals and most recently played to sold-out shows at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Produced by Wolf Films/Strange Pictures, in association with Rhino Entertainment, and released by Abramorama.


“They say if you remember the ‘60s you weren’t there,” said producer Dick Wolf. “I can state definitively that one of the things I do remember is buying THE DOORS first album the day it came out and then listening to it about ten or twelve times in a row. Both sides. Every song. I’ve been a fan ever since. This movie is the story of the band but it is also an insight into a moment in time that will never be repeated.”

WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE uncovers historic and previously unseen footage of the illustrious rock quartet and provides new insight into the revolutionary impact of its music and legacy. Directed by award-winning writer/director Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp, the film is a riveting account of the band’s history.

Said Depp, “Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage of Jim, John, Ray and Robby, I felt like I experienced it all through their eyes. As a rock n’ roll documentary, or any kind of documentary for that matter, it simply doesn’t get any better than this. What an honor to have been involved. I am as proud of this as anything I have ever done.”

The film reveals an intimate perspective on the creative chemistry between drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison — four brilliant artists who made The Doors one of America’s most iconic and influential rock bands. Using footage shot between the band’s 1965 formation and Morrison’s 1971 death, WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE follows the band from the corridors of UCLA’s film school, where Manzarek and Morrison met, to the stages of sold-out arenas.




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"Retrospective" is an exclusive 45 minute retrospective documentary of interviews with Roger Waters, Alan Parker, Gerald Scarfe, Peter Biziou, Alan Marshall and James Guthrie about the making of the hugely successful album "The Wall"...

This documentary looks at the conception, design and live shows of The Wall performed by Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981. It features in-depth 1980s era interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason and shows footage of The Wall performed at Earl's Court in 1980. It also features archival footage of the Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and discusses how David Gilmour was brought into the band to initially augment their live shows when Syd became unreliable due to his drug problem and how Gilmour ultimately replaced him. A short retrospective of Pink Floyd post-Syd in included. The documentary also discusses is how Roger Waters' concept of The Wall came about and how Pink Floyd, the band, were on the verge of breaking up while performing The Wall concerts. Included are interviews with Mark Fisher (stage designer), Jonathan Park (stage designer), Gerald Scarfe (animation designer and director) and Bob Geldof and Alan Parker in relation to the making of The Wall Movie.







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'The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story' is a documentary released on DVD on 24 March 2003, produced by Otmoor Productions in 2001 as part of the BBC's Omnibus series and originally called Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond (in the US, a slightly modified version aired as the last episode of VH1's Legends series in January, 2002). Directed by John Edginton, the film includes interviews with all the Pink Floyd members - Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright - plus the "fifth Pink Floyd", Bob Klose, who left the band in 1965. The film includes rare early television appearances of Pink Floyd and home movies.

One of the most famous creators and characters of the psychedelic era, Syd Barrett has not conducted an interview or released music since the early seventies yet his self-imposed anonymity still fascinates fans old and new. The original songwriter for Pink Floyd was only with the band for a vibrant 3 years when he left in 1968, yet when the band released their greatest hits album in 2001 Syd had written over a fifth of the tracks. It's been over 35 years since Syd Barrett left the band yet mystery still surrounds this prodigy of rock.


The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story retells the fascinating story of the start of one of the largest and most influential bands in rock and the drug induced breakdown of their original song writer and lead man. The release of this personal and candid profile of the once effervescent musician and now cult figure of Syd Barrett. Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright retell how Syd's slip from reality haunted the band for many years and this is clearly demonstrated in the tracks Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Wish You Were Here. There are also insights from former girlfriends, landlords, flatmates, producers, managers, friends and famous fans. Also featuring rare early footage of the band performing; including a live show at the UFO Club, and an appearance with former landlord Mick Leonard on Tomorrows World.

The focus of the film is Syd Barrett, the lead vocalist and guitarist of the early Pink Floyd, who created their unique psychedelic sound and most of the band's early songs, including the singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" and much of their first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Syd Barrett's name passed into rock folklore when he quit Pink Floyd in 1968 and, after two extraordinary but erratic solo albums, disappeared from music altogether amid rumours of a drug-induced breakdown.

The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story has contributions from Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley (who played on Syd Barrett's two solo albums The Madcap Laughs and Barrett as well as Syd's final London concert on 6 June 1970 with David Gilmour, when Barrett abruptly left the stage after playing only four numbers), bassist Jack Monck who played at Syd's last ever public concert in 1972 at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, producer Joe Boyd who produced Arnold Layne, photographer Mick Rock who photographed Barrett for The Madcap Laughs cover, and artist Duggie Fields who shared an apartment in London's Earls Court with Barrett in 1968 and witnessed his changing mental state at close hand.

According to his sister, Barrett actually watched the documentary when it was broadcast on the BBC. He apparently found it "too loud", although he did enjoy seeing Mike Leonard, who he referred to as his "teacher". He also enjoyed hearing "See Emily Play" again.

A little about Syd ...

Born Roger Keith Barrett in 1946 in Cambridge, Syd Barrett obtained his nickname from regulars at a local jazz club who when finding out his surname, christened him after as old drummer from the area. Aged 17 he moved down to London to attend the Camberwell Art School. In London he met up with old friend Roger Waters, who he had an understanding with since they were young that they would start a band together. Syd consequently joined up with the people Roger was playing with.

Syd quickly became the main songwriter, and named the band after two Georgia blues men Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. Their experiments with feedback and electronic sound quickly made them the hippest band among London’s early psychedelic set. Whilst Pink Floyd were experimenting with sound and light they also started experimenting in the other side of London’s psychedelic set - drugs. Some thought that with the aid of drugs Syd was more liberated and had the freedom to write memorable songs. Nevertheless his grasp on reality was slipping away. He didn’t turn up for interviews and started to refuse to perform though he’d quite happily practise. His behaviour became so erratic that an American tour had to be cut short.

The band was in a dilemma; Syd was becoming a liability yet he still wrote the majority of their songs. Their solution in January 1968 was to excuse him from performing to concentrate on song writing. Dave Gilmour was asked to join the band to cover for Syd. Two of the songs that he wrote Vegetable Man and Scream The Last Scream were not released by EMI but their apparent autobiographical style was not lost on many. Pink Floyd admit that their style back in the late sixties was if there was a problem they would ignore it, then one day it came to a point where they did ignore the problem by not picking Syd up.

Syd went on to release two solo albums The Madcap Laughs and Barrett in 1970. After the poor reception of the second album Syd retreated to his mothers house in Cambridge. Back at home he joined up with some Cambridge musicians and formed The Stars. But Syd's involvement was like his attention span, short. During the following years Syd moved between London and Cambridge staying on friends’ floors. In the mid 70s he even turned up at the studios where Pink Floyd were recording Shine On You Crazy Diamond the song written about Syd.

In 1978 he got tired of London and walked back to Cambridge, where he now lives, calling himself Roger Barrett having left Syd behind. The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story is a moving portrait of a cult figure.


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Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 musical film by British director Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters.

The film is highly metaphorical and is rich in symbolic imagery and sound. It features very little dialogue and is mainly driven by the Pink Floyd sound ...

Directed by Alan Parker ; Produced by Alan Marshall
Written by Roger Waters ; Narrated by Pink Floyd

Starring ...

Bob Geldof
Christine Hargreaves
Eleanor David
Alex McAvoy
Bob Hoskins
Michael Ensign

Music by Pink Floyd & Michael Kamen (orchestrations)




The film depicts the construction and ultimate demolition of a metaphorical wall. Though the film is open to interpretation, the wall itself clearly reflects a sense of isolation and alienation.

Pink played by Bob Geldof, the protagonist of the film, is a rock star, one of several reasons behind his apparent depressive emotional state. He is first seen in a quiet hotel room, having trashed it. The opening music is not by Pink Floyd, but is the Vera Lynn recording of "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot". During the following scenes, it is revealed that Pink's father was killed during World War II while he was just a baby.

The movie then flashes back to Pink as a young English boy growing up in the early 1950s. Throughout his childhood, Pink longs for a father figure. At school, he is humiliated for writing poems in class. The poems that the teacher reads aloud are lyrics from "Money" from the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon. Pink is also affected by his overprotective mother. He eventually gets married, but he and his wife grow apart and she has an affair while Pink is on tour. When Pink learns of the affair, he resorts to acquiring expensive materialistic possessions and turns to a willing groupie (Jenny Wright), only to trash the hotel room and drive her away.

Pink slowly begins to lose his mind to metaphorical worms. He shaves off all of his body hair (an incident inspired by former band member Syd Barrett, who appeared at a 1975 recording session of Wish You Were Here, having shaved his eyebrows and body hair and, while watching The Dam Busters on television, morphs into his neo-Nazi alter-ego. Pink's manager (Bob Hoskins), along with the hotel manager (Michael Ensign) and some paramedics, discover Pink, and inject him with drugs to enable him to perform. On stage, Pink hallucinates that he is a neo-Nazi dictator, his concert a rally in a suburban neighbourhood singing "Waiting for the Worms". The scene is inter-cut by images of the animated marching hammers ...

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Pulse ( P•U•L•S•E ) is a live concert video of Pink Floyd playing at Earl's Court on October 20th, 1994 part of 'The Division Bell' Tour. Pulse is considered by many to be one of the greatest light and sound concerts ever with Pink Floyd playing some of their greatest songs ever from 'The Dark Side of the Moon', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Meddle', 'The Wall', 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason', 'The Division Bell' ... It also features "Astronomy Domine", a Syd Barrett song not performed since the early 1970s, as a tribute to the original Pink Floyd guitarist and song writer, one of the founding members of 'Pink Floyd'.

The original CD cover of Pulse, the live double album released on 29 May 1995 features an "eye-like" machine that has clock pieces inside, there is a planet in its centre, and on the outside it shows evolution as it moves backwards. It starts in the sea, moves to the bacteria which evolve into fishes, then into egg type creatures, then into eggs that hatch birds, and birds follow the trail of an aeroplane. There are six pyramids in the desert, and in the bottom of the sea, one can observe a city in the shore.


Disc One :


1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Concert version) (Gilmour/Waters/Wright)
2. "Learning to Fly" (Gilmour/Moore/Ezrin/Carin)
3. "High Hopes" (Gilmour/Samson)
4. "Take It Back" (Gilmour/Ezrin/Samson/Laird-Clowes)
5. "Coming Back to Life" (Gilmour)
6. "Sorrow" (Gilmour)
7. "Keep Talking" (Gilmour/Wright/Samson)
8. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (Waters)
9. "One of These Days" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)


Disc Two :
1. "Speak to Me" (Mason) 2. "Breathe" (Gilmour/Waters/Wright) 3. "On the Run" (Gilmour/Waters) 4. "Time" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) 5. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (Wright/Clare Torry) 6. "Money" (Waters) 7. "Us and Them" (Waters/Wright) 8. "Any Colour You Like" (Gilmour/Mason/Wright) 9. "Brain Damage" (Waters) 10. "Eclipse" (Waters) 11. "Wish You Were Here" (Gilmour/Waters) 12. "Comfortably Numb" (Gilmour/Waters) 13. "Run Like Hell" (Gilmour/Waters)
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Wish You Were Here is one of Pink Floyd's best albums ever with the classics "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Have A Cigar" & one of my top floyd favorites ever, "Welcome To The Machine" ... extremely well written about our machine like modern society where we love following patterns and trends much like programmed machines ...

The concept behind "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" suggested the use of a handshake (an often empty gesture), and George Hardie designed a sticker containing the album's logo of two mechanical hands engaged in a handshake, to be placed on the opaque sleeve. The album's cover image was inspired by the idea that people tend to conceal their true feelings, for fear of "getting burned", and thus two businessmen were pictured shaking hands, one man on fire.

"Getting burned" was also a common phrase in the music industry, used often by artists denied royalty payments. Two stuntmen were used (Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fire-retardant suit covered by a business suit. His head was protected by a hood, underneath a wig. The photograph was taken at the Warner Bros. studios in Los Angeles.

Here is a documentary all about the making of Wish You Were Here ... the film starts with a brief background on Floyd's Epic release, The Dark Side of the Moon following which came their next mega album "Wish You Were Here" capturing the imagination of millions all over ... as always ... :)




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Pink Floyd : The Making of the Dark Side of the Moon is a documentary about the making of the classic album, "Dark Side of the Moon" which also happens to be one of the largest selling albums of all time ...

This documentary is part of the Classic Albums series, released by Isis Productions/Eagle Rock Entertainment. This one does manage to unite the band under one single film, albeit only via separate interviews at various different locations. It also features interviews with the album's engineer Alan Parsons, two music journalists, the former chairman of their record label and Storm Thorgerson.

Produced for the Classic Albums series that originally aired on VH-1, this thorough and thought-provoking study highlights a track-by-track dissection of the LP's master tapes (including the spoken-word passages that bookend the album), superbly interlaced with archival footage, early demo tapes, concert animations, and latter-day acoustic performances by David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright to demonstrate each track's contribution to the final mix--a sonic exploration that extends to the illuminating bonus features. Informative interviews abound (including Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke), and much-deserved credit is given to saxophonist Dick Parry, solo vocalist Clare Torry, and former Capitol Records chairman Bhaskar Menon, who fostered the album's U.S. commercial success.


Dark Side of the Moon released in March 1973, remained on the charts for nearly 14 years ...


" Dark Side of the Moon was an expression of political, philosophical, humanitarian empathy that was desperate to get out ... "

~ Roger Waters




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"The Other Side of The Wall" is a 25 minute documentary about the making of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and includes interviews with Alan Parker, Gerard Scarfe, and clips of Roger Waters, originally aired on MTV in 1982. This documentary featured on the Pink Floyd The Wall DVD in the Extras along with another 45 minute documentary on the making of The Wall called 'Retrospective' ...








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Jim Morrison the front man for the psychedelic rock outfit 'The Doors' had a deep mystical understanding of death which sprung from his first encounter with death as a child when he saw a truck full of Indians lying scattered along the highway ... bleeding to death ! His fascination with death reflected in his poetry and can be seen in 'HWY - The American Pastoral', a project he started in 1969.

Morrison financed the venture and formed his own production company in order to maintain complete control of the project. Paul Ferrara, Frank Lisciandro and Babe Hill assisted with the project.

Morrison played the main character, a hitchhiker turned killer/car thief. Morrison asked his friend, composer/pianist Fred Myrow, to select the soundtrack for the film.


Jim Morrison : The Indian & The Coyote


Like the man himself, HWY: An American Pastoral is complex and mysterious. He hits the road like Kerouac, wandering, searching for meaning.

Following is an excerpt from a HWY review by John Kolak ...

In comparative literature we are taught that nothing exists by itself, but only in comparison to something else. So the first clue as the movie opens is that Jim is in the desert, but we are shown a waterfall. So, desert represents death, water represents life, and the waterfall, the fountains of life. When we first see Jim, he is immersed in water, a symbol of the womb, and his emergence from the water represents birth. Tribal music here, contrasted to civilized music later, suggests the birth of a shaman.

We then see images of Jim basking in the joy of life, and then he undertakes a journey. One of the common complaints about the film are these long passages of shots of Jim's journey. There has been some comment that this is just Jim's working in the milieu of his time where these long passages were typical of art house cinema of the time. But it is more than that. The version of "2001 - A Space Odyssey" that was commonly shown was a shortened version. The first version released contained long, boring shots of the space ship traveling through space. Kubrick's intent was to illustrate the immensity of space and how long it takes to engage in space travel.

In "HWY," the lengthiness of the journey is also deliberate, but it serves multiple and different functions. The first clue is to get you to understand that this story is about a journey, so Jim had to make the journey passages long enough to make sure you got the point. Any shorter, and it would have looked like just another scene. More specifically, in artistic terms, it is about the hero's journey. Since the days of the story of Prometheus breaking on through to the other side to steal fire from the gods and bring it back to earth to benefit mankind, the genre of the hero's journey has always been about crossing the threshold to the divine and bringing back something for mankind. This is what Jim does when he breaks on through and brings his music and poetry back for our benefit.


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A new age is dawning of Peace, Love & Oneness ... we are one with the infinity of creation ! No Boundaries, No limitations ... a Time To Be One ! Let the music play ... :) ....

Merry Christmas to All ... Happy Holidays !

((( Keep Smiling )))

Genre: Retro / Pop / Rock
Size: 102 mb
Duration: 63:48
Quality: 256 kbps

Tracklist:

1. Pink Floyd - Wots Uh Deal ...
2. Pink Floyd - Fearless
3. The Beatles - All you need is Love
4. Dire Straits - Down to the Waterline
5. Pink Floyd - Childhood's End
6. Led Zeppelin - D'yer Maker
7. The Doors - Crystal Ship
8. U2 - One ( Rare Acoustic Live Version )
9. Sting - Fields Of Gold
10. Eric Clapton - Layla
11. Jim Carey - Cuban Pete
12. Will Smith - Getting Jiggy Wit It
13. Keane - Everybody's Changing
14. U2 - Staring at the Sun
15. Bob Dylan - Man in the long black coat
16. Kula Shaker - Govinda



((( One is All )))



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Jim Morrison's poetry ( originally recorded in 1969 ) backed with music by 'The Doors' was released as "An American Prayer" in 1978 becoming an instant hit with Morrison Fans all over the world ! Here are some words from a track called 'Newborn Awakening' ...

Gently they stir, gently rise

The dead are newborn awakening

With ravaged limbs and wet souls

Gently they sigh in rapt funeral amazement

Who called these dead to dance?

Was it the young woman learning to play the ghost song on her baby grand?

Was it the wilderness children?

Was it the ghost god himself, stuttering, cheering, chatting blindly?

I called you up to anoint the earth

I called you to announce sadness falling like burned skin

I called you to wish you well

To glory in self like a new monster

And now i call you to pray ...



Awake

1. "Awake" – 0:35
2. "Ghost Song" – 2:50
3. "Dawn's Highway" – 1:21
4. "Newborn Awakening" – 2:26

To Come of Age

5. "To Come of Age" – 1:01
6. "Black Polished Chrome" – 1:07
7. "Latino Chrome" – 2:14
8. "Angels and Sailors" – 2:46
9. "Stoned Immaculate" – 1:33

The Poet's Dream

10. "The Movie" – 1:35
11. "Curses, Invocations" – 1:57

World on Fire

12. "American Night" – 0:28
13. "Roadhouse Blues" – 5:53
14. "The World On Fire" – 1:06
15. "Lament" – 2:18
16. "The Hitchhiker" – 2:15

An American Prayer

17. "An American Prayer" – 3:04
18. "Hour For Magic" – 1:17
19. "Freedom Exists" – 0:20
20. "A Feast Of Friends" – 2:10 (also known as "The Severed Garden")

Bonus tracks:

21. "Babylon Fading" – 1:40
22. "Bird Of Prey" – 1:03
23. "The Ghost Song" [Extended Version] – 5:15



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Richard Wright one of the founder members of the legendary Pink Floyd passed on at the age of 65 succumbing to cancer. The legendary keyboardist was always an integral part of Pink Floyd, often unnoticed due to his quiet nature. As Gilmour says, "He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound."

Gilmour said the blend of his and Wright's voices, together with their "musical telepathy, reached their first major flowering" on 1971 track Echoes, which took up the whole of the second side of album Meddle.


He added: "After all, without Us and Them, and The Great Gig in the Sky - both of which he wrote - what would The Dark Side Of The Moon have been?"

Wright met fellow founder members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at architecture school following which they started to create deep sounds from the eclectic which the world formally knows as the Pink Floyd Sound, unparalleled and a genre by itself ! Richard Wright will always be with the essence of Pink Floyd's music and the magic shall never fade ....

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"O great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."

Jim Morrison was born in Florida on December 8th, 1943. His father, a high ranking naval officer, brought up his children under strict discipline and the relationship between the two was problematic. Perhaps because of this, the sensitive child became somewhat withdrawn and isolated. Jim would later express extreme hostility towards his family and the traditional values it stood for.

We used to believe in the good old days
We still receive In little ways
The things of Kindness
and unsporting brow
Forget and allow

At the age of four, Jim witnessed a bloody traffic accident that was to have a profound impact on his life. Somewhere between Albuquerque and Santa Fe the Morrison family came across an overturned truck. It had been involved in a collision and its occupants, a group of Indians, were lying on the road, bleeding to death. This first encounter with death left a deep impression in the mind of young Jim Morrison who believed that the spirit of an Indian, a Shaman, had entered his own soul.

Among Jim's favorite authors was the controversial German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose views were opposed to those of tradition and Christianity. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche summed up his ideas about man and morality. He wrote about two types of men: an inferior man who lives in helplessness and fear, and the 'superman,' who, because of the greatness of his mind, is beyond good and evil and answers to no-one.

"I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing the established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom- external revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom."

In 1964, without his parents' consent, Jim enrolled at UCLA. There, he met keyboard player Ray Manzarek who upon hearing his songs suggested forming a rock group. Within weeks, together with Robbie Krieger as guitarist and John Densmore as drummer, The Doors was formed. The name of the group was taken from Aldous Huxley's book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception, which quoted a phrase of the 18th century poet and mystic William Blake, 'If the doors of perception were cleansed, things would appear as they truly are, infinite.'

In a rare interview, when asked about the future of music, Jim Douglas Morrison said, " In the future, Music will be played with a lot of use of electronics of technology " ! The erratic visionary that Morrison was, never failed to leave his imprint where ever he went, with those whose lives he touched deeply. Jim always joked about getting away from the chaos and going to Africa unannounced ! On July 3rd, 1971, at the age of 27, Jim was said to be found dead at his Paris home by his longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson. There was no autopsy and the exact cause of death was never established. No one ever saw Jim's body except for Pamela, her Driver & the Doctor ! A local pub owner from Paris claims he saw Jim Morrison in a semi conscious state the same night and he didn't look too good before he was carried out of the Pub ! Many ardent fans of Jim Morrison believe he lives on ! There have been a few Morrison sightings in Paris to say the least ...




" Every color connects to create the boat, which rocks the race "



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Some timeless classics for some easy listening ! This is a tribute to everything Psychedelic , everything Cosmic and everything that's Music !

Genre : Psychedelic
Quality : 256 kbps
Size : 112 mb
Duration : 1 hr 1 min 20 secs

Tracklisting :

1. Black - Wonderful Life
2. The Church - Under the Milky Way
3. Led Zeppelin - All my Love
4. The Beatles - Across the Universe
5. Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm
6. Robert Miles - One and One
7. EMF - Unbelievable
8. Supertramp - It's raining again
9. Paul McCartney - Hope of Deliverance
10.Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled his Feet
11.Status Quo - In the Army Now
12.Led Zeppelin - D'yer Make'r
13.Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
14. System Nipel & Electra - Game On (Ananda Shake Remix)





((( Sarve Sukhino Bhavantu )))

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Traktor DJ Studio Ver. 3.2.2

Acer Aspire 5610Z, Intel Pentium Dual Core T2060 @ 1.60 Ghz

1 Gb RAM ; 120 Gb HDD, Windows Vista Home Premium ... Good Vibes ! :)

Influenced by Pink Floyd and Dire Straits in his late teens, Psybates took to the Guitar and formed 'Bates Motel' alongside Sean Martin (Drums) and Sam David (Leads) . The band never quite moved on because of various reasons, however he continued his adventures with music and began experimenting with DJ'ing using two winamp windows and a DJ plugin. He finally found the perfect tool to mix music with Traktor DJ Studio. He specializes in playing psychedelic music which includes Classic / Psychedelic Rock, Chill-Out, Ambient Sounds for easy, reflective listening and Full On Psychedelic Goa Trance, for other times when the self dissolves in the oneness created with music as we stomp away to glory in unison !

Psybates uses Traktor DJ Studio 3.2 as the platform to play music and has been doing so ritually since 2005. He has played at selective underground / private parties over the last 2 years, also co-hosted / organized these gatherings on certain celestial and spiritual occasions such as Full Moon Nights, Maha Shivratri, Buddha Poornima and also based on concepts which raise our collective consciousness to higher realms of divinity and are basically a lot of fun with shiny happy people sending positive beams of energy all around. We are all truly infinite spiritual beings having a human experience ! The trance dance experience is our expression of thankfulness to the *ONE for this consciousness by means of which " We Experience " and " We Are " ! Music has a deeper effect on our minds than what appears on the surface. It has the ability to transform us magically into sheer positive energy after which we just radiate. Together we dance in communion with the *omnipresent cosmic spirit !

Recorded Sets :

TranZition to the Light !

Cosmic MyoOzic !
2012 Return to the Golden Age
Cosmic Oneness
Deep Space Exploration
8 Good Reasons To Fly



A video from one of our privately organized parties called the "Dark Side & The BoOm" ! Dashak in the background with his live coverage ! :D




((( Cosmic Bliss )))






Ψ ॐ नम: Shivaya Ψ


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