Talk:One of These Days (instrumental)/Archive 1

Archive 1

Jimmy Young

This is the first I've heard about this, and I consider myself an expert on all things Floydian :-) Why did the band feel the need to address this line at dear old Jimmy? Martyn Smith 22:55, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Please provide us with more information. Brian W 23:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm also pretty familiar with Pink Floyd popular mythology and had never heard the Jmmy Young story. GTGleeson 15:17, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I had some cited information about that, so I added it to the article. I found one place where they mentioned that Waters especially disliked Young and found him "inane" and "disturbing," but it was a message board post and so not something we can legitimately cite. However, if anyone does have a source that mentions that (like a book - the Pink Floyd Encyclopedia, perhaps?) please do add any relevant info and/or citations that you can.--Zequist 22:56, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Although yet more uncited information, on the [unnoficial] Brain Damage Pink Floyd radio show, the show called "Instrumentals" [sic] mentions that in performances of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, the band would stop playing at sit down to drink tea in the middle of the performance, whilst they would play the "Rather obnoxious DJ, Jimmy Young". I'm sure Nick's book would have mentioned something about him, though...--Cowards 17:51, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Samples and references in other Songs

Depeche Modes "Clean" (from "Violator") has the "One Of These Days"-bass in it. Would not that be a hint worth posting in the article?
--vanbauseneick 13:56, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

As long as you have a good source on info, go ahead. _{The Mondoboom} —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.23.56 (talk) 20:57, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

References

The reference to "a tree full of secrets" (3rd reference) is a dead link, says the domain is up for sale. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.49.249.212 (talk) 00:37, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Lead

"According to Gilmour, this is because that particular instrument had old strings on it, and the roadie they had sent to get new strings for it wandered off to see his girlfriend instead."--This part of the lead seems like rambling.--NYMFan69-86 (talk) 03:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Disagree completely. It is a common part of Floydian lore. It's oft-mentioned whenever the recording is discussed. If you want to move it to a different spot in the article, that's one thing, but it absolutely does belong IN the article. It's the sort of thing that, if we don't mention it, readers will suspect it isn't true -- and I've seen the actual Gilmour quote somewhere or other.

Plus, if we delete it when it's well-written and appropriately placed, someone else will just add it back in crudely, like a child with candy-sticky fingers.

--Ben Culture (talk) 18:24, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Dull bass

In the article it says that "Gilmour's bass sound is quite muted and dull". The interview reference given doesn't actually say that it was Gilmour's bass that was 'muted and dull' because of old set of string. It says that "The first bass is me....the second bass is very dull sounding" indicating that it was actually Roger's bass that had the dull sounding strings. Jokoski (talk) 20:30, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

That's a good catch, excpt there came a point when (unfortunately) Gilmour stoppped being a trustworthy source on anything to do with Roger Waters.

Another example would be the firing of Syd Barrett. For many years, it was "One of us said 'Shall we pick up Syd, then?' and somebody else said 'Oh, no, let's not'." But, at some point during the Floyd wars, 1985-2005, Gilmour began adding "probably Roger", as in 'somebody, probably Roger, said 'No, let's not'." Gradually, Gilmour's "probably" faded from the collective memory, and now people outright blame Roger for firing Syd (just like they imagine Roger fired Rick Wright single-handedly, instead of having the unanimous consent of Gilmour and Mason.)

With this in mind, it's not hard to imagine that no one remembers for certain whose bass is whose, but it would fit Gilmour's M.O. to say the worse-sounding, secondary bass was Roger's.

--Ben Culture (talk) 19:36, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't doubt that the studio logs will show who played on which track on the master tape. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:32, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Great idea . . . Do you have access to them? ←Ben Culture (talk) 19:29, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

"Pompeii" and Gilmour's tuning.

1. Is it worth mentioning in the "Live at Pompeii" segment of this song, how it's just an endless scene of Nick Mason drumming, with none of the other musicians seen? Did an explanation ever come out for that? (I doubt it was intentional to focus only on Nick.) Does anybody know anything about this?

2. I know I've read where Gilmour stated he used an open E-minor tuning for the slide guitar parts this song. I remember it because it's not typical of him -- generally, Gilmour would use a D-G-D-G-B-E tuning for slide, so he can play both major and minor triads. But "One of These Days" is almost entirely on a minor chord (Bm), so it makes sense. Only trouble is, my source would be one of many guitar-magazine interviews I've got packed away in a box somewhere, and going through it would be pretty tedious and distracting. Does anybody have any good source on this? I mean, I'll do it if I have to, but not if somebody's going to turn around and say it's irrelevant and delete it. So, is Gilmour's slide tuning worth mentioning?

→Ben Culture (talk) 19:40, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Dr Who theme

I am surprised the article does not mention the "quoting" of the Dr Who theme. Does the composer of that tune (Ron Grainer) get a credit on the album, or on any subsequent recordings? Note for example that Rodgers & Hammerstein at least get a mention in the Wikipedia page for Fearless (though again I wonder if they get a credit on the recording?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.22.171.114 (talk) 17:02, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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