Things got a bit boozy and a bit emotional at a recent Dark Side Of The Moon listening party in Berlin – or at least, they did for young Ray. Here are the collected live tweets from that event, for your amusement…
The Listening Get Together is a fortnightly, vinyl-only, album appreciation event. They recently featured an album dear to my heart: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon. Things got a bit boozy and a bit emotional (one may have led to the other) and, clearly unable to contain myself, I live-tweeted my experience. At the risk of the time-capsule becoming a running theme in this blog: enjoy…
Listening session for fave album in my fave city. #DSOTM #Berlin
— Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Meanwhile… Cue: heartbeat. I am as excited right now as 16 yr old me #DSOTM — Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
16 yr old me is having an emo moment during the solo in ‘Time’. Not me tho – too grown up for that shit. #DSOTM
— Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Wondering if the session chanteuses in ‘Great Gig’ are feeling proud or Nike-swoosh-ripped-off… #DSOTM — Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Also: how they’re feeling about the producers’ choices of their takes… #DSOTM
— Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Still love that Dave Gilmour was all ‘Screw soloing in 7/4’ and made em change it up so he could melt faces. #DSOTM — Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Meanwhile: so much sax crime on this album. How do I still love it so? #DSOTM
— Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Never appreciated Nick Mason until this moment – #DSOTM does not flow without him. (1/2) — Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Love that his mistake made it into the final cut of ‘Any Colour You Like’ (2/2)
— Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Finally: how does a record with so much going on still sound so focused and… well, poppy? #DSOTM — Ray Mann (@RayMann) May 12, 2014
Epilogue: As Wizard Of Oz-level chance would have it, the very next night at Berlin hip-hop social BeatGeeks, one of the DJs dropped this gem:
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