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dbbubba · 8th September 2006

I have never tried the DSOTM and Wizzard of Oz thing, but it always reminds me of how in the late '60s/early '70s everyone wanted those color organ things. I built my own using Christmas tree lights crammed in a box withe the same diffused plexiglas front panel. Of course my version didn't have the "mystery" color organ circuit from Radio Shack, but when you'd play a record (Inna Gadda Davida was good) and stared long enough... THE LIGHTS DID SEEM TO BLINK WITH THE MUSIC!

Since I haven't seen the two sync'ed up I can't really say, but it's like a coincidence because it DOES work. How many other records and video/films DON'T sync up? It's kind of like no one ever says that they are a reincarnated potato digger that died when they were four years old in Ireland. It's always a queen or something important. Maybe Nostradamus had something to do with it? I'll ask my college buddy... he''s a leading authority on Mr. Nostradamus. There's a good gig!

Truthfully, when you get into production a lot of stuff does sync up by accident.
First off, if you have a song at 120 bpm it is going to march along at a nice pace that falls in the :30, :60, :90 second time frame. I used to do hundreds of production music pieces and well crafted stuff does fall together somehow.

My other question is why did they make the recording go along to a point and quit.
Why would they have even done it in the first place?
Why take the time and only make a few places work out?

How could they have created it in sync at Abbey Road anyways?
Sync what to the 16 track? A film? A 1" video... no it'd have to have been a 2" quad machine. It's have been too hit or miss and never truely in sync.

Roger Waters: "Guys! I have a great idea! Lets make every tempo and song duration match the Wizard of Oz, but here's the BEST part! We'll never tell anyone! We'll work our asses off and make it match up perfectly, but we'll have to hope that someone notices it some day in years to come, but WE'LL NEVER ADMIT IT!"

Let's see... DSOTM came out in 1973?
People started talking about this when?
Six or seven years ago was the first I heard of it.

Don't you think that after nearly TWENTY FIVE YEARS someone in Pink Floyd would have said, "DAMN! Why haven't ANY of you ignorant fools every figured this out?
We worked our asses of doing this and no one notices it?"

Maybe it was, "Man, The Wizard of Oz is such a masterpiece and if we pattern our record after it we'll capitalize on it's magic and sell lot's of records, too!"

I DOUBT IT!

Then again, they tried to make a record using egg slicers, rubberbands and matchboxes!

The problem with smkoin' the chronic is that you can HEAR stuff like this magic , but you can't CREATE stuff like that. You might think that it was magic when you were smokin', but when you clear your head it isn't so magical anymore. They weren't high and came up with it, but being high might make it seem more obvious.

I do intend to try to see the wonders of it soon.

Is it on YouTube?

Danny Brown

8th September 2006	#24
dbbubba Banned Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 7,099	I have never tried the DSOTM and Wizzard of Oz thing, but it always reminds me of how in the late '60s/early '70s everyone wanted those color organ things. I built my own using Christmas tree lights crammed in a box withe the same diffused plexiglas front panel. Of course my version didn't have the "mystery" color organ circuit from Radio Shack, but when you'd play a record (Inna Gadda Davida was good) and stared long enough... THE LIGHTS DID SEEM TO BLINK WITH THE MUSIC! Since I haven't seen the two sync'ed up I can't really say, but it's like a coincidence because it DOES work. How many other records and video/films DON'T sync up? It's kind of like no one ever says that they are a reincarnated potato digger that died when they were four years old in Ireland. It's always a queen or something important. Maybe Nostradamus had something to do with it? I'll ask my college buddy... he''s a leading authority on Mr. Nostradamus. There's a good gig! Truthfully, when you get into production a lot of stuff does sync up by accident. First off, if you have a song at 120 bpm it is going to march along at a nice pace that falls in the :30, :60, :90 second time frame. I used to do hundreds of production music pieces and well crafted stuff does fall together somehow. My other question is why did they make the recording go along to a point and quit. Why would they have even done it in the first place? Why take the time and only make a few places work out? How could they have created it in sync at Abbey Road anyways? Sync what to the 16 track? A film? A 1" video... no it'd have to have been a 2" quad machine. It's have been too hit or miss and never truely in sync. Roger Waters: "Guys! I have a great idea! Lets make every tempo and song duration match the Wizard of Oz, but here's the BEST part! We'll never tell anyone! We'll work our asses off and make it match up perfectly, but we'll have to hope that someone notices it some day in years to come, but WE'LL NEVER ADMIT IT!" Let's see... DSOTM came out in 1973? People started talking about this when? Six or seven years ago was the first I heard of it. Don't you think that after nearly TWENTY FIVE YEARS someone in Pink Floyd would have said, "DAMN! Why haven't ANY of you ignorant fools every figured this out? We worked our asses of doing this and no one notices it?" Maybe it was, "Man, The Wizard of Oz is such a masterpiece and if we pattern our record after it we'll capitalize on it's magic and sell lot's of records, too!" I DOUBT IT! Then again, they tried to make a record using egg slicers, rubberbands and matchboxes! The problem with smkoin' the chronic is that you can HEAR stuff like this magic , but you can't CREATE stuff like that. You might think that it was magic when you were smokin', but when you clear your head it isn't so magical anymore. They weren't high and came up with it, but being high might make it seem more obvious. I do intend to try to see the wonders of it soon. Is it on YouTube? Danny Brown