Pink Floyd’s next compilation album?

Hi,

Actually I was thinking that if there was such a new compilation, it would be about the use of their Quadraphonic Sound System in those very early days, which added dimensions to the music itself that made it better, and more enjoyable. Hearing things like "Echoes" and "One of These Days" in that Quad system, was really far out, to the point where I even commented on the original The Wall and how the Quad system made it better, and the later RW's version was cheap by comparison, and you did not get the true feeling of the girl crossing the whole room, like you did in the Quad shows. In RW's version it went from left to right on the stage over and out ... very cheesy, and you did not get the feeling that you were there, which you DID when the original was done.

There are a lot more bits and pieces that were augmented by the Quad system. "Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun" was one such piece, and its splashing on the gong's was very special, as they started on one spot and then started the next hit on the next spot, and so on, creating an echo effect that we do these days on a DAW or something else. It was the veritable echo chamber of the old days ... and it felt magnificent. 

Some of the digital things will hurt the ability to show this right and well. The use of an "echo chamber" would be one, as the sound from any echo utility I have ever found is so synthetic as to sound very boring on early material, and this was also a contention that Edgar Froese made about the early days of TD.

The only sad thing, is that the folks in charge of making these decisions, are not interested in the many different things that PF did to help create their sonic concerts that started way earlier than DSOTM, and the majority of fans has no idea ... seeing something like "Live in Pompeii" is a good example and we saw it done on a QUAD system in the theater, and the quality of the music movement was phenomenal, specially when DG was sitting fooling with his strings and sound ... today's listener has no idea how that sounded so spectacular then, and is so trivial now as to make a lot of the music mundane!

If they are going to do something, they need to do something SONIC about it all ... not just a bunch of things that have been released before ... heck, maybe even the Syd Barrett lines PF used for a long time on these early shows and kinda buried them in DSOTM and then killed them all for SOYCD.

For me, this new idea is of no interest whatsoever, since what made the band, is not what these releases are about at all ... too much of it is just a matter of saturating the market to ensure the continuation of the sales all around. Oh what the heck, the pictures are pretty ... right ... let me get the make up kit!