C/D: Pink Floyd "Money" SAX SOLO

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THE SAX SUCKS
I'd say that it's not only a dud, but perhaps one of the worst (serious) sax solos I've ever heard. Whoever's playing doesnt seem to know what the hell is going on, he doesnt seem to know how to play his instrument, and...well I just find the solo to be such a horrific bummer, a rot spot in an otherwise delicious peach that is the hump to get over before the rewarding double feature of guitar solos.

Fans of the sax: dont think you're getting away with just putting classic...EXPLAIN YOURSELVES!

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

If you think that's bad, you haven't sampled the approximately one billion dribblingly pathetic sax solos to be found in obscure post-JBs-ish 70s soul.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Sunday, 25 June 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for the sax solo, even if just to stop PF from doing the daft tricksy time signature.

Hooray for the sax solo, if only for not being the least snidey "money is the root of all evil" lyrics that could be taken totally literally when applied to R.Waters.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Was "Easy Money" by King Crimson a jibe at Pink Floyd?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for the sax solo, even if just to stop PF from doing the daft tricksy time signature.

It doesn't though. The sax solo is still in 7/8, they don't drop into 4 until the guitar solo.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:55 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for the guitar solo then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:05 (twenty years ago)

bit like criticizing the wallpaper in a torture cell, this.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Ahhh, the incomparable and totally forgettable Dick Parry (yes, I had to look it up). The Stones had the right idea, hiring Sonnny Rollins for "Waiting on a Friend." PF apparently went with veteran (Bonzos, John Entwistle, etc.) session man who could be had for a song, figuratively.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 26 June 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

I've always taken it that the solo is supposed to sound fairly obtuse as a sort of musical irony. The same goes for the horrendously exaggerated guitar solo.

― Curt Wastor (Curt Soda), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)

ANSWER MY FUCKING QUESTION, CUNTOS!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

To answer your question, I reckon no. Larks' Tongues In Aspic came out at about the same time as Dark Side..., maybe even the same week, so I don't think it was a swipe at PF.

― LC (Damian), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:22 (twenty years ago)

weird. it's just that they're very similar songs and easy money has a crazed sax solo in there as well.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Dick Parry was an old mate of theirs from Cambridge.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I think he did tour with them as well IIRC - he's on Wish You Were Here and Gilmour got him back on board in the nineties, so he's on The Division Bell and Pulse.

― LC (Damian), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Dick Parry's solos are fine things. I particularly love the one on the fade out of SOYCD Part 1

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

his sax solo is On The Money.

(soz)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

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