29-09-2011, 16:39
Obviously I don't know how they made their albums were put together, but it seems to me that they never just piled into the studio and said 'oh well let's just throw something together because we're a licence to print money' (which at one point they were). Every album (post Meddle I have to admit) seems to have been thought out very carefully beforehand. They invested a ridiculous amount of money in staging, marketing, artwork etc. etc. And they did not always have things their own way either - they lost millions to the bloody accountants as well. The point I am trying to make is this - they THOUGHT about what they were doing. And they experimented endlessly - sometimes it worked and sometimes it did not. If you want big payoffs you have to take big gambles.
'The purpose of life is a life of purpose' - Athena Orchard.