Why did pink floyd turn into self indulgent non creative conservatives?

Answer 1

If you ask me they are conservative and non creative from the time they made The Wall Final Cut and some s hit like that
The most creative period is when they r with Syd Barrett, in fact everything is his the soul the heart and the energy of the band
Pink Floyd is totaly other band without Barrett, and don't have any power to move up the thingz
I must say that there are good stuffs only in Atom Heart MOther and Wish You Were Here because of too much using Heroin!!!!
If you are asking about how awfull PF looks now i will tell u one thing, Gilmour never looked like he is a part of the band, he don't have such a Pink Floyd FACE!And allso Pink Floyd without Waters is like fish without water :)))
P.S By the way Waters left the band after the concert in Berlin 1989 when he saw that they sound awfull and groosse...He is ashamed of what he done with the band

Answer 2

Right on, a question I know something about! Read the book Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey by Nicholas Schaffner. It's an excellent insight on the inner workings and politics of the band. Basically I think Wright caused the problems within the band. Gilmours' kept busy but It's hard to keep Hot in music over the years only the Stones and a few others have survived.
Floyd all but invented quadraphonic sound. Mastered the lightshow in the 60's and felt that the sights and sounds at thier shows was even more important than song writing or recording. It's hard to constantly be a leader in an industry, just look at any industry over the years. IBM used to be the #1 computer maker now they are #5 or so and that's taken work not to be lower on the totum pole.

Take care

Answer 3

Waters and Gilmour of course just hated each other, why I don't know.

But why they turned around was rather odd, usually people and bands become self-indulgent once they hit the mainstream, but they just keep on going when the went big. It was actually well after they went big that all this BS started to happen. I admit that this is one of the most puzzling things in the music industry I've seen since they just feel apart.

Answer 4

The use of LSD was made illegal shortly after their hay-day. Back during the 70s' LSD was legal until Nixon created the Schedule of Drugs.

Most bands continued to use it, however the overall quality and use of the chemical was reduced; mostly because it wasn't being made by pharmaceutical companies and it started to go underground - and like anything that goes underground, it automatically became somewhat dirty and cheap.

A lot of musicians at the time made final CDs that were very "left" politically, calling out the government for breaking constitutional rights (Up until that point, it was illegal for the government to ban the consumption of things - drugs were made illegal by giving them a Tax but not allowing people to pay the Tax, and thus, people would go to jail for not paying taxes - not for owning the drug.)

And, ever since Nixon, the government has started to regulate what we can and cannot eat, drink, etc.

A lot of music began to fail afterwards, and from that spawned heavy metal in the 80s - fury, anger, and the feeling of destruction fueled by the new drug, cocaine, and by the hatred of the government. Most people now days don't realize the overall destruction of Nixon: because we've grown in a world of eroded freedoms... but previous to him, there was much more freedom in the world.

Pink Floyds' music is the apex of that freedom, and their subsequence is the downfall of it.

Answer 5

Because selfless artsy-craftsy left wing commies don't have the cash to buy their albums?Money - its a gas - grab that cash with both hands and make a stash!

Answer 6

Money, greed, money, greed. Same thing that happens to a lot of bands.

Answer 7

They probably stopped dropping acid.

Answer 8

lack of inspiration

Answer 9

They got old, rich, and stopped smoking pot.

Answer 10

when you grow up you will find out...