#Ron Geesin

[pinkfloyd-musicartnaturelove]

Roger Waters & Ron Geesin during the recording of Atom Heart Mother. Photo by Richard Stanley.

[mrdirtybear]

A young Ron Geesin (born 1943) circa 1970, when he was working a lot with Pink Floyd when they had several film related projects, none of which worked out the way the band intended. Geesin made the arrangements for the side long piece 'Atom Heart Mother' out of the accumulated scraps of riffs and musical ideas that Pink Floyd created between international tours. They left Geesin to work up the material and face the wrath of a churlish orchestra, until John Alidis calmed the orchestra down and got them to adapt Geesin's arrangement. Here is an engaging article where Geesin show both humour and a playful aggression towards his former collaborators.

[thejohnfleming]

Before I Go: John Dowie has thoughts on both Kens Dodd and Campbell...

John Dowie has a new book out entitled Before I Go… We chatted via FaceTime… John Dowie (Photo by Steve Ullathorne) ME: Wikipedia calls you a “humourist” and says that, among other things, you are an “arthouse proto-alternative” comedian whose work mixes parody, fantasy, impersonations and taboo topics. What is an “arthouse proto-alternative” comedian? JOHN D: No idea.  ME: Am I allowed to…

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1:43 AM EDT April 11, 2024:

Ron Geesin - "A Raise Of The Eyebrows" From the album   Mojo Presents: Us And Them - A Pink Floyd Companion (December 2022)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Giveaway with the February 2023 issue

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[wakeofourbetters]

Ron Geesin & Roger Waters - Music From The Body (1970)

[radiophd]

ron geesin -- syncopot

[wrightmourmarriage]

its not that per se, roger and david and nick were friends, it's just that rick was always at a distance from the other 3

many things said about how different roger and david are, how similar roger and syd are, but not a whole lot said on how different rick and nick are. they fill two completely different roles in the band

[more-relics]

Roger Waters  Pink Floyd, Abbey Road Studios, 1970, Atom Heart Mother recordings. Photos by Richard Stanley/© Ron Geesin.

[quiet-desperationn]

“Rick was comparatively untogether. He’d talk about doing ideas that would never quite make it. I’m saying this because I’m like that as well, so I recognize it in someone else. ‘If only’—if only I had a bigger studio, if only I had more time… He was probably considered by the rest of the group to be falling behind a bit.” — Ron Geesin

[bargainoriley]

Inside Out by Nick Mason chapter 5

Here are my fav moments from this chapter! So far this has to be the best chapter of the book: it has so many great moments and anecdotes!!

Damnnn… I can imagine how hard it must’ve been to coordinate all the orchestra musicians for AHM… I also just love how Ron Geesin is described in this chapter as this technical tape wizard that can edit and coordinate anything; I love it

This is all very interesting in my opinion! Especially the latter paragraph… also the way Nick roasts David’s lyrical abilities at the end omggg 💀 it’s clear on whose side he’s on…

The last anecdote is so funny to me! Screaming about a cow on the album cover… man, different times back then, weren’t they?

These are both such good anecdotes! Probably two of my favorites so far from this book; Nick witnessing Steve and Peter in drag is just so crazy and funny as well (I would love to see it honestly, I think they probably slayed hard). And also the anecdotes about Nick and Roger is so interesting as well!

David riding a motorcycle in the hotel; brilliant! 😂 I would love to see more anecdotes about crazy wagers like these (this anecdote really reminded me of Keith Moon honestly)

This whole story was so captivating to read… felt like a movie! The fact that their equipment came back so fast is really interesting!

This is such a good anecdote about One of These Days! Both about the Binson Echorec unit and the roadie not getting them new strings! Their road crew is clearly sabotaging them I swear to god…

Love both of these anecdotes as well: didn’t know that the song Fearless was named that way because of football (soccer)! Also the Seamus anecdote is simply hilarious 😂

People almost drowned at a Pink Floyd concert???? What?!?! Legitimately unreal anecdote here… this sounds made up… but it’s not…

Both of these anecdotes are so good as well! Especially the one about Japan (the sushi man as part of the crew is a really funny image that made me laugh)

The anecdote for flying made me feel really sorry and concerned for the band because flying is so much safer now than it was 50 years ago… they truly experienced the horrors of flying back then. Reading this also genuinely felt like a story, like, the amount of drama here is insane!

[lostincosmicwar]

Rick appeared a shy and gentle man, and most of him was, but I did witness that other side much later backstage when he was very rude to a fan.

Ron Geesin The Flaming Cow: The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother

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[bygoneafternoons]

Teehee! I wrote something new and it’s so fluffy it tickled my brain as I was writing it.

Summary: What starts off as a sweet, hazy morning takes a divergent path when Roger has to leave for a rendezvous with a certain Ron Geesin. But what he doesn’t know are the true, pure intentions behind David’s reluctance to let him go.

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Ron Geesin born at Stevenston, Ayrshire December 17th 1943.

Geesin is a very well respected keyboard player who has collaborated with both Dave Gilmour and Pink Floyd,the most famous being “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict”, where of course he is the Pict, listen to the track especially for what I thought was the Geesin contribution near the end but it turns out it is Roger Waters imitating Ron Geesin.

If I had to describe Geesin I would say he was like a more musical Ivor Cutler.

Ron Geesin was also championed by John Peel in the late 1960s, made a record soon after based around sounds from the body, before being brushed aside by two chaps known as Waters and Gilmour, after co-writing a six-part epic with them called Atom Heart Mother (they found his work far too wayward, the poor souls, and soon buggered off to do some dirge or other called Dark Side Of The Moon).

Geesin lists his influences as Victor Borge, The Goons, Chic Murray so to me that would make him a great guy to have a session down the pub, I love guys with a great sense of humour, he seems to have done alright for himself scoring movie soundtracks including scoring The Body Sunday Bloody Sunday, Ghost Story, Sword of the Valiant and The Girl in the Picture.

Quite topical being Christmas,he did a live art piece in 1991 of a Christmas Carol with four synchronised figures dressed in Santa Claus costumes, from what I gather this started in The Metro Centre at Gateshead but didn’t have the necessary permission so it ended up being performed in Newcastle’s Northumberland Street.

I loved how he said in an interview that he still gets paid “enough” and that enough is good and “too much is too much” He goes on to say people have a fear of not making money, which is so true.

As you would expect, most of Geesin’s work ar long pieces, very Pink Floydesque, the video I chose is one if very few shorter musical pieces.

[parkerbombshell]

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Ron Geesin