Sipping on a hot 2005 Beychevelle

[JimHow]

Saw Roger Waters at Fenway the other night. Great anti-war rally! I wonder if we'll still have war 50 years from now. Probably, I guess, but maybe not? A beautiful night at the old ballyard, baby doll, we're in mid-summer!

This 2005 Becychevelle is very 2005-like... hot, alcoholic, tannic. Let's see how it unfolds.

[Jay Winton]

never understood the Wall-bored me then, bores me now but PF in general I find uninteresting.

[JimHow]

It was alright, Jay. I've never been a Pink Floyd fanatic but I enjoyed the sensory overload and the anti-war, anti-religiosity and the accoustics at Fenway are great for a concert, saw Mick and the boys there a few years back on a similar hot summer night. Waters had some great musicians up there with him as well. The Beychevelle is smoothing out, this is legit stuff.

[DavidG]

Like PF, not so much The Wall.

It's too soon for '05 Beychevelle, too late for '43 Waters.

[JimHow]

I'll bet you I'm drinking Beychevelle within the RMP drinking window, and I'll bet you RMP has been to a Roger Waters concert....

[Tom In DC]

Bob sez 2017-2030 so you're a little early, Jim.

[JimHow]

That's his opinion. Then again, he thinks Hardy rodenstock is great.
This wine is delish, but it could use a few years, duh, of course.

[DavidG]

Glad that Beychevelle has mellowed out. Sounds like it's made you slipperier than a June bride in a feather bed...

[dstgolf]

Saw the Wall in Ottawa a week ago last Monday. I enjoyed PF growing up and Dark Side of the Moon concert was memorable as a teenager. Maybe it was the party scene/dope filled air rather than the music but I sure remember partying with PF playing in the background along with Queen and others.

The concert after the fireworks at the beginning was downhill from there. Started with a bang and fizzled out from there. After the intermission I thought the concert really dragged and I should have left at the intermission and I would have been more rested for work the next morning. The anti war, anti capitalism,anti just about everything got to be a bit much. To top it off RW should have hung up his guitar a few years ago. 68 and still ticking....sounds like a bad Timex commercial!

[Chasse-Spleen]

Have to say, the idea of Beychevelle and 2005 does not sound like a match made in heaven. I am bullish however on 2009. We shall see....
-Chasse

[Houndsong]

I think there was a song I liked on Ummagumma or whatever the LP was called. Did it have a fade-out with football fans singing? Other than that not a PF fan. Maybe it was the production, or maybe it was the playing, or maybe it was the songs, like that, you know.

[Chasse-Spleen]

Ummagumma - now that's Hound-type album...

[finner]

Careful with that axe Eugene . . .

[Houndsong]

My bad. It's Meddle>Fearless. Just listening to it now it has that "twilight" sedation thing going on that makes a lot of their music kind of tiring - if you're not sedated already.

I'm surprised they never composed a tune and called it "Colonoscopy." Something apropos of a light sedation and then a twisting, turning tour through wormy innards.

[Chasse-Spleen]

I think it's the whining dog that appeals to you. You see, Meddle is a great album, and it even has something for everyone

[Houndsong]

Actually I like the timbre of the acoustic guitars - the rhythm anyway. Has a sort of thready sound.