Posted May 18, 2011 by Floydian Slip
We’ll be making a guest appearance on “Floydian Slip” affiliate Power 96 (KQCL) in Faribault, MN, Friday morning.
Host Craig Bailey will join the station’s Mike Eiler at 8:15 a.m. (CT) Friday to talk about the upcoming Pink Floyd reissue/rarities project, last week’s on-stage reunion of David Gilmour and Roger Waters, and whatever else might come up.
You can listen to Power 96 online.
Posted May 18, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Posted May 16, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Musicradar.com announced the results of its “Best Album Cover” poll, naming Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” as #1.
“Bold, iconic and symbolic, the cover to Pink Floyd’s eighth studio album fulfilled every aspect of Richard Wright’s brief to be: ‘smarter, neater – more classy’ than previous Pink Floyd covers,” the music site writes.
Floyd’s other entry in the Top 50 was “Animals,” at #10.
You can browse all 50 at the Musicradar Web site.
It got us thinking what true Floyd fans such as yourself would vote as the best Floyd cover ever.
Place your vote by leaving a comment here with your choice. If you need a refresher, take a look at all the albums here. (And, yes, if you’d like to vote for “A Nice Pair” or “A Collection of Great Dance Songs,” feel free — even though those compilations aren’t listed in our discography.)
Let’s skip solo albums for now. And don’t bother voting more than once, because we’ll only count your first.
After voting’s slowed to a trickle, we’ll pick a few of you to receive free one-year subscriptions to Sound+Vision magazine.
Posted May 13, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Last fall, before Roger Waters kicked off the North American leg of his “Wall” tour in Toronto, we held a contest encouraging you to guess which date of the tour David Gilmour would join Roger on stage to perform “Comfortably Numb.”
We received about 90 entries, with most people favoring May 11:
Well, as it turns out, that prediction was close, but off by one day: The reunion happened at last night’s show at London’s 02, with the added bonus of Nick Mason joining Waters and Gilmour on stage for the show’s coda, “Outside the Wall.”
Two people guessed May 12, so we flipped a coin to determine our winner: Daniel Kippes of Cercado, Cochabamba in Bolivia.
Daniel gets a copy of Waters’ 1990 CD “The Wall Live in Berlin.” And, for guessing the exact date, we’re also throwing in a sealed copy of Classic Rock’s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”
Honorable mention to the other person who managed to see the future: Ron Leicht of Calwell, Australian Capital Territory in Australia.
Nicely done, both of you!
Posted May 12, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Video from this evening’s performance of “The Wall” at London’s 02, featuring the reunion of David Gilmour and Roger Waters.
Gilmour joined Waters, along with drummer Nick Mason, for playing “Outside the Wall” at the end of the show, as well: Gilmour on mandolin, and Mason on tambourine.
Posted May 12, 2011 by Floydian Slip
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Posted May 12, 2011 by Floydian Slip
The nearly-year-long mystery was revealed on David Gilmour’s blog moments ago: When would he make good on his promise from last summer to join Roger Waters on stage to perform “Comfortably Numb” with former bandmate Roger Waters?
The answer: At tonight’s o2 show in London.
Gilmour’s post says the song will be recorded for posting on “various websites,” but is not intended for an eventual DVD of “The Wall” in the works.
“Look on the bright side: that means you’ll get to see it sooner,” the post reads, before adding tonight’s appearance truly is a one-off.
“David is not repeating his special guest performance at a later occasion, I’m sorry to disappoint those of you with fingers crossed and tickets for later shows.”
Waters joined Gilmour on stage at a charity event last July (“David Gilmour, Roger Waters perform together“). The deal, as it was revealed later, was Gilmour agreed to, in turn, join Waters during one show of his “Wall” tour, to perform “Comfortably Numb.”
“Floydian Slip” turned the upcoming pairing into a contest (“Reunion date contest: The results“), asking people to guess the date of the reunion for a chance to win Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” from 1990. Guess the exact date, and we’d throw in a sealed copy of Classic Rock‘s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”
We’ll be mulling over entries this evening to determine our winner.
Posted May 12, 2011 by Floydian Slip
“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on KRHV 93.3 FM in Mammoth Lakes, CA, on May 12. The station will carry the show Thursdays at 4 p.m. (MT).
KRHV is a 1,000-watt station serving “Sierra’s Best Rock” to the Mammoth Lakes/Big Pine area along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains between California and Nevada.
More than 30 affiliate stations have now joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.
Shine on, Sierras!
Posted May 11, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Posted May 10, 2011 by Floydian Slip
EMI announced today the largest Pink Floyd remaster and rarities project in the band’s 40-plus-year history.
The label will release remastered/repackaged versions of all 14 Floyd studio albums, along with deluxe — and deluxe, deluxe! — versions including tons of previously unreleased audio, video and more.
The label’s Web site for the initiative, “Why Pink Floyd …?,” promises, “a comprehensive release schedule, to be launched on September 26, 2011, encompassing CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, SACD, an array of digital formats, viral marketing, iPhone Apps and a brand-new single-album ‘Best Of’ collection.”
A source close to the band told “Floydian Slip” in September 2010 remastering work on previously unreleased, and, in some cases, presumed to have been lost, recordings was being performed for eventual release, “subject to interminable contract negotiations.”
The project’s “Discovery” series will include individual remasters of all 14 Floyd studio albums:
… as well as “The Discovery Collection,” a box set containing all of them.
All have been remastered by James Guthrie, and come in newly-designed Digipaks with 12-page booklets designed by Storm Thorgerson.
“Experience” editions — coming for:
… are expanded versions in Digipak bonus disc format. Included are original remastered albums, discs of additional material and expanded CD booklets.
EMI will also release “Immersion” editions of:
Packaged in square boxes, the sets contain remastered, previously unreleased and audio-visual material, plus additional content such as reproduced memorabilia, new graphics, art prints, collectors’ items, booklets and more.
Also included in this project is “A Foot in the Door,” a new 14-track sampler of previously released material, also remastered by Guthrie; and vinyl editions of much of the back catalog.
The most exciting material, without a doubt, are the previously unreleased tracks contained in the “Experience” and “Immersion” sets.
The 6-CD “Dark Side” immersion set includes concert film screens in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound; early, live versions of “Dark Side” songs; demos of “Us and Them” and “Money”; documentary videos; “The Hard Way,” a cut from the band’s aborted “Household Objects” project, when it flirted with recording an entire album substituting everyday objects for instruments; and more.
The 5-CD “Wish You Were Here” immersion set includes live material from November 1974’s Wembley shows; “Wine Glasses” from “Household Objects”; an alternate take of “Have a Cigar”; and a version of the title track featuring Stephane Grappelli; and much more.
“The Wall” immersion set includes seven CDs, which contain a live version of the album; documentaries; interviews; and more.
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