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As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.

In December 1987, I was home from college for winter break, when my friend Greg Perez passed me a cassette copy he’d made from “The Dark Side of the Moon.” My knowledge of Pink Floyd was limited, but he assured me I needed to give it a listen.

If my memory’s correct, we were about to enter a bar in Winooski, Vt., just outside Burlington. And though I later labeled the J-card with a source of “CD,” I think Greg had duped it from an LP.

I usually cite that cassette — the “genesis cassette” — as what sparked my interest in the band, which led to my starting “Floydian Slip” a little more than a year later, January ’89.

So much for the dangers of illegal taping. I imagine the “cost” of that illegal bootleg has been paid back to the Floyd and their associates many (many) times over as a result of the show.