March 2018 Archives

Random Precision Radio Network grows to 100 stations

Posted March 19, 2018 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” is now carried by 100 radio stations.

Ushering our network into triple digits is WRLF 94.3 FM in Fairmont, WV, which will begin airing the show on April 1.

“The New 94 Rock” will air “Floydian Slip” each Sunday morning at 10 ET.

WRLF is 3,600-watt rock station serving north-central West Virginia’s Morgantown-Clarksburg-Fairmont metro market, as defined by Nielson Audio. The market is ranked #175 out of 300.

We started building the Random Precision Radio Network in summer 2009 after ending a 14-year run on a single Burlington, Vt., station. We began with a single station. And then two. And then three.

While ever reaching 100 would have seemed impossible in the beginning, getting there is a testament that hard work and persistence — a whole lot of persistence — can yield results.

Having a legendary band like Pink Floyd at the center of it all doesn’t make it any harder either.

Shine on.

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1144

Posted March 19, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Crying Song
More (Film soundtrack) (1969)
Time
The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Poles Apart
The Division Bell (1994)
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
Rats
Barrett (Syd Barrett) (1970)
Love Scene Version 7
The Early Years: 1965–1972 (2016)
One Night Stand (*Floydian Slip Up*)
Hopes, Wishes and Dreams (Ray Thomas) (1976)
Sorrow
David Gilmour Live at Pompeii (David Gilmour) (2017)

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“Floydian Slip” coming to K-TOR “The Tornado”

Posted March 15, 2018 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” will begin streaming on K-TOR starting Sunday, March 18. The station will carry the show Saturdays and Sundays at 6 p.m. CT.

“The Tornado” is an online station staffed and managed by media arts students at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.

K-TOR is the latest station to join the Random Precision Radio Network, a collection of nearly 100 broadcasters that air “Floydian Slip,” produced in our Shelburne, Vt., studio.

Shine on, Galveston!

Addendum: K-TOR changed formats shortly after signing, and no longer carries “Floydian Slip.”

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Pink Floyd backing vocalist Claudia Fontaine dead at 57

Posted March 14, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Vocalist Claudia Fontaine died yesterday. She was 57.

An accomplished vocalist who began working in her teens, she provided backing vocals for Pink Floyd on the 1994 tour of “The Division Bell,” which would become the “Pulse” (1995) album.

A member of Afrodiziak in the ’80s (pictured, with Fontaine on the left), Fontaine also worked with Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Specials, The Jam, Howard Jones , Squeeze, Joe Cocker and many others.

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Division Bell voice Hawking dead at 76

Posted March 14, 2018 by Floydian Slip

British physicist Stephen Hawking has died. He was 76.

In addition to being one of the world’s brightest and best-known scientists, Pink Floyd fans know him as a voice on the band’s “The Division Bell” (1994) album.

Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and communicated using a speech synthesizer. It’s his synthesizer heard on the song “Keep Talking.”

The spoken passage came from a 1994 British Telecommunications television ad that caught the attention of Floyd’s David Gilmour. He described the passage to The Guardian in 2014 as “the most powerful piece of television advertising that I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Hawking is also heard on Floyd’s “The Endless River” (2014) on the song “Talkin’ Hawkin’.”

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“Floydian Slip” preview #1144

Posted March 13, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1144:

Floyd from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) and the More film soundtrack (1969)
David Gilmour live at Pompeii
A classic from The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the nearly 100 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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Winners: Reinventing Pink Floyd

Posted March 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to our winners of copies of “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon” by Bill Kopp:

Darren DeVivo, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Michael Shogi, Johnston, RI

Prizes provided by publisher Rowman and Littlefield.

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1143

Posted March 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Embryo (BBC, July 16, 1970)
The Early Years: 1965–1972 (2016)
The Russian Missile/Towers of Faith
When the Wind Blows (Roger Waters) (1986)
Learning to Fly
A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
Heartbeat Pigmeat
Zabriskie Point (Film soundtrack) (1970)
Veteran of the Psychic Wars (*Floydian Slip Up*)
Fire of Unknown Origin (Blue Oyster Cult) (1981)
Young Lust/One of My Turns
The Wall (1979)

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Mono remaster of “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” coming

Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd will release a new heavy weight vinyl remaster of its first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967), on Record Store Day, April 21.

James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman remastered the album in mono working from the original ’67 mono mix.

Hipgnosis’s Aubrey Powell and Peter Curzon designed the cover for the new version, which features Syd Barrett‘s silhouetted graphic of the band that adorned the back of the original LP.

A poster of the Colin Prime photo that was the basis for Barrett’s graphic is included with the disc.

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