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Video: Roger Waters records with Lucius

Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip

Lucius, featuring vocalists Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, released its “Nudes” album last Friday. The album features Roger Waters on the closing track, a cover of Leadbelly‘s “Goodnight, Irene.”

Yesterday the group published a video of Waters, Laessig and Wolfe — barely recognizable without the pair’s matching wigs — recording the song direct to vinyl in a vintage Voice-O-Graph booth at New York City’s Electric Lady Studios.

Laessig and Wolfe provide backing vocals for Waters Us + Them tour and also appear on his album “Is This the Life We Really Want?” (2017).


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Enter to win “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon”

Posted March 5, 2018 by Floydian Slip


Register to win a copy of the new book “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon” by Bill Kopp.

The book focuses on the transitional period of the band during the late-1960s and early-’70s following the departure of co-founder Syd Barrett and the group’s hugely successful album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

Kopp’s research included interviews with early Floyd manager Peter Jenner; a variety of notable musicians: Steve Howe, Yes; Davy O’List, The Nice; Robyn Hitchcock; and Floyd collaborators Ron Geesin and Willie Wilson; and “Floydian Slip” host Craig Bailey.

Prizes courtesy of publisher Rowman & Littlefield.

Register now. Deadline to enter: End of day Sunday, March 11.


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Just published: “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon”

Posted February 15, 2018 by Floydian Slip


Rowman & Littlefield has published “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon” by Bill Kopp.

The title focuses on the transitional period of the band during the late-1960s and early-’70s following the departure of co-founder Syd Barrett and the group’s hugely successful album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

Craig Bailey, producer/host of the syndicated Pink Floyd radio show “Floydian Slip,” is one of several sources interviewed by the author. Others include early Floyd manager Peter Jenner and a variety of notable musicians: Steve Howe, Yes; Davy O’List, The Nice; Robyn Hitchcock; and Floyd collaborators Ron Geesin and Willie Wilson.

Jerry Shirley, Humble Pie’s drummer who also appeared on Barrett’s post-Floyd recordings, wrote the book’s foreword.

Publishers Weekly wrote, “Kopp’s smart and well-researched history is a welcome addition to the Pink Floyd library.”

Kopp is a music journalist whose work has appeared in Record Collector, Prog, Shindig!, Billboard, Electronic Musician, Goldmine and others. He’s written liner note essays for 20 albums, including titles by Edgar Winter, Rick Wakeman, The Ventures, Dave Mason, and Iron Butterfly.

The hardcover edition goes for $35. Rowman & Littlefield will offer an ebook version soon for $33.


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Roger Waters to appear on Lucius album

Posted January 23, 2018 by Floydian Slip


Roger Waters will make a guest appearance on the upcoming Lucius album “Nudes.”

Waters is featured on the band’s cover of Lead Belly’s “Goodnight Irene.”

Lucius is a four-person L.A.-based band most recognizable for its look-alike lead vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. The pair provided backing vocals on Waters’ recent Us + Them tour.

“Nudes” is an acoustic collection of original and re-recorded Lucius tracks, as well as cover songs, recorded over two days at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.

The album drops March 2 and is available now for pre-order now.


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“Reinventing Pink Floyd” publishing in February

Posted December 19, 2017 by Floydian Slip

Rowman and Littlefield will publish “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to the Dark Side of the Moon” on Feb. 15.

The 200-page book by Bill Kopp focuses on the challenges Floyd faced to re-brand itself following the departure of its founder, Syd Barrett, in the late-’60s.

Kopp is a music writer whose work has appeared in dozens of periodicals and album sleeves. “Floydian Slip” host Craig Bailey was one of many people Kopp interviewed for this book.

Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley, who played on Barrett’s solo albums, wrote the book’s foreword.

“Reinventing Pink Floyd” will be available in hardcover and as an e-book for $35 and $33, respectively.


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New “Floydian Slip” stickers available, free

Posted December 6, 2017 by Floydian Slip

We’ve added a second design to the “Floydian Slip” collection of promotional stickers.

Our new triangular sticker is printed in matte metallic silver, and is 2″ x 2¼”. Perfect for sticking on your favorite bathroom stall door, restaurant salad bar sneeze-guard, or T72 Iraqi tank (See “Floydian Slip sticker spotted on Iraqi tank”).

This new one joins our 2″ x 4″ full-color vinyl sticker that we rolled out in October 2015.

Learn how you can get a fistful of both stickers entirely free.

If you stick it, click it: Snap a picture of your “Floydian Slip” sticker in the wild, email it to us and we’ll share it with the rest of you crazy diamonds here on our blog, Facebook and Twitter.


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Roger Waters album nominated for Grammy

Posted November 29, 2017 by Floydian Slip


Roger Waters‘s “Is This the Life We Really Want?” has earned a Grammy nomination.

The album’s in the running to win “Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.”

It was engineered by Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies and Darrell Thorp. Bob Ludwig acted as mastering engineer.

Other albums nominated in that category are “Every Where Is Some Where,” K. Flay; “Natural Conclusion,” Rose Cousins; “No Shape,” Perfume Genius; and “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars.

The Grammys will be held Jan. 28 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

Addendum (Posted Jan. 30, 2018): The Grammy went to “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars.

 


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Ummagumma house for sale

Posted November 10, 2017 by Floydian Slip

The Cambridge home where Pink Floyd was photographed for the cover of the band’s 1969 album “Ummagumma” is for sale.

Trinity House in Great Shelford is a 9,210-square foot Edwardian mansion that sits on 3.7 acres. Asking price is £3.25 million ($4.3 million US).

While the property listing at the website of Savills, the real estate firm handling the sale, is mum on the property’s Floydian provenance, the Cambridge News reports the home boasts two points of distinction for Floyd fans.

According to the News, which cites “A Pink Floyd Fan’s Guide to Cambridge” by Mark Worden and Alfred Marziano, the property was the location of the Hipgnosis photo shoot of the band’s 1969 album “Ummagumma.”

Furthermore, it says Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright performed a private concert at the home as “The Tea Set” in 1965 for the 21st birthday party of a friend. David Gilmour’s early group Joker’s Wild was on the ticket as well.

Savills has published on its site several photos of the property, which seems to be in desperate need of a makeover.

The most interesting shot might be one of an empty room with a pair of French doors in the corner that open out to a yard. It’s remarkably similar to the doorway where members of Floyd posed for that series of echoing Drostesque photographs on the cover of “Ummagumma.”

For more details and photos, visit the Savills listing for the property.


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Two more Pink Floyd reissues coming to vinyl

Posted October 10, 2017 by Floydian Slip

On Nov. 17, Pink Floyd Records will reissue on vinyl the albums “A Collection of Great Dance Songs” (1981) and “Delicate Sound of Thunder” (1988).

This will be the first time those albums have been available on LP for more than 20 years. They’ll be the band’s first “best of” and live albums to be remastered on vinyl.

Over the past two years, Floyd has released its entire studio collection as stereo remasters on heavyweight 180g vinyl. All have been mastered from original analogue studio tapes with original album artwork.

“A Collection of Great Dance Songs’” was certified double platinum by the RIAA in 2001. A compilation of previously released tracks, it also contains a complete re-recording of “Money” recorded almost entirely by David Gilmour alone.

“Delicate Sound Of Thunder” was recorded live over five nights in August 1988 at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, N.Y. It went on to become the first rock album to be played in outer space.


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Win: Sennheiser HD1 Dark Side of the Moon-themed headphones

Posted October 2, 2017 by Floydian Slip


Register to win a pair of Sennheiser HD1 Dark Side of the Moon-themed wireless headphones.

These wireless headphones feature printed prisms and a rainbow coating background on the ear cups, rainbow-colored stitching on the headband, and a tag commemorating “Their Mortal Remains,” the band’s exhibition showing now at the V&A Museum in London.

Suggested retail price $499.95.

Prize courtesy of Sennheiser and Hummingbird Media.

Register to win now. Deadline to register: End of day, Oct. 8.


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