Register to win a copy of Pete Townshend’s Deep End: Face the Face, a DVD/CD double-disc performance from 1986 featuring David Gilmour.
Prizes courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment. Deadline to enter: End of day Sunday, Sept. 18.
Win: Pete Townshend’s Deep End Face the Face
Posted September 13, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Vintage BBC recording, video released
Posted September 1, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd has released a new video featuring an early performance of “Grantchester Meadows.”
The video includes film of the band’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Rick Wright in a 1970 KQED (San Francisco) performance and new nature footage shot by Aubrey “Po” Powell of Hipgnosis, set to audio from a BBC performance recorded May 12, 1969.
The song comes from the band’s 1969 album “Ummagumma.”
The video is the first taste of the rarities coming our way when the group releases ‘The Early Years 1965-1972″ boxset Nov. 11.
David Gilmour 1986 performance coming to DVD/CD
Posted August 4, 2016 by Floydian Slip
A 1986 show that was part of David Gilmour‘s stint with Pete Townshend‘s Deep End band is about to be released.
“Face to Face” will be a two-disc DVD/CD set of the band’s appearance on German TV’s “Rockpalast” program. The performance was recorded at Marché International du Disque et de l’Edition Musicale (MIDEM) in Cannes on Jan. 29, 1986.
The discs will be released Sept. 16. The package will also be available digitally.
In addition to Townshend solo songs and classics from The Who, the band performs Gilmour’s “Blue Light” from his ’84 “About Face” album.
The band includes: Townshend (vocals, guitar); Gilmour (guitar, vocals); Peter Hope-Evans (harmonica); Chucho Merchan (bass); Simon Phillips (drums); John Rabbit Bundrick (keyboards); Jody Linscott (percussion); The Kick Horns: Simon Clarke, Roddy Lorimer, Tim Sanders, Pete Beachill and Dave Plews; and backing vocalists Billy Nicholls, Ian Ellis, Chris Staines, Gina Foster and Coral Gordan.
“Blue Light” will appear on the DVD and the CD.
Thanks to Ian Schulze for the heads-up.
It’s official: New Pink Floyd boxset coming this fall
Posted July 28, 2016 by Floydian Slip
We’ve received official confirmation Pink Floyd will release a massive boxset containing loads of previously-released early material on Nov. 11.
“The Early Years 1965-1972” will be a deluxe 27-disc box featuring seven individual book-style packages.
The news was apparently leaked by shop.pinkfloyd.com ahead of this morning’s press release embargo time, though the online store subsequently removed details of the box from its site.
Boxset details
In order to get all of the details currently available about this boxset to you as quickly as possible, here’s the official 10-page press release (PDF).
The official release doesn’t include pricing, but Google’s cached copy of the shop.pinkfloyd.com page shows a price of US $700.
Judging from the press release, the band originally intended to announce the news July 16.
Read our previous post about the boxset.
Addendum (July 29, 2016)
The boxset is now listed at shop.pinkfloyd.com with a price of US $550. A 2-CD highlights disc is also available for US $15.99.
New Pink Floyd boxset?
Posted July 28, 2016 by Floydian Slip
What appears to be a massive boxset of early Pink Floyd material appeared on the official webstore of Pink Floyd.
And then disappeared.
Google’s cache of the page reveals “The Early Years Box Set: 1965-1972” contains more than 11 hours or audio (130+ tracks) and more than 14 hours of audio-visual material.
Here are the details:
- Comprehensive 27-disc box set, 7 individual book style volumes
- 20+ songs previously unreleased, 7+ hours of previously unreleased live audio performances, 5+ hours of ?rare concert footage, along with 5 7” singles in replica sleeves, collectable memorabilia, feature films & ?new sound mixes
- BBC Radio Sessions, remixes, outtakes, and alternative versions more than 11 hours of audio (made up of 130+ ?tracks) as well as live TV performance in more than 14 hours audio visual
- Previously unreleased tracks include 1967’s Vegetable Man and In The Beechwoods, which have been ?mixed for the first time specially for this release
- 2 historic Quad mixes (1 unreleased), plus new 5.1 mixes of Meddle and Obscured By Clouds albums
- Plus Pink Floyd’s early vinyl singles — the first 5 UK releases, (1967-68) remastered from original tapes, original sleeves/heavyweight vinyl/paper labels replicated
The page lists the box as “Coming soon” for a price of $700.
Could someone at shop.pinkfloyd.com have accidentally pulled the trigger early? Revealing a box that wasn’t yet ready-for-primetime? Apparently.
Details as they’re available …
Who is Jimmy Smith?
Posted June 24, 2016 by Floydian Slip
One fan who ponied up $500 for the so-called “super deluxe” boxset of “Roger Waters The Wall” got a surprise: Instead of being autographed by Waters, the 170-page hardcover book included with fan Jim Clarke‘s box reads “Love Jimmy Smith.”
Fans have put forth two theories to explain the anomaly: Either Waters grew tired of signing all 3,000 boxes and decided to play a prank. Or someone else was hired to sign on Waters’ behalf and experienced a momentary lapse of reason when he accidentally signed his own name.
Music publication NME has asked Waters’ camp for comment, but none are forthcoming just yet.
Either way, in the end, this botched box might end up being worth even more than if Waters had signed his own name to it.
Surrogate band indeed.
Contest: Win “The Story of Wish You Were Here” on Blu-ray
Posted May 30, 2016 by Floydian Slip
On this week’s “Floydian Slip” we’re talking about one of the strangest events in the history of Pink Floyd. It happened June 5, 1975, when the band was making the “Wish You Were Here” album.
Keeping with that theme, you can register to win a copy of “The Story of Wish You Were Here,” an 85-minute documentary about the making of Pink Floyd’s seminal album, on Blu-ray disc.
Prizes courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment.
Deadline to enter is the anniversary of the event, Sunday, June 5.
Royal Mail to issue Pink Floyd stamps
Posted May 26, 2016 by Floydian Slip
The U.K. Royal Mail will issue 10 new postage stamps to commemorate Pink Floyd’s 50th anniversary of becoming a professional band.
Six of the stamps feature Floyd album covers: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), Atom Heart Mother (1970), The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Endless River (2014). The other four feature the band performing live.
Royal Mail is selling the stamps in a variety of bundle and first day issue configurations.
The stamps are available for pre-order now and will be sold in post offices beginning July 7.
Royal Mail featured The Division Bell (1994) on a stamp in 2010.
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