Merchandise

“Amused to Death” to be reissued as SACD, LP

Posted January 18, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Acoustic Sounds Inc. will reissue Roger Waters’s 1992 album “Amused to Death” on LP and Super Audio CD (SACD) this fall.

James Guthrie, who mixed the original album, will use the original analog tapes to master the album for SACD. Doug Sax, who mastered the original, will join him in prepping the LP.

“Amused To Death” was originally mixed using QSound, a virtual surround sound, to enhance the spatial feel of the album’s music and sound effects. The reissue will preserve QSound’s three-dimensional experience.

The LP will be pressed onto a 200-gram vinyl double disc. The SACD will be a stereo hybrid, meaning it can be played on a standard CD player, albeit without the added benefits of the SACD technology.

Acoustic Sounds has set an Oct. 15 release date, but emphasizes the date is tentative.

The LP will be priced at $49.98. The SACD at $30.

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Roger Waters at 12.12.12 on iTunes

Posted December 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Three tracks from Roger Waters‘ performance at last week’s 12.12.12 concert are available for sale online.

“Us and Them”; “Comfortably Numb,” a duet with Eddie Vedder; and an extended version of “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2” called “Another Brick in the Atlantic Wall” are part of the album released today.

The album contains 24 selections from the event held at Madison Square Garden last Wednesday.

The album’s available for purchase in it entirety only. No single tracks are being sold. A CD will be released next month.

The Robin Hood Relief Fund will receive 100% of net proceeds of digital retailers. The fund is providing money, materials and know-how to local organizations serving those in the regions hardest hit by the storm.

Buy the album now.

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Floyd cover on upcoming film soundtrack

Posted December 4, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Legacy Recordings will include a Pink Floyd cover on “West of Memphis: Voices for Justice,” its soundtrack to the upcoming documentary film “West of Memphis.”

Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines contributed a recording of Floyd’s “Mother” to the film, which documents the plight of the so-called West Memphis Three, teenagers convicted of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, AR, and later released.

Ben Harper produced and plays lap guitar on the track.

The recording will be released Jan. 15.

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Contest: Win “The Treasures of Pink Floyd”

Posted November 20, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Published in hardcover by Carlton Books, the book contains 62 pages of content, along with dozens of removable facsimile memorabilia such as backstage passes, stickers, handbills, concert posters and more.

The book, published last month, is one of three similar titles released by Carlton, including titles devoted to Bob Dylan and AC/DC.

The author of two previous books about Floyd, Povey founded the Brain Damage fanzine and has written for Mojo, Record Collector, Classic Rock and other periodicals.

We have three copies of the book to give away, courtesy of the publisher.

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David Gilmour in Concert DVD to be released as app

Posted November 7, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Later this month, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour will become the first artist to release an entire album as a smartphone app.

To be released for iOS Nov. 19, the app will include Gilmour’s entire 2002 DVD “David Gilmour in Concert” for $8.99. An Android release will come later.

The concert was recorded at Robert Wyatt‘s “Meltdown” festival at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2001, and a return visit the following year.

The concert songs are: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5); Terrapin; Fat Old Sun; Coming Back to Life; High Hopes; Je Crois Entendre Encore; Smile; Wish You Were Here; Comfortably Numb (featuring Wyatt); Dimming of the Day; Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-8); A Great Day for Freedom; Hushabye Mountain; Breakthrough (featuring Richard Wright); and Comfortably Numb (featuring Bob Geldof).

Extras include: Spare Digits (closeups of Gilmour’s guitar parts); Home Movie (shot at rehearsals); High Hopes Choral; I Put A Spell On You (with Jools Holland and Mica Paris); Don’t; and Sonnet 18.

Songs from 2001 were shot in HD, with the rest of the material shot in standard definition.

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Tangerine Dream covers Pink Floyd

Posted October 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Venerable German electronic group Tangerine Dream has included a Pink Floyd cover on its latest album.

“Under Cover,” released this Tuesday, is a collection of 14 recordings of other artists’ songs, including Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”

Other artists covered include David Bowie, Kraftwerk, R.E.M., The Eagles, The Beatles and others.

Tangerine Dream’s 2007 album “Madcap’s Flaming Duty” paid tribute to Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.

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Save 10% on “Dark Side” boxset

Posted September 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” has swung a deal with online music retailer Pop Market to save you money on a plum Pink Floyd boxset.

Through Sunday, when you buy “The Dark Side of the Moon” Immersion boxset at Pop Market, save an extra 10% when you use promo code SHINEON at checkout.

The set’s already been marked down from $149.99 to $109.99. When you use our promo code, the price is just $98.99.

Buy it online now.

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Contest: The Story of Wish You Were Here DVD/Blu-ray

Posted June 20, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Authorized by the band, it includes new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, as well as archive interviews with Richard Wright, who died in 2008.

Sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover “burning man” Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the project are also featured. Original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the album’s construction.

Deadline to register: 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 27. Prizes courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment.

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Up for bid: Original interview tape

Posted June 2, 2012 by Floydian Slip

We’ve put up for bid more interesting working tapes — this time from the 1997 ”Floydian Slip” interview with Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson.

This is quarter-inch analog tape on a 10.5-inch reel in the original Ampex box. The interview runs 20-30 minutes.

The auction includes an 8-page transcript of the interview, which includes portions marked up for deletion before the interview aired.

Thorgerson was part of the legendary Hipgnosis design team, which was responsible for designing about a third of your album collection: Genesis, Peter Gabriel, 10cc, Led Zeppelin, Al Stewart, Black Sabbath, Alan Parsons Project, Phish, Cranberries and many, many more.

Bid at eBay.

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Up for bid: Original interview working tapes

Posted May 24, 2012 by Floydian Slip

We’ve put up for bid some interesting working tapes from the 2001 “Floydian Slip” interview with Pink Floyd recording engineer Andy Jackson.

These tapes were the result of assembling Jackson’s responses with our own re-recorded questions. Host Craig Bailey conducted the interview over the phone, without bothering to record the questions. Jackson recorded himself in a professional studio on his end for high fidelity, and mailed “Floydian Slip” a CD, which he’d burned at Astoria, David Gilmour‘s houseboat recording studio.

In addition to working with Floyd since “The Wall” movie (1982), Jackson’s an accomplished recording engineer who’s worked with Dream Academy and Boomtown Rats, among others.

Bid at eBay.

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