Merchandise

David Gilmour guest appearance to be issued on compilation

Posted May 23, 2012 by Floydian Slip

A guest appearance Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour made in 1975 will be issued as part of a new compilation.

“When Your Life Is Your Own,” a recording Gilmour made with David Courtney, was first made available on CD when Courney’s 1975 “First Day” album was reissued as “First Day: The Complete Story” in spring 2010.

The new Courtney compilation, “The Show Must Go On,” will be made available June 11 in the U.K.; July 10 in the U.S.

Courtney’s first successes came as a songwriter for Leo Sayer and Adam Faith. As a producer, he’s done work with Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.

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Wish You Were Here documentary coming this summer

Posted April 3, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Eagle Rock Entertainment will release “Pink Floyd The Story of Wish You Were Here” on DVD and Blu-ray June 26.

The documentary, authorized by the band, 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.

Pricing details have not yet been released.

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Mason, Jackson hint at more reissues to come

Posted February 8, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and long-time recording engineer for the band Andy Jackson have told Billboard more reissues might be on the way following this month’s boxset of “The Wall.”

“The idea was always to see whether people like these things or not. If they do, of course we could do more,” Mason says.

“There’s quite a bit of very, very early stuff, before they had a deal, with Syd (Barrett) in the band when they were still trying to be an R&B band,” says Jackson, who’s been a major player behind the boards of the entire “Why Pink Floyd?” remaster campaign.

“It’s not, like, early versions of songs that turned up on their albums or anything. It’s R&B classics, the same as everybody else was playing back them,” he adds. “There’s a lot of recordings that may be brilliant for a future project.”

Read Billboard’s story online.

“The Wall” will be released Feb. 28.

A couple weeks ago on “Floydian Slip” we played an early band demo of “Young Lust.” Be listening for “The Doctor,” an early version of “Comfortably Numb,” on Show #828, airing on all 30 Random Precision Radio Network stations Feb. 16-22.

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Storm Thorgerson documentary East Coast premiere

Posted January 28, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roddy Bogawa‘s documentary about Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson will have its East Coast premiere next month at New York Museum of the Modern Art (MoMA).

The feature-length film, “Taken by Storm,” will be featured as part of MoMA’s two-week-long “International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media,” beginning Feb. 16.

“Taken by Storm” debuted in March 2011 at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival.

“Hoping that this screening will give the film a big push along to its distribution life — more screenings, perhaps theatrical release, DVDs and streaming,” Bogawa says.

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Just arrived: “Young Lust” demo

Posted January 14, 2012 by Floydian Slip

We’re enjoying hearing an early band demo of Pink Floyd‘s “Young Lust,” the first promo item shipped by EMI in anticipation of February’s re-release of “The Wall.”

Due Feb. 28, the “Immersion” and “Experience” editions of the album will include previously unreleased demos and alternate recordings, such as this one.

Both editions will include an alternate version of “Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1,” as well as “The Doctor,” an early version of what would become “Comfortably Numb.”

The 7-disc “Immersion” set will also include David Gilmour‘s original demos of “Comfortably Numb” and “Run Like Hell” among many other rarities.

Listen for this band demo of “Young Lust” on Floydian Slip show #824, airing on all affiliate stations Jan. 19-25.

Correction: We’ll play it on show #825, Jan. 26-Feb. 1.

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Pink Floyd on cover of new Guitar World

Posted January 5, 2012 by Floydian Slip

The making of Pink Floyd’s “Meddle” and “Wish You Were Here” albums is the cover story of the February issue of Guitar World magazine.

The band’s David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason tell the story behind the making of the albums.

The issue includes a poster of previously unseen Floyd artwork by long-time Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, and guitar and bass tabs for “One of These Days.”

You can buy the issue through the magazine’s online store now.

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Winner: The Raging Storm

Posted December 21, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to Peter Petersson of Great Meadows, NJ, who won an autographed copy of “The Raging Storm,” the new book from Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson.

Prize courtesy of StormStudios.

Buy it online.

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Up for bid: Nick Mason discs, drumsticks

Posted November 23, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has donated some rare items to be auctioned for charity.

The eBay auction, which ends at 6 p.m. (PST) Dec. 2, includes Mason’s signed and framed silver disc of Floyd’s “A Momentary Lapse of Reason,” designating double-platinum status of the 1987 album; and a pair of signed drumsticks.

The auction benefits the Dan Wheldon Family Trust Fund through the Graham Rahal Foundation. Wheldon was an English Indy car driver who was killed in a crash Oct. 16.

Bidding is currently at $1,025. Place your bid now.

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Contest: Win the Pink Floyd iPhone app

Posted November 15, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Read more about the app in our previous post (“Pink Floyd app releasing tomorrow“).

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New book coming from Storm Thorgerson

Posted November 13, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson has released “The Raging Storm,” a new coffee table book featuring output over the past four years from his most recent d/b/a, Storm Studios.

Thorgerson was a founding member of design team Hipgnosis, and had a hand in creating nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as the band’s solo members’, numerous reissues for the band, and iconic sleeves for groups such as Genesis, 10cc, Led Zeppelin and others.

“The Raging Storm” is available in two editions: a hardcover version for £34.99; and a deluxe limited edition that includes a giclee print of Biffy Clyro‘s “Only Revolutions” for £395.

Both are 160 pages and include art produced for Floyd, Biffy Clyro, Pendulum, Wombats, Shpongle, Disco Biscuits, Powderfinger, Muse, Steve Miller and others.

Thorgerson has also created monthly calendar wallpaper available for free download.

It’s all available at the online Raging Storm store.

You can read our 1997 interview with Thorgerson at the time of the release of his book “Taken by Storm” online.

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