Recordings

Rare Barrett recording goes unsold

Posted July 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip

A rare live recording of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett went on the auction block last month, but failed to sell.

“I am currently awaiting to see if a pending post-sale offer is to be completed,” Bonhams auction house consultant Stephen Maycock told Floydian Slip.

Maycock says bidders failed to reach a reserve price for the recording, which expected to fetch upwards of $5,000, on the day of the auction June 23. He declined to name the reserve price.

The reel of ½-inch tape contains a concert performed Jan. 27, 1972, at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, England. The show included Barrett in one of his last live performances sitting-in for three numbers with the Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band: “Number Nine,” “Gotta Be a Reason,” “Let’Roll,” and “Sweet Little Angel.”

The recording also includes performances by Hawkwind and Pink Fairies.

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Flaming Lips “Dark Side” now on CD

Posted June 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip

The Flaming Lips‘s cover of Pink Floyd‘s “Dark Side of the Moon” is now available on CD.

The Oklahoma prog-psych rockers first made the album available via iTunes Dec. 22, and as a limited edition LP in April. They also performed it live in Oklahoma City on New Year’s Eve.

Including guests on the recording, the album is credited to “The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches.”

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Roger Waters releases “We Shall Overcome” video

Posted June 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song “We Shall Overcome.”

Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza.

Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with drums by Thor Jonsson, neither of whom are seen in the video.

Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. “The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,” he writes.

“I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ It seems appropriate.”

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Rare Syd Barrett recording up for auction

Posted June 1, 2010 by Floydian Slip

One of the last-known live recordings of Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett is going on the auction block later this month. The sale could lead to a commercial release of the material.

The reel of Â½-inch tape contains a concert performed Jan. 27, 1972, at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, England. The show included Barrett sitting-in for three numbers with the Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band: “Number Nine,” “Gotta Be a Reason,” “Let’s Roll,” and “Sweet Little Angel.”

The recording, which might be the master recording, also includes performances by Hawkwind and Pink Fairies.

The show was recorded by Spaceward Studios founder Gary Lucas, who’s provided a statement of provenance for the item. Lucas says, “The recording of the concert was organized at the last minute and the equipment was poor as all that was available was a rather poor mixer. So we just stuck a stereo mic pair across the stage for drums/backline and mixed in some PA mix for front.

“The whole affair was a shambles with a fight breaking out around the stage at one point destroying at least one of the mics.”

Nonetheless, auction house Bonhams describes the audio quality of the tape as “reasonable” and says “preliminary inquiries as to the possibility of the recording being released have been made.”

The auction will be held June 23. The recording is expected to fetch upwards of $5,000.

Pre-register for the auction at the Bonhams site.

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Three-song Pink Floyd cover EP coming in April

Posted March 13, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Fruits de Mer Records will release “What Colour is Pink?” on April 19.

The EP will include three Floyd songs from “A Saucerful of Secrets” — “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Let There Be More Light”, and “A Saucerful of Secrets” — re-recorded by German prog/psych band Vibravoid.

Available as a limited edition of 500, the EP will be sold as a pink vinyl 7-inch record with pink label and pink sleeve. Already 200 of the EPs have been pre-ordered.

This will be the 10th release from the Surrey-based label, which boasts it “loses money on every release and we love it.” The company, in business for less than two years, has previously released re-recordings of songs originally by Small Faces, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Nick Drake, Caravan, Kraftwerk, Van der Graaf Generator, Nico and others.

Fruit de Mer’s eighth EP included a cover of Floyd’s “Julia Dream” by Swedish duo Us and Them.

You’ll be able to buy the EP at the label’s Web site. For more information, email them.

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Flaming Lips will tour “Dark Side”; LP, CD coming

Posted March 5, 2010 by Floydian Slip

The Flaming Lips are taking their reinterpretation of Pink Floyd‘s “Dark Side of the Moon” on the road for a 16-date, 10-state tour.

The Oklahoma group, which teamed with Peaches, Henry Rollins, and Stardeath and the White Dwarfs to release its version of “Dark Side” on iTunes in December, will start touring this month in Texas and wrap it up in July in New York’s Central Park.

Here’s the tour schedule:

Austin Music Hall, Austin, Texas (Mar. 12)
Hickory Street Stage/NX35, Denton, Texas (Mar. 13)
Charlottesville Pavillon, Charlottesville, Va. (Apr. 15)
Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Apr. 17)
Barton Hall/Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (Apr. 18)
Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, N.J. (Apr. 19)
The Riverside Theater, Milwaukee, Wisc. (Apr. 21)
Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington, Ind. (Apr. 22)
Sandstone Amphitheatre, Kansas City, Kansas (Apr. 23)
SunFest, West Palm Beach, Fla. (Apr. 29)
The Hangout Music Festival, Gulf Shores, Ala. (May 15)
Tinsley Park/Free Press Fest, Houston, Texas (Jun. 6)
Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, Tenn. (Jun. 11)
Nateva Music & Arts Festival, Oxford, Maine (Jul. 3)
Artpark, Lewiston, N.Y. (Jul. 22)
Central Park Summer stage, New York, N.Y. (Jul. 26)

The Lips’ version of “Dark Side” will be available on LP April 17 and on CD May 4.

Plans for an 8-track version are on hold. For now …

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David Gilmour to guest on Bryan Ferry album

Posted March 1, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will appear on Bryan Ferry‘s new album to be released by EMI/Virgin in September.

David has guested on a number of the Roxy Music founder’s solo albums, and appeared with him at the 1985 Live Aid show.

Other guests on the album include Jonny Geenwood, Nile Rodgers, Marcus Miller, Mani and Flea. Songwriting contributors include Scissor Sisters and Groove Armada.

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“Knebworth: The Album” to be reissued

Posted February 20, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Eagle Rock Entertainment will reissue “Knebworth: The Album,” a document of a 1990 charity concert including a performance by Pink Floyd.

The reissue is scheduled for March 23. Originally released by Polygram Records on Aug. 6, 1990, the 2-CD set has long been out of print.

Recorded June 30, 1990, the event was a superstar benefit for Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and the Brit School Of Performing Arts. The reissue will benefit the same charities.

Disc #1:

Tears For Fears — Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Tears For Fears — Badman’s Song
Status Quo — Dirty Water
Status Quo — Whatever You Want
Status Quo — Rockin’ All Over The World
Cliff Richard & The Shadows — On The Beach
Cliff Richard & The Shadows — Do You Wanna Dance
Robert Plant — Hurting Kind
Robert Plant — Liar’s Dance
Robert Plant — Tall Cool One
Robert Plant — Wearing And Tearing
Genesis — Mama
Genesis — Turn It On Again Medley: Somebody To Love / Satisfaction / Twist And Shout / Reach Out I’ll Be There / You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling / Pinball Wizard / In The Midnight House / Turn It On Again

Disc #2:

Phil Collins — Sussudio
Eric Clapton — Sunshine Of Your Love
Dire Straits — Think I Love You Too Much
Elton John — Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Elton John — Saturday Night’s All Right (For Fighting)
Paul McCartney — Coming Up
Paul McCartney — Hey Jude
Pink Floyd — Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd — Run Like Hell

Read more about “Knebworth: The Album.”

Eagle Rock Entertainment is a media production and distribution company operating across audiovisual entertainment programming. The company has offices in London, New York, Germany, France and Toronto.

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Hey, Ayatollah! Leave those kids alone!

Posted February 11, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Canadian world rockers Blurred Vision have released a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall,” with a modern twist.

The group changed a couple of choice lyrics to send a message of solidarity to youth fighting for their freedom in Iran.

The video, directed by Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami, who splits his time between Tehran and Toronto, is racking up the views on YouTube — nearly 70,000 at this writing.

According to the band’s Web site, the single should be available for download on iTunes soon.

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(Kinda) new Comfortably Numb cover

Posted January 4, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Prog-jazz trio The Bad Plus has included a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” on the group’s album “For All I Care.”

The recording includes Minneapolis alt-rock vocalist Wendy Lewis (The Plus).

The album also includes covers of other classic cuts by Yes (“Long Distance Runaround”), the Bee Gees (“How Deep Is Your Love”) and Heart (“Barracuda”).

“For All I Care” was released 11 months ago, Feb. 3, 2009 — but if you’re like us, it’s new to you.

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