David Gilmour

Gilmour-autographed guitar up for bid

Posted December 14, 2010 by Floydian Slip

A guitar autographed by a bevvy of rock heavyweights, including Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, is being auctioned off tomorrow.

The guitar, an Epiphone Casino VS, is being sold to benefit PUP AID, an anti-puppy-farming initiative promoting responsible dog-breeding and rescue pet adoption. Proceeds from the sale will go to: Dogs Trust, Kennel Club Charitable Trust and Oldies Club.

The guitar’s been signed by: Gilmour, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Mick Jones, Brian May, Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller and Liam Gallagher.

It’s expected to go for $5,500-$7,900.

The Casino is a hollow-body electric guitar similar to Epiphone parent company Gibson’s ES-330.

The auction begins at noon local time in Knightsbridge, London. Online registration for bidding has been closed. But you can contact Bonham’s for information on how you can place a bid.

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Waters, Gilmour spotted together in Minneapolis

Posted October 26, 2010 by Floydian Slip

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune Web site, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and David Gilmour were spotted having dinner out last night.

Chris Riemenschneider writes that a local writer and music fan positively identified Gilmour as one of the members of Waters’ party at Bar La Grassa in Minneapolis, Minn., Monday night.

Waters is said to have been sporting a marching hammers hoodie. No word on Gilmour’s attire.

Fans are speculating when Gilmour will join Waters on stage during his “Wall” tour to perform “Comfortably Numb.” The guitarist made the promise as part of a deal that brought the two together at a charity event in Oxfordshire in July. The exact date of the “Wall” reunion, however, has not been made public.

Ticket holders for tonight’s Omaha show have their fingers crossed.

Read the blog post.

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Contest: Orb/Gilmour winners announced

Posted October 25, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to winners of “Metallic Spheres” by The Orb, featuring David Gilmour:

Quintin Allen
Las Vegas, NV
Zulfia Malyshenko
Kiev, Ukraine
Nuno Henriques
Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal

Prizes courtesy of Sony Music/Columbia Records and The Orb.

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Contest: Win ‘Metallic Spheres’ by The Orb featuring David Gilmour

Posted October 18, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Heads-up about our new contest: Register to win a copy of “Metallic Spheres,” the new Orb album featuring Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.

We have several copies to give away courtesy Sony Music/Columbia Records and The Orb.

Deadline to register: 6 pm EDT Monday, Oct. 25.

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3D preview of new Orb/David Gilmour album

Posted October 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Sony has made available a 3D virtual tour of “Metallic Spheres,” the new collaboration between The Orb and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.

Visitors can examine the CD from all angles; flip through the disc’s booklet; and listen to each track.

“Metallic Spheres” will be released Oct. 12. Buy it online now. Your purchase supports “Floydian Slip.”

Take the virtual tour.

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Floyd stores remaining open; switching hosts

Posted October 4, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Contrary to what we published last week, the official Web stores of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and Syd Barrett will remain open, though are moving to a different hosting company.

Last Thursday, Musictoday’s Clayton Avent informed participants in the company’s affiliate program that the stores were leaving Musictoday and “closing.”

Today, S2BN Entertainment’s Sara Israel clarified: “We are just in the process of switching companies that host the store. The store will most likely be re-launching in the next month with a new design.”

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Video: Orb/David Gilmour

Posted September 17, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Amazon.com has online a 5-minute video about the making of The Orb‘s upcoming album “Metallic Spheres,” featuring Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour (right).

The video features interviews with Alex Patterson (left) of The Orb and producer Youth, and includes quite a bit of footage of Gilmour playing.

The album is to be released Oct. 12 in the U.S.

Watch the video online.

Read more about the album in our previous post (“Orb album to feature David Gilmour”).

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Reunion date contest: The results

Posted September 15, 2010 by Floydian Slip

We asked you to take a guess as to the date David Gilmour would join Roger Waters on stage during Waters’ tour of “The Wall” that kicked off tonight in Toronto. We’ve been told it’s going to happen, but the date remains shrouded in secrecy.

The polls are closed, and we’ve crunched the numbers:

More than 80 people entered the contest, with guesses fairly evenly split between the North American leg of the tour (Sept. 15 through Dec. 21) and the European leg (March 21 through June 29). Though London’s series of five shows next May is clearly the voters’ favorite.

On the North American side, Waters’ Oct. 5 show at Madison Square Garden was the most popular, earning four votes. On the European side, guesses clustered around the London shows, with the May 11 show at The O2 coming out on top of all shows worldwide with eight votes.

“Floydian Slip” is going on the record by saying our guess is London’s May 17 date.

The person who guesses closest wins a copy of Water’s “The Wall Live in Berlin” on CD. If the winner guesses the exact date, we’ll add to the kitty a sealed copy of last November’s Classic Rock magazine with the 3D Floyd cover.

Now we play the waiting game …

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Contest: Guess the Gilmour/Waters date

Posted August 26, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pigs flew July 10, when Roger Waters joined David Gilmour on stage at the Hoping Foundation charity event in Oxfordshire.

To even the scales, Gilmour has promised to join Waters at one show of his “Wall” tour to perform “Comfortably Numb” with his former bandmate.

But which show? That’s the question.

Guess the closest and win Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” from 1990. Guess the exact date, and we’ll throw in a sealed copy of Classic Rock‘s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”

Make your guess now. One guess per person. (Don’t worry, laddy, we’ll know …)

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Orb album to feature David Gilmour

Posted August 18, 2010 by Floydian Slip

The Orb‘s “Metallic Spheres” album, to be released this fall, will feature guitar work by Pink Floyd‘s David Gilmour.

Gilmour’s contributions come from a jam session with Martin “Youth” Glover (Killing Joke), originally intended only for an ambient remix of “Chicago,” the Graham Nash song Gilmour helped re-record to benefit alleged UK computer hacker and cause celebre Gary McKinnon.

“Metallic Spheres” will be released in October, with all artist royalties going to benefit McKinnon’s plight to fight extradition to the United States.

There will be two versions of the CD release: A standard, single-disc version; and a two-disc deluxe set. The deluxe version will include the standard CD, along with a second disc presenting the material in 3D60™ sound.

3D60™ is a new sound production process developed by Glover, sound engineer Mike Brady (The Jam) and Ian Thompson that simulates three-dimensional sound without any special equipment needed.

The album will also be available on vinyl and as a download on iTunes.

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