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Mojo: The Collectors Series: Pink Floyd Series
Posted February 18, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Mojo magazine has published the first part of its two-part collectors series devoted to Pink Floyd.
The 132- page issue is on UK newsstands now. It covers the band’s early days in Cambridge and rise to fame within London’s swinging ’60s scene.
Part 2 will cover the band’s later years from the early-’70s through drummer Nick Mason‘s current project, Saucerful of Secrets. Part 2 is scheduled to ship in early April.
“The Wall Live in Berlin” actor Albert Finney dies
Posted February 9, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Actor Albert Finney died Thursday at 82.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times throughout his career, Pink Floyd fans might remember him best as The Judge in Roger Waters‘s July 1990 performance of “The Wall” in Berlin, Germany.
“I adored Albert Finney, a great actor, obviously, also obviously, a lovely man,” Roger wrote yesterday on Facebook. “Best reading ever of ‘The Evidence Before The Court.'”
Station drops Floydian Slip citing Roger Waters’s politics
Posted February 2, 2019 by Floydian Slip
KNTR 106.3 FM (K292GC) in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., has dropped “Floydian Slip” from its schedule citing Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters‘s recent statement regarding the Super Bowl.
Yesterday we received an email from KNTR General Manager Traceye Jones that reads, in part:
“KNTR News Talk will no longer carry Floydian Slip effective immediately. We will not air this week’s show as we have previously scheduled for Sunday evenings 7PM AZ time.
“It has been brought to our attention that Mr. Waters has made a public statement regarding entertainers for the Super Bowl to not perform or ‘take a knee’ when in attendance.
“KNTR News Talk 106.3FM is a conservative radio station operated by a conservative owner and we feel if Mr. Waters chooses to use his fame to disrespect our Nation then KNTR News Talk will use our Freedom (to) not air his music.”
The station’s website lists Steve Greeley as “Owner/Operator.”
On Wednesday, Waters posted a statement to Facebook calling on this Sunday’s Super Bowl half-time performers to kneel on stage in solidarity with former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose similar past actions were a statement against racism in America.
“I call upon them to do it in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, to do it for every child shot to death on these mean streets, to do it for every bereaved mother and father and brother and sister,” Waters wrote.
Waters was Pink Floyd’s driving creative force throughout the ’70s before he left the band following “The Final Cut” album in ’83. He’s continued to record and perform as a solo artist ever since. He often makes news for his outspoken views on social injustice.
Jones brought “Floydian Slip” onto KNTR Dec. 30. She’d previously managed “Floydian Slip” affiliate station KVYL 93.7 FM in the same market. “Vinyl” carried the show from 2014 until a format change in ’18.
(Pictured: Waters and his band kneeling at the end of a performance in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 24, 2017.)
Video: David Gilmour speaks about his guitar collection
Posted January 30, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Following yesterday’s news of 120 of David Gilmour‘s guitars going on the auction block (“David Gilmour’s Black Strat and other guitars to be auctioned after going on display”), we located this short video auctioneers Christie’s produced.
Fascinating viewing for Gilmour fans and any musical gearhead.
David Gilmour’s Black Strat and other guitars to be auctioned after going on display
Posted January 29, 2019 by Floydian Slip
In March, Christie’s will auction more than 120 of David Gilmour‘s guitars, including his legendary “Black Strat.”
The auction will take place at Christie’s in New York City on June 20. All proceeds will go to charity.
The entire collection will be on display at Christie’s on King Street, London, March 27-31. Selected guitars will then be displayed in Los Angeles May 7-11 before the New York sale preview June 14-19.
Gilmour’s highly-modified 1969 black Fender Stratocaster is the auction’s highlight. Expected to fetch $100,000-$150,000, Gilmour used it extensively between 1970 and 1986 on albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979).
The only explanation offered as to why he’s liquidating his collection comes from this statement provided by Christie’s:
“Many of the guitars in this sale are guitars that have given me a tune,” says Gilmour. “So a lot of them have earned their keep, you might say.
“These guitars have given so much to me, and it’s time for them to move on to other people who hopefully will find joy, and perhaps create something new.”
Presumably, Gilmour has many other instruments to keep him strumming along.
Also included in the sale: his 1954 white Fender Stratocaster #0001 (estimated at $100,000-150,000); a 1955 Gibson Les Paul played on “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) ($30,000-50,000); a rare Gretsch White Penguin 6134 ($100,000-150,000); and many others.
Learn more at the Christie’s website
(Pictured, top: David Gilmour playing the Black Strat for the “Live at Abbey Road” series, Aug. 29, 2006. Photo: Polly Samson. Also: The Black Strat.)
Nick Mason awarded CBE
Posted December 29, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd drummer and co-founder Nicholas Berkeley Mason — Nick, to you and me — has been included in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year Honors list to receive a CBE for services to music.
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) is one click below knighthood. Nick and others awarded the citation have no title — so don’t call him Sir Nick — but can choose to put the letters after their names.
The Honors List, published today, recognizes outstanding achievements of people across the U.K.
Nick is the second member of the five Floyds to receive the honor. David Gilmour received a CBE in 2003 for his charity work (“David Gilmour receives CBE citation,” June 20, 2003). Though his guitar work should have been enough. Just sayin’.
Congratulations, Nick!
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets announces North American dates
Posted October 31, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason will bring his group Saucerful of Secrets to North America in 2019.
The group announced its first concerts outside of Europe: 25 dates in Canada and the United States beginning March 12 in Vancouver and ending April 22 in Washington, D.C.
The group debuted in London this May, before launching a tour of Scandinavia and Europe that ran during September.
The band consists of Mason, Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken. They play the early music of Pink Floyd.
The 2019 dates also include five more U.K. dates:
North America
- Mar 12, 2019 – Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
- Mar 13, 2019 – The Paramount, Seattle
- Mar 15 2019 – The Masonic, San Francisco
- Mar 16, 2019 – The Wiltern, Los Angeles
- Mar 19, 2019 – Comerica Theatre, Phoenix
- Mar 21, 2019 – Paramount Theatre, Denver
- Mar 24, 2019 – Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory, Dallas
- Mar 25, 2019 – Jones Hall, Houston
- Mar 27, 2019 – The Fillmore At The Jackie Gleeson, Miami Beach
- Mar 29, 2019 – Tabernacle, Atlanta
- Mar 31, 2019 – Stifel Theatre, St Louis
- Apr 1, 2019 – Riverside Theater, Milwaukee
- Apr 3, 2019 – Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis
- Apr 4, 2019 – Chicago Theatre, Chicago
- Apr 5, 2019 – The Old National Theatre, Indianapolis
- Apr 7, 2019 – Palace Theatre, Columbus
- Apr 8, 2019 – Civic Center, Akron
- Apr 9, 2019 – The Fillmore, Detroit
- Apr 11, 2019 – Shea’s Performing Arts Center, Buffalo
- Apr 12, 2019 – Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford
- Apr 13, 2019 – Orpheum Theatre, Boston
- Apr 15, 2019 – Place des Arts, Montreal
- Apr 16, 2019 – Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto
- Apr 18, 2019 – Beacon Theatre, New York
- Apr 22, 2019 – DAR Constitution Hall, Washington
U.K.
- Apr 29, 2019 – St David’s Hall, Cardiff
- Apr 30, 2019 – Friars, Aylesbury
- May 1, 2019 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
- May 3, 2019 – Roundhouse, London
- May 4, 2019 – Roundhouse, London
Learn more at the group’s official website.
Roger Waters to release “The Soldier’s Tale”
Posted September 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Sony Classical will release Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” recorded by Roger Waters next month.
“The Soldier’s Tale” is a musical theatre piece conceived in 1918 by Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, and based on the Russian folk tale “The Runaway Soldier and the Devil” from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev.
In the original story, a soldier trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited wealth. Waters has rewritten the text of the original piece for his adaptation.
In his recording, Waters plays all of the roles — the principal parts of the Soldier, the Devil and the Narrator, as well as all supporting characters. As originally conceived, the piece uses three actors for the principal roles, along with one or more dancers.
Other recent adaptations of “The Soldier’s Tale” include an animated version featuring Max von Sydow and broadcast on PBS in 1984; a 1993 version by Kurt Vonnegut that set the story in WWII; and a jazz version by Joan Sanmartí in 2002.
Waters’s “The Soldier’s Tale” is set for release Oct. 26.
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