Posted January 27, 2022 by Floydian Slip
Kit Woolven, who co-engineered David Gilmour‘s 1984 album “About Face,” died yesterday. He was 71.
Woolven was best known for his work with Thin Lizzy, including Lizzy-splinter projects from Phil Lynott and Wild Horses. He also did work with David Bowie, UFO, Tony Iommi and others.
He recorded “About Face” with Andy Jackson. That album was produced by Gilmour and Bob Ezrin.
Cause of death was not announced.
Posted October 14, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder and long-time solo artist Roger Waters married Kamilah Chavis.
Waters posted photos of the occasion on Facebook yesterday, with the comment, “I’m so happy, finally a keeper.”
According to Yahoo!, Waters met Chavis at one of his concerts, when Chavis drove the car that brought him to the show.
“I was in the same place for two weeks and we were being transported between the hotel and the stadium. My security guard would sit with her and they’d talk while I was in the back. I don’t know, something attracted me,” he recalls. “One day I said, ‘Excuse me,’ and she turned around. ‘Did someone ever tell you that you have beautiful cheekbones?’ I saw a small reaction, and that was the beginning.”
This is Waters’s fifth marriage. He split most-recently in 2015 with Laurie Durning.
The ceremony took place at Waters’s Bridgehampton estate on the eastern end of New York’s Long Island.
Posted September 15, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Rick Wright (July 28, 1943—Sept. 15, 2008)
Posted September 6, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)
Posted June 1, 2021 by Floydian Slip
First, the good news: It seems new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes by James Guthrie of Pink Floyd‘s 1977 “Animals” album may be closer to being released.
As for the bad news: Roger Waters‘s vitrol of former bandmate David Gilmour would seem to be at an all-time high.
In a message posted yesterday to his website, Waters says he’s agreeing to allow the new mixes to be released without liner notes, claiming Gilmour was unwilling to allow the releases to include the liner notes, written by Mark Blake.
According to Waters, “He (Gilmour) does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark’s notes, but he wants that history to remain secret.
“This is a small part of an ongoing campaign by the Gilmour/ (Polly) Samson camp to claim more credit for Dave on the work he did in Pink Floyd, 1967-1985, than is his due,” Waters adds. “Yes he was, and is, a jolly good guitarist and singer. But, he has for the last 35 years told a lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd when I was still in charge.”
Waters includes Blake’s liner notes in his post.
He also announces he’s begun work on his memoirs. “For anyone with a faint heart, I suggest you sit down, but anyone who likes a good laugh, sit back and fucking howl!” he writes. “I’m going to sit back and howl along with you.”
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