Posted May 3, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Register to win a copy of the CD “Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green & The Early Years of Fleetwood Mac.” Recorded Feb. 25, 2020, in London, this all-star tribute features David Gilmour.
Prizes courtesy of BMG.
Register now. Deadline: End of day May 16.
Posted April 28, 2021 by Floydian Slip
In October, Rufus Publications will publish “Peter Green — The Albatross Man,” which will include a new recording featuring David Gilmour.
The recording is a new version of “Need Your Love So Bad,” which includes a recently-discovered vocal recorded by Green in his mother’s attic in the 1960s. Gilmour recently contributed guitar to the track.
Green co-founded Fleetwood Mac in 1967 and left the band in Spring ’70 after a period of mental decline exacerbated by his use of LSD. He died in 2020.
Rufus Publications says for the three years leading up to his passing, he’d been participating in compiling this book, which is devoted to his life and work.
Three versions of the book will be made available: The “ultra-limited edition,” limited to 50 copies, and the “deluxe” edition, limited to 500, will include the music on vinyl and CD. The third edition will not.
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is featured on the second song in the new release: a new version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Man of the World.”
Gilmour and Hammett both participated in the February 2020 Peter Green tribute concert, organized by drummer Mick Fleetwood.
Pre-order “Peter Green — The Albatross Man” now.
Posted April 19, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Posted April 13, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Join us for a special show called “Storm Effect.”
We’ll remember long-time Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson (d. April 18, 2013) by playing from albums all designed by Storm and his team at Hipgnosis.
Hear cuts from Rainbow, Stackridge, Genesis, Edgar Broughton Band, David Gilmour and more.
Posted April 8, 2021 by Floydian Slip
“This is Not a Drill,” the North American tour Roger Waters had announced before the pandemic hit in Spring 2020, has been rescheduled for ’22.
Tickets are on sale now for the 36 dates that begin in Pittsburgh July 6 and finish in Dallas Oct. 8.
In a statement, Waters calls this his “first farewell tour.”
“It is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious and precarious planet home,” he writes.
“The show includes a dozen great songs from Pink Floyd’s Golden Era alongside several new ones — words and music, same writer, same heart, same soul, same man. Could be his last hurrah. Wow!”
These shows will be the first Roger has performed “in the round” with audience on all sides.
Tickets bought for 2020 will be valid for the new dates. Those ticket holders will receive an email with instructions.
Posted March 25, 2021 by Floydian Slip
The paperback of Polly Samson‘s “A Theatre for Dreamers” will ship with a bonus CD containing four new tracks from husband David Gilmour.
Bloomsbury will publish the paperback version of the Pink Floyd lyricist’s latest novel April 15 in the U.K. and May 7 in the U.S.
The bonus CD contains four tracks written by Samson and Gilmour, inspired by the book:
The couple’s daughter, Romany Gilmour, is featured on the songs.
“Yes, I Have Ghosts” first appeared on the audiobook of “Dreamers” published last summer. The song was released in digital form last July, and as a 45 single for Record Store Day Black Friday last November.
We believe the remaining three songs on the upcoming bonus CD were also previously released on the audiobook, but are awaiting confirmation.
Pre-order the book and CD through Rough Trade in the U.K. or Rough Trade in the U.S.
Posted March 8, 2021 by Floydian Slip
British artist Duggie Fields, who at one time shared an apartment with Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett, died yesterday. He was 76.
A painter since age 11, Fields attended the Chelsea School of Art from 1964 to 1968. In the ’70s he developed his trademark Day-Glo color style that was said to have influenced notables such as David Bowie, Stanley Kubrick and Ken Kesey.
In 1968, Fields shared an Earl’s Court flat with Barrett shortly after he left Floyd. Roommates for only a couple of years, Fields remained in the same property for decades.
(Photo: Michiko Nakao)
Posted March 7, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Henry Goldrich, the purveyor of Manny’s Music in Manhattan where David Gilmour bought his famed black Stratocaster in 1970, has died. He passed away Feb. 16 at his home in Boca Raton, Fla., at the age of 88.
Gilmour played the black Strat on many epic Floyd recordings for decades before selling it at auction in 2019 for $3.98 million. (He donated the proceeds to charity.)
Goldrich is also credited with introducing the wah-wah peddle to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.
Other artists he served included Pete Townshend, James Taylor, John Sebastian and Sting.
Manny’s closed in 2009 after 74 years of business.
Posted March 6, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Happy 75th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)
Photo: Polly Samson
Posted January 13, 2021 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour has partnered with C.F. Martin & Co. Inc. to create two signature edition guitars to benefit the David Gilmour Charitable Foundation.
The Martin D-35 David Gilmour is a nod to the guitar Gilmour purchased used outside Manny’s Music Shop in New York City in the early-’70s. His primary acoustic for more than 40 years, the instrument fetched $1.2 million as part of a charitable auction of his guitars in 2019.
The 6- and 12-string versions sell for $5,499.
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