Happy 75th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)
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Abbey Road to sell replica tape box for $275
Posted March 3, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Times is tough all over, we suppose.
Case and point: Abbey Road Studios, with full participation of Pink Floyd, according to the studios’ website, will sell a replica of the tape box that contains the band’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973). On March 5, the studio will release a limited edition of 250 “folios” of the box priced at $275 each.
The studio describes the product as a replica of the “Quadrophonic discrete master – Side One EMI tape box, held deep within the EMI archive.
“Each handmade folio is numbered and includes a 500gsm box card black folder (37cm x 37cm with a 5cm lip) which encases the two replica litho prints (30cm x 30cm), recreated in exact life size dimensions and cradled with transparent corner holders,” according to the site. “Alongside this, it includes a leaflet looking back at the recording of The Dark Side of the Moon and a certificate of authenticity.”
Floyd made “Dark Side” beginning in May 1972 in Studio Two and Three at the EMI facility.
Abbey Road Studios says the actual “rarely seen” box is stored at EMI Archives in Hayes, London.
You can place your order online.
Here at “Floydian Slip” we’re bullish on all things Pink Floyd. So maybe we’re just feeling a little cynical today, but this seems a little excessive. Even to us.
The good news: International shipping to the U.S. is just $19.69.
“Floydian Slip” preview #1299
Posted March 2, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1299:
- Floyd live from Wembley 1974
- A cut from The Division Bell (1994)
- We’ll celebrate David Gilmour’s 75th birthday with a solo cut from an album released 15 years ago this week
- And much more
“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 100 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.
“Floydian Slip” songlist #1298
Posted March 1, 2021 by Floydian Slip
- Interstellar Overdrive
Pink Floyd London ’66/’67 (EP) (1995) - Little Red Book (Excerpt)
Love (Love) (1966) - Stay
Obscured by Clouds (1972) - One Slip
A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987) - If
Atom Heart Mother (1970) - Figure Eight (*Floydian Slip*)
Multiplication Rock (Blossom Dearie) (1973) - Hey You (Excerpt)
“The Squid and The Whale” film soundtrack (Jesse Eisenberg) (2005) - I Can’t Breathe Anymore
David Gilmour (David Gilmour) (1978) - Brain Damage/Eclipse
Classic Albums “The Dark Side of the Moon” (Roger Waters ) (2003)
“Floydian Slip” preview #1298
Posted February 23, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1298:
- Floyd with an alternate version of an early psychedelic instrumental
- Cuts from Atom Heart Mother (1970) and A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
- Roger Waters with “Dark Side of the Moon” music done acoustic
- And much more
“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 100 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.
“Floydian Slip” songlist #1297
Posted February 22, 2021 by Floydian Slip
- Hey You
Is There Anybody Out There?: The Wall Live 1980-81 (2000) - Afternoon (Biding My Time) (Amsterdam, Sep 17, 1969)
The Early Years: 1965–1972 (2016) - Fat Old Sun
David Gilmour in Concert (DVD) (David Gilmour) (2002) - Embryo (BBC, Jul 16, 1970)
The Early Years: 1965–1972 (2016) - A Great Day for Freedom
Pulse (1995) - Deja Vu
Us + Them (Roger Waters) (2020) - The Great Gig in the Sky (Knebworth 1990)
The Later Years: 1987–2019 (2019) - The Dogs of War (Atlanta 1987)
The Later Years: 1987–2019 (2019)
Zoom lecture series to focus on Pink Floyd
Posted February 18, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Music professor Dr. Gilad Cohen will launch a Pink Floyd weekly lecture series March 3.
“The Floydian Style” will be an 8-part series presented live on Zoom. It’ll focus on the inventive ways lyrics, composition, arrangement, production, performance, and visuals have joined together to make Floyd one of the most successful bands of all time.
Cohen will present the first 80-minute session, “Pop and Psychedelia,” free on March 3, at 6:15 p.m. EST. Additional sessions will be $15 each, or $12 for students. The entire series is available for purchase in advance for $90, or $75 for students.
Video recordings of the sessions will also be available for two months. Users can buy the series any time, and receive recordings of the sessions they might have missed.
“The format is attractive since it allows free discussion,” Cohen tells us, “with participants asking questions throughout and suggesting songs and issues for discussion.”
Gilad Cohen, right; with Floyd producer/engineer James Guthrie, center; and 2014 conference co-producer Dave Molk
Cohen is an associate professor of music performance and theory at Ramapo College of New Jersey where he teaches a number of courses, including “Shine On: The Music of Pink Floyd.” In 2014 he co-produced “Pink Floyd: Sound, Sight and Structure,” an academic conference held at Princeton where he was studying.
Space is limited. Register in advance at Cohen’s website.
Here’s a sample:
“Floydian Slip” coming to RadioX
Posted February 18, 2021 by Floydian Slip
“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on RadioX starting Feb. 22. The station will carry the show Mondays at 7 p.m. NZT.
RadioX is a streaming station “broadcasting great rock to the world from a garage in Hamilton, New Zealand.”
It’s the latest station to join the Random Precision Radio Network, a collection of more than 100 broadcasters that air “Floydian Slip,” produced in our Shelburne, Vt., studio.
Shine on, RadioX!
“Floydian Slip” preview #1297
Posted February 16, 2021 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1297: It’s our annual all-live program we call “In the Flesh.”
- Live Floyd from Pulse and Is There Anybody Out There?
- Roger Waters from his recent “Us + Them” tour
- Early Floyd from 1969 with a selection from “The Man and The Journey”
- And much more
“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 100 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.
“Floydian Slip” songlist #1296
Posted February 15, 2021 by Floydian Slip
- Echoes (Live at Pompeii)
The Early Years: 1965–1972 (2016) - Lost for Words
The Division Bell (1994) - Is There Anybody Out There?
The Wall (1979) - Ibiza Bar
More (Film soundtrack) (1969) - Reap What I’ve Sowed (*Floydian Slip Up*)
Harvest Sweeties (Climax Chicago Blues Band) (1971) - Morning Has Broken
David Gilmour (2021)
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