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Press> Floydian Slip™ in the media
Making Radio WavesHe may be only coming through in waves, but each week, Craig Bailey's hour-long Floydian Slip is reaching out to Pink Floyd fans old and newBy Rick Karhu
A managing editor and webmaster of a local business magazine, Bailey is also a contributing writer to a variety of publications and, curiously enough, a published playwright. Doubtless, Floydian Slip is his real passion though and each week, Floyd fans in and around Burlington are treated to Bailey's trip through Floydian space. He produces and hosts each weekly show as a hobby, but make no mistake — Floydian Slip has the sound and pacing of the most professional of radio programs and serves to promote the love of Floyd music quite well. (This is no surprise since Bailey's professional broadcast experience extends beyond his years working on Floydian Slip.) You may already be peripherally aware of Craig from his regular Internet posts on various Floyd forums, his weekly updates of each show's playlist. The casual reader of any such forum may wonder what the relevance of a remote Floyd radio show has to them without realizing that the answer is in front of them. With the seemingly daily improvements in the speed and reliability of the Internet as a true multimedia experience, those of us who live nowhere near Vermont may someday, hopefully, get to share in the experience of tuning in to Floydian Slip albeit via modem. I recently had the opportunity to run a few questions by Craig who was more than happy to oblige, giving his feedback about the future of Floydian Slip, the Internet and Pink Floyd. Spare Bricks: When did you become a fan of Pink Floyd? Do you remember the first time you heard them? Craig Bailey: I can't recall the first time I heard them, but do remember the first time I heard the group's name. It was shortly after "The Wall" came out; I must have been in 7th grade. My cousin from Connecticut, who was three years older than me, was complaining during his visit to Vermont that none of us people up here in the sticks knew what was cool. He told me he couldn't wait to get back home and listen to Pink Floyd's "The Wall," and then told me I probably didn't know what the hell he was talking about. I didn't. And like most people who hear the band's name for the first time, I assumed Pink was a solo act, not a band. My next recollection was as Roger Waters' "The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" was coming out. I remember listening to CHOM-FM out of Montreal on my Sony Walkman, and the jock was talking about Roger's "first release since leaving Pink Floyd." Again the confusion: What a strange way to phrase it, I thought, still believing Pink was a man. (I realize much of my credibility has vanished now that I've admitted this!) Well, somewhere along I caught on. By college I was much more "in the know," and played Floyd along with loads of other classic rock acts on 106-VIC, the rock station at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y., where I went to school from 1985-1989. I credit my friend, Greg Perez, with really turning me onto the band though. During a visit home from college — I'd guess its was late 1986 or early 1987 — he slipped me a cassette copy of Dark Side that he made from his LP, and that clinched the deal. If ever there was an argument for illegal taping, that single copy of Dark Side was it: Since then I've bought every Floyd and solo album probably twice over, and have, most likely, turned many more people onto the band through "Floydian Slip." Anyway, I'm sure by many people's standards I'm a "late bloomer" when it comes to being a Floyd fan. I like to think what I lost in a late start I more than made up for in determination and hard work! Maybe it was fate: I was born Aug. 3, 1967 — a day or two before the band released its first album. SB:
How did "Floydian Slip" come into being? After graduation I worked for WDEV, an eclectic AM station in Waterbury, Vt. — but not so eclectic that a Floyd show would have fit into the scheme of things. When I left in 1994 to work for WEXP in Burlington, I started doing the show once a month during the new moon. (When the moon's dark; get it?) I think the show there was a compromise: I think management let me do the show more as a favor to me; less because they thought it might have fit their mission. WEXP essentially went out of business within a year; I was out of a job and eventually shifted careers — if you can call it that — into publishing. But shortly after WEXP pulled the plug, I made a formal, written proposal for "Floydian Slip" to the two rock stations in Burlington, Vt. Rich Haskell had just jumped ships from the station's rival to Champ 101.3 to be Champ's program director. A huge progressive rock fan, he knew "Floydian Slip" from WEXP and said he'd love to air it on Champ. But they had to find a sponsor first. After about four months they did, and I started producing the show for Champ, Oct. 25, 1995. I really credit Rich with championing the show in the beginning. I sometimes wonder if without his enthusiasm whether the show would have found a home. As of this interview, I'm up to something like 224 shows with Champ. SB:
Where do you see your show going eventually? Do you have any plans
for expanding your audience? So getting started would seem to be the hard part: How can you charge advertisers a substantial amount when you're not on many stations? How can you afford to give the show away to a significant number of stations until you have the advertising revenue? Chicken and the egg. I guess the answer is, find an investor to back you through the lean years until the operation is truly up and running. So far, I haven't committed myself to doing that. More likely, I'd say, Champ will probably eventually begin netcasting its signal, like a lot of other stations have. (This isn't inside information; I'm just speculating.) When that happens, "Floydian Slip" will be available anywhere in the world. Netcasting the show on my own doesn't seem to be practical: BMI/ASCAP fees alone would make it extremely expensive. Not to mention the difficulty in taking a copy of the show and getting it on a server somewhere. (The "Floydian Slip" Web site is hosted by an ISP; like many webmasters, I don't own and manage my own server.) SB:
How much feedback do you get from your listeners? Considering the four stations that are run out of the Champ facility are semi-automated — they can be "loaded up" by a jock and left to run on their own for long stretches — and that I record during the evening, I don't even see anyone else from the station much less have any contact with listeners. A little spooky — especially when I'm playing something like "Careful with That Axe, Eugene." Considering my schedule requires I prerecord the show, I'm not in the studio answering the phone should anyone call while it airs. Feedback from listeners is usually via email. Though of the tons of email I receive about the show, a very small percentage, I suspect, is from people who can listen to the show. Most of it comes from folks across the globe who come across my Web site, or have seen one of my weekly songlist postings on Usenet. The show really does have an international reputation. There have been a couple of instances where I've learned of the show's reputation far outside Champ's listenership: Once a former coworker of mine, now working for Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, Ga., mentioned my name to a coworker out there, and the guy knew who I was. Another time my girlfriend's mother in Maine mentioned the show to a friend's 16-year-old son, who knew all about it. Strange. There have been a couple of people, if you can believe it, who have emailed me to tell me that they live in other parts of the country, and can't listen to the show. So what they do is pull my weekly songlist from the Web site, and recreate the show, using their own CDs and LPs. Stranger. Occasionally I've made public appearances — mostly attending shows by The Machine, a Pink Floyd cover band Champ and "Floydian Slip" often sponsor when the band's in town. (Their final Burlington-area appearance would seem to be March 9, 2000, at Higher Ground in Winooski, since they're packing it in after about 11 years of touring.) In cases like that I'll almost always have a few people approach me and tell me they like the show. That's always satisfying. Once I introduced The Machine at a show in Burlington. I suspected a cool reception, since I figured the crowd would probably be psyched to hear the band and wouldn't be too into some radio guy wasting their time shooting his mouth off beforehand. The crowd went nuts when I mentioned the show — maybe it was all the beer. ;) And before I even got the words out of my mouth, someone in the crowded shouted out, "Floydian Slip!" Sometimes it's easy to forget that what you do in the studio each week is actually being broadcast to who-knows-how-many people. SB:
Have you made any new fans of Pink Floyd
with your show? SB:
I notice the song selection for your show not only has a theme,
but that it's arranged in such a way that the play list contrasts
well; you have a fast, loud song, followed by a softer one —
an old song next to a newer one. Is that a conscious thing or does
it just work out that way? When you see a loud song followed by a soft one on my playlist, most likely there was a talk set in the middle. With three 18-minute-or-so segments in each show — with commercials filling in between — the show often takes the form of three movements. There might be a Syd Barrett/early Floyd movement; a quiet, acoustical movement; a synth movement; a post-Waters movement; a "glory years" movement — things like that. I try not to switch gears too harshly without something in between, like some talk or a spot break, acting as a clutch, if you will. With all the interesting segues Floyd puts in between its songs, stringing songs along during "Floydian Slip" so that listeners can barely tell where one begins and another ends is a lot of the fun of it. I try to keep the talk to a minimum. My feeling is people aren't tuning in to hear me yap. SB:
On the show you sent me, you mention a 'friend over the Internet'.
What sort of impact has the Internet had on the content of your
show? I also take requests through my Web site. For the past three years, I've averaged 1,080 requests a year. The problem is, I often can't tell if they're coming from local listeners of the show or not. Many obviously come from foreign addresses — from people who don't realize it's a local show, or simply think it'd be cool to request a song nonetheless. I only honor requests from people who follow their request up with confirmation that they're local. But as far as musical content, the Net doesn't contribute a whole lot to "Floydian Slip." Information-wise, I often find the Net helpful, though approach a lot of what I learn with a healthy dose of caution. Through Echoes and Usenet, it's easy to get a heads-up about certain things, though I'll rarely take the word of a random poster to the Net. Instead, I'll often use, for example, a post from someone on Echoes about how EMI UK has reported something about Floyd as a tip to dig up the EMI UK Web site and get the information straight from the horse's mouth. Someone on Usenet says that there's a cover story in Guitar World magazine about "The Wall"; I hit the bookstore and find a copy. For a long time, there wasn't a whole lot of information to report on, with the band being so inactive. With the new album coming out ("Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live") and Waters's 1999/2000 tour, there's been a lot, comparatively, to keep track of. The Net's helped a lot. I've also made good contacts with record label people and the like through the Net. When Rick Wright's "Broken China" came out a couple years back, the label contacted me via email, which resulted in promo copies of the CD. My contacts with Floyd cover bands like The Mood and The Machine, and The Squirrels, a West coast band that recorded a parody album of Dark Side, have all been made through the Net. My interview with Storm Thorgerson also started when a publicist contacted me via the Net. SB:
What was that like, interviewing Storm? I was very nervous, though Storm turned out to be this clownish kind of guy — very whimsical and apparently willing to talk about anything I wanted to talk about for as long as I wanted. Definitely a positive experience. Very exciting. Because of the time difference, I called him in his London office at something like 7:30 in the morning from my home, and we talked for a half hour. Then I edited the thing for broadcast, and put a transcript of the entire interview online at http://www.floydianslip.com/storm.htm. I think the transcript might be one of the few Storm resources on the Web: I get a lot of people emailing me feedback about it. (Number one question: "Can you put me in touch with Storm?") SB:
What advice would you give to someone wanting to start up their
own Floyd radio show? College stations are great places to get your start. If you're a student, good enough. But many college stations open their studios to members of the community. That's a great way to get your feet wet and develop some on-air skills. Furthermore, if you're happy with the station, you can probably develop your Floyd show idea right there: College and noncommercial stations are much more open to less-mainstream ideas than commercial outlets. If you're interested in getting the show on a commercial station, you might be in for more of an uphill climb. If you're already a full-timer staffer — like I was at WEXP when I produced "Floydian Slip" there — it'll most likely just be a matter of convincing the powers that be to let you air your show. (Especially if you're a salaried worker: No skin off their back, right? And if they can make revenue by selling advertising on the show, all the better for them.) If you're an outsider, like I was when I proposed the show to Champ, realize that few commercial stations would be willing to pay you to produce a specialty show, unless it's bringing them in some green. For example, Champ was interested in my show at first glance, but we had to wait a few months until their sales department found a sponsor. Commercial radio is primarily a business. You gotta remember that. I consider myself lucky to be able to produce such an eclectic show on a station that otherwise plays a relatively tried-and-true collection of classic rock songs. Furthermore, station management was been kind enough to allow me to have 100 percent creative control over "Floydian Slip." Not many jocks have the luxury of choosing the music they play. After working in radio full-time for several years, it's really "just desserts" for me. SB:
And finally, if you could change one thing about Pink
Floyd as they are now, what would it be? And if they'd be willing to come on "Floydian Slip" to occasionally shoot the (steel) breeze, that be pretty nice, too. Rick Karhu is Editor of Spare Bricks This article originally appeared in issue no. 4 of Spare Bricks in Spring 2000. Copyright Spare Bricks Webzine. After the FloydCraig Bailey's the man on the other side of the moonby Erik Esckilsen This Wednesday (Oct. 22, 1997) marks two years that the native Vermonter has been producing and hosting the hourlong radio show — every Wednesday at 10 p.m. (Addendum: Sundays 7-8 p.m. as of March 22, 1998 — ccb) on WCPV-FM (a.k.a. Champ 101.3) — dedicated exclusively to the work of Pink Floyd and its offshoots. Bailey personally favors the band's middle, "concept album" period — guided by former bassist Roger Waters — in which focused on loose themes such as the drudgery of daily life (Dark Side of the Moon). But listeners of Floydian Slip are likely to hear twisted, '60s-era psychedelic tunes as well as the ethereal "corporate rock" that defines the group's more recent work. Contrary to the band's druggie image, Bailey says Pink Floyd "really is kind of a thinking person's group." Accordingly, he allows his audiences to make their own sense of the allusions, heady poetry and cryptic spoken-word interludes that characterize the music. "I don't have any delusions that Floydian Slip, if it is successful, has much to do with me," Bailey demurs. The show surely appeals to fellow Floydians out there, but in fact this deejay isn't quite sure who's listening. That's because his show is pre-taped, an unfortunate necessity in the 30-year-old's hectic schedule, which includes working as managing editor and Web master at Greater Burlington Business Digest and acting in local theater productions (see review this issue of Theatre Factory's Deathtrap). And since the station doesn't subscribe to the Arbitron ratings, there's no way to tell what kind of market share "Floydian Slip" might be attracting. But that doesn't bother Champ program director Rich Haskell, whom Bailey credits with championing his proposal for the show. "He was smart," Haskell says. "He came to someone he knew was a Floyd freak." The fact that Pink Floyd continues to sell out venues such as Montreal's Olympic Stadium is proof enough for Haskell that the band is relevant in today's music market — even if some other management types reportedly consider the show "an hour of off-the-wall weirdness." Off-the-wall or another brick in it, Bailey's earned a sterling reputation around the station for his work ethic. "I've never met a guy who's so into something," Haskell says. "We can just say, 'All right, Craig, do what you want, go wild, have fun with it.' I don't even begin to make rules with him. He is so thorough it's unbelievable." That's hardly the description one might expect to hear of a Pink Floyd fan, given the stereotypical image Bailey describes as a "long-haired guy with a doobie hanging out of his mouth" — or the all-too-familiar fans who think Floyd's "that band that says school sucks" (the basic theme of The Wall). Indeed, Bailey's articulate, thoughtful manner, well-trimmed beard and short locks convey a mildly corporate bearing. You'd figure him for a Steely Dan fan, if anything. But Bailey's Pink Floyd fandom is unquestionable — though it dates back only to 1987. And he's quick to note that the band shares space on his CD shelf with the likes of Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra and, yes, Steely Dan. Bailey is nonetheless conversant on matters Floydian with an ease that betrays his fixation. He knows, for example, that the group — whom he refers to alternately as "Floyd" and "the Floyd" — is named for Georgia bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. (Anderson was actually from South Carolina. — cb) Bailey also knows that the refracted light emanating from the prism on the Dark Side of the Moon album cover is missing one color — he's pretty sure it's indigo. The name of Bailey's production company, Random Precision Productions, is a reference to a lyric from "Shine on You Crazy Diamond." That cut from Wish You Were Here is itself a reference to now-reclusive founding member Syd Barrett, whose departure from the band in the late '60s — owing to a mental breakdown augmented by LSD — is a cornerstone of rock's drug-related history. The Random Precision logo — two crossed hammers inside a circle — is a reference to the band's 1979 recording and film, The Wall. During a recent broadcast, Bailey noted that "4:47 A.M. (The Remains of Our Love)," from Roger Waters' 1984 The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, includes the only Pink Floyd reference to Vermont — a bit of arcana that places him in a truly elite tier of Floyd fandom. But if Bailey ever gets lonely at the top of Pink Floyd's Green Mountain pyramid, it's not for lack of trying. His labors in the cause of Floyd extend well beyond Champ's studios. The Floydian Slip Web site (www.floydianslip.com), for which Bailey composed some 14,000 words of discography, review and song-list copy, receives a reported 4000 to 7000 hits a week. In a recent issue of Vermont NOW: News on the Web, Karen Carroll commended that the site's "professional presentation" as well as the "thoroughness and tenacity" of Bailey's allegiance to the Floyd. Bailey's 250-some e-mail correspondents (pink@floydianslip.com) keeps him in the loop on such pressing matters as Pink Floyd reunion rumors, Syd Barrett sightings and the recent theory that Dark Side of the Moon was composed and recorded to accompany The Wizard of Oz (start your CD at the third MGM lion roar, and decide for yourself). While Bailey can't receive on-air calls during "Floydian Slip" and has never had a live guest on the show, he did recently finagle the next best thing: On September 30, he recorded a telephone interview with London-based designer Storm Thorgerson, whom Bailey dubs "probably the most prolific album cover designer in the rock era." Thorgerson, part of London design house Hipgnosis, created such Floyd staples as 1973's Dark Side of the Moon (the one with the prism), 1977's Animals (pig-shaped dirigible flying over drab factory town), and 1994's The Division Bell (huge, Easter Island-looking heads facing each other). "I was a little intimidated," Bailey admits. "I was thinking, 'He's a 50-something, successful British designer. What might he be like? He might be a little condescending, perhaps.'" Turned out to be quite the clown, full of that famous British wit. "I was paying, like, $1.09 a minute to talk to him in London," Bailey adds. The entire 35-minute interview will air on the October 29 "Floydian Slip" broadcast (with a transcript to be posted at the Web site afterwards). Still, even all the heady 'Net talk leaves Bailey seeming a bit remote. "I'd be willing to bet that one in 20, one in 30 [of his Web site subscribers] is local," he says. "You get nuts from all over the place who can't get enough of Pink Floyd information and want a playlist from a radio station in Burlington. It's really kind of strange." While Bailey's virtual-world status as a Floyd fan and information broker is a praiseworthy achievement, his connection to area fans brings other Floyd phrases to mind: "Hello, hello, hello/Is there anybody out there?"
Floydian Faves Craig Bailey's top 10 Pink Floyd tunes are listed alphabetically. He also notes that this list does not include any of the 16 solo albums in his collection.
This article originally appeared in Seven Days on Oct. 22, 1997. Copyright Da Capo Publishing Inc. Vermont Colchester: The weekly Pink Floyd program, Floydian Slip, will celebrate its fourth anniversary this coming October. The show, which airs on Sunday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Champ 101.3, was begun ten years ago by producer and host Craig Bailey at Ithaca College in New York. For more info on the show, point your browser to its Website at www.floydianslip.com. This article originally appeared in Relix Magazine in 1999. Copyright Relix Magazine. From Band to Bandwidth: Popular Local Radio Show Takes to the NetCraig Bailey's groundbreaking Floydian Slip radio show/Internet site exemplifies the possibilities of cross-media promotionsby Karen Carroll Floydian Slip, a weekly radio program on Champ 101.3-FM, is the self-proclaimed "passion" of local arts guy, Craig Bailey. A communications graduate of Ithaca College, he is no stranger to the local airwaves, having spent five years in the Washington County market and a shorter stint in Burlington at the now defunct, WEXP-FM. The program originated at Ithaca, using a far less creative name, in the mid-80's, and was resurrected at WEXP in 1994. After the station went dark in 1995, Floydian Slip went on hiatus until it found a new home and sponsors at Champ-FM later that year. The show, Wednesdays from 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. (Addendum: Sundays 7-8 p.m. as of March 22, 1998 — ccb), is a one-hour exploration of Pink Floyd, its members, and its sound. Floydian Slip, however, is not just a radio show. It is supplemented by an extensive Internet website created and maintained by Random Precision Productions at www.floydianslip.com. The site includes a full discography of the Floyd's 20 or so releases, along with solo efforts by members and compilations. Each recording has a full review and song list (bits of some songs are available through RealAudio clips). If your web browser supports forms, you can even submit a request for a cut directly from the review of the album it appears on. Handy. What makes the Floydian Slip website different from other electronic homages is its professional presentation. Most pages produced by (any) band's fans contain at least one "XYZ is GOD!" proclamation. Not so here. Bailey and company show their allegiance and enthusiasm with their thoroughness and tenacity. They have tackled the tedious task of chronicling the group's 30-year history, and the result is an easy-to-use encyclopedia of Pink Floyd trivia. After having heard the show, you'll know that Bailey, being a true fan, is not eager to interrupt the musical flow. His breaks are brief and succinct; it is obvious that if you want to know more about a track, you can learn about it on the site. In the meantime, he packs as much music into an hour as he can. If nothing else, it seems amazing that Bailey, who supports himself as an editor and webmaster for a local business publication, has taken a hobby to such an extreme. His brief biography is quick to state that maintaining the site and pushing the show doesn't pay the bills. He is, however, willing to spend his spare time listening to whatever other Floyd fans send him, including bootlegs and band demos. And if you send Bailey $15.95, he'll even send you a t-shirt. (Addendum: Price now $14.95 — cb) As Internet promotions continue to grow, Floydian Slip's digital niche will lose its originality. For now, though, Craig Bailey should be quite proud of the phenomena he has nurtured in the Burlington area. This article originally appeared in Vermont NOW on April 14, 1997. Copyright Net Resources Inc. Is there anybody out there?Craig Bailey, the local playwright/webmaster/ editor/radio host who won a Bessie for his work with Theatre Factory, will celebrate an anniversary Oct. 22. That day will mark the second year he has produced and hosted "Floydian Slip" on local rock 'n roll station Champ 101.3. The Slip is a weekly radio program devoted to Pink Floyd, that British band of the sixties and seventies who brought us the concept albums The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, as well as Ummagumma (one of the greatest rock album titles ever). Floyd fans can tune in (with their headphones securely in place) to the anniversary show as Bailey plans to oversee a special all-request show. Then, one week later (that would be Oct. 29 if you can't hear me with the headphones on) Storm Thorgerson, the designer of 14 Floyd albums will be Bailey's guest on the Slip. Thorgerson created the first Pink Floyd album cover in 1968 (Piper at the Gates of Dawn) and went on to create covers for Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and more. Thorgerson also created covers for Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, Black Sabbath and a host of other seventies bands — five of the Rolling Stones' top 10 album covers of all time were designed by Thorgerson. He has also directed 10 films that are shown during Floyd concerts and has been nominated for seven Grammy awards. Bailey recently penned an article about Thorgerson's 1978 book, The Work of Hipgnosis: Walk Away Rene, which will appear in the next issue of Brain Damage, a Floyd fanzine with a worldwide circulation of 8,000. If you miss the interview, Bailey will post a transcript of the entire 35-minute phone interview (only portions will be heard on the program) on the Floydian Slip website — www.floydianslip.com. You can also check out the site for cool band information and more about the show. See you on the dark side of the moon.This article originally appeared in VOX, Shelburne, Vt., on Oct. 15, 1997. Copyright New Market Press Inc. All Floyd all the timeFor fans of Another Brick in the Wall, here's the radio show for you! Craig Bailey offers a reprise of Floydian Slip, a weekly hour's worth of Pink Floyd Wednesday nights at 9 pm WCPV (Champ) 101.3 FM. The British rockers have released 20 albums in 30 years — including Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd, currently at the top of the classical charts — and are scheduled to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame on January 17. "How can you play a bad Pink Floyd song?" asks WCPV program director Rich Haskell. "There's no such thing." Maybe so, but perhaps listener I.D.s should be checked, given the subversive sing-along lyrics of the children's chorus in The Wall: "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teachers, leave those kids alone."This article originally appeared in VOX, Shelburne, Vt., on Nov. 5, 1995. Copyright New Market Press Inc. Etc.Think FloydWhen we grew up and went to school, there were certain teachers who would call us "lazy" for sitting around listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" over and over and over again. Apparently that's not the case at Gold Coast Music Academy in Renton, Wash., where the Champ 101.3 radio show "Floydian Slip" is being used as a study aid for a course called "Pink Floyd 101." Music Professor Karl Anderson and "Floydian Slip" host Craig Bailey began corresponding in August. Anderson told Bailey of his plan to incorporate tapes of the Floyd-themed show into his curriculum. The class covers the band's 30-year evolution from stoner icons ("Ummagumma") to concept-rock gods ("The Wall"), as well as the band members' bitter rivalries and, according to a news release, "collectibles." "Floydian Slip" airs from 7 to 8 p.m. Sundays on Champ 101.3 FM. For more information, log on to www.floydianslip.com From The Burlington Free Press, Oct. 13, 1999. Copyright McClure Newspapers Random NotesReaders in the Burlington, Vermont area should tune to 101.3 FM each Wednesday night from 10-11 pm (Addendum: Sundays 7-8 p.m. as of March 22, 1998 — ccb) to hear "Floydian Slip," a program by Craig Bailey devoted entirely to Pink Floyd ...From issue 38 of Brain Damage, The International Pink Floyd Magazine, March/April 1996. Copyright Brain Damage Magazine Inc. Winooski Pink Floyd radio show celebrates four years on the air"Floydian Slip"™, a weekly Pink Floyd program on Champ 101.3 in Colchester, Vt., celebrates its fourth anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 24.The program is produced and hosted by Craig Bailey, 32, of Winooski. (Bailey was born Aug. 3, 1967, the day before Floyd released it's first album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.") He began "Floydian Slip" 10 years ago at 106-VIC, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y., and brought it to the now-defunct WEXP-FM, Burlington, in early 1995, before moving it to Champ in October 1995. The show airs each Sunday from 7 to 8 p.m. Over the years "Floydian Slip" has presented music by Pink Floyd and solo works from all its members every week. Bailey aired an interview with Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson, from his London studios, on Oct. 29, 1997. The program has co-sponsored appearances by Pink Floyd cover band The Machine in the Burlington area on more than one occasion. The Web site Bailey created for his show in spring 1995 routinely receives 20,000 to 30,000 hits a week. In addition to offering information about the radio program, it includes extensive background on the band; sound clips; Floyd CDs, T-shirts and other merchandise for sale online; and much more. In addition to producing "Floydian Slip," Bailey is an editor with Business People Vermont magazine in Williston. He has acted in more than a dozen plays with Theatre Factory, the resident theater company of Trinity College of Vermont, since 1996. Pink Floyd is a British rock band founded in the mid-1960s, best known for its many popular concept albums ("Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here," "The Wall") and theatric stadium shows of the 1970s. Co-founder Roger Waters, who left the band in the mid-'80s, is touring the East Coast of North America for the first time in a decade this summer. Bailey will celebrate his show's anniversary with Floyd merchandise giveaways in partnership with pinkfloyddirect.com, the official Floyd merchandise Web site. The "Floydian Slip" Web site can be found at www.floydianslip.com From The Winooski Eagle, Vol. 6, No. 57, September 1999. Winooski resident hosts unique radio show"Floydian Slip," a weekly Pink Floyd radio show on Champ 101.3 & 102.1, celebrated its 8th anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 26th. Craig Bailey, 36, began producing "Floydian Slip" in 1989 on 106-VIC, when he was a senior at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. He brought the show to Champ 101.3 on Oct. 25, 1995. He has produced more than 400 installments of "Floydian Slip" for the Colchester station, where it airs each Sunday night at 7:00. The show has also aired on WCVR 102.1 since Champ started simulcasting on that Randolph station in January 2003. Floydianslip.com, Bailey's web site devoted to Pink Floyd, receives several hundred visitors from all over the world every day. The site was named "Best Vermont Web Site" in the 2002 Burlington Free Press Readers' Choice Awards. Pink Floyd is a progressive, British rock band founded in the mid-1960s, best known for its popular concept albums ("Dark Side of the Moon," "The Wall") and theatrical stadium shows of the 1970s. From The Eagle, Nov. 10, 2003. Rhythm & Newsby
Pamela Polston
& Ethan Covey Single Tracks"Floydian Slip," a weekly radio show on Champ 101.3, is celebrating its seventh anniversary. Host Craig Bailey began airing his homage to British psych-rockers Pink Floyd while a senior at Ithaca College in 1989. Still "broadcasting from the dark side of the moon," Bailey will be quizzing Floyd fans for a chance to win sets of the group's first seven albums. Tune in and bliss out Sunday, Oct. 27 from 7-8 p.m. From
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Days, Oct. 16, 2002. Copyright Da Capo Publishing Inc.
Animal SoundsDid you know the expression "dog days of summer" derives from an annual mid-season conjunction with Sirius, the "dog star?" This month, that celestial circumstance is provoking more than wilted hairdos and perspiration. Craig Bailey, host of the weekly Pink Floyd tribute show on Champ 101.3, called "The Floydian Slip," is going all out with a special program July 22. What's so special about it? "The Dog Days of Summer" show will spin three recordings of the band's 17-minute epic entitled — what else? — "Dogs." Appropriately, the tune was first released on Floyd's 1977 "Animals" album. Listeners will hear that version as well as a live one from PF co-founder Roger Waters and a newer one from Les Claypool's Frog Brigade. Claypool, as some of you know, is from Primus, and was in Vermont earlier this year recording a song with Trey Anastasio of Phish and ex-Police drummer Stewart Copeland, under the moniker Oysterhead. But that's another story. Tune in to "Dog Days" and find out how you can win a copy of "Live Frogs." From Seven Days, July 11, 2001. Copyright Da Capo Publishing Inc. Wall-Mark"Floydian Slip" host Craig Bailey will be rubbing shoulders — figuratively speaking — with another Grammy nominee in an hour-long phone interview with Andy Jackson from his London studio. The longtime Pink Floyd engineer is Bailey's guest on his radio show dedicated to that legendary British prog-rock band, and the interview will air January 14 and 21 at 7 p.m. on Champ 101.3. Jackson is only the second such guest on the 5-year-old "Floydian Slip" — Bailey interviewed PF album designer Storm Thorgerson in 1997. From Seven Days, Jan. 10, 2001. Copyright Da Capo Publishing Inc. The
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