Posted March 31, 2015 by Floydian Slip
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Posted March 30, 2015 by Floydian Slip
As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.
By summer 1994, I was on my second job out of college. In June of that year, I started as overnight announcer at a brand new Adult Album Alternative (Triple- A) station in Burlington, Vt. — WEXP “Experience 105.1.”
By December, I’d resurrected “Floydian Slip” as a once-a-month offering on the station, whenever there was a new moon.
Here’s a skim of that first WEXP show, which aired 11 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 2, 1994.
While I started the show six years earlier at Ithaca College’s 106-VIC, this show is actually show “number one,” because this is when I started counting.
By the time I’d started doing “Floydian Slip” for WEXP, I’d moved from overnights to evenings, arriving at the station mid-afternoon, and working on-air from 7 to midnight.
I have fond memories of being in my mid-20s, living in downtown Burlington, and taking the short walk from my efficiency apartment over to the station, where every jock enjoyed creative freedom regarding what we played and what we said.
It was working in radio like I’d imagined it would be growing up listening to my FM Walkman: Something akin to Donald Fagen’s “The Nightfly.”
WEXP was something special. It had the vibe of underground FM radio from the ’70s … or so I was told. Unconventional, eclectic, very democratic and down-to-earth — one potential sponsor complained all us air people sounded stoned — I’m glad I had the experience, as short-lived as it was.
WEXP went dark within a year, and I was out of a job by Summer ’95. More on that later.
A couple of notes: Yes, I mispronounced “Astronomy Domine,” which I continued to do for years later. And we hadn’t yet registered the floydianslip.com domain, but were using the show’s original email address: floydshow@aol.com.
AOL also gave WEXP a complimentary account, in exchange for on-air mentions. The account remained active for years after the station went off the air. Apparently no one from the station ever told AOL, and the company didn’t require proof of performance for its on-air plugs. No good deed …
Posted March 30, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Posted March 28, 2015 by Floydian Slip
The U.K.’s Uncut magazine will launch its Ultimate Collectors’ Edition series in April with its first issue devoted to Pink Floyd.
Marketing and Events Executive Charlotte Treadaway tells “Floydian Slip,” “It will be a high quality bookazine, packed with great feature content, classic interviews and new takes on every album.”
More details when they’re available.
Posted March 27, 2015 by Floydian Slip
West Coast Shaving has taken the faces of each member of Pink Floyd and created a photographic “average” of them (right).
The result, in our opinion, looks most similar to guitarist David Gilmour.
We reached out to the company to see if all five members (Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright) are included in the Floyd photo, but didn’t hear back.
The firm actually gave this treatment to 30 rocks bands, which makes for interesting conversion, not the least of which would be the question, “Why would a men’s grooming company do this?” Perhaps it thinks they all need a good shave.
Nonetheless, never say no to fun. All photos are below.
Posted March 25, 2015 by Floydian Slip
“Floydian Slip” will begin streaming on The Drive starting April 4. The station will carry the show Saturdays at 6 p.m. MT.
“The Drive” is a classic rock Internet station based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
More than 60 affiliate stations have joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.
Shine on, Calgary!
Posted March 25, 2015 by Floydian Slip
We’ve made available our fourth Pink Floyd crossword puzzle.
The theme of Puzzlus Enigma #4 is “Wish You Were Here.”
We’ll post the solution here in a week or so.
Download the puzzle (664 kb; PDF).
Enjoy.
Posted March 25, 2015 by Floydian Slip
As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.
A few years ago we had the opportunity to interview Ron Geesin. The occasion was the 40th anniversary of the soundtrack he did with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters: “Music from ‘The Body.'” (Ron also played a pivotal role in Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother” [1970].)
As a follow-up, in March 2011, Ron mailed us some of his CDs. Included in the box was this cryptic note.
You can hear and read a transcript of our interview with Ron online
Posted March 25, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Garden Cottage (pictured), the house said to appear on the cover of Pink Floyd’s “A Collection of Great Dance Songs” (1981), has sold at auction for £215,000.
But, contrary to prior reports, the structure in Dungeness, Romney Marsh, is not the house from the album cover.
The Folkestone Herald reports Trevor Bunney of Dungeness says,”This cottage is not the cottage on the album, which is actually called Seagull Cottage. It’s situated further north just off of the Dungeness estate in between The Pilot public house and Kerton Road bridge.
Seagull Cottage is no longer in existence as it was destroyed by fire in the early 1980s. If you look to the right on the album cover you can just make out the houses over Kerton Road bridge, I know this for a fact as a kid I played in Seagull Cottage when it was derelict.”
The property was expected to go for £160,000.
Posted March 24, 2015 by Floydian Slip
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