Posted September 24, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd has beefed up its already pretty beefy YouTube channel with a new hourly feature: “The Greatest Gig in the Sky.”
Every hour, on the hour, the channel is featuring audio from its previously unreleased November 1974 Wembley show, along with original concert screen footage and a real-time social media stream.
The channel also features nearly 30 other Floyd videos, including this new full-length British advertisement for the Why Pink Floyd? remaster campaign:
Posted September 17, 2011 by Floydian Slip
We’ve just received a 6-track promotional sampler from the upcoming “Why Pink Floyd?” reissue campaign.
The sampler contains previously unreleased material that will be made available Sept. 27 as part of the Experience and Immersion editions of “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
Five tracks — “Breathe,” “Time,” “Money,” “Us and Them” and “Brain Damage/Eclipse” are taken from a 1974 Wembley show. The 6th is a demo of “Money” by Roger Waters.
We’ll feature some or all of the tracks on “Floydian Slip” #807, beginning Sept. 23.
Posted September 14, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Mind Head Publishing Ltd. has published “Pink Floyd: Backstage” by Bobby Hassall.
First published in 1991, the book is a document of super fan Hassall’s experiences following and eventually work for Pink Floyd on the “Momentary Lapse of Reason” and “Division Bell” tours of 1989 and ’94.
This new softcover edition has been redesigned, updated and expanded from its initial run.
The book was edited by Mind Head’s Glenn Povey, author of the excellent “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd.”
Buy “Pink Floyd: Backstage” for £15 at www.mindheadpublishing.co.uk.
Posted August 24, 2011 by Floydian Slip
The new issue of Classic Rock Presents Prog features Pink Floyd’s 1971 album “Meddle.”
Issue 19 of the sister publication of the U.K.’s Classic Rock devoted to progressive music celebrates the 40th anniversary of “Meddle,” and includes information on the upcoming Why Pink Floyd? reissue campaign. Long-time Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson designed the issue’s cover.
The issue will be showing up on newsstands soon, and will be available for sale online, too.
Posted August 19, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Mojo has released a limited edition re-recording of Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
“Return to the Dark Side of the Moon,” a vinyl 12-inch gatefold record, comes with a special edition of the latest issue of the venerable British music magazine featuring a special Floyd cover. The issue contains new interviews with Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason. The Flaming Lips, Roy Harper, Roxy Music, The Shins, My Morning Jacket, Porcupine Tree and other groups “revisit the genius of ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Wish You Were Here,’” according to the magazine.
Mojo plans to produce only 10,000 copies of the package, which will be sold in HMV and WHSmith stores in the U.K. and in Barnes & Noble in the U.S. Mojo tells us to expect it in Barnes & Noble in about four weeks. The magazine’s also selling copies online, shipped direct to U.K. addresses for £15.99; £17.99 elsewhere.
Posted July 10, 2011 by Floydian Slip
On May 10, EMI announced a massive Pink Floyd reissue/rarities project called “Why Pink Floyd?” to commence this fall. (See our previous post: “EMI announces massive Floyd reissue/rarity project“)
Below is our second post detailing the items to be included in this project.
“A Foot in the Door” is one of the more minor pieces of “Why Pink Floyd.” A single CD collection of 16 Floyd tracks, all remastered by James Guthrie in 2011 with new artwork by longtime Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson.
The disc will be issued Nov. 8, with a price of $15.88.
You can pre-order “A Foot in the Door” now through Amazon.com. When you purchase through the link above, your purchase helps support “Floydian Slip.”
Amazon offers a pre-order price guarantee: If the Amazon price decreases between your order time and the release date, you’ll receive the lowest price.
Posted July 9, 2011 by Floydian Slip
A custom-painted guitar signed by the surviving members of Pink Floyd is on the auction block to benefit a favorite charity of David Gilmour.
Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason have all signed the pick guard of the Fender guitar, which has been custom designed with “Dark Side of the Moon” illustrations by artist Ian Emes.
Emmes, who also signed the guitar, is a British animator and film director who has created animated films shown during Floyd concerts and on their DVDs. His guitar artwork mimics the animations shown in concert when the band performs “Time.”
Proceeds of the auction will benefit Crisis, an organization working to end homelessness.
The project is well on its way to raising some serious coin for the organization: Bidding stands at $21,000, with the auction set to expire at 2:45 p.m. (ET) on July 14.
Posted June 19, 2011 by Floydian Slip
On May 10, EMI announced a massive Pink Floyd reissue/rarities project called “Why Pink Floyd?” to commence this fall. (See our previous post: “EMI announces massive Floyd reissue/rarity project“)
Below is our first post detailing the items to be included in this project. We’re starting with the so-called “Discovery” editions, set for release in the U.S. on Sept. 27.
At the core of “Why Pink Floyd” is a reissue of every Floyd studio album:
All Discovery reissues have been digitally remastered by James Guthrie (co-producer of “The Wall”), and include newly-designed packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time designer Storm Thorgerson.
Designed to be an introduction to the band, all Discovery discs include booklets containing full album lyrics.
Single-disc albums are priced at $15.88; double-discs at $20.57.
All 14 Discovery reissues will also be available as a boxset that includes a 60-page artwork booklet designed by Thorgerson. The set is priced at $209.57.
You can pre-order items from the Discovery collection now through Amazon.com. When you purchase through the links below, your purchase helps support “Floydian Slip.”
Amazon offers a pre-order price guarantee: If the Amazon price decreases between your order time and the release date, you’ll receive the lowest price.
Posted May 10, 2011 by Floydian Slip
EMI announced today the largest Pink Floyd remaster and rarities project in the band’s 40-plus-year history.
The label will release remastered/repackaged versions of all 14 Floyd studio albums, along with deluxe — and deluxe, deluxe! — versions including tons of previously unreleased audio, video and more.
The label’s Web site for the initiative, “Why Pink Floyd …?,” promises, “a comprehensive release schedule, to be launched on September 26, 2011, encompassing CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, SACD, an array of digital formats, viral marketing, iPhone Apps and a brand-new single-album ‘Best Of’ collection.”
A source close to the band told “Floydian Slip” in September 2010 remastering work on previously unreleased, and, in some cases, presumed to have been lost, recordings was being performed for eventual release, “subject to interminable contract negotiations.”
The project’s “Discovery” series will include individual remasters of all 14 Floyd studio albums:
… as well as “The Discovery Collection,” a box set containing all of them.
All have been remastered by James Guthrie, and come in newly-designed Digipaks with 12-page booklets designed by Storm Thorgerson.
“Experience” editions — coming for:
… are expanded versions in Digipak bonus disc format. Included are original remastered albums, discs of additional material and expanded CD booklets.
EMI will also release “Immersion” editions of:
Packaged in square boxes, the sets contain remastered, previously unreleased and audio-visual material, plus additional content such as reproduced memorabilia, new graphics, art prints, collectors’ items, booklets and more.
Also included in this project is “A Foot in the Door,” a new 14-track sampler of previously released material, also remastered by Guthrie; and vinyl editions of much of the back catalog.
The most exciting material, without a doubt, are the previously unreleased tracks contained in the “Experience” and “Immersion” sets.
The 6-CD “Dark Side” immersion set includes concert film screens in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound; early, live versions of “Dark Side” songs; demos of “Us and Them” and “Money”; documentary videos; “The Hard Way,” a cut from the band’s aborted “Household Objects” project, when it flirted with recording an entire album substituting everyday objects for instruments; and more.
The 5-CD “Wish You Were Here” immersion set includes live material from November 1974′s Wembley shows; “Wine Glasses” from “Household Objects”; an alternate take of “Have a Cigar”; and a version of the title track featuring Stephane Grappelli; and much more.
“The Wall” immersion set includes seven CDs, which contain a live version of the album; documentaries; interviews; and more.
Posted April 28, 2011 by Floydian Slip
Register now to win a copy of “Dark Side of the Moon A Cappella,” a re-recording of Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece using a single instrument: the human voice.
Register online now. Deadline to enter is 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 4.
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