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“Floydian Slip” songlist #879

Posted February 13, 2013 by Floydian Slip

  1. In the Flesh
    The Wall (Film soundtrack) (1982)
  2. Run Like Hell
    Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
  3. Have a Cigar
    Wish You Were Here (1975)
  4. The Gold It’s in the …
    Obscured by Clouds (1972)
  5. The Clown (*Floydian Slip-Up*)
    Sun Rise (Eire Apparent) (1969)
  6. Fat Old Sun
    Atom Heart Mother (1970)
  7. Murder
    About Face (David Gilmour) (1984)
  8. One of These Days
    Meddle (1971)
  9. Take It Back
    The Division Bell (1994)

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Register to win “The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon” DVD

Posted February 11, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Next Sunday we’ll give away our first Listener Survey Grand Prize: A copy of “The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon,” a DVD documentary from Eagle Rock Entertainment.

You can become eligible to win by completing our listener survey. It’ll take you 3-4 minutes.

The DVD includes interviews with Pink Floyd band members Roger Waters, Rick Wright, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, plus engineer Alan Parsons, designer Storm Thorgerson, and others involved in the recording and release of the album.

The documentary combines archive footage of Floyd in concert, in the studio and in rehearsal, with video clips, interviews and original demos.

Register to win by taking our survey.


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Ron Geesin to publish book about “Atom Heart Mother”

Posted February 10, 2013 by Floydian Slip

This summer, avante garde composer and Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin will publish “The Flaming Cow,” a book about his experience putting together Pink Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother Suite” in 1970.

Press for the book promises “a rare insight into the brilliant but often fraught collaboration” among Geesin and members of the Floyd, as well as unpublished photographs from the Abbey Road recording sessions and performances in London and Paris.

Geesin was our guest on “Floydian Slip” in November 2010. You can hear the interview and read a transcript online.

Floyd drummer Nick Mason provided an introduction to the book, which will be published July 17.

Buy The Flaming Cow from Independent Publishers Group


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Roger Waters wins Pollstar awards

Posted February 10, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters received two Pollstar Awards this week: Major Tour of the Year and Most Creative Stage Production.

The 24th annual award winners were nominated by music industry leaders and voted on by concert professionals.

The awards were presented at the Los Angeles’ Club Nokia this past Thursday.

Pollstar is a music industry trade publication covering the worldwide concert industry. It’s supplied information to professional concert promoters, booking agents, artist managers and facility executives for more than 25 years.


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Third survey winner announced

Posted February 10, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to Mark Sharpe of Seattle, Wash. — the winner in our third of a series of listener survey random drawings.

Mark wins the official “Floydian Slip” flash drive.

We’ll be drawing five more flash drive winners, as well as a couple of grand prizes over the next couple months consisting of Pink Floyd books, CDs, or DVDs.

Make yourself eligible for all of these drawings: Take our survey now.

Shine on, Mark!


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Audio: “Floydian Slip” promo 879

Posted February 7, 2013 by Floydian Slip


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“Floydian Slip” preview #879

Posted February 7, 2013 by Floydian Slip


Join us this week for Floydian Slip #879:

  • Floyd from Atom Heart Mother (1970) and Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
  • Soundtrack music from The Wall (1982)
  • David Gilmour solo from 1984
  • And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 37 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.


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“Floydian Slip” songlist #878

Posted February 6, 2013 by Floydian Slip

  1. On the Turning Away
    Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
  2. When the Tigers Broke Free
    The Final Cut (1983)
  3. 5:06 AM (Every Strangers Eyes)/5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)
    The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (Roger Waters) (1984)
  4. Money
    Live 8 (2005)
  5. There’s Way Out of Here
    David Gilmour (David Gilmour) (1978)
  6. One Way Street (*Floydian Slip-Up*)
    Heaven in the Sky (Clare Torry) (2006)
  7. Dark Globe
    An Introduction to Syd Barrett (Syd Barrett) (2010)
  8. Point Me at the Sky
    The Early Singles (1992)
  9. The Trial
    The Wall (1979)
  10. Outside the Wall
    The Wall (1979)

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Second survey winner announced

Posted February 3, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to Randy Trayah of Winooski, Vt. — the winner in our second of a series of listener survey random drawings.

Randy wins the official “Floydian Slip” flash drive.

We’ll be drawing six more flash drive winners, as well as a couple of grand prizes over the next couple months consisting of Pink Floyd books, CDs, or DVDs.

Make yourself eligible for all of these drawings: Take our survey now.

Shine on, Randy!


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“Floydian Slip” coming to Alleycat Radio (Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska)

Posted February 3, 2013 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on Alleycat Radio, a four-station group of non-commercial FM stations in La Junta, Colo.; Pine Ridge, S.D;  and Crawford, Neb. The group begins carrying the show Sundays at 8 p.m MT tonight.

Alleycat Radio consists of KRKV 107.3 FM, an 80,000-watt station in La Junta, Colo.; KVAR 93.7 FM, a 12,000-watt station, and KVKR 88.3 FM, a 10,000-watt station, both in Pine Ridge, S.D.; and KCFD 88.1 FM, a 1,500-watt station in Crawford, Neb.

More than 40 affiliate stations have now joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.

Shine on, Colorado, South Dakota and Nebraska!


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