And … we’ll air their recording during a special all-covers edition of the “Floydian Slip” radio show: Our “Surrogate Bands” special will run for a week starting June 29 on all 66 “Floydian Slip” affiliate stations.
Second prize, selected by random drawing, is a Pink Floyd periodical package including four magazines featuring the group or its members on the cover: Uncut (November 2013), Guitar World (Holiday 2013), Record Collector (August 2013) and Classic Rock presents Prog (September 2010).
Complete rules and regulations online. Entries must be received by 12 midnight (EDT) Saturday, June 27.
Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings will issue a remastered edition of Roger Waters‘ 1992 album “Amused to Death” on July 24.
The reissue will feature a new 5.1 Surround Sound remix of the album on high-definition Blu-ray audio and a new remastered stereo mix by longtime Pink Floyd collaborator James Guthrie.
The cover and gatefold art has been updated by Sean Evans, creative director of Waters’ 2010-2013 “The Wall Live” tour and film.
“I’m remembering the record from [over] 20 years ago, that most of what I had to say then sadly still pertains today and is maybe even more relevant to our predicament as people in 2015 even than it was in 1992,” says Waters.
The reissue will be available in six formats: CD; CD/Blu-ray; SACD; hi-res digital download; double-LP 200 gram vinyl, pressed at Quality Record Pressings; and a limited edition, vinyl, numbered double-LP picture disc.
The album’s available for pre-order at rogerwaters.com, which has a number of music/merchandise bundles available.
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 1995, I no longer worked in radio full-time. WEXP 105.1 FM in Burlington, Vt., where I’d spent the previous year, had gone belly-up, and I’d become convinced there was a better career for me outside broadcasting.
But then there was “Floydian Slip.”
After starting the show as a college student in ’89, and then producing it at WEXP, I was convinced the show was viable and ought to be able to find a home on another station.
That summer I wrote a fairly formal proposal for the show, and mailed it to the two rock stations in the Burlington area: WIZN 106.7 FM “The Wizard” and WCPV 101.3 FM “Champ 103.1.”
Champ’s Rich Haskell immediately got in touch, expressing an interest in reviving the show. After waiting a few months for the station to find a sponsor, I started hosting “Floydian Slip” on Champ.
I was happy to have the show back up and running, but bringing it to Champ felt funny. The station was only a year old, and I’d spent the previous year at WEXP, another new station that launched just ahead of Champ, so regarded Champ as “those other new guys.” It felt a little like I’d flipped to work for the other side.
Our first Champ show — Show #8 — probably aired Wednesday, Oct. 18 or 25, 1995.
The show remained a weekly offering on Champ nearly 14 years, surviving a number of ownership changes and shuffling timeslots. (The artwork shown here was Champ’s second logo, used only in the last couple years of Champ’s time as a music station.)
Over the years we might have revised the opening montage that started each Champ show. But the audio posted here is the only montage we have archived, and it’s likely the opening that played most often during our time on Champ.
It’s pulled from Show #246, broadcast Sunday, Aug. 6, 2000.
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Join us this week for Floydian Slip #992: It’s a special program called “Storm Effect,” remembering long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson on the two-year anniversary of his passing.
Listen for cuts from Led Zeppelin, 10cc, Peter Gabriel, Yes and others — all from albums designed by Storm and the team of Hipgnosis.
Uncut magazine has revealed details of the first issue from its upcoming “Ultimate Music Guide” series.
The first “bookazine” in the collectable series, devoted to Pink Floyd, will cover the band’s entire career and include a series of classic interviews from the Uncut archive, plus new content and reviews devoted to every Floyd release.
Details on a release date are pending, but we’ll have copies to give away on an upcoming “Floydian Slip.”
Addendum: Uncut tells us it’ll be available on newsstands mid- to late-May, and for sale online.
“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on KFCW 93.1 FM in Riverton, Wyo., starting April 19. The station will carry the show Sundays at 8 p.m. MT.
“The Wind River’s Rock” is a 100,000-watt rock station serving the greater Riverton area.
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, Riverton!
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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 May 1995, we were about to produce Show #7 for WEXP in Burlington, Vt. — the first commercial station to carry the show.
Leading up to the fledgeling station’s sign off June 15, 1995, staffers, including myself, had been informed some type of change was about to take place. At first we were told ownership was searching for investors to keep the station on the air. A little later, we learned the station would be bought outright by another broadcasting group.
Twenty years later, I’m uncertain how much I knew when. But from listening to this final “Floydian Slip” talkset from Show #7, it appears I didn’t realize this would be my last show for WEXP, since I make no mention of it.
The final WEXP “Floydian Slip,” Show #7, aired 11 p.m. to midnight on MondayMay 29, 1995.
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