Posted September 2, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Floydian Slip is partnering with Trafalgar Releasing to give you tickets to “Roger Waters Us + Them,” the new concert film coming in October.
A document of Waters’s 2017/18 tour of “Is This the Life We Really Want?,” “Us + Them” plays theaters two nights only: Wednesday, Oct. 2 and Sunday, Oct. 6.
Register now to win a pair of tickets good at the participating theater of your choice.
Posted June 21, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Yesterday’s much-anticipated auction of David Gilmour‘s guitars raised $21,490,750 for charity.
The highlight of the Christie’s auction held in New York City was the Pink Floyd frontman’s fabled “Black Strat,” which sold for $3,975,000, way beyond the official estimate of $100,000 to $150,000.
Gilmour bought that Fender Stratocaster in New York City in May 1970, and played it extensively through the ’70s and into the ’80s on such recording as “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973), “Wish You Were Here” (1975), “Animals” (1977) and “The Wall” (1979).
The winning bid for the Black Strat came from Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts. Larry Hall, vice president of special projects for the NFL team, attended the auction as Irsay’s proxy.
Other highlights include Gilmour’s ’54 Stratocaster, serial number 0001, used for the rhythm track on “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2,” which went for $1,815,000; a ’69 Martin D-35 used on “Welcome to the Machine” and “Wish You Were Here,” (also sold to Irsay) for $1,095,000; and his 12-string Martin D12-28, used to write and record the opening riff for “Wish You Were Here,” sold for $531,000.
According to Christie’s, the Black Strat breaks the record for a guitar sold at auction, and is the most ever paid for a Stratocaster. Previously, the most expensive guitar sold at auction was the “Reach Out to Asia” Stratocaster, auctioned to support victims of the 2004 tsunami.
That item sold in 2005 for $2.7 million. It had been signed by Gilmour, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, and others.
Irsay has a few other notable guitars in his collection, including an orange ’63 Gretsch once owned by John Lennon and purchased for $530,000 in 2015; and the “Yellow Cloud” guitar played by Prince, which Irsay purchased for $137,500 in 2016.
The day before the auction, Gilmour announced all proceeds would benefit ClientEarth, an organization that funds attorneys and other experts to fight climate change.
“The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face, and we are within a few years of the effects of global warming being irreversible,” Gilmour said.
“I hope that the sale of these guitars will help ClientEarth in their action to use the law to bring about real change. We need a civilized world that goes on for all our grandchildren and beyond in which these guitars can be played and songs can be sung.”
The auction lasted eight hours with bidders from 66 countries participating.
Posted May 30, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will publish “Three Different Ones,” a three-part podcast series beginning tomorrow.
The podcast is a prelude to the upcoming auction of 120 of Gilmour’s guitars taking place in New York on June 20.
Episode 1, dropping May 31, focuses on his legendary black Stratocaster. The June 7 episode covers the 6- and 12-string Martin acoustic guitars he used in writing and recording “Wish You Were Here” (1975). And the series concludes June 14 with a final episode about his white Strat, serial #0001.
Auctioneers Christie’s announced the Gilmour auction in January. All proceeds will go to charity.
The entire collection was on display at Christie’s on King Street, London, March 27-31. Selected guitars were displayed in Los Angeles May 7-11. Your final chance to see them will be in New York as part of the sale preview that runs June 14-19.
Read more about the auction: “David Gilmour’s Black Strat and other guitars to be auctioned after going on display” (Jan. 29, 2019).
“Three Different Ones” will be freely available on all major podcast platforms. You can hear a 2-minute preview at the Apple site.
(Hey, man! Stay in your lane! You don’t see me playing the guitar, do you? —Editor)
Posted April 3, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Variety reports Trafalgar Releasing will turn “Us + Them,” the 2017-18 tour of Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters, into a feature film.
The tour included more than 150 performances, mostly in North American and Europe, playing to a total audience of 2.3 million.
The film, yet to be named, will hit theaters this fall. It’ll be composed from a number of performances along the tour.
Trafalgar released “Roger Waters – The Wall” in 2015.
Posted March 4, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd Records will reissue the band’s 1968 album “A Saucerful of Secrets” in its original mono mix for Record Store Day April 13.
James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman worked from the original 1968 mono mix for this reissue. Pressed onto 180-gram vinyl, it’ll come with a faithful reproduction of the LP’s original artwork, including the Columbia logo. (Early Floyd albums were released in the U.K. sporting the Columbia logo, via EMI.)
The “Saucerful” reissue will be limited to 6,500 albums.
Last year, the band offered a reissue of “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1969) for Record Store Day.
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 as a way to celebrate and support independently-owned record stores.
Posted October 31, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason will bring his group Saucerful of Secrets to North America in 2019.
The group announced its first concerts outside of Europe: 25 dates in Canada and the United States beginning March 12 in Vancouver and ending April 22 in Washington, D.C.
The group debuted in London this May, before launching a tour of Scandinavia and Europe that ran during September.
The band consists of Mason, Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken. They play the early music of Pink Floyd.
The 2019 dates also include five more U.K. dates:
Learn more at the group’s official website.
Posted September 17, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Several pieces of original Pink Floyd album artwork by Hipgnosis and Gerald Scarfe are part of an exhibit in downtown San Francisco.
“Art of the Album Cover” opened Saturday at the San Francisco Art Exchange (SFAE). It’ll run through October.
The exhibit includes nearly 100 original works, including layered concept drawings for Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973), “considered to be the single most valuable artwork in rock history,” according to SFAE.
The drawings constitute a three-layer mock-up done on transparent paper that served as a guide for the printer in manufacturing the cover.
According to the exhibit’s catalog, “These drawings were utilized in much the same way that builders construct a house. The final ‘work of art’ is the house itself, but the creative original artworks were the plans for the house (think Frank Lloyd Wright). These three drawings bring the final artwork to life as each is superimposed over the other — guiding the printer to the final achievement.”
Frank Floyd Wright, more likely.
The price of the “Dark Side” piece is listed only as “Price on request” in the SFAE catalog. “The most expensive prices aren’t shown for a variety of reasons,” SFAE founder and executive director Jim Hartley explained to Floydian Slip. “Several of the more spectacular pieces go into the seven figures, as you might imagine.”
Other Floyd-related pieces include the original montage to 1969’s “Ummagumma” and a C-print photo of that album’s back cover; the original dye-transfer airbrushed photo that appeared on the cover of the U.K. edition of “Wish You Were Here” (1975); a number of Scarfe sketches of the band from its ’74 U.K. winter tour program; and a 2017 commemorative print of “The Wall.”
All original Floyd pieces are signed.
Other albums featured at the exhibit include “Abbey Road,” “Rubber Soul,” “Meet the Beatles,” “Beggars Banquet,” “Candy-O,” “Hair,” “The Best of the Doors,” “Blonde on Blonde,” “At Folsom Prison” (Johnny Cash), and many more.
All pieces come from private, corporate, and artists’ collections from around the world.
The exhibit catalog is available as a download, along with the price list.
More information is available at info@sfae.com or (415) 441-8840.
Posted May 25, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd drummer and founding member Nick Mason will take his group Saucerful of Secrets on a 21-date tour of Scandinavia and Europe this fall.
The announcement comes on the heals of the group’s four sold out shows in London (pictured) this past week.
The group, which includes Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken, plays early Floyd tracks from the group’s Syd Barrett and soundtrack eras.
The tour starts Sept. 2 in Stockholm, and wraps Sept. 29 in Nottingham. It’ll be Mason’s first tour since Floyd’s ’94 concerts supporting “The Division Bell.”
Tickets go on sale today. Visit the band’s official site for a full schedule.
Here’s the songlist from the group’s London shows:
Photo: Jill Furmanovsky
Posted April 17, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder/drummer Nick Mason will perform early Floyd music with his new band Saucerful of Secrets in London next month.
The band consists of Mason, Spandau Ballet‘s Gary Kemp, former Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, and producer/composer Dom Beken.
The band will play selections from “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” and “A Saucerful of Secrets” May 20 at Dingwalls in Camden, before giving three shows at the Half Moon in Putney May 21, 23 and 24.
These will be Mason’s first live performances since Floyd played Live 8 in London in 2005. He is the only member of Pink Floyd to appear on each of the band’s albums.
Tickets went on sale at 10 this morning at the band’s website.
Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd will release a new heavy weight vinyl remaster of its first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967), on Record Store Day, April 21.
James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman remastered the album in mono working from the original ’67 mono mix.
Hipgnosis’s Aubrey Powell and Peter Curzon designed the cover for the new version, which features Syd Barrett‘s silhouetted graphic of the band that adorned the back of the original LP.
A poster of the Colin Prime photo that was the basis for Barrett’s graphic is included with the disc.
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