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 February 18, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Mojo magazine has published the first part of its two-part collectors series devoted to Pink Floyd.
The 132- page issue is on UK newsstands now. It covers the band’s early days in Cambridge and rise to fame within London’s swinging ’60s scene.
Part 2 will cover the band’s later years from the early-’70s through drummer Nick Mason‘s current project, Saucerful of Secrets. Part 2 is scheduled to ship in early April.
Posted February 9, 2019 by Floydian Slip
Alan Parsons will release his first studio album in 14 years this spring.
“The Secret,” comprised of 11 new tracks, will arrive April 26 on the Frontiers Music label.
Parsons engineered Pink Floyd‘s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973). His last album, 2004’s “A Valid Path,” featured David Gilmour.
The first single from “The Secret” will drop later this month, with pre-order details to follow.
Here’s the songlist:
Posted January 29, 2019 by Floydian Slip
In March, Christie’s will auction more than 120 of David Gilmour‘s guitars, including his legendary “Black Strat.”
The auction will take place at Christie’s in New York City on June 20. All proceeds will go to charity.
The entire collection will be on display at Christie’s on King Street, London, March 27-31. Selected guitars will then be displayed in Los Angeles May 7-11 before the New York sale preview June 14-19.
Gilmour’s highly-modified 1969 black Fender Stratocaster is the auction’s highlight. Expected to fetch $100,000-$150,000, Gilmour used it extensively between 1970 and 1986 on albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977) and The Wall (1979).
The only explanation offered as to why he’s liquidating his collection comes from this statement provided by Christie’s:
“Many of the guitars in this sale are guitars that have given me a tune,” says Gilmour. “So a lot of them have earned their keep, you might say.
“These guitars have given so much to me, and it’s time for them to move on to other people who hopefully will find joy, and perhaps create something new.”
Presumably, Gilmour has many other instruments to keep him strumming along.
Also included in the sale: his 1954 white Fender Stratocaster #0001 (estimated at $100,000-150,000); a 1955 Gibson Les Paul played on “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) ($30,000-50,000); a rare Gretsch White Penguin 6134 ($100,000-150,000); and many others.
Learn more at the Christie’s website
(Pictured, top: David Gilmour playing the Black Strat for the “Live at Abbey Road” series, Aug. 29, 2006. Photo: Polly Samson. Also: The Black Strat.)
Posted November 19, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to our winners of “Pink Floyd in Objects” by Glenn Povey:
The answer to our trivia question: What band, during its set at a 2003 music festival, flew a second-hand inflatable pig purchased from Pink Floyd? The String Cheese Incident.
Prizes courtesy of Carlton Books.
Learn more about the book (“Book devoted to Pink Floyd memorabilia coming“)
Posted October 29, 2018 by Floydian Slip
This Thursday, Nov. 1, Carlton Books will publish “Pink Floyd in Objects” by Glenn Povey.
The hardcover book details more than 100 items of diverse memorabilia related to the band including a 1964 Architectural Abdabs press clip, the early group’s Bedford van, the ill-fated Floyd blimp, the band’s VCS3 synthesizer, David Gilmour‘s black Stratocaster guitar, an “Animals” 8-track tape and much more.
Povey founded the Floyd fanzine “Brain Damage” and was its editor from 1985 to 1993. He co-wrote “Pink Floyd in the Flesh: The Complete Performance History” and wrote “Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd.” He’s written extensively about the band for Mojo, Record Collector, Classic Rock and other music magazines.
“Pink Floyd in Objects” contains 224 pages and is priced at £20.
We’ll give away copies on an upcoming episode of “Floydian Slip.”
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 September 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Sony Classical will release Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” recorded by Roger Waters next month.
“The Soldier’s Tale” is a musical theatre piece conceived in 1918 by Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, and based on the Russian folk tale “The Runaway Soldier and the Devil” from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev.
In the original story, a soldier trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited wealth. Waters has rewritten the text of the original piece for his adaptation.
In his recording, Waters plays all of the roles — the principal parts of the Soldier, the Devil and the Narrator, as well as all supporting characters. As originally conceived, the piece uses three actors for the principal roles, along with one or more dancers.
Other recent adaptations of “The Soldier’s Tale” include an animated version featuring Max von Sydow and broadcast on PBS in 1984; a 1993 version by Kurt Vonnegut that set the story in WWII; and a jazz version by Joan Sanmartí in 2002.
Waters’s “The Soldier’s Tale” is set for release Oct. 26.
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