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David Gilmour in Concert DVD to be released as app

Posted November 7, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Later this month, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour will become the first artist to release an entire album as a smartphone app.

To be released for iOS Nov. 19, the app will include Gilmour’s entire 2002 DVD “David Gilmour in Concert” for $8.99. An Android release will come later.

The concert was recorded at Robert Wyatt‘s “Meltdown” festival at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2001, and a return visit the following year.

The concert songs are: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5); Terrapin; Fat Old Sun; Coming Back to Life; High Hopes; Je Crois Entendre Encore; Smile; Wish You Were Here; Comfortably Numb (featuring Wyatt); Dimming of the Day; Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-8); A Great Day for Freedom; Hushabye Mountain; Breakthrough (featuring Richard Wright); and Comfortably Numb (featuring Bob Geldof).

Extras include: Spare Digits (closeups of Gilmour’s guitar parts); Home Movie (shot at rehearsals); High Hopes Choral; I Put A Spell On You (with Jools Holland and Mica Paris); Don’t; and Sonnet 18.

Songs from 2001 were shot in HD, with the rest of the material shot in standard definition.

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Tangerine Dream covers Pink Floyd

Posted October 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Venerable German electronic group Tangerine Dream has included a Pink Floyd cover on its latest album.

“Under Cover,” released this Tuesday, is a collection of 14 recordings of other artists’ songs, including Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”

Other artists covered include David Bowie, Kraftwerk, R.E.M., The Eagles, The Beatles and others.

Tangerine Dream’s 2007 album “Madcap’s Flaming Duty” paid tribute to Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.

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Save 10% on “Dark Side” boxset

Posted September 18, 2012 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” has swung a deal with online music retailer Pop Market to save you money on a plum Pink Floyd boxset.

Through Sunday, when you buy “The Dark Side of the Moon” Immersion boxset at Pop Market, save an extra 10% when you use promo code SHINEON at checkout.

The set’s already been marked down from $149.99 to $109.99. When you use our promo code, the price is just $98.99.

Buy it online now.

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Contest: The Story of Wish You Were Here DVD/Blu-ray

Posted June 20, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Authorized by the band, it includes new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, as well as archive interviews with Richard Wright, who died in 2008.

Sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, guest vocalist Roy Harper, front cover “burning man” Ronnie Rondell and others involved in the project are also featured. Original recording engineer Brian Humphries revisits the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios to illustrate aspects of the album’s construction.

Deadline to register: 6 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 27. Prizes courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment.

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Up for bid: Original interview tape

Posted June 2, 2012 by Floydian Slip

We’ve put up for bid more interesting working tapes — this time from the 1997 ”Floydian Slip” interview with Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson.

This is quarter-inch analog tape on a 10.5-inch reel in the original Ampex box. The interview runs 20-30 minutes.

The auction includes an 8-page transcript of the interview, which includes portions marked up for deletion before the interview aired.

Thorgerson was part of the legendary Hipgnosis design team, which was responsible for designing about a third of your album collection: Genesis, Peter Gabriel, 10cc, Led Zeppelin, Al Stewart, Black Sabbath, Alan Parsons Project, Phish, Cranberries and many, many more.

Bid at eBay.

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Up for bid: Original interview working tapes

Posted May 24, 2012 by Floydian Slip

We’ve put up for bid some interesting working tapes from the 2001 “Floydian Slip” interview with Pink Floyd recording engineer Andy Jackson.

These tapes were the result of assembling Jackson’s responses with our own re-recorded questions. Host Craig Bailey conducted the interview over the phone, without bothering to record the questions. Jackson recorded himself in a professional studio on his end for high fidelity, and mailed “Floydian Slip” a CD, which he’d burned at Astoria, David Gilmour‘s houseboat recording studio.

In addition to working with Floyd since “The Wall” movie (1982), Jackson’s an accomplished recording engineer who’s worked with Dream Academy and Boomtown Rats, among others.

Bid at eBay.

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David Gilmour guest appearance to be issued on compilation

Posted May 23, 2012 by Floydian Slip

A guest appearance Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour made in 1975 will be issued as part of a new compilation.

“When Your Life Is Your Own,” a recording Gilmour made with David Courtney, was first made available on CD when Courney’s 1975 “First Day” album was reissued as “First Day: The Complete Story” in spring 2010.

The new Courtney compilation, “The Show Must Go On,” will be made available June 11 in the U.K.; July 10 in the U.S.

Courtney’s first successes came as a songwriter for Leo Sayer and Adam Faith. As a producer, he’s done work with Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.

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Wish You Were Here documentary coming this summer

Posted April 3, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Eagle Rock Entertainment will release “Pink Floyd The Story of Wish You Were Here” on DVD and Blu-ray June 26.

The documentary, authorized by the band, includes new interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason, as well as archive interviews with Richard Wright, who died in 2008.

Pricing details have not yet been released.

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Mason, Jackson hint at more reissues to come

Posted February 8, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and long-time recording engineer for the band Andy Jackson have told Billboard more reissues might be on the way following this month’s boxset of “The Wall.”

“The idea was always to see whether people like these things or not. If they do, of course we could do more,” Mason says.

“There’s quite a bit of very, very early stuff, before they had a deal, with Syd (Barrett) in the band when they were still trying to be an R&B band,” says Jackson, who’s been a major player behind the boards of the entire “Why Pink Floyd?” remaster campaign.

“It’s not, like, early versions of songs that turned up on their albums or anything. It’s R&B classics, the same as everybody else was playing back them,” he adds. “There’s a lot of recordings that may be brilliant for a future project.”

Read Billboard’s story online.

“The Wall” will be released Feb. 28.

A couple weeks ago on “Floydian Slip” we played an early band demo of “Young Lust.” Be listening for “The Doctor,” an early version of “Comfortably Numb,” on Show #828, airing on all 30 Random Precision Radio Network stations Feb. 16-22.

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Storm Thorgerson documentary East Coast premiere

Posted January 28, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roddy Bogawa‘s documentary about Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson will have its East Coast premiere next month at New York Museum of the Modern Art (MoMA).

The feature-length film, “Taken by Storm,” will be featured as part of MoMA’s two-week-long “International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media,” beginning Feb. 16.

“Taken by Storm” debuted in March 2011 at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival.

“Hoping that this screening will give the film a big push along to its distribution life — more screenings, perhaps theatrical release, DVDs and streaming,” Bogawa says.

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