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Happy Birthday, David Gilmour

Posted March 6, 2024 by Floydian Slip

Happy 78th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)


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David Gilmour photographed in studio

Posted December 24, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Photos published recently to Instagram by Polly Samson have sparked discussion her husband and writing partner David Gilmour might be working on a new album.

The photos are labeled as being shot at British Grove Studios in Chiswick, West London. That studio is owned by musician Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits).

Among those photographed along with Gilmour is producer Charlie Andrew, pianist Roger Eno (brother of Brian Eno), drummer Adam Betts, bassist Tom Herbert, long-time collaborator Guy Pratt, and Gilmour and Samson’s daughter Romany Gilmour.

Gilmour’s most-recent studio project was “Rattle That Lock,” released in 2015.

 

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Win: Metallic Spheres in Colour by The Orb featuring David Gilmour

Posted October 9, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Metallic Spheres in Colour by The Orb featuring David Gilmour

Register now to win a copy of “Metallic Spheres in Colour” by The Orb featuring David Gilmour.

This is a reimagining of the album “Metallic Spheres” that was originally released in 2010.

Prizes courtesy of Sony Music.

Register now. Deadline to register: Sunday, Oct 15.


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David Gilmour/Orb album to be reissued

Posted August 11, 2023 by Floydian Slip

On Sept. 29, Sony Music/Legacy Recordings will release “Metallic Spheres in Colour,” a reworking of the 2010 album “Metallic Spheres” by The Orb, featuring David Gilmour.

“The idea for ‘Metallic Spheres in Colour’ was that Alex Paterson (founder of The Orb) could have done more on the first version, and he didn’t really have the opportunity because we had a philosophy of making the music like the Blade Runner soundtrack meets ‘Wish You Were Here,'” according to Youth, producer of the album.

“So, I asked him why don’t we remix it and make it like an Orb classic? And in doing that, it’s almost like a completely different album.”

Gilmour’s partnership with The Orb came about when he met Youth in the studio when Gilmour was recording “Chicago/Change The World” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, a benefit track for British hacker Gary McKinnon.

The album consist of two tracks:

  1. Seamless Solar Spheres of Affection Mix
  2. Seamlessly Martian Spheres of Reflection Mix

It will be available on LP, CD and streaming.


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Happy Birthday, David Gilmour

Posted March 6, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Happy 77th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)


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Roger Waters re-records “The Dark Side of the Moon”

Posted February 10, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters revealed he has re-recorded Pink Floyd‘s 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon.” He broke the news to German newspaper Berliner Zeitung Feb. 4, and provided more details to the U.K.’s The Telegraph on Feb. 8.

Roger is one of only a handful of people to appear on the redo, which he began months ago without the participation or knowledge of any of his former Floyd bandmates.

“I’m the only one singing my songs on these new recordings, and there are no rock and roll guitar solos,” he told Berliner Zeitung.

“The new concept is meant to reflect on the meaning of the work, to bring out the heart and soul of the album — musically and spiritually.”

In addition to Waters, his long-time collaborator Gus Seyffert plays keyboards on the new work; and Seyffert’s girlfriend, Bedouine, provides backing vocals.

“I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ c—p!,” he told The Telegraph. “Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed. But it’s my project and I wrote it. So blah!”

The album will be released in May, according to The Telegraph.

News of the redux album was overshadowed by an inflammatory tweet posted by David Gilmour‘s wife and writing partner Polly Samson, perhaps in response to Waters’s German interview.

“Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” Samson posted to Twitter. “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.”

Gilmour retweeted the post, and added “Every word demonstrably true.”

Waters acknowledged Samson’s tweet by posting to social media: “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely. He is currently taking advice as to his position.”

 


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David Gilmour appears on new Donovan album

Posted November 26, 2022 by Floydian Slip

David Gilmour is featured on two tracks from the new Donovan album,”Gaelia,” which drops Dec. 2.

The first Gilmour recording, “Rock Me,” has been released ahead of the album. The other track is “Lover O’ Lover.”

Donovan explains his connection to Gilmour goes back to the ’60s, when the Pink Floyd guitarist purchased Donovan’s cottage. “He said my album track ‘Three Kingfishers,’ off my ‘Sunshine Superman’ album of 1966, had launched him in a celestial music direction,” according to Donovan. “And so when I was selling my cottage, where so many of my songs were written, he wanted to be in my creative space. Makes sense in a Floyd sort of way.

“David had already learned to fly (he wrote a song about it, too ) and flew himself in to Ireland for the session,” he adds. “David brought his guitar roadie, who set up two amps in the studio, handed David his pink Strat, and his unique signature sound enthralled us all.”


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Happy Birthday, David Gilmour

Posted March 6, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Happy 76th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)


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David Gilmour engineer Kit Woolven dead at 71

Posted January 27, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Kit Woolven, who co-engineered David Gilmour‘s 1984 album “About Face,” died yesterday. He was 71.

Woolven was best known for his work with Thin Lizzy, including Lizzy-splinter projects from Phil Lynott and Wild Horses. He also did work with David Bowie, UFO, Tony Iommi and others.

He recorded “About Face” with Andy Jackson. That album was produced by Gilmour and Bob Ezrin.

Cause of death was not announced.


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Syd Barrett items to be auctioned

Posted October 16, 2021 by Floydian Slip

Cheffins in Cambridge will auction a number of items connected to late Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.

The highlight of the Oct. 28 auction might be Barrett’s Yamaha FG-230. The 12-string acoustic guitar is being sold by Barrett’s nephew, Mark Barrett, 57, who was given the piece by his father, Syd’s brother, Alan Barrett.

According to Mark, his father gained possession of the piece when the family sold its Hills Road house in Cambridge in 1974. He says Syd “never collected the guitar” and Alan “continued to store it over three subsequent house moves, eventually offering it to me.” Mark took possession of the guitar shortly before Alan passed away in November 2020.

The guitar is dated Oct. 21, 1969, and has a serial number of 1090448. It’s expected to bring £5,000 to £10,000 ($5,800-$11,600 US).

Syd referred to the instrument in a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone. “I worked this out yesterday,” Syd told writer Mick Rock while playing a new take on “Love You” from his “Barrett” (1970) album. “I think it’s much better. It’s my new 12-string guitar. I’m just getting used to it. I polished it yesterday.”

The guitar will be auctioned with a copy of that Dec. 23, 1971, issue of Rolling Stone.

Proceeds of the auction lot will be split between the charities MIND and the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.

Cheffins also has a number of other lots featuring Barrett-related items such as artwork he painted near the end of this life in 2006 and furniture.

Also of interest to Floyd fans, two business cards from David Gilmour’s early band Jokers Wild will also go on the block.

Cheffins’s Art & Design Sale begins at 10:00 a.m. local time on Oct. 28. Learn more at Cheffins.


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