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Re-do of “Dark Side of the Moon” coming from Roger Waters

Posted July 21, 2023 by Floydian Slip

The Dark Side of the Moon ReduxRoger Waters is set to release “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux,” his re-imagined take on the classic album he made with Pink Floyd in the early ’70s. It’s set to drop Oct. 6.

Four versions of the album are available for pre-sale at the official store: CD, $15; transparent orange double vinyl (140 gm), $46; black double vinyl (140 gm), $42; and a gold cassette, $14.

“When we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ was looming on the horizon. It occurred to me that ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album,” Waters explained in a promotional email.

“I discussed it with Gus (Seyffert) and Sean (Evans), and when we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be ****ing mad’ at one another we decided to take it on.

“It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it. It’s not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the 79-year-old to look back across the intervening 50 years into the eyes of the 29-year-old and say, to quote a poem of mine about my Father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our Dad would have been proud of us’.

“And also it is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick (Mason) and Rick (Wright) and Dave (Gilmour) and I have every right to be very proud of.”

The Dark Side of the Moon Redux in orange vinyl
News of the project broke Feb. 4, when Waters spoke with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, and then with the U.K.’s The Telegraph a few days later.

“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 Seyffert plays keyboards on the new work; and Seyffert’s girlfriend, Bedouine, provides backing vocals.

The first track from the album, “Money,” is available to stream now:


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Syd Barrett documentary to be released May 15

Posted May 10, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Have You Got It Yet? poster

Mercury Studios
will release “Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd” in U.K. theaters May 15. It will open in the U.S. and Canada in late-June.

The feature length documentary is directed by Roddy Bogawa and the late Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson. The two collaborated on Bogawa’s “Taken By Storm” (2011) about Thorgerson and the Hipgnosis design team.

Narrated by actor Jason Isaacs, the film also features surviving band members Nick Mason, Roger Waters and David Gilmour; original band managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King; as well as The Who’s Pete Townshend and Blur’s Graham Coxon.

Producer Orian Williams says, “The music of Pink Floyd bears witness to Syd Barrett’s exceptional talent and inner turmoil. Their unconventional approach and ground-breaking sound expanded the horizons of music. Friends, family, bandmates and admirers shed light on all aspects of Syd’s enigmatic life in our film.”

The film takes it title from a lost Floyd track: Legend has it Barrett tried to teach his bandmates a new song he’d written, while intentionally changing the tune each time he played it for them, asking “Have you got it yet?”

Here’s the trailer:


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Roger Waters “Lockdown Sessions” coming to vinyl, CD

Posted April 22, 2023 by Floydian Slip

The Lockdown Sessions

Sony Music will release Roger Waters “The Lockdown Sessions” on vinyl and CD on June 2.

Recorded and filmed during Covid lockdown between 2020-21, Waters first released each track independently on social media as it was recorded. The entire collection, including a new version of “Comfortably Numb” recorded during his “This Is Not a Drill” tour, was made available on streaming services Dec. 9, 2022.

The collection includes five tracks from Waters’s time with Pink Floyd and his solo career: “Mother” and “Vera” from Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”; “Two Suns in the Sunset” and “The Gunner’s Dream” from Floyd’s “The Final Cut”; “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” from his solo album “Amused To Death”; and the new recording of “Comfortably Numb.”

All were were produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the recordings are Waters – Vocals, Guitar and Piano; Seyffert – Bass, Cellos and Vocals; Joey Waronker – Drums and Percussion; Dave Kilminster – Guitar and Rhythm Guitar; Jonathan Wilson – Guitar and Vocals; Jon Carin – Keyboards and Vocals, Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) – Vocals; Bo Koster – Hammond (on all tracks except “Mother”) and Ian Ritchie – Saxophone (“Two Suns In The Sunset”).

Pre-order “The Lockdown Sessions” here.


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Roger Waters to broadcast live to theaters May 25

Posted April 18, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Trafalgar Releasing and Sony Music Entertainment will broadcast live the Roger Waters performance of his “This Is Not a Drill” tour from O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic on May 25.

The worldwide event will be distributed to more than 1,500 theaters across more than 50 countries. Tickets go on sale at 3 p.m. BST (10 a.m. ET;  7 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, April 25 at www.ThisIsNotADrillFilm.com.

Billed as his first ever “farewell tour,” the event is directed by Sean Evans. The live film will include 20 Pink Floyd and Waters classics, including: “Us & Them,” “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here,” and “Is This the Life We Really Want?” Waters will also debut his new song, “The Bar.”

Waters will be joined on stage by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Robert Walter, Joey Waronker, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake.

Complete cinema listings and times will be announced when tickets go on sale April 25.


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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1409

Posted April 17, 2023 by Floydian Slip

“Storm Effect: Remembering Storm Thorgerson”

  1. Dance on the Volcano
    A Trick of the Tail (Genesis) (1976)
  2. I Think of You
    Turn of the Cards (Renaissance) (1974)
  3. Fox on the Run
    Desolation Boulevard (Sweet) (1974)
  4. Air Dance
    Never Say Die! (Black Sabbath) (1978)
  5. Little Star-Eclipse
    Sammy Hagar (Sammy Hagar) (1977)
  6. Shock on the Tube
    Bloody Tourists (10cc) (1978)
  7. Don’t You Ever Learn?
    Back to the Bars (Todd Rundgren) (1978)
  8. So Far Away
    David Gilmour (David Gilmour) (1978)

Visual companion displaying all sleeves from albums featured on this week’s program


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“Floydian Slip” preview #1409

Posted April 11, 2023 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1409: It’s “Storm Effect,” our special tribute to Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, who died 10 years ago, April 18, 2013.

You’ll hear music from a variety of artists — all with album sleeves by Storm and his team at Hipgnosis.

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 110 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

Visit this episode’s visual companion featuring all the albums heard on Show #1409.


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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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Roger Waters releases The Lockdown Sessions

Posted December 9, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Sony Music today released Roger Waters‘s “The Lockdown Sessions” on all digital music platforms.

The collection of six songs were recorded remotely by Waters and his band during Covid lockdown; with the final track coming from a live show during his North American “This Is Not a Drill” tour:

  1. “Mother” (from The Wall)
  2. “Two Suns in the Sunset” (from The Final Cut)
  3. “Vera” (from The Wall)
  4. “The Gunner’s Dream” (from The Final Cut)
  5. “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” (from Amused to Death)
  6. “Comfortably Numb” (from The Wall)

The tracks were produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the recordings are Waters – Vocals, Guitar and Piano; Seyffert – Bass, Cellos and Vocals; Joey Waronker – Drums and Percussion; Dave Kilminster – Guitar and Rhythm Guitar; Jonathan Wilson – Guitar and Vocals; Jon Carin – Keyboards and Vocals; Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) – Vocals; Bo Koster – Hammond (on all tracks except “Mother”); and Ian Ritchie – Saxophone (“Two Suns in the Sunset”).

Videos of the first five were originally posted by Waters on social media during ’20 and ’21. The videos were produced and directed by Sean Evans. “Comfortably Numb” was released last month.

“Our ‘Us and Them Tour’ lasted three years. At every gig we did an encore after the main show closed with ‘Comfortably Numb.’ The encore was always ‘Mother.’ I can’t remember why I decided to start doing other songs,” Waters says.

“At some point after the end of the tour, I started thinking, ‘It could make an interesting album, all those encores.’ ‘The Encores.’ Yeah, has a nice ring to it!

“Then I’m in England doing the Ginger Baker tribute gig one Tuesday night at the Hammersmith Odeon with Eric Clapton and the following Saturday marching from The Australian Embassy to Parliament Square to make a speech in support of Julian Assange, when bugger me, Covid. Schlummmm! For me it was Friday, March 13th, 2020. Lockdown! So much for the ‘Encores’ project. Unless,” he adds.

“We’ve tacked ‘Comfortably Numb’ on the end of the collection, as an appropriate exclamation point in closing this circle of love.”

Waters first announced his intention of releasing the collection under the title “The Lockdown Sessions” during a podcast appearance last month. “I’ve given all these things away,” he said. “They’re all out there. Anybody can find them on the internet.”


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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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