Posted April 14, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #940. It’s a special show remembering longtime Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thogerson on the anniversary of his passing, April 18, 2013.
We’ll be playing material from a variety of bands Storm did work for: Genesis, Alan Parsons Project, Led Zeppelin, 10cc, and many others.
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Posted April 9, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Q Magazine has posted a new video of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour performing with Ben Watt.
The two play Watt’s “The Levels” from his upcoming album “Hendra,” to be released April 14.
Gilmour plays steel pedal guitar in the video, and plays on the album track, too.
Posted March 10, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Posted March 3, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #934. It’ll be a special program devoted to Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on his 68th birthday:
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Posted February 20, 2014 by Floydian Slip
This past Tuesday, 70 years to the day his father was killed at the Battle of Anzio, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters honored Eric Fletcher Waters at a memorial ceremony in Italy.
“I have finally come to the end of a journey to discover what really happened to him,” Waters said at the site of a new marble monument in the town of Aprilia, south of Rome. “I feel an enormous attachment to my father today. I’m very happy to be here.”
The monument, which commemorates Eric Waters “and all the other fallen who have no known grave,” displays lyrics taken from Roger’s “Two Suns in the Sunset” from Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album: “Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend; we were all equal in the end.”
The younger Waters was 5-months-old when his father was killed Feb. 18, 1944. His body was never found.
Roger learned details of his death just recently, when WWII veteran Harry Schindler, 93, who also fought at Anzio, researched the battle and managed to recover a War Diary providing details.
Schindler also attended this week’s ceremony.
“Roger, I hope that you can go into calmer waters now and that this wall at least is down for you,” he said.
Read more about Roger Waters’s father and the battle that took his life.
Posted January 27, 2014 by Floydian Slip
The Daily Mirror reports Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has unearthed never-before-seen film of the band.
He discovered the black and white footage while researching archival material to be used for exhibitions about the band.
It shows band members Mason, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Syd Barrett backstage at some early gigs in the late-’60s
“There are some unseen bits and pieces,” Mason explains. “We have got a bit of backstage black and white footage — 8mm film — that we took ourselves.”
No word on when or how the footage might be made public.
Posted January 24, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Mark Fisher, who designed elaborate stages for Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, U2 and many others, left behind an estate valued at £7,132,622.
Fisher, who died last year on June 25, designed the original show of “The Wall” in 1980, as well as Roger Waters‘ performance of the show in Berlin, Germany, in 1990 and its most recent world tour in 2010-13.
He also designed for Floyd’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour in 1987-89 and The Division Bell shows of ’94.
The £7 million figure was released by the Probate Office in London. The net amount after outstanding debt was settled was £6,835,331, the equivalent of $11.3 million.
Posted January 23, 2014 by Floydian Slip
In addition to honoring Roger, officials will erect a monument to his father, inscribed with the lyrics to Roger’s “Two Suns in the Sunset” from Pink Floyd’s “The Final Cut” (1983).
Waters received details of his father’s death only last autumn, when WWII vet Harry Shindler discovered a War Diary describing the day’s events. (See “New documents reveal final day of Roger Water’s father“)
Posted January 9, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has signed 10 limited edition prints, which are being sold to benefit charity.
Digital Artist Tim Wakefield uses soundwaves as templates to create some pretty far out artwork. His Pink Floyd piece is title “Careful with That Axe, Eugene,” inspired by the 1968 song of the same name. The number was originally released as the B-side to the “Point Me at the Sky” single, and later appeared on the 1971 “Relics” compilation.
Ten prints of his Floyd piece, signed by Mason, along with works inspired by Alice Cooper, Kate Bush, Queen, Eric Clapton and many others are being sold at the Indiegogo site.
Sales of the prints benefit the War Child’s Children of Syria Appeal, which will create safe havens in Syrian refugee camps to help protect children affected by the conflict.
The Floyd piece is 40″ x 40″ and goes for $1,000.
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