Personnel

Lost Syd Barrett recording to be released

Posted January 10, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Easy Action plans to release one of the last known live performances of Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett.

The label’s managing director, Carlton Sandercock, tells “Floydian Slip,” “We have indeed purchased and are preparing to release a live set by The Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band featuring Bruce Pain, Jack Monk and Twink. Guesting is Fred Frith and, on two maybe three songs, Syd Barrett.

“The music played in this set is a million miles away from anything Pink Floyd have ever done,” he adds.

The performance was recorded Jan. 27, 1972, at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, England.

The set list is as follows:

Sea Cruise
L.A. to London Boogie
ICE
Nadine
Drinkin’ That Wine
Number Nine (Gotta Be Reason)
Let’s Roll
Sweet Little Angel

Auction house Bonhams put up for bid a reel tape of the show in June 2010. Expecting to fetch $5,000, the item didn’t meet its reserve price and was later sold to Easy Action. (See “Rare Syd Barrett recording up for auction” and “Rare Barrett recording goes unsold“)

The label plans to release the recording, possibly as a vinyl-only release to being with, in March.

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Signed Pink Floyd artwork to benefit charity

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.

Learn more at Indigogo.

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Happy birthday, Syd Barrett

Posted January 6, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Happy birthday to Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, who would have turned 68 today.

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WWII vet who aided Roger Waters awarded MBE

Posted January 3, 2014 by Floydian Slip

Veteran Harry Shindler, who survived the Battle of Anzio and helped liberate Rome during World War II, has been appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

Shindler was in the news last year for digging into government records and discovering details about the death of Eric Fletcher Waters, the father of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, who died at Anzio when the younger Waters was an infant. (See “New documents reveal final day of Roger Water’s father“)

The battle was described in Roger’s “When the Tigers Broke Free,” an outtake from Floyd’s “The Wall” album, later to become part of “The Final Cut” when that album was reissued in 2004.

Shindler received the honor for helping find graves of British soldiers killed or listed as missing in action.

He moved to Italy in the 1980s and has campaigned for years to restore the voting rights of UK citizens living abroad.

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David Gilmour management: New project not yet firm

Posted November 26, 2013 by Floydian Slip

The management firm for Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour says no new recording project is underway. Yet.

The word comes from One Fifteen owner Paul Loasby. “Despite what Graham Nash tweeted there is nothing concrete as yet,” he tells “Floydian Slip.”

Loasby was responding to reports Nash had mentioned during an appearance on vintage.tv’s “Needle Time” that he and David Crosby were headed to Gilmour’s studio to lay down some vocals for “his new record.”

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Reports: David Gilmour recording

Posted November 22, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour is said to be working on a new recording project.

The news was seemingly leaked by Graham Nash (Crosby Stills Nash, The Hollies) on an appearance on vintage.tv’s “Needle Time” program last week.

Nash mentioned to host Neil McCormick that he and David Crosby were “taking the train to Brighton to go and sing with David Gilmour on his new record.”

Nash and Crosby provided some backing vocals on Gilmour’s previous studio album, “On an Island” (2006).

“Floydian Slip” turned to long-time Floyd sound engineer Andy Jackson who would certainly be working on such a project, if it was underway, for comment. He would neither confirm nor deny the project, but added, “Things are afoot, and more than you might expect.”

Gilmour’s former bandmate, Roger Waters, recently off his three-year world tour of “The Wall,” told Rolling Stone recently he’s completed a 55-minute demo of a new solo album.

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Nick Mason releases drum sample library

Posted November 15, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Want to play drums like Nick Mason? Sorry, we can’t help you.

But a new sample library from the Pink Floyd drummer can at least help you sound like him.

Mason’s created a sample library of his custom Ludwig “Black Kit” that promises to deliver a virtual recreation of the kit to be played with any MIDI keyboard or e-drum setup.

The sample library comes in FXPansion’s BFD2 format and includes mic channels that can be mixed for what’s being described by publisher Sonic Reality as “full album quality, vintage ’70s drums.”

The recording sessions for the samples were produced by Alan Parsons (“The Dark Side of the Moon”) using the same EMI mixing console Floyd did in the ’70s.

You can buy Nick Mason Drums online for $69/£43.

(Pictured, from left: Parsons, Sonic Reality’s Dave Kerzner, and Mason)

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Roger Waters on cover of Guitar World

Posted November 15, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is the cover story for the latest issue of Guitar World magazine.

In the Holiday 2013 issue, available now in the United States, Waters talks about his recent three-year world tour of “The Wall.”

The issue also includes interviews with bandmates Snowy White, G.E. Smith, Dave Kilminster and Jon Carin, who talk about life on the road with Waters; as well as tab for guitar and bass for Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”

You can purchase the issue online.

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Roger Waters completes demo of new album

Posted November 14, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has told Rolling Stone he’s completed a demo for a new album.

“I finished a demo of it last night,” he says. “It’s 55-minutes long. It’s songs and theater as well.

“I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s couched as a radio play,” he adds. “It has characters who speak to each other, and it’s a quest. It’s about an old man and a young child trying to figure out why they are killing the children.”

The album would be Waters’ first studio project of new material since 1992’s “Amused to Death.”

Read the Rolling Stone article

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Contest: Win “The Gathering Storm” by Storm Thorgerson

Posted November 5, 2013 by Floydian Slip

Thorgerson designed nearly every Pink Floyd album cover beginning with 1968’s “A Saucerful of Secrets,” as well as many others during his long career. He died April 18.

Prizes courtesy of StormStudios. Deadline to register: 8 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 13.

Buy The Gathering Storm now from the publisher.

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