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Early Floyd member sells his guitars

Posted December 5, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Chris Dennis, who spent six months in 1963 as a member of the band that would evolve into Pink Floyd, recently auctioned off three of his guitars.

Now 74 and living in Llangefni, Anglesey, North Wales, Dennis left the group to join the Royal Air Force stationed in Bahrain, because he felt the band wasn’t going anywhere. When he returned, the band had released its first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967) and Dennis wasn’t invited back into the fold.

Dennis had collected approximately 20 guitars since his Pink Floyd days, opening his own recording studio in Cambridge and doing work with Dave Berry, Tony Leonard (The Glitter Band) and members of Shakin Stevens.

He recently auctioned off a Sunburst Stratocaster and Fender Squire Stagemaster for almost £500. A Gretch Eddie Cochrane worth £600 didn’t meet his reserve price.

Mail Online has posted an interesting story about Dennis and his remarkably well-adjusted attitude in the wake of just nearly being part of a band that went on to world domination.

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Nick Mason receives honorary degree

Posted November 27, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from London’s University of Westminster for his contributions to the music industry over the last 50 years.

Westminster was known as Regent Street Polytechnic when Mason enrolled as an architecture student in the 1960s. He met Roger Waters and Rick Wright at the school, and eventually dropped out as the band’s star continued to rise.

“Studying at the Regent Street Polytechnic introduced me to some of the key people and biggest collaborators in my career, many of whom I have been lucky enough to work with over the last 40 years,” Mason says.

“Three of Pink Floyd met there so in essence we were formed under the roof of the Polytechnic; we rehearsed in the common room in the basement and made some of our first performances there.

“Not only did studying architecture teach us some useful stuff, but it also gave us an opportunity to develop and put us in touch with some fantastic mentors and industry contacts that have helped us along the way.”

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Roger Waters to appear in theatrical production

Posted November 21, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters will take the stage next week playing a different kind of role than usual. The Pink Floyd co-founder will join the cast of Culture Project‘s revival of “The Exonerated,” a play about wrongfully convicted survivors of death row.

Written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the show’s original production ran for more than 600 performances beginning in October 2002. Featuring a rotating cast of celebrities reading accounts by former death row inmates, the show focuses on the true stories of six people sentenced to death and later freed after being proven innocent.

Waters will share the stage with Kathleen Chalfant, William Marshall and Chris Sarandon.

Founded by Allan Buchman in 1996, Culture Project’s dedicated to addressing human rights issues by shining an artistic spotlight on injustice.

The show plays at 45 Bleecker St. in New York’s East Village Nov. 27 through Dec. 2. (866) 811-4111.

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Pink Floyd honored by Classic Rock magazine

Posted November 15, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Classic Rock magazine honored Pink Floyd with its “Reissue of the Year” award for the band’s Immersion boxsets released in 2011 and ’12.

Inductees of the British magazine’s “Roll of Honour” were announced Tuesday at a ceremony at the Roundhouse in London hosted by Duff McKagan (Guns ‘N Roses, Velvet Revolver).

Drummer Nick Mason was on-hand to accept.

“The Story of Wish You Were Here,” a documentary about the band’s 1975 album released on DVD and Blu-ray in June, received the Film/DVD award. The disc was released by Eagle Rock Entertainment.

Well-deserved, both.

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Roger Waters charity appearance streaming online

Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip

The concert appearance Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters made this past week is available online.

Waters was joined by a band of wounded veterans Nov. 8 at the Stand Up for Heroes event in New York City.

Video of the 2½-hour event is available at reMIND.org, the site of The Bob Woodruff Foundation, devoted to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers.

Waters’ appearance, including a rambling ad-libbed vamp while stagehands set the stage, is at about 1:10:20 into the program.

One of the easiest ways to give to the cause is to text BWF to 50555. Your text will donate $10 to helping wounded veterans and their caregivers. You can also donate at the website.

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Roger Waters announces 2013 European concert dates

Posted November 10, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced 20 concert dates for 2013.

The co-founder of Pink Floyd will ramp up his tour of “The Wall” again in Werchter, Belgium, on July 2. The tour will run through Sept. 18, wrapping up in Dublin, Ireland.

Ticket pre-sales begin Nov. 12 for registered members of rogerwaters.com.

The ’13 tour will visit a number of countries not included in the previous legs of the tour, including Croatia, Turkey, Romania and Serbia.

Waters has redesigned and scaled up the show to accommodate the larger, open air stadiums scheduled for ’13.

“I’m extremely glad to be playing ‘The Wall’ in Europe again,” Waters says. “It’s going to be a lot of fun for all of us. I’ve reworked the show to play outdoors in large stadiums. It’s really good. Even more moving, engaging, dramatic and thrilling than the arena shows.”

Press conference

Waters’ press conference detailing his ’13 tour will be streamed live on the web Nov. 15 at 12:30 GMT at rogerwaters.com and his Facebook page. He’s taking questions from fans in advance of the event. You can submit your question at his Facebook page.

Concert dates

July
Saturday 20 — Werchter Festival Site
Tuesday 23 — Split Poljud Stadium
Friday 26 — Padova Euganeo Stadium
Sunday 28 — Rome Olympic Stadium

August
Wednesday 7 — Prague Synot Tip Stadium (Slavia)
Friday 9 — Frankfurt Commerzbank Arena
Sunday 11 — Copenhagen Parken Stadium
Wednesday 14 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Thursday 15 — Oslo Telenor Arena
Saturday 17 — Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium
Tuesday 20 — Warsaw Narodowy Stadium
Friday 23 — Vienna Donauinsel
Sunday 25 — Budapest Puskas Ferenc Stadium
Wednesday 28 — Bucharest Piata Consitutiei
Friday 30 — Sofia Vasil Levski Stadium

September
Sunday 1 — Belgrade Usce Park
Wednesday 4 — Berlin Olympic Stadium
Friday 6 — Dusseldorf Esprit Arena
Sunday 8 — Amsterdam Arena
Wednesday 18 — Dublin Aviva Stadium

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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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Roger Waters discusses new album

Posted November 7, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Water has confirmed he has plans to record another album.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Waters reveals he’s written an as-yet untitled song about religious extremism that will likely be part of an upcoming album with the working title “Heartland.”

Waters, who wrote the new song during breaks of his recent tour of “The Wall,” also revealed that former bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason will not appear on the album. (A bit premature to call, we’d like to think, since recording for the project hasn’t started.)

Waters’ last rock record was 1992’s “Amused to Death.” Since then he completed work on “Ca Ira,” a French opera.

Read the Rolling Stone article.

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Roger Waters to perform with veterans at charity event

Posted November 3, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will perform at the 6th annual Stand Up for Heroes event, Thursday, Nov. 8, at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

The event, presented by the New York Comedy Festival and The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF), supports injured service members and their caregivers.

Waters will perform with a band comprised entirely of military veterans. Other acts scheduled to perform include Mike Birbiglia, Ricky Gervais, Patton Oswalt, Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen and Robin Williams.

The event is sold out, but musical performances will be streamed live at YouTube and made available at the BWF’s reMIND website.

The five previous events have raised more than $10 million to support wounded veterans and their families.

Learn more about the event and donate at reMIND.

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“Floydian Slip” songlist #858

Posted September 19, 2012 by Floydian Slip

Remembering Rick Wright

Paintbox
Relics (1971)
See-Saw
A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
Summer ’68
Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Stay
Obscured by Clouds (1972)
You’re the Reason Why (*Floydian Slip Up*)
Adam, Mike & Tim (1964)
Summer Elegy
Wet Dream (Rick Wright) (1978)
Holiday
Wet Dream (Rick Wright) (1978)
Seems We Were Sleeping
Identity (Zee f/Rick Wright) (1984)
Satellite
Broken China (Rick Wright) (1996)
Night of a Thousand Furry Toys
Broken China (Rick Wright) (1996)

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