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David Gilmour vinyl to be “Deal of the Day”

Posted March 1, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Here’s a more affordable way to pick up David Gilmour’s “Live in Gdansk” (2008) on vinyl: The 5-LP boxset will be the featured buy at online retailer Pop Market this Friday, March 4.

The set will be more than 50% off its suggested retail price of $134.98 with free shipping in the U.S. That’s at least as low as $67.49.

This limited edition features the full concert including the bonus track “Wot’s… Uh The Deal?,” plus two of the private recording sessions known as the “Barn Jams.”

Complete concert on 4 LPs
Extra LP with unreleased tracks from the 2006 tour
Webpass to enable digital download of all tracks
Double-sided poster and 20-page booklet

Pop Market is Sony Music’s members-only shopping club for music fans, which offers limited-time sales on selected titles each day. Membership is free.

Visit Pop Market now.

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Online tutorial: Get that Gilmour tone

Posted February 28, 2011 by Floydian Slip

The Gibson Web site recently featured an article from its archive on how guitarists can achieve a tone similar to Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.

“Knowing what Gilmour played and being able to replicate his sound are two very different things,” Jim Dalrymple writes. “His tone is a mix of effects, amps, guitars and a lot of engineering behind the scenes.”

The article details equipment choices, processor settings (pictured) and more.

Read the article.

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Syd Barrett on Record Collector cover

Posted February 24, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Once Pink Floyd front-man Syd Barrett is on the cover of the new Record Collector magazine.

Issue #386 promises rare photos of Syd and early Floyd in connection with the release of the new book “Barrett” and art exhibition “Syd Barrett: Art and Letters” at London’s Idea Generation Gallery.

“Barrett,” written by Russell Beecher and Will Shutes, is published by the U.K.’s Essential Works. With more than 250 photos, the large-format coffee table book is available in two editions: The “classic” cloth-bound volume; and the limited “signature” leather-bound edition consisting of two volumes signed by the authors and a member of the Barrett family.

“Art and Letters” opens with a private viewing March 17, before opening to the public March 18 through April 10. It’ll feature a large collection of unseen photos, personal love letters and original artworks by Barrett.

Learn more about the book at its Web site. Details about the event are available from Idea Generation.

Subscriptions to Record Collector are £46 in the U.K.; £72 in the U.S. and available through the magazine’s Web site.

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Storm Thorgerson documentary premieres next month

Posted February 15, 2011 by Floydian Slip

“Taken by Storm,” a new feature-length documentary film about prolific Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson (pictured), will premiere at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival next month.

The film will be shown three or four times during the festival, which runs March 11-20 in Austin, Texas.

According to the film’s director, Roddy Bogawa, Thorgerson is expected to attend most of the festival.

Bogawa reports Pink Floyd and EMI have been very supportive in the making of the film. “They’ve given me permission to use a one-minute clip from a helicopter shot over the beach at Devon where Storm shot ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’,” he says. “No one has ever seen this footage, I think, and it’s really amazing.

“Storm and Pink Floyd have done so much together it’s a big chunk of the film,” he adds. “There are sequences about ‘Atom Heart Mother,’ ‘Wish You Were Here,’ of course, ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason,’ with footage from my interviews with David Gilmour and Nick Mason.”

Learn more about SxSW at the festival Web site.

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New online magazine features David Gilmour

Posted February 15, 2011 by Floydian Slip

The first issue of new online magazine Guitar Interactive (GI) features Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour.

Gilmour is featured in several articles throughout the 120-page magazine, covering topics such as his solos, rhythm work, slide guitar technique, acoustic work, and more.

The magazine includes many instructional videos, too.

You can read the magazine free.

GI is an interactive digital magazine for guitarists. Drawing on the resources of teaching resource Licklibrary, GI brings together expert players to analyze the styles and techniques of the world’s best guitarists.

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David Gilmour covers treatment for alleged computer hacker

Posted February 14, 2011 by Floydian Slip

According to Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is paying for psychiatric treatment for alleged computer hacker Gary KcKinnon (pictured).

McKinnon, a 45-year-old man from Glasgow who has Asperger’s Syndrome, has been fighting extradition to the United States for supposedly hacking into NASA and Pentagon networks a decade ago to search for evidence of UFOs.

He faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.

Gilmour has been an advocate for McKinnon, participating in a charity re-recording of Graham Nash’s “Chicago” to benefit his defense and distributing updates about the case through his Web site and Twitter feed.

Government funding for McKinnon’s treatment was dropped last month due to cutbacks at the London National Health Service trust that was paying for his care.

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Roger Waters wins Pollstar award

Posted February 9, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters‘s 2010 North American tour of “The Wall” received two Pollstar Concert Industry Awards.

The tour received “Major Tour of the Year” as well as “Most Creative Stage Production.”

The 22nd annual awards, voted on by peers within the concert industry, were handed out at an event at Los Angeles’s Club Nokia last Saturday, with Chris Hardwick of G4 TV network’s “Web Soup” hosting.

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‘Wall’ tour 2nd highest grossing of 2010

Posted January 28, 2011 by Floydian Slip

According to Pollstar, Roger Waters‘s North American tour of “The Wall” was the second highest grossing tour of 2010. It earned $89.5 million.

Waters was second only to Bon Jovi, who grossed $108 million.

Here are the Top 10 for ’10:

Bon Jovi ($108 million)
Roger Waters ($89.5 million)
Dave Matthews Band ($72.9 million)
Michael Bublé ($65.7 million)
Eagles ($64.5 million)
Paul McCartney ($61.8 million)
Lady Gaga ($51 million)
James Taylor/Carole King ($50.7 million)
Black Eyed Peas ($50.5 million)
John Mayer ($49.9 million)

Waters begins his European leg of the tour in March.

Pollstar is a Fresno, Calif., trade publication that covers the worldwide concert industry.

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Floydian Slip preview #773

Posted January 28, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #773: We’ll be featuring Nick Mason who turns 67 on Jan. 27.

Be listening for some rarely-heard solo material from Floyd’s drummer.

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 13 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.

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Nick Mason encourages communication among labels, artists

Posted January 20, 2011 by Floydian Slip

Nick Mason is the subject of a brief story in Classic Rock magazine. The Pink Floyd drummer has joined Featured Artists Coalition, a group devoted to bettering communication among recording artists and their business side counterparts.

“There is a tendency for musicians to view labels as just people in suits, but we are trying to get the two sides to talk,” he says in the article, “because it can only be to everyone’s benefit.

“One thing we want to see is for labels either to explore more of their back catalogue, or to give the rights back to the artists. So many companies have material in their vaults they don’t even know exists.”

Let’s hope.

Read the full article online.

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