Happy 75th Birthday to David Gilmour (b. March 6, 1946, Grantchester, U.K.)
Photo: Polly Samson
David Gilmour signature editions from Martin
Posted January 13, 2021 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour has partnered with C.F. Martin & Co. Inc. to create two signature edition guitars to benefit the David Gilmour Charitable Foundation.
The Martin D-35 David Gilmour is a nod to the guitar Gilmour purchased used outside Manny’s Music Shop in New York City in the early-’70s. His primary acoustic for more than 40 years, the instrument fetched $1.2 million as part of a charitable auction of his guitars in 2019.
The 6- and 12-string versions sell for $5,499.
Nick Mason items up for bid
Posted October 26, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason has donated two items for the “Ed Sheeran: Made in Suffolk Legacy Auction.”
The auction’s organized by John and Imogen Sheeran, parents of musician Ed, to benefit young people in the Sheeran’s home town of Suffolk.
Mason has donated a signed copy of the Pink Floyd boxset “The Later Years: 1987–2019”; and a photo taken by David Davies at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games of Mason playing “Wish You Were Here” with Richard Jones (The Feeling), Sheeran and Mike Rutherford (Genesis). The photo is signed by all four performers.
There are 218 other lots available as well.
David Gilmour single coming to vinyl
Posted October 15, 2020 by Floydian Slip
David Gilmour‘s single “Yes, I Have Ghosts” will be issued on vinyl in November.
The song, originally included on the audiobook of wife Polly Samson‘s novel “A Theatre for Dreamers,” will be released as a 7″ limited edition for Record Store Day Black Friday, Nov. 27.
The track, which features daughter Romany Gilmour, would seem to be the first issued on the David Gilmour Records label.
“Yes, I Have Ghosts” was made available as a stand-alone digital download on July 3.
Nick Mason records song with Tony Iommi
Posted October 15, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Spanish music magazine La Heavy reports Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi has recorded a song with Pink Floyd‘s Nick Mason.
In a brief audio segment posted by the magazine on YouTube yesterday, Iommi says he recorded the track “a few weeks ago” to benefit a cancer charity. He indicates Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones might also appear on it.
Backing vocalist Barry St. John dead at 76
Posted September 25, 2020 by Floydian Slip
We just learned Barry St. John, who sang on Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (1973) died last month. She was 76.
St. John, whose real name was Eliza Janet Thomson, recorded singles in the ’60s as a solo artist before focusing on session work in the ’70s. In December ’65, she hit the U.K. Top 40 with “Come Away Melinda.”
“With Pink Floyd, I remember there were five sessions that day and the one for ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was the last one,” she told The Strange Brew in an interview. “It was all right but a bit weird. They didn’t seem to smile. I remember Lesley Duncan told somebody that she didn’t know what we had done wrong because they were so stand-offish.”
St. John can be heard on Dark Side’s “Time,” “Us and Them,” and “Brain Damage/Eclipse.”
As a session singer, the Glasgow native worked with John Lennon, Bryan Ferry, Elton John, John Baldry, John Cale, Mott the Hoople and many more.
Happy Birthday, Roger Waters
Posted September 6, 2020 by Floydian Slip
Happy Birthday, Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)
Win: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets Live at the Roundhouse
Posted August 3, 2020 by Floydian Slip
The Saucerful of Secrets Official Store is giving away merchandise and media bundles for the band’s upcoming “Live at the Roundhouse.”
Pink Floyd co-founder and drummer Nick Mason founded the Saucerfuls in 2018 to play out live the early music of Floyd.
Sony Legacy will release “Live at the Roundhouse” on Sept. 18.
The performance, recorded at the London venue in May 2019, will be available as a double LP, three-disc CD/DVD, and Blu-ray.
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