Posted March 14, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Vocalist Claudia Fontaine died yesterday. She was 57.
An accomplished vocalist who began working in her teens, she provided backing vocals for Pink Floyd on the 1994 tour of “The Division Bell,” which would become the “Pulse” (1995) album.
A member of Afrodiziak in the ’80s (pictured, with Fontaine on the left), Fontaine also worked with Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Specials, The Jam, Howard Jones , Squeeze, Joe Cocker and many others.
Posted March 14, 2018 by Floydian Slip
British physicist Stephen Hawking has died. He was 76.
In addition to being one of the world’s brightest and best-known scientists, Pink Floyd fans know him as a voice on the band’s “The Division Bell” (1994) album.
Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and communicated using a speech synthesizer. It’s his synthesizer heard on the song “Keep Talking.”
The spoken passage came from a 1994 British Telecommunications television ad that caught the attention of Floyd’s David Gilmour. He described the passage to The Guardian in 2014 as “the most powerful piece of television advertising that I’ve ever seen in my life.”
Hawking is also heard on Floyd’s “The Endless River” (2014) on the song “Talkin’ Hawkin’.”
Posted March 13, 2018 by Floydian Slip
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Posted March 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Congratulations to our winners of copies of “Reinventing Pink Floyd: From Syd Barrett to The Dark Side of the Moon” by Bill Kopp:
Prizes provided by publisher Rowman and Littlefield.
Posted March 12, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd will release a new heavy weight vinyl remaster of its first album, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (1967), on Record Store Day, April 21.
James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman remastered the album in mono working from the original ’67 mono mix.
Hipgnosis’s Aubrey Powell and Peter Curzon designed the cover for the new version, which features Syd Barrett‘s silhouetted graphic of the band that adorned the back of the original LP.
A poster of the Colin Prime photo that was the basis for Barrett’s graphic is included with the disc.
Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip
Lucius, featuring vocalists Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, released its “Nudes” album last Friday. The album features Roger Waters on the closing track, a cover of Leadbelly‘s “Goodnight, Irene.”
Yesterday the group published a video of Waters, Laessig and Wolfe — barely recognizable without the pair’s matching wigs — recording the song direct to vinyl in a vintage Voice-O-Graph booth at New York City’s Electric Lady Studios.
Laessig and Wolfe provide backing vocals for Waters Us + Them tour and also appear on his album “Is This the Life We Really Want?” (2017).
Posted March 6, 2018 by Floydian Slip
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Posted March 5, 2018 by Floydian Slip
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The book focuses on the transitional period of the band during the late-1960s and early-’70s following the departure of co-founder Syd Barrett and the group’s hugely successful album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
Kopp’s research included interviews with early Floyd manager Peter Jenner; a variety of notable musicians: Steve Howe, Yes; Davy O’List, The Nice; Robyn Hitchcock; and Floyd collaborators Ron Geesin and Willie Wilson; and “Floydian Slip” host Craig Bailey.
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