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“Floydian Slip” preview #1010

Posted August 18, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1010:

  • Floyd from Obscured by Clouds (1972) and The Endless River (2014)
  • We’ll have music from “Live at Pompeii” on the anniversary of that concert film’s U.S. premiere in 1974
  • A track from The Final Cut (1983)
  • And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 65 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.


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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1009

Posted August 17, 2015 by Floydian Slip

  1. What God Wants Pt 2
    Amused to Death (Roger Waters) (1992)
  2. Empty Spaces/Young Lust
    The Wall (1979)
  3. Sorrow
    Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
  4. Green Is the Colour
    More (Film soundtrack) (1969)
  5. Absolutely Curtains
    Obscured by Clouds (1972)
  6. Darkness/Earth in Search of a Sun (*Floydian Slip Up*)
    Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live (1977)
  7. Poles Apart
    The Division Bell (1994)

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“Floydian Slip” coming to CJIM Online

Posted August 15, 2015 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on CJIM Online starting Aug. 23. The station will carry the show Sundays at 4 p.m. ET.

CJIM is a Montreal-based netcaster with an interesting history: The station was founded more than 30 years ago by amateur DJ James Goring who recorded his “radio shows” on cassette and passed them around to friends.

More than 60 affiliate stations have joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.

Shine on, CJIM!


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Pink Floyd on cover of Classic Rock

Posted August 12, 2015 by Floydian Slip

The latest issue of Classic Rock magazine features Pink Floyd on the cover.

Issue #214, on newsstands now, includes 32 pages of Floyd content, spelled out by the magazine thusly:

Pink Floyd’s First Gig
Long before giant arenas and flying pigs there were village halls and Chuck Berry covers.

The Producer Speaks
Original knob-twiddler Norman Smith on their early years.

The Progressive Years
Release the cows! Floyd ramp up the experimentalism.

Dark Side Of The Moon
How their biggest album started with an on-stage bust-up.

Wish You Were Here
Flaming stuntmen, a surprise appearance from an old friend… and the beginning of the end for the band.

Caught On Camera
Legendary photographer Jill Furmanovsky delves into her archives to bring you her personal selection of Pink Floyd shots.

Behind The Wall
Dismantling Floyd’s magnum opus, brick by brick.

Gilmour Versus Waters
How intractable tensions led to a 20-year power struggle – and a pair of giant inflatable testicles.

Syd Barrett and Rick Wright remembered
A tribute to Floyd’s musical yin and yang.

David Gilmour speaks!
The guitarist grants Classic Rock a rare audience. On the agenda: his new solo album, ‘psychic holes’ and Floyd’s future.


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“Floydian Slip” preview #1009

Posted August 11, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1009:

  • Floyd from The Division Bell (1994) and The Wall (1979)
  • Live material from Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)
  • Roger Waters from Amused to Death (Roger Waters) (1992)
  • And much more

“Floydian Slip” is heard across the 65 stations of our Random Precision Radio Network. Learn where and when to listen.


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“Floydian Slip” coming to KRPR 89.9 (Rochester, MN)

Posted August 10, 2015 by Floydian Slip

“Floydian Slip” will begin airing on KRPR 89.9 FM in Rochester, Minn., starting Aug. 15. The station will carry the show Saturdays at 9 p.m. CT.

KRPR, Rochester Public Radio, is a 3,200-watt classic rock station serving the greater Rochester area.

More than 60 affiliate stations have joined the show’s Random Precision Radio Network, created in Summer 2009 when we began syndicating our show from our Vermont studio.

Shine on, Rochester!


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Winners: Amused to Death

Posted August 10, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to winners of copies of the 2015 edition of Roger Waters’ “Amused to Death,” courtesy of Legacy Recordings and “Floydian Slip”:

  • Matthew Bates, Auburn, NY
  • Linda Berrell, Kandos, NSW, Australia
  • Robert Boynton, West Roxsbury, MA
  • Servaas te Brake, Groenlo, The Netherlands
  • Andrew Gozinsky, Old Bethpage, NY
  • Nuno Henriques, Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal
  • Mike McInnis, Mansfield, TX
  • Jaap Meeder, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Paul Piendzik, Painesville, OH
  • Tim Taylor, Santee, CA

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Michael Boumendil interview streaming on-demand

Posted August 10, 2015 by Floydian Slip

Our interview with Michaël Boumendil, co-writer of David Gilmour‘s new track “Rattle That Lock,” is available online.

You can listen to the interview and read a transcript at floydianslip.com.


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Roger Waters: Autobiography, tour coming

Posted August 10, 2015 by Floydian Slip

NME reports Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is writing an autobiography and plans to tour in 2016.

The English music magazine cites an interview Waters gave with Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Waters performed recently at the Newport Folk Festival and this fall will release a concert/documentary of his recent world tour of “The Wall.” The film plays select theaters on Tuesday, Sept. 29.


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“Floydian Slip” songlist #1008

Posted August 10, 2015 by Floydian Slip

  1. Shine on You Crazy Diamond Part 1-6
    Pulse (1995)
  2. Burning Bridges
    Obscured by Clouds (1972)
  3. Interview segment:
    Michaël Boumendil (Pictured)
  4. Rattle That Lock
    Rattle That Lock (David Gilmour) (2015)
  5. Not Now John
    The Final Cut (1983)
  6. Life Ain’t No Competition (*Floydian Slip Up*)
    Sweet Soulful Music (Andy Fairweather Low) (2006)
  7. Perfect Sense, Parts 1-2
    Amused to Death (Roger Waters) (1992)

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