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As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.

We started offering the first “Floydian Slip” T-shirt in late 1996 or early ’97, shortly after moving the show to Champ 101.3 in Burlington, Vt.

Not long after that, we reworked the shirt, going to a two-sided, two-color design, shown here, on a natural unbleached fabric.

Altogether, we probably sold a few hundred shirts at floydianslip.com before demand seemed to taper off. At that point we stopped making them in batches of a hundred, and started printing them on-demand.

Now you can buy “Floydian Slip” shirts, as well as coasters, mugs and just about anything else you can slap a logo on, at our Cafe Press store.

As we lead up to “Floydian Slip” Show #1,000 the week of June 8, we’re digging into the archives to share relics from the show’s past.

Over the years producing “Floydian Slip,” I’ve occasionally made contact with people who hold two or three degrees of separation from the band.

Patrick Martin, bassist with Unicorn, was one such guy.

Unicorn is the country-rock band Floyd’s David Gilmour “discovered” and produced in the 1970s. (“There’s No Way Out of Here” on David’s 1978 solo album was originally a Unicorn song, written by the band’s Ken Baker.)

I don’t remember how I “met” Patrick, but I think his email address had been published in a story in Mojo magazine, and I dropped him a note to introduce myself.

We started corresponding and he helped me get some Unicorn CDs for the occasional Floydian Slip-Up on the show.

He also mailed along a 4″ x 6″ piece of paper he thought I might get a kick out of. It was a sheet of stationery from Astoria, David’s houseboat recording studio that Patrick had recently visited.

I’ve never tried calling the phone number listed at the bottom. And I’ve obscured it here, so you won’t be tempted either. 😉