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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.

By May 1995, we were about to produce Show #7 for WEXP in Burlington, Vt. — the first commercial station to carry the show.

Leading up to the fledgeling station’s sign off June 15, 1995, staffers, including myself, had been informed some type of change was about to take place. At first we were told ownership was searching for investors to keep the station on the air. A little later, we learned the station would be bought outright by another broadcasting group.

Twenty years later, I’m uncertain how much I knew when. But from listening to this final “Floydian Slip” talkset from Show #7, it appears I didn’t realize this would be my last show for WEXP, since I make no mention of it.

The final WEXP “Floydian Slip,” Show #7, aired 11 p.m. to midnight on Monday May 29, 1995.

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.

This one’s admittedly somewhat tangential to “Floydian Slip,” but noteworthy nonetheless.

By June 1995, WEXP 105.1 FM in Burlington, Vt., the first commercial station to carry “Floydian Slip,” was signing off. After only a year on the air, the start-up station had burned through its capital, and, unable to find an investor, was in the process of being bought by another local radio group.

I was working the evening shift, where we’d broadcast “Floydian Slip” about once a month, during the new moon, from 11 to midnight.

It looks like we did seven shows — or “phases,” as I occasionally called them — during our time at WEXP, though, oddly, Show #4 didn’t seem to get archived. The last “Floydian Slip” aired on the station May 29, 1995.

The audio below is my final talkset on the station, recorded just before midnight, Wednesday June 14, 1995.

If memory serves, I have station engineer Joe Tymecki to thank for the memories: I didn’t bother rolling tape on my final shift, but Joe was taping it on his home stereo that night.

The strangest thing about this piece of tape is hearing myself backsell something that’s not Pink Floyd. It’s been 20 years since I’ve done that.

The station signed off at noon the next day, June 15, 1995, and “Floydian Slip” went on hiatus for a little more than a year.

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.

By summer 1994, I was on my second job out of college. In June of that year, I started as overnight announcer at a brand new Adult Album Alternative (Triple- A) station in Burlington, Vt. — WEXP “Experience 105.1.”

By December, I’d resurrected “Floydian Slip” as a once-a-month offering on the station, whenever there was a new moon.

Here’s a skim of that first WEXP show, which aired 11 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 2, 1994.

While I started the show six years earlier at Ithaca College’s 106-VIC, this show is actually show “number one,” because this is when I started counting.

By the time I’d started doing “Floydian Slip” for WEXP, I’d moved from overnights to evenings, arriving at the station mid-afternoon, and working on-air from 7 to midnight.

I have fond memories of being in my mid-20s, living in downtown Burlington, and taking the short walk from my efficiency apartment over to the station, where every jock enjoyed creative freedom regarding what we played and what we said.

It was working in radio like I’d imagined it would be growing up listening to my FM Walkman: Something akin to Donald Fagen’s “The Nightfly.”

WEXP was something special. It had the vibe of underground FM radio from the ’70s … or so I was told. Unconventional, eclectic, very democratic and down-to-earth — one potential sponsor complained all us air people sounded stoned — I’m glad I had the experience, as short-lived as it was.

WEXP went dark within a year, and I was out of a job by Summer ’95. More on that later.

A couple of notes: Yes, I mispronounced “Astronomy Domine,” which I continued to do for years later. And we hadn’t yet registered the floydianslip.com domain, but were using the show’s original email address: floydshow@aol.com.

AOL also gave WEXP a complimentary account, in exchange for on-air mentions. The account remained active for years after the station went off the air. Apparently no one from the station ever told AOL, and the company didn’t require proof of performance for its on-air plugs. No good deed …