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If we told you members of a Pink Floyd cover band allegedly liked to unwind after gigs by smoking pot back at the hotel room, would you be surprised? What if we told you another band member had brought suit against them for doing the very same?

Singer Graham Heath, who has worked with San Diego-area tributes Pink Froyd and Pink Floyd Experience, is suing band-mate and guitarist Tom Quinn and band reps Annerin Productions and Jeff Parry Promotions on seven counts.

Legalize aside, Heath’s major beef is that his complaint about fellow band-mate’s proclivity to the herb resulted in his unlawful termination.

The suit runs deeper than that, with phrases like “breach of contract,” “defamation of character,” and “false light” popping up. But that first one is enough to harsh the mellow of any self-respecting axeman.

Read more at the San Diego Reader.

Let’s hope the guys can patch things up and make good at some charity event reunion 20 years down the road.

A school for at-risk teens founded by Pink Floyd in the early 1970s is about to close, after losing funding from its local council.

London’s Schoolhouse Education was started with help from the band, which raised £1,000 for it at a 1972 Oxfam gig at Wembley Empire Pool.

The school’s Lewisham site will close due to declining enrollment and budget cuts. Its Greenwich facility will remain open.

Headteacher Lynda Smith told the News of the World the school “would not exist if it wasn’t for Pink Floyd.”