Floydian Slip

Floydian Slip preview #728

Posted March 18, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Join us for Floydian Slip show #728:

Floyd from “Animals” and “The Division Bell”
The band’s fourth single from 1968
Roger Waters with the only new track from his 2002 compilation “Flickering Flame”
And much more!

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Video preview: Floyd-themed “Cold Case” episode

Posted March 17, 2010 by Floydian Slip

A peek at the Pink Floyd-themed “Cold Case” episode airing on CBS-TV this Sunday night.

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Contest: Win a set of three Floyd CDs

Posted March 15, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Win a copy of “Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall” … all to mark the special CBS-TV Floyd-themed episode of “Cold Case.”

Ten lucky winners will receive all three CDs, courtesy of EMI Music.

The Floyd-themed “Cold Case” airs Sunday at 10 p.m. EDT March 21.

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Winners: “Knebworth” CD/DVD

Posted March 15, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to the winners of CD/DVD sets of the 1990 Knebworth concert featuring Pink Floyd:

Christopher McCarron
Worthington, Ind. USA
David Aubin
Kennebunk, Maine USA
Mark Gunzinger
Woodbridge, Va. USA
Tom Longwell
Richmond, Ky. USA
Greg Michalak
Clinton, Mich. USA
Szabolcs Domok
Budapest, Hungary

The CD will be reissued by Eagle Rock Entertainment March 23.

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“Dark Side” vocalist Lesley Duncan dies

Posted March 15, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Singer-songwriter Lesley Duncan, who counted backing vocals on Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album among her many credits, died Friday. She was 66.

In addition to appearing on “Dark Side” and albums by Elton John, Alan Parsons Project, Dave Clark 5, Dusty Springfield, Ringo Starr, Donovan and many other others, her “Love Song” appeared on John’s “Tumbleweed Connection” (1971).

Duncan released five solo albums during her career as well.

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Floydian Slip songlist #727

Posted March 15, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Comfortably Numb
Knebworth (1990)
Not Now John
The Final Cut (1983)
Hello (I Love You)
The Last Mimzy Soundtrack (Roger Waters) (2007)
Money
Pulse (1995)
Country Song
Zabriskie Point Soundtrack (1970/97)
Mudmen
Obscured by Clouds (1972)
Night of a Thousand Furry Toys
Broken China (Rick Wright) (1996)
Is Your Love Strong Enough
Legend Soundtrack (Bryan Ferry f/David Gilmour) (1985)

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Three-song Pink Floyd cover EP coming in April

Posted March 13, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Fruits de Mer Records will release “What Colour is Pink?” on April 19.

The EP will include three Floyd songs from “A Saucerful of Secrets” — “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” “Let There Be More Light”, and “A Saucerful of Secrets” — re-recorded by German prog/psych band Vibravoid.

Available as a limited edition of 500, the EP will be sold as a pink vinyl 7-inch record with pink label and pink sleeve. Already 200 of the EPs have been pre-ordered.

This will be the 10th release from the Surrey-based label, which boasts it “loses money on every release and we love it.” The company, in business for less than two years, has previously released re-recordings of songs originally by Small Faces, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Nick Drake, Caravan, Kraftwerk, Van der Graaf Generator, Nico and others.

Fruit de Mer’s eighth EP included a cover of Floyd’s “Julia Dream” by Swedish duo Us and Them.

You’ll be able to buy the EP at the label’s Web site. For more information, email them.

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Daylight Saving Time might affect air time

Posted March 13, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Just a heads up for listeners of “Floydian Slip” who might be tuning in from areas that don’t observe Daylight Saving Time (DST) — or don’t observe it at the same intervals as our affiliate stations might:

The U.S. will switch to DST tomorrow at 2 a.m., “springing ahead” an hour.

If you’re in part of the world that doesn’t observe DST — and you’re listening online to an affiliate station that does observe DST —” that means you’ll be hearing our show an hour earlier than before, beginning with Sunday’s broadcasts.

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Court sides with Floyd over online sales

Posted March 11, 2010 by Floydian Slip

The BBC reports the English High Court has decided in favor of Pink Floyd in a dispute the band has been engaged in with its long-time record label EMI.

At issue is whether the label has the right to sell Floyd’s tracks individually online. The ruling could remove Floyd’s catalog from the iTunes Music Store and the like.

The band had maintained its contract prohibits EMI from selling its tracks piecemeal without band permission, and this contract, agreed upon before the advent of MP3, included online sales.

EMI disagreed, saying the word “record” in the contract meant a physical thing that didn’t apply to digital files sold online.

The court today sided with the band, which wasn’t present to hear the ruling, saying the contract guarantees to preserve the “artistic integrity” of the band’s albums, which prevented so-called “unbundled” sales of individual tracks without the Floyd’s say-so.

EMI has been ordered to pay $60,000, but, in a statement, said, “Today’s judgment does not require EMI to cease making Pink Floyd’s catalogue available as single track downloads, and EMI continues to sell Pink Floyd’s music digitally and in other formats.”

This latest court ruling is part of a much larger long-running dispute between the band and label over approximately $15 million in allegedly unpaid royalties.

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