Roger Waters surprise guest appearance with Lucius - "Mother" [Pink Floyd cover]
Last night Roger Waters joined his former backing singing duo Lucius last night at the Beacon Theatre in NY.
Lucius are out on the road in promotion for their highly acclaimed new album ‘Second Nature’, During the encore they invited Roger Waters on stage for a rendition of ‘Mother’ from the 1979 album ‘The Wall’.
Imagine playing Pink Floyd songs with an actual member of Pink Floyd. Lee Harris is living his dream from one of his formative gigs, aged 7.
Lee discusses playing onstage with each of Nick Mason, David Gilmour and Roger Waters, talks through how to approach a pivotal career meeting with someone you idolise and pays tribute to former Blockheads bandmate Derek Hussey.
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Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.
Presented by Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets / Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd & David Gilmour, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.
Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.
This weeks upcoming episode is Number 82 and features guestDavid Arnold
For this edition of Brain Damage, its an excellent audience recording from the beginning of the “In The Flesh Tour’, 27 January, 1977 in Frankfurt Germany at the Festhalle.
This bootleg is titled “From The Masters” and is noted as one of the best sounding shows from the European leg of the tour. The band’s performance is solid throughout the show and it’s now all doctored for supersound!
Durga McBroom, Scott Page & Machan Taylor discuss Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder
Published today by JTCurtis is a very special interview discussing Pink Floyd’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason World Tour. In this very special interview, host JT is joined by members of the backing musicians, namely Durga McBroom, Machan Taylor, and Scott Page.
In the mid 1980s, following the departure of bassist / lyricist Roger Waters, guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason set out to produce a new Pink Floyd album.
A Momentary Lapse of Reason (produced by Bob Ezrin who worked on The Wall) was released in 1987. Tracks included the MTV hit “Learning to Fly”, along with “On the Turning Away” “Sorrow” “One Slip” and “Dogs of War” (which featured Scott Page on saxophone).
Pink Floyd prepared a tour, recruiting vocalists Machan (Margaret) Taylor, Durga McBroom and Rachel Fury. Filling out the band was bassist Guy Pratt, keyboardist Jon Carin, guitar player Tim Renwick and percussionist Gary Wallis.
The tour also featured former Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright who would later be reinstated as a band member.
The band performed the new album in it’s entirety (although “Yet Another Movie” and “Terminal Frost” were left out of the film) along with select tracks from Meddle (“One of These Days“) Dark Side of the Moon (“Time“, “Money“, “Us and Them” and “Great Gig in the Sky” featuring their amazing singers) Wish You Were Here (“Shine on you crazy Diamond” – dedicated to original band member Syd Barrett, along with the title track) and The Wall (“Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2” “Run Like Hell” and “Comfortably Numb” featuring Dave’s legendary guitar solo).
Charles Beterams, Ian Priston, and Phil Salathé, authors and collectors, have just announced two new limited edition publications. The first publication documents Pink Floyd’s BBC radio sessions between 1967 and 1971, bridging the gap between their meticulously crafted studio albums and the ferocious improvisations of their live performances.
The 2nd publication documents Monday, July 10, 1989, when Pink Floyd played the immense Goffertpark. The concert had an audience of 60 thousand, which was to be the band’s biggest concert to date in the Netherlands.
Ian Priston & Phil Salathé – BBC RADIO 1967-1971
English, 240 pages in full-colour print, printed on heavyweight 170gms paper (22x22cm). Published 3 June 2022.
Available as a hardcover and paperback edition.
Hardcover edition (signed, numbered and limited to 400 copies only) exclusively available from FLOYDSTUFF.com
Pink Floyd’s BBC radio sessions bridge the gap between their meticulously crafted studio albums and the ferocious improvisations of their live performances.
Each recording documents a band constantly evolving, dealing in turn with the collapse of their leader Syd Barrett, their unsuccessful attempts to recapture the pop charts, and their eventual self-reinvention as providers of multimedia extravaganzas.
In the crucible offered by BBC programmes like Top Gear, Pink Floyd forged a musical approach that would serve them for years to come. As high-profile advertisements for a young and hungry group, the role of these appearances in furthering the band’s career cannot be overestimated.
The collaboration of an English researcher and an American composer, Pink Floyd – BBC Radio 1967-1971 combines the authors’ extensive research into the details of each session with a thoughtful analysis of its contents. Every chapter contains new additions to the historical record and sheds fresh light upon the band’s creative process, which combined rigorous structure with spontaneous expression – and astonishing bursts of inspiration with unabashed recycling of existing work.
Inside are firsthand recollections from audience members and BBC engineers, and coverage of unpublished recordings, including one session that only survives in a private collection and is here described in detail for the first time. The authors delineate the best sources for all the recordings discussed, and provide up-to-date information on Pink Floyd’s other radio broadcasts.
The text additionally speaks to the unsung heroes: home tapers and engineers who preserved Pink Floyd’s legacy when the BBC did not; DJs like John Peel who advocated ceaselessly for their music and offered them a platform from their earliest days; and even the band’s own members and collaborators, whose contributions are often underrepresented.
Pink Floyd – BBC Radio 1967-1971 covers its subject in unprecedented depth, while telling a story of triumph and loss, interspersed with wit and pathos.
If you are keen to explore the early history of Pink Floyd, this is undoubtedly a book for you.
Charles Beterams – Pink Floyd In De Goffert
Dutch, 112 pages in full-colour print, printed on heavyweight 170gms paper (22x22cm). Published 3 June 2022.
Available as a hardcover edition, limited to 500 signed and numbered copies exclusively available from FLOYDSTUFF.com
As if it was meant to be, Pink Floyd put up their tents in Nijmegen in the summer of 1989. Twenty years before that, the group is in town for the first time for a disastrously poorly attended gig at the Kolpinghuis. Things will be different now.
On Monday 10 July, the immense Goffertpark will be populated by no less than sixty thousand visitors. Never before has Pink Floyd played for so many people in the Netherlands as on that night. In little more than a day, the whole circus has come over from London after the last of six concerts. There is no hint of fatigue. The group led by David Gilmour is in top form that night.
The story begins two months earlier with a concert in Werchter, first stop of the tour. It is uncertain for a long time whether there is any room for a second concert in the low countries. Competing concert promoters, a logistical nightmare and a very special encore in the Venice lagoon – broadcast worldwide thanks to Dutch television pioneers IDTV and the Cinevideogroup – are the ingredients of a memorable summer.
Above all, it is the warm memories and unique, mostly never-before-used visual material of these concerts that make Pink Floyd In De Goffert a timeless document.
Although written in Dutch, the whole lay-out will certainly appeal to anyone not speaking Dutch.
Nick Mason (2) - Series 2 Episode 16 | Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt - Podcast
Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.
Presented by Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets / Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp, who wrote and performed megahits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’, and Guy Pratt, a bass player who shaped songs for the likes of Madonna and Pink Floyd & David Gilmour, you’ll hear exclusive stories of life on the road, in the studio and what really happened behind the scenes from artists who wrote, performed and produced the some of the biggest classic rock and pop tracks of all time.
Rockonteurs is a podcast all about the real stories behind real music.
This weeks upcoming episode is Number 81 and is a special edition that commences around the Saucerful Of Secrets current UK tour and features Pink Floyd’sNick Mason.
Being the first guest to launch the Rockonteurs podcast in episode number 1, Nick returns to the fold 81 podcasts later to fill us in on what has happened in the 2 years since the original episode premiered in September 2020.