The UK’s Prog Magzine have recently announced a brand new issue number 96 which has started to be distributed to subscribers already and will be officialy available in UK stores from Tuesday 5th March 2019.
What makes this article diffrent to every other magazine? The magazine has a new, and exclusive, interview with David Gilmour as the cover feature, in which he discusses selling most of his guitars and what the future holds for both Floyd and him as a solo artist. The interview finds David in a reflective mood, talking about certain key instruments, as well as pondering on the process of creating a new album, and all the hoopla that goes with that sort of project.
There’s also an in depth look at David’s solo career in a separate feature, that includes other prog guitarists such as Steve Howe, Martin Barre, Steve Hackett and more, choosing their favourite Gilmour guitar solos.
Pink Floydwill reissue the mono mix of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets as a vinyl release for Record Store Day, April 13th.
Unlike the Beatles or Rolling Stones, the band transitioned to stereo fairly quickly, making this one of the rare albums in their catalog that originally came out in mono. The audio was remastered from the original 1968 mono mix by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. The limited edition, 180-gram LP, housed in a “faithful reproduction” of the original sleeve, will come out on the group’s own Pink Floyd Records.
The record marks a pivotal moment in the band’s career, as it’s the only release to feature both founding guitarist, Syd Barrett, and his replacement, David Gilmour. As Barrett became unreliable at concerts, the group decided to eject him from the lineup. Barrett’s only songwriting offering to Saucerful is its closing track, “Jugband Blues,” for which he supplied the vocals; he also played guitar on “Remember a Day” and “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.” He’d previously written the majority of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which came out as a mono vinyl release on Record Store Day last year.
In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason said he’s changed his mind about the prevailing theories of why Barrett became erratic. For decades, rock mythology has suggested that Barrett had become an acid casualty and got lost in the music.
“Looking back on it, there’s no doubt that LSD exacerbated the state, but I think perhaps what was happening was Syd had realized he didn’t want to be in a rock band at all,” the drummer said. “He’d done that, decided it wasn’t really what he wanted to do and probably wanted to go back to art school, but he couldn’t find a way of getting out of it. Certainly, we couldn’t believe that anyone didn’t want to be in a rock band. So I think when he was messing around with the songs, like ‘Jugband Blues,’ I think he almost did it as a whim, thinking it would be another really peculiar thing, whereas actually I think the song has an extraordinary edge. I think what was going on was Syd really was trying to leave.”
Just announced from Mojo Magazine is a two – part Pink Floyd special collectors’ edition, The first part – known as Edition 1 – of MOJO magazine’s two-part is on sale now in UK stores.
Housed in a gatefold card sleeve, with a mirrored prism on the front, andAtom Heart Mother‘s Lulubelle III pictured on the inside when when opened up, Tells the story of Pink Floyd from their roots in Cambridge and swinging ’60s London to their meteoric rise to fame in the mid ‘70s. Experience The Pink Floyd’s psychedelic first trip, re-live the extraordinary rise and fall of Syd Barrett, and share adventures in inner and outer space – and a journey toThe Dark Side Of The Moon. Contains 132 pages of in-depth stories, interviews, previously unseen images from the Floyd archive – and much more.
Edition 2 of the two – part edition will be released in the UK on April the 4th. In Edition 2 MOJO’s finest writers tell the second part of thePink Floyd story: from their mid-’70s breakthrough to their historic Live 8 reunion and beyond. Get airborne with Floyd’s famous flying pig, re-buildThe Wall, take one last trip onThe Endless Riverand go back in time and behind the scenes withNick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets. Contains 132 pages of in-depth stories, interviews, previously unseen images from the Floyd archive – and much more.
Edition 1 is available to buy in all major retail outlets in the United Kingdom for those oversea’s do not fear you can purchase / pre-order both editions online from Great Magazines byClicking Here
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