“ I’d like to thank A Fleeting Glimpse for their kindness & generosity in mentioning my music.
I suppose A Fleeting Glimpse is now the “Official” Pink Floyd website in light of the other sites not mentioning long time contributors ( 35 years for me, no small feat ), and more importantly, Roger, the leader of the band & primary songwriter & conceptualist through their most creative & legacy establishing period.
It took a lot of deep breaths to get up the nerve to put any of my music out there, and there’s a lot, so I’m very appreciative to anyone who has been supportive.
I just wanted to do my bit to help people pass the time in this strange space we are all going through collectively.
I thought these few songs were the most appropriate to the times. I’ll keep putting out more if you’d like. ” – Jon Carin (Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Roger Waters)
Matt Gilmour a talented musician in his own right and son of David Gilmour has released a new album entitled Collages.
Matt was born and raised in England where he grew up watching his father—Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour—from the side of the stage as David captivated arena crowds. Eventually, Matt began to solidify his musical chops and forge his own path discovering his identity through traversing a myriad of musical influences.
When Matt Gilmour returned to Austin, Texas from an exhausting chemo treatment stint back home in England, he felt exhausted and lonely. To buoy his spirits, his friends would pick him up and take him to an informal jam they called “Music Mondays.” These were fateful moments where a spirit of community pervaded that transformed Matt and led to his forming a band.
“That time brought me back to life, saved me from depression, and made feel able to deal with things,” Matt shares. “Before that, I was a spoiled rich kid.”
Today, Matt is on the precipice of releasing some of the music he’s wanted to make his whole life, an interstellar mélange of psychedelic rock with touches of prog, blues, indie, folk, and funk. Through embracing the power of community, Matt’s life and music has soared. You can hear this spirit in the music with its harmony vocal overlay, and in the melting pot of influences frothing over.
Even getting a plug from his dad : “This is my son Matt Gilmour’s recent album, Collages. Why don’t you give it a listen? ” – David Gilmour
!! Pink Floyd have now announced the screenings have been postponed. More details are to follow !!
Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder is to be screened at cinemas around the world for one night only on October 15.
The concert was recorded and filmed at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum in August 1988 during the band’s tour in support of the previous year’s A Momentary Lapse Of Reason.
The new cinematic release by Trafalgar Releasing has been restored, remixed and re-edited from the original 35mm negatives and transferred into 4K. It’s been completely re-edited by Benny Trickett under the creative direction of Aubrey Powell from Hipgnosis, while the audio has been remixed by David Gilmour, Andy Jackson and Damon Iddins.
A statement on the release reads: “As a record of the creative power of David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright at their incendiary best, Pink Floyd’s Delicate Sound Of Thunder in the cinema is an engrossing and uplifting event, to be enjoyed by any rock music fan.”
The trio were joined onstage by Guy Pratt, Jon Carin, Tim Renwick, Gary Wallis, Scott Page, Margret Taylor, Rachel Fury and Durga McBroom.
In the first of an online series, Clive Leighton a former presenter at BBC Radio and CEO of Public- I-Events will be interviewing Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmours former wife Ginger Gilmour.
For fans of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour this interview will be covering from 1971 right through to The Wall in 1981- what it was like backstage, on the road, her marriage to perhaps the greatest ever rock guitarist, the personnel dynamics and the sacrifices they all made to get the music made, albums financed and all the associated lunacy.
It’s a visual presentation where both Clive and Ginger wil be looking at both new and familiar imagery covering key aspects of Ginger’s life and work.
(You will have to be logged into a facebook acount in order to watch the live stream)
Disclaimer : We dont usually promote this type of material however with Clives previous experience and the fact he is intending to go into depth about the transition from David Gilmour joining Pink Floyd up until the Wall in a personal and first hand perspective we felt it would intrest some die-hard fans.
Now Open at The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s new exhibit, Play It Loud: Instruments Of Rock and Roll, gives music fans the rare opportunity to examine every crack, scratch and pick scrape of these iconic instruments. The up-close look at these otherworldly objects elevates the instruments but also proves them to be flawed, tactile hunks of wood.
Curated in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of New York City, the three-floor exhibit features more than 130 of the most famous instruments of the 20th Century’s most significant art and cultural movement. It’s the largest single exhibit the museum on the lake has ever displayed, and the pieces range from the first Fender guitar in 1949 to Jerry Lee Lewis’ Petite Grand Piano, to more modern tools of rock and pop, such as Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello’s innovative pedalboard rig.
“These are the actual guitars — that’s the actual guitar that Chuck Berry recorded‘Johnny B. Goode with,’” Rock Hall president Greg Harris noted. “When you see these instruments that made the songs, you remember who you were with, the greatest road trip of your life and the time your heart was broken. The energy is there.”
The Black Strat
In early 2019 Gilmour announced he would auction many of his guitars for charity, including the Black Strat and the #0001 Strat. On June 20, 2019, the Black Strat sold for a price of US$3,975,000, becoming the most expensive guitar ever sold at that time. The guitar was purchased by guitar collector and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.[
Jim has very kindly put the iconic blackstrat on display as part of the new exhibit.
It’s hard to believe the guitar that sat in the dirt with David Gilmour during Pink Floyd’s Pompeii performance sold for nearly $4 million dollars, making the 1969 Fender Stratocaster with a maple cap fretboard the most expensive guitar ever sold. But examining every inch of the two-sided display proves the guitar heard on The Dark Side of the Moon remains in impeccable shape with gorgeous, natural relic, or wear on the wood from Gilmour’s playing hand.
” This is the third of our Encores from the Us and Them tour. This is the first one with any overdubs, not an easy trick to pull off remotely, luckily the Band are all brilliant.
Vera.
The Vera in question is Vera Lynn. She was an English singer, songwriter, very popular during the Second World War. Her biggest hit was “We’ll meet again”. She was widely known as the “Forces’ Sweetheart”. Our Vera, who is very fondly remembered back in Blighty, died six weeks ago aged 103. So she had a bloody good innings, bless her.
Bring the boys back home.
My father never came home, but at least in 1944 he really was fighting to defend his home. Not like now. Now the boys fight and die in colonial wars so some rich asshole can get richer. If it were up to me I’d bring ’em all home tomorrow.
Jon Carin a Grammy Award winning musician, singer, songwriter and producer who has been a longtime collaborator with Pink Floyd and the solo careers of David Gilmour and Roger Waters has been incredibly busy these last few months,
He has been putting in preperations for the upcoming Roger Waters : This Is Not A Drill Tour which was originally planned for July 2020 and has now been pushed back until 2021 with new dates still to be announced.
With the unexpected global lockdown due to the current Covid 19 situation Jon has found himself in his studio writing and creating music and we are very excited that 2 songs that have circulated from this have been released online in digital form.
The First single to be released back on 9th of May 2020 is entitled : Fear Of Everything written with the intention that it felt related to what the world is going through at the moment and keeping in mind that the greatest way to overcome fear is to acknowledge it.
In Jons own words “Hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, Dexamethasone, Propofol, swimming pool cleaner ? This song deals with none of these things.
Alcohol, drugs, food, sex, 24-hour cable TV news, mental chatter, racism, greed, hatred, fear This song may deal with some of these things.
Is there a vaccine to inoculate us from self destruction & stupidity ? Yes, self awareness, consciousness, education, empathy, kindness, respect for the rules of nature & love of each and every one of our fellow man. The work.
Life is the gift.
Written with extremely talented Boston based singer songwriter Brendan Little.“