In this extended unreleased video, Humble Pie’s drummer, Jerry Shirley, shares his memories of working on Syd Barrett’s final album, “Barrett” And playing on Syd’s disastrous last London gig with David Gilmour
In this new posting, Guy talks about his stint with David Gilmour and Pink Floyd, recording studio dates with Madonna and Michael Jackson, and how he found his voice on a 1964 Fender Jazz Bass that he got from the bass player from the Who, John Entwistle. There’s even a cameo question from The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins!
A photo of Syd with his Mother and Sister Rosemary Taken in Essex in 1981
The estate of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett has just announced they have launched an official Syd Barrett Instagram page alongside the official Syd Barrett Facebook page.
In an effort to reach fans in a more engaging manner, they have shared that they will be building it up with regular well-known and rare images and video footage from the Syd Barrett archives.
Visit https://www.instagram.com/syd_barrettofficial/ and follow the page
The world-renowned Abbey Road Studios, famous for being the studio where Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side Of The Moon with Alan Parsons in 1973, has just introduced the new Abbey Road Studios x Pink Floyd 1973 Collection, available for pre-order today exclusively from the Abbey Road Shop.
A Fleeting Glimpse is honoured to have taken part in a segment to discuss the album’s cultural impact, its success, and how some of the synthesisers used in On the Run influenced future acid house electronic music many years later.
Tune in on Monday, February 27th, at 1 p.m. local time (CET) by visiting https://www.yammat.fm/ or by listening to 102.5 FM Croatia
As part of the monumental 50th celebration of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon, the band has released a preview of the newly remastered album, which has been done by the band’s longtime engineer, James Guthrie.
The Great Gig In The Sky 2023 Remaster is now available on all streaming platforms.
Happy 53rd anniversary to the Zabriske Point film, which was released on this date in 1970 in the U.S.
Pink Floyd’s contributions to the album were recorded in November and December 1969, after the release of Ummagumma. “Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up” is a re-recording of “Careful with That Axe, Eugene,” originally released as a b-side in December 1968.
“Love Scene (Version 4)” is a Rick Wright solo piano composition. “Country Song” (also known as “The Red Queen”) is a ballad filled with chess metaphors. “Unknown Song” (also known as “Rain in the Country”) is a relaxed instrumental. “Love Scene (Version 6)” (also known as “Alan’s Blues”) is a bluesy instrumental. A track entitled “Fingal’s Cave” and another called “Oenone” were recorded but did not appear on the finished album.
Pink Floyd also recorded other unreleased material during the same sessions. Most notable is a lengthy composition which at that time was known as “The Violent Sequence” (later released on Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set).
This was later reworked, as “Us and Them” from The Dark Side of the Moon. An additional number of tracks of previously unreleased studio work from these sessions have been released in 2016 on The Early Years 1965–1972 (Volume 4: 1970: Devi/ation).
On the 9th of December, Roger Waters released digitally the much-talked-about “Lockdown Sessions” that were recorded remotely during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
We are pleased to say that there is a physical vinyl and CD release are being prepared for June 2023.
Released digitally in December 2022, The Lockdown Sessions feature songs recorded between 2020 and 2022 during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Various songs were recorded and posted on Rogers’ official YouTube channel, including “Two Suns In The Sunset And The Gunners Dream” from Pink Floyd’s 1983 The Final Cut album, “Mother, Vera, and Bring The Boys Back Home” from 1979’s Pink Floyd The Wall, and a new arrangement of “The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range” from Rogers’ 1992 Amused To Death album and the new version of the recently released This Is Not A Drill Tour’s “Comfortably Numb”.
Whilst these songs were initially released on Rogers official YouTube and Facebook platforms during the pandemic all material has been remixed and remastered for both the digital and physical releases.
Keep your eyes pealed for an official announcement coming very shortly.
Towards the end of Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets 2022 tour, which concluded in November 2022, Nick Mason and drum tech Phil Manchester were kind enough to spend time with Modern Drummer, the world’s #1 publication on drums and drumming, to give us a rundown of Nick’s drum kit for Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets North American Tour 2022.