pink floyd Archive
01 Jan 2020
30 Days Out: January 2020 #1: Interstellar Echoes, Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, 3rd Annual Women in Music Series, Beach Fossils
For five and half years, I wrote a twice-monthly column for Asheville, N.C.’s superb altweekly Mountain Xpress. That column, “30 Days Out,” previewed upcoming live shows of note, focusing on […]
31 Jul 2019
A Look Back at Pink Floyd’s ‘More’ Soundtrack (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… A very brief instrumental, the unimaginatively named “Party Sequence” features Nick Mason on several overdubbed bongo drums, with wife Lindy trilling along on penny whistle. Side […]
30 Jul 2019
A Look Back at Pink Floyd’s ‘More’ Soundtrack (Part 1)
As 1969 began, decisive changes were underway for Pink Floyd. After making two albums and a number of singles with Norman Smith in the control room, Pink Floyd began to […]
23 Jul 2019
Confusion: A Look Back at ‘Identity’ by Zee (Richard Wright and Dave Harris)
Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright was not what one would call a prolific artist. While he composed some superb songs for the Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon‘s […]
22 Feb 2019
Learning to Fly Without Waters: Pink Floyd’s ‘Delicate Sound of Thunder’ at 30 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… When Nicholas Schaffner published his excellent Pink Floyd biography Saucerful of Secrets – for many years the only definitive tome on Pink Floyd – the 1991 […]
21 Feb 2019
Learning to Fly Without Waters: Pink Floyd’s ‘Delicate Sound of Thunder’ at 30 (Part One)
The Wall was the beginning of the end for the classic lineup of Pink Floyd. Though the balance of creative power in the group had begun to shift in Roger […]
07 Feb 2019
Richard Wright’s ‘Wet Dream’ at 40
(An edited version of this essay appeared previously on Rock and Roll Globe.) In the wake of the success of The Dark Side of the Moon, everything changed for Pink […]
08 Mar 2018
The Top 10 Syd Barrett Songs, Part Two
Continued from Part One… “In the Beechwoods” studio track recorded late 1967, produced by Norman Smith Quite possibly the Great Lost Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd track, the existence of “In the […]
07 Mar 2018
The Top 10 Syd Barrett Songs, Part One
When viewed against the backdrop of the influence he would exert upon popular music, Syd Barrett’s recorded body of work is remarkably small. The earliest studio session of which he […]
15 Feb 2018
Now Available: ‘Reinventing Pink Floyd’
Today is the official publishing date of my first book. I’m incredibly pleased. This day has been a long time coming. I’ve known since I was a pre-teen that I […]