The Times

Posted on 7. February, 2007 by Doc

After posting The Daily Aztec article, fellow Brain Damaged listener Mike S, posted a comment saying he was in London between the 3rd and 16th of September ’06 and first learned about Brain Damage from a small mention he saw in the The Times!

The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the U.K. since 1785 and its been regarded as Britain’s “newspaper of record” and is preserved in the British Library’s newspaper library in that capacity. It’s a very big deal.

Mike was kind enough to send a scan of the clipping he saved. Very cool! Thank you Mike and thanks to the unknown individuals at The Times who made the mention. Its an honor to be in Pink Floyd’s hometown newspaper!

BBC Early Sessions

Posted on 2. February, 2007 by Doc

Show #77 Release date: 2. February, 2007

I still love the BBC. We continue along the same path as the last podcast but further back in time to the early days of Pink Floyd and their heavy, almost regular appearances for BBC’s Top Gear and Night Ride. The podcast starts off with a “violence” request from Martin.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:49 — 85.0MB)

BBC Sessions

Posted on 19. January, 2007 by Doc

Show #76 Release date: 19. January, 2007

I love the BBC. For this podcast we go back to London 1970 and 1971

The first half of this podcast consists of a master live recording session done for BBC Radio One later broadcast on John Peel’s Sunday Concert three days later. Here’s the playlist

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:19:07 — 127.4MB)

Venezia

Posted on 5. January, 2007 by Doc

Show #75 Release date: 5. January, 2007

This podcast takes care of those who often requested to hear Pink Floyd’s free concert staged on a huge barge, moored off the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy in front of an estimated crowd of 200,000 people. The concert was broadcast to over twenty countries and was seen by over 100 million people.

This concert was perhaps one of the more controversial ones for Pink Floyd. The concert was almost canceled for fear that the vibrations of sound from such an event would damage some of the buildings. Despite Floyd performing at a lower volume, there was still claims of damage to some buildings and many lamp posts were destroyed from fans climbing on them to get a better look. Even worse, the city failed to provide the necessary amenities for the fans. This lead to 300 tons of trash, and human waste being left behind which the Italian Army had to clean up. The Venice City Council later apologized to the residents and vowed that no similar concert would be allowed again.

The first few songs are included to give you enough time to chill and roll a few good spliffs before we dive into the concert portion.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:53:40 — 104.1MB)

The Film

Posted on 27. October, 2006 by Doc

Show #71, Release date: 27. October, 2006

Originally Show #10, Air date: 29. May, 2004 – The 1982 film soundtrack features a few tracks not on the original album, as well as remixed and even completely re-recorded tracks from The Wall’s original release. This is complete with dialogue, sound effects and nothing speed up like you hear on most RoIO’s of the same material.

I mixed in the rough cut of Hey You from the DVD as it would have been done originally, had it been included in the film. I also added in, an alternate extended version of Bring The Boys Back Home not heard on the album or the film.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:53:05 — 103.5MB)

Phish Phloyd

Posted on 2. August, 2006 by Doc

Show #64, Release date: 2. August, 2006

Since the “Covers” podcast, I’ve had many people ask about Phish’s performance of Dark Side of the Moon. So I decided to whip up a quick-cast of this performance in its entirety recorded on 2. November, 1998. Maybe we should call these special, shorter podcasts of Brain Damage, “Brain Stroke?”

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:47 — 41.9MB)

Covers

Posted on 23. June, 2006 by Doc

Show #60, date: 23. June, 2006

This special edition of Brain Damage includes covers of favorite Pink Floyd tunes performed by other major recording artists. I’m very picky when other people cover Floyd music but I enjoy all these bands individually. Nick Mason feels innovative covers are more preferable to tribute bands. You be the judge. Here’s the playlist!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:08:21 — 117.5MB)

The Wall Demos

Posted on 17. February, 2006 by Doc

Show #51, Release date: 17. February, 2006

Six months after Floyd’s Montreal concert in January of 1978, Roger had formulated the idea for The Wall and in July presented his demos called Bricks In The Wall to the rest of the band.

The demos featured in this podcast were recorded between October 1978 and March 1979.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:18:10 — 71.6MB)

A Tribute

Posted on 16. December, 2005 by Doc

Show #46, Release date: 16. December, 2005

This podcast is a special one. For this…we pay tribute to Pink Floyd tribute bands.

1. Comfortably Numb – The Machine (New York) website
2. Sheep – Which One’s Pink? (Los Angeles) website
3. Brain Damage / Eclipse – P-Floyd (Sweden) website
4. Learning To Fly – Pink Division (Norway) website
5. On of These Days – Ummagumma (Argentina) website
6. Pillow of Winds – Wish You Were Here (Cleveland) website
7. Atom Heart Mother – The Surrogate Band (Detroit) website
8. Money – The Great Gig in the Sky (Phoenix) website
9. Us & Them – Us & Them (Houston) website
10. Wish You Were Here – Blue Floyd (Los Angeles) website
11. What Shall We Do now? – Childhood’s End (Syracuse, NY) website
The Australian Pink Floyd Show – Jason Sawford interview
12. Echoes – The Australian Pink Floyd Show(UK) website

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:02:37 — 112.3MB)

Was Pink Floyd on to someting?

Posted on 2. August, 2005 by Doc

Check out this freaky coincidence… the link provided has a recording of radioactive emissions coming from Saturn captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. So basically you can hear what Saturn sounds like… and it sounds like a clip from an early Floyd performance!

Sounds of Saturn

“Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania… Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten.”

Earl’s Court Banner

Posted on 20. June, 2005 by Doc

This is one of the many hand painted banners that hung from the rafters of Earls Court during Pink Floyd’s Division Bell shows back in 1994. The purpose of the banners was to improve the sound and dampen the echoing effect of the acoustics of Earls Court.

They measure 20’x18′ and you can see this banner and others in P.U.L.S.E. and Storm Thorgerson’s hardcover book, Mind Over Matter – Images of Pink Floyd on page 194.

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