Covers

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!

The Wall Demos

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.

A Tribute

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

Was Pink Floyd on to someting?

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

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.