Mule-O-Ween 08

Posted on 14. November, 2008 by Doc

Show #122 – Release date: 14. November, 2008

Halloween has always been a flagship holiday in the jam band community, second only to New Year’s Eve. And with a band like Gov’t Mule, expecting something special is more than fair. Phish are attributed with getting the Halloween spirit going in the jam world with a performance of The Beatles’ The White Album in its entirety on 10.31.94. Years later, we’ve seen costumes and covers of all colors and genres. But, on Halloween 2008, Mule outdid themselves with a second set packed full of Pink Floyd tunes from throughout the psychedelic pioneers’ career.*

Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA, 31. October, 2008.

*excerpts taken from a review written by Andrew Bruss

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Covers 2.0

Posted on 7. September, 2008 by Doc

Show #117 Release date: 07. September, 2008

Sorry for the slight delay on getting this one out. Getting used to my new work schedule is proving to be more difficult than I thought.

For this podcast I decided to revisit an old theme previously done on show #60, “Covers” but this time I reach a little deeper in the bag for some more obscure and new Floyd songs covered by other artists. Here’s the playlist!

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Celestial Instruments

Posted on 26. October, 2007 by Doc

Show #97 – Release date: 26. October, 2007

This podcast features an excellent recording taken from the soundboard on the 9th August, 1969 at The Paradiso in Amsterdam. The gig was recorded by Dutch radio station Hilversum 3 for a future broadcast unfortunately a microphone failure on the bands vocals forced them to perform an instrumental set. As a result the gig never aired. The recording surfaced recently with a short set of four numbers with absolutely no vocals, but the sound quality is amazing.

Photo courtesy evminiatures.com

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Knebworth 1990

Posted on 14. September, 2007 by Doc

Show #94 – Release date: 14. September, 2007

Pink Floyd headlined the Knebworth Festival by offering their services in aid of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre as well as the BRIT school of performing arts and technology who provide music therapy for handicapped children.

120,000 fans gathered for this historic event featuring a combination of legendary British rock artists. Floyd’s long awaited set featured special guests Clair Torry and Candy Dalfer and Rain… but first, a treat from David Gilmour’s recent cinematic DVD premier and Q&A session last week.

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The Independent

Posted on 9. May, 2007 by Doc

The press keeps rolling! New Brain Damaged listener Tony of Cheshire, U.K. learned about the podcast while reading the 30. April 2007 issue of The Independent. Tony was kind to send a scan of the mention. Thanks Tony!

The Independent is a British “compact newspaper” published by Independent News & Media. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily newspapers, with a circulation of 253,737.

Whoever made the mention at The Independent, I thank you.

Time Out London

Posted on 27. February, 2007 by Doc

The press keeps rolling. Brain Damaged listener, Martin Horsfield is also a writer for Time Out London. Martin wrote up a very nice 150 word column on for the magazine’s Radio page, podcast of the week.

Time Out is a well known weekly magazine that contains information about events in film, theater, fashion, literature and all other artistic events happening in and around London since 1968. The lifestyle magazine also has outlets in New York City and Chicago as well as 10 other large metro areas around the world.

Thank you Martin!

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?”

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