Pink Floyd

EPIC GIVEAWAY: Entire Pink Floyd Catalog!

by Justin Ward on Oct 12, 11

Remember just a few weeks ago when we were posting constantly about Pink Floyd to help celebrate the reissues of their entire catalog on EMI? Hopefully that got your appetite for the band back, because we’re excited to be able to award ONE lucky LMB reader with the entire reissue catalog. That’s right…every single Pink Floyd release that you see in the photo above…

You can pick up the entire reissue catalog over at iTunes/PinkFloyd. Or you can keep reading to find out why we’ve got a whole set of music to giveaway this week to one of the lucky ones… READ MORE

Moving On After Pink Floyd Week

by friends on Oct 3, 11

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Sure, we know it’s Monday and we’ve already officially started a new week here at LMB HQ, but we also needed a proper wrap-up on the festivities and celebrations surrounding Pink Floyd last week here on the site. It was Wes that threw the idea out and I had tons of friends get interested in it, so much so that we had tons of contributions that you may have missed. For all of our Pink Floyd Week posts, make sure you hit this page here and go back in time with it.

And as an editorial outtro and official closer on the week, my good friend Jackson Haddad (of One Way Station) wrote up this amazing piece of how their music affected him growing up… READ MORE

Roger Waters Was Psyched on Pink Floyd Week

by Justin Ward on Oct 3, 11

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Roger Waters just posted this on his Facebook page.

In the wake of Pink Floyd week on the Jimmy Fallon Show, I’d just like to thank all the musicians who performed covers.

As I said on Tuesday, I thought The Shins version of Breath was an inspired and beautiful interpretation.

The Foo Fighters were terrific, great energy, great musicians, great fun to play with, thank you guys.

MGMT, playing Lucifer Sam brought back lots of memories of Syd and those early years, I thought theirs was a very moving homage to him, also nice yellow trousers and lobsters and knots.

Wish you were here!! Dierks, I was truly moved. I loved the fiddle, the pedal steel, you sang it beautifully, Hank Williams would have been proud of you.

And finally Pearl Jam’s Mother, what a fitting conclusion to the week. Thank you all it means a lot.

-Roger

Love it.

VIDEO: Pearl Jam – “Mother” (Live @ Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)

by Justin Ward on Oct 1, 11

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Pearl Jam was the fifth and final guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Pink Floyd Week celebration, and the band took an emotional monster for a spin with this version of “Mother.”

TUNES: Hear that Pink Floyd sample on the new DJ Shadow record?

by Justin Ward on Oct 1, 11

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PINK FLOYD WEEK: Tom McKee (Brothers Past) Reflects on Pink Floyd

by Justin Ward on Sep 30, 11

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Tom McKee is the keyboard player in Brothers Past and submitted this post to LMB about how Pink Floyd informs his music career, both in BP as well as with his work at School of Rock. Read on for his thoughts about the band and their tunes…

QUOTE: John Shannon on Pink Floyd

by Staff on Sep 29, 11

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When I was a kid, 6 yrs old or so, my uncle used to give me tapes to check out. I would take them and play them on an old boom box while I acted out some kind of Highlander journey playing with toy guns and swords in the basement. Whatever tape I put on would become my theme music. He had given me Ummagumma which I gladly accepted because of song names such as “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” and “Astronomy Domine.” Needless to say I think it influenced my inner journey that day, definitely took me to some new places in my mind, and served as a great intro into a life of listening to Floyd while appreciating their psychedelic origins.

–John Shannon

Rogers Waters will tour with ‘The Wall’ in 2012

by Justin Ward on Sep 28, 11

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I know a few friends that caught the last Roger Waters tour and they were absolutely floored by how good the shows were. And for any of the fans that may have missed him over the past year or so, he recently revealed to Rolling Stone that he’ll be doing The Wall tour once again during 2012 and focusing specifically on the markets he may have missed the first time around. READ MORE

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WATCH: Pink Floyd “The Greatest Gig in the Sky” on YouTube

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YouTube is joining in on the Pink Floyd week celebrations by offering up a pretty cool experience at the band’s official YouTube channel. You can tune in each hour on the hour for Pink Floyd Live from Wembley November 1974 (featuring edits from the original touring screen films).

TONIGHT: Pink Floyd Week Begins on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

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Tonight is a great night of network TV live music if you’re a Pink Floyd fan. The Shins are kicking off Pink Floyd week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with a performance of “Breathe” from Dark Side of the Moon, and the rest of the lineup for the week is absolutely incredible.