EMI have been kind to me tonight and let me listen to discs 3-6 from The Wall Immersion Boxset. The demos sound 1,000,000 times better than The Wall Under Construction bootleg that has been doing the rounds for many years. If you were holding out from getting the boxset because you already have that bootleg, then you really need to upgrade! ;-)

Listening to disc 5… Run Like Hell and Another Brick in the Wall Part 1 sound much better in demo form in terms of their arrangement compared to the finished arrangement on the final master album. You may disagree or agree. You will have to wait and see after you get the Immersion Boxset!

As I write, I have just started on the band demos from disc 5 (the first of the two demos discs)… just been listening to the Roger Waters home and studio demos. The band demos are the studio production demos that the band recorded to give them a starting point in the studio in terms of achieving the right sound they were after I would imagine.

Teacher Teacher, which later appeared on the final cut as The Heroes Return, sounds rather good in demo form. HAs a different feel to it in terms of the rhythms from the drums and rhythm guitar. Much more laid back.

Bedtime now so I shall say more about disc 6 tomorrow which is part two of the demos. Check out more on Pink Floyd The Wall Demos.

 

I am rather looking forward to listening to Pink Floyd The Wall demos in The Wall Immersion boxset to be released next month on 27th Feb in UK and 28th in other countries around the Americas and Eurasia. I wrote a little article looking at the contents of the immersion edition of The Wall called…

A Fleeting Glimpse of… Pink Floyd’s The Wall Demos

Feel free to have a read of the article to see what is where and on which disc. Its as much for my benefit as anything else to help my poor old mind get to terms with how the powers that be organised the material on the album discs 5 and 6.

 

David Gilmour New Album

Chatterings/rumours have started about David Gilmour releasing a new original studio album and touring it in 2012/2013. David Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson said in an interview the other month that she had been writing lyrics for husband David and recent information has come to light that David is looking through his collection of demos deciding on what would make the next David Gilmour new album!

Once David Gilmour has selected his songs I am sure he will waste no time getting himself onto his Astoria Houseboat Studio which is moored on the Thames River up stream from London. As yet, no such recording has taken place so, technically there is no album and subsequently no tour venues has been booked for a possible David Gilmour tour in 2012 or 2013. However, I am hopeful that in the next 6-18 months, perhaps more information will start becoming available about such things!

Recording in France Now?

A fan on a Pink Floyd RoIO website posted, “According to information I had thanks to a French friend from the PF French forum, Gilmour is currently recording is new solo album in the South of France. Phil Manzanera is involved, as well as drummer Claude Salmieri.” He is said to be recording at Studios La Fabrique in Saint-Rémy de Provence in France.

Roger Waters has been working on a couple of new albums for years now and they have not been mentioned recently either. Perhaps he has given up on them in favour of his Wall Live tour of 2010-2013.

So, you will have to wait and see if a new David Gilmour album transpires and what that may look like in terms of it being toured. I doubt it will be in 2012 though although stranger things have happened!

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Seems the Pink Floyd rumour mill is hotting up for 2012 with predictions by some news outlets that Pink Floyd may be performing at the London 2012 Olympics. As much as I would like to see that happen, I think it very unlikely they would. However, the colosing ceremony is 12th August I believe so Roger is not touring at that point as far as officially announced dates go and he did say in a Rolling Stone interview last month that he is performing in August 2012. Who knows!

Pink Floyd last got together for Live 8 with Roger Waters joining old band mates from Pink Floyd David Gilmour, the late Rick Wright and Nick Mason. It would be nice for them to get back together again but Nick Mason said last year they would only do it for a good cause. The olympics is not a “good cause” as such, its  a sporting event not feeding the starving.

So, will will see if Pink Floyd play at the London 2012 Closing Ceremony. LOL

Pink Floyd Top 5 Albums

If you want something interesting to read, view the results of our Big Pink Floyd Survey! View the Top 5 Pink Floyd albums according to fans!

So, there you go.

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