Tagged: 2012

The Wall Demos Preview from EMI – Disc 5 from Immersion Boxset

The Wall Demos Preview from EMI – Disc 5 from Immersion Boxset

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...

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Pink Floyd 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.

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

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

Pre-Order The Wall Immersion Boxset from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com Click to enlarge Pink Floyd The Wall Immersion Boxset Old Pink almost caught a fleeting glimpse of something quite terrible in the song Comfortably Numb from The Wall album. But Pink Floyd fans can now definitely catch a fleeting glimpse of something much better from the Immersion Boxset of The Wall album! Two of the seven discs are dedicated to The Wall being under construction and listeners can witness the album evolving from Roger Waters’ original demos (Nick Mason once described them as “the most appalling demos”), through to the band studio production demos and finally to the final studio recordings of the album. Are you ready for a fleeting glimpse of the construction of The Wall? The first 4 discs of The Wall Immersion boxset are two for the remastered album and another two for the live Pink Floyd concert recording of the original Wall. This was...

David Gilmour New Album and Tour in 2012/2013 Rumour

David Gilmour New Album and Tour in 2012/2013 Rumour

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...

Pink Floyd at London 2012 Olympics?

Pink Floyd at London 2012 Olympics?

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 closing 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...

Why Pink Floyd Phase 2 | Wish You Were Here | Contents Review | November 2011

Why Pink Floyd Phase 2 | Wish You Were Here | Contents Review | November 2011

Phase 1 of the Why Pink Floyd release schedule has happened and many of you will have your Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Edition and Discovery albums and enjoying the glorious sounding enhanced CDs and DVDs. I myself have the DSotM Immersion Edition and Vinyl in addition to the Discovery box set of all the studio albums which I am most pleased about. Still got lots of listening and immersing to do hence I am about to start my review of the Dark Side Immersion edition shortly. However, lets now turn our attention to the second phase of the Why Pink Floyd release schedule which will see Dark Side of the Moon follow up album Wish You Were Here get the Experience and Immersion treatment! Wish You Were Here Immersion Edition November 7th 2011 will see Wish You Were Here – ‘Immersion’ and ‘Experience’ editions, Vinyl LP and digital...