From the Brain Damage fansite:

The judge was impressed by that argument? It would have had me rolling in my peruke. Ah well.

This wouldn't be the same judge who okayed the restraining order against David Letterman would it?

Waters Quit LSD After Bad Trip

Monday, February 4, 2008

Pink Floyd guitarist Roger Waters has vowed never to use drugs again following a near-death experience while using acid.

The rocker took the hallucinogenic LSD while staying at the Hotel Chelsea in New York and, shortly after, discovered he had stepped in front of traffic in the middle of Eighth Avenue, according to New York gossip column PageSix.

Mark Blake, author of Pink Floyd biography Comfortably Numb, explains, "He found himself frozen, unable to move. It was his last experience with the drug."

Copyright World Entertainment News Network 2008

This is a band which needs to let go and release an official bootleg series-even if they have to mine audience recordings. They are a continual prerennial big-seller. They can still line a lot of pockets and help out charities as well. If only the big egos would just quit warring with each other.

Wonder why they want the "tattered" pig back so bad?

They probably hoped it would still be salvagable when they offered the reward. Inflatable pigs are hard to come by on short notice, I'll bet.

The idiots who dumped it on somebody's lawn are probably kicking themselves right now.

Because we all know Ringo wrote all the songs on Sgt. Pepper's.

Death Cab For Cutie is an idiotic name for a band...and very apt in the case of these guys.

Apparently they don't like any of the lyrics.

It's ironic that Waters spent so much time in the 80's loudly declaring that Gilmour, Mason and Wright were laughable for continuing to play all the old Pink Floyd stuff live....and now he's doing it himself.

Many, if not most bands, the really big ones anyway, seem to eventually become tribute bands to themselves. I'm not saying that this good or bad, but saying that that's how it seems to me- The Stones, McCartney, The Who, Waters. They play few or none of the tunes done in the latter parts of their careers. Instead, years after year, tour after tour, they perform the same hits over and over again, as if a good concert is nothing but hits. It's too bad.

When David Gilmour toured a couple of years ago, he did the prefect thing. He played his new album in its entirety for the first half of the show, which is obviously what he wanted to do. For the second half of the show, he played all or mostly Pink Floyd songs (I don't recall) which he rightly assumed most of the people wanted to hear. "On An Island" is an excellent album and I was thrilled to hear him play all of it. I'd love it if every band I go to see played their most recent album in its entirety.

So, You Wanna Sound Like Pink Floyd?

Filed under: Classic Rock News, Pink Floyd — Dale @ 9:01 am

This may be the best opportunity for guitar players to replicate that legendary sound that Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour coaxed out of his 1970 Fender Stratocaster on some of the groups’s most successful albums. Fender is preparing to release a version of the "Black Strat" on September 22, and planning to use that simple, descriptive name to for the new guitar.

In addition to its appearance being identical to Gilmour’s copy, the new "Signature Model" will also feature the same maple neck, black pick guard, shortened tremolo arm and custom electronics as Gilmour’s original.

The new axe will also be accompanied by a custom black case featuring a center pocket, plush green lining and "Fender Custom Shop David Gilmour Model" embroidery.

In addition, buyers will receive a book about the guitar by David Gilmour’s guitar technician Phil Taylor, an authentic set of strings, the same cable Gilmour himself uses, a deluxe Fender guitar strap and a David Gilmour guitar pick.

This guitar is Fender’s best effort to produce a copy of the guitar that was used on Pink Floyd albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall, and if history is any indication, Fender will do a fine job of cloning a famous instrument that many a Pink Floyd fan would be thrilled to own.

So what does Gilmour himself think of the new instrument? "I told Fender that it was just an ordinary Strat that I bought, but I must say they’ve done a great job of recreating it," he says.

The September 22 release will coincide with the release of Gilmour’s new triple live album entitled Live In Gdansk, which was recorded last year during his solo world tour.

Awesome news.

I'd have to sell a kidney in order to afford one, but it's cool that they're (finally) doing this. I always wondered why there wasn't one before this - even Joe Strummer has his own Strat!