For Nick Mason, Friday night’s stop in Wallingford was only his third ever in the Nutmeg state as Saucerful of Secrets performed its first of two New England shows on their current tour. New England, known for its overcast skies and foggy autumns, probably has much more in common with Nick Mason’s Birmingham and Hampstead, and Pink Floyd’s Cambridge and London, than any other parts of North America the Saucers have visited on this tour, which begged the question of how the surrounding environment and culture would play into this evening’s vibe. Time and modern amenities betray these cultural elements though, and so the band played in a venue that is a far better fit for a modern country concert in Alabama than a classic rock show in historic New England. In many ways, this was a gig better destined for Hartford’s Bushnell Performing Arts Center – but that didn’t stop the band from putting on a great show. As the lights dimmed you could sense the crowd’s anticipation on this rainy New England night – but the band’s Interstellar Overdrive was a slow burn of an opener, a reminder that Saucerful of Secrets was not intended to stir up the populist Pink Floyd fandom but to transport you to something deeper. It was during the band’s second track, Astronomy Domine, that the full audience stood up, soaking in the echoes of Pink Floyd’s last tour in the United States, The Division Bell tour – the last time (and the first time) many in the audience had seen Mason play Astronomy Domine live.
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Martin Popoff: “A huge proportion of metalheads love Pink Floyd”
Martin Popoff released his book Pink Floyd: Album by Album on June 26th of last year. On the one year anniversary of the book’s release, Brain Damage sat down to chat about his projects and about his experience writing and editing the book – which included interviews with Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess and Genesis’ Steve Hackett. Popoff’s most recent releases are Born Again!: Black Sabbath in the Eighties and Nineties, Judas Priest: Turbo ‘til Now, and Aces High: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the ’80s. He shared his view on a number of issues confronting the music industry, on drumming, and on Pink Floyd’s place in history. Brain Damage: Pink Floyd: Album by Album was released on this day, last year. How was that project different from previous ones, i.e., did you feel the Pink Floyd connoisseurs you interviewed were different from experts on other bands that you had interviewed for other projects? I wouldn’t say there was a difference. The same mix of celebrities, rock stars, super experts like yourself! But as you know, as more of a hard rock/old man heavy metal guy, it was fresh and fun for me to do something like this, especially to get re-educated again on the pre-Dark Side of the Moon albums, which I hadn’t paid much attention to in recent years. BD: To what extent do you try to balance your own input on each album in a book like this, relative to the input from those you are interviewing? The fun part is I get to say my say completely in the fairly long and involved intros to each album. After that I’m perfectly happy leaving all the views up to everyone else. I might have leading questions that I ask over and over where I seem to be soliciting a certain response, and maybe because they are leading questions, they do steer the narrative, but other than that, for this style of book, it’s all about the views of the contributors after the introduction. BD: Were there any particular surprises in the process of writing Pink Floyd: Album by Album? Yeah, because actually your input, I learned quite a few cool little trivia bits about the last few albums. And again, I really got to digest and restructure and re-memorize all those old albums. It’s really quite a remarkable career, how completely crazy Pink Floyd were allowed to be leading up to Dark Side of the Moon. BD: Did you ever entertain the idea of including the live albums (other than the live material on Ummagumma)? No, with five books like this, I just thought talking about the live albums would be the most boring thing. To me, I’m famously not a live gig guy or a live album guy. In fact, once I’ve seen a band two or three times, I almost feel like I never need to see them again. Ha ha, this is actually true, and I’m barely exaggerating, really, but I have these conversations with like, Rush tribute bands, maybe some of the people who were actually in the Rush: Album by Album book, who invite me to their gig, and to let them down easy, but actually, I’m not kidding here, this is actually the truth, I tell them that if Rush themselves were playing the bar down the street like they were, I probably wouldn’t even go. Okay, the truth is, I would go to say that I was there, but I wouldn’t stay for the whole thing! I just don’t care. To me the important part is the writing of the song, and between the music and the lyrics, the lyrics are more important.
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David Gilmour involved with upcoming Peter Green tribute album
Peter Green Celebration concert, which takes place in just under a month’s time at London’s Palladium (http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/david-gilmour-helping-mick-fleetwood-celebrate-peter-green-at-london-pall.html) (poster shown to the left), and includes David Gilmour amongst the performers that night, fellow participant Kirk Hammett has been speaking to GuitarWorld.com (https://www.guitarworld.com/news/kirk-hammett-talks-greeny-les-paul-meeting-peter-green-and-playing-and-singing-on-a-new-green-and-fleetwood-mac-tribute-record) about a Peter Green tribute album also coming out. In the interview, Hammett notes that he plays on two songs on the album, and one of them – Need Your Love So Bad – involves David. Hammett said: There was a demo of this one song called Need Your Love So Bad that they found. It’s a demo; Peter Green sang that song in his bedroom, and at the end of it you could hear his mom saying to turn it down or something like that. So what they did, they took that vocal track and they isolated it, and they’ve created an augmented instrumentation track done by David Gilmour. So the song Need Your Love So Bad, [was] created by David Gilmour and his band, and they flew in the vocals on top of it. It’s a more modern, updated version of Need Your Love So Bad, and that’s one of the tracks. The other track is Man of the World with myself and Mick Fleetwood. I am singing on it; it’s an easy song to sing, it’s got that talk-singing kind of thing, I can handle that. That’s about the length of my singing abilities, but I’m into it. I’m so into it, I’m into all aspects of it, it’s just one of those things, it just kind of unfolded like this.” Once we have more information about this tribute album, we will of course let you know. As a reminder, the tribute concert includes (other than Hammett and Gilmour) Mick Fleetwood, Billy Gibbons, Jonny Lang, John Mayall, Christine McVie, Zak Starkey, Steven Tyler and Bill Wyman. Alongside the invited guest musicians, the house band consists of Fleetwood alongside Andy Fairweather Low, Dave Bronze and Ricky Peterson, and the concert will be filmed for eventual release.
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NEW MUSIC: Steve Michels – Never
A member of the pop quartet Foreign Figures, Steve Michels is a singing sensation with a growing following. Hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah – in the USA to be exact – Steve Michels, EJ Michels, JonnyT and Seth78 came together to form the well-received group. Oddly enough, the band members met while living abroad …
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