As you know, Christie’s New York is handling the upcoming sale of a significant chunk of the personal guitar collection of David Gilmour. With more than 120 guitars, including his preferred Fender models of Broadcasters, Esquires, Telecasters and Stratocasters, the auction on 20th June marks a rare opportunity for guitar aficionados, musicians and collectors to explore one of the world’s most comprehensive groupings of guitars that hooked a generation. As we noted, prior to the sale, the entire David Gilmour Collection will be on display at Christie’s London between 27th – 31st March, followed by highlights of the collection on display in Los Angeles from 7th – 11th May, and will conclude with a full preview in New York from 14th – 19th June. You can book your viewing slot for the London staging now – visit this page at Christie’s website to select your preferred time (https://a.flexbooker.com/widget/34ee144d-e3ee-4663-83b3-101464fd20a7?fbclid=IwAR2MllKSAB_jr3k5oZXI21WgMw6AQaBnXcREHn-C7iQN-u80xGpEm6WbfKI#calendar). Reservations are free of charge, but necessarily limited to reduce congestion, so don’t delay. At time of writing this, most time slots are still available, although some of the later slots each day are gone. For those unable to attend, the auction house had created an incredible virtual tour of the upcoming George Michael collection – hopefully they will create the same for David’s guitars… We have no idea if photography will be permitted at the viewing (a question we’ve had a number of times already) although if you pre-order the catalogue for The David Gilmour Guitar Collection, direct from Christies (https://catalogues.christies.com/christies-shop/Product.aspx?offerId=52694), you should have great pictures of every item on offer. The catalogues are priced at £30/$50/€45 each plus postage, and please note that catalogues will not be despatched until the week commencing 13th May, so it is unlikely to be available to purchase at the London or LA preview events.
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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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Beneath The Surface: Annabel Allum
Hello and welcome to yet another Beneath The Surface session. (Two, in one day? Gosh I am good to you!) For this instalment I am joined by the truly wonderful and exceptionally talented Annabel Allum. We uncover all the juicy details in this little sneaky snack of an interview, so sit back, relax & sink …
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Pink Floyd music in neuroscience study on how the brain works
Just published is a research article, on the use of Pink Floyd’s music to analyse the brain (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002176). As a result of the analysis, AI was able to reconstruct part of Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1, from brain waves alone. Whilst in itself, you might wonder what the point of that is. There is a hope that eventually, technology will exist that can use AI to determine what someone who is non-verbal is wanting to say. This would have huge implications for assisting such people, which is why the breakthrough is seen as so significant. The audio that was created is very muddy sounding and hard to make out, but there are clear parts that (knowing the song) you can recognise such as the “All in all…” lyrics. Whilst there has already been work on translating brain activity into words, the ability for AI to recognise musical elements could result in much more accurate “translation” within brainâcomputer interface (BCI) applications, conveying emotion behind words and phrases – key to proper comprehension of people’s thoughts and feelings. The analysis used 29 volunteers, who each had epilepsy and during a procedure (iEEG) had 2668 electrodes put onto the brain’s surface. Some 347 of these were on the part of the brain used for music processing. The team behind the work were Pink Floyd fans, so used their music for the research. A huge amount of detail on the work can be found here (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002176) for those interested in much more detail.
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