Pink Floyd book author and friend of Brain Damage, Ian Priston, recently visited an Italian collector (one of the “Lunatics”, a group of collectors in that country) to check out his extensive collection of rare Pink Floyd posters. Danilo Steffanina was happy to share his passion in conserving these items, and so let’s start the weekend in a slightly different way to normal, and have a wander through his collection via Ian’s video and discussion of the artwork which drew people to Pink Floyd gigs:
To coincide with the upcoming publication of a new book about the guitarist who was founder of Fleetwood Mac, a version of Need Your Love So Bad, which started life as a home recorded vocal by Peter Green in 1968 using a domestic tape recorder, has just been made available with additional music played by David Gilmour. Producer Laurie Latham took the vocal track and with the full input of Gilmour created a new musical landscape for this classic blues track. Peter heard and approved of the treatment before he passed away, peacefully in his sleep, on July 25th 2020. This is one of two tracks that form part of the book project by Peter called The Albatross Man. The other track is a new version of Man of the World by Kirk Hammett from Metallica using Peter’s original famous Les Paul. The book – in three special editions, two of which include the two new songs on 7″ single – is now on pre-sale, and will be published on what would be Peters 75th birthday, October 29th 2021. Full details and ordering at rufuspublications.com (https://www.rufuspublications.com), who are the only retailers of the book, but will ship worldwide.
Atomic Bronco – ‘Get You Off My Mind’ After recently returning to deliver his eagerly-awaited new album ‘Bull In A China Shop’ in recent weeks, emerging artist Atomic Bronco is now looking to showcase his latest full-length with the driven new single ‘Get You Off My Mind’. Brimming with fresh and euphoric hooks throughout, he …
Jon Carin, the Grammy Award winning musician, singer, songwriter and producer who has been a longtime collaborator with Pink Floyd and the solo careers of David Gilmour and Roger Waters, amongst many other top musicians, hasn’t been taking it easy during lockdown. Roger’s This Is Not A Drill tour was due to start on July 8th this year, and so Jon would have been in the thick of rehearsals for the concerts when lockdown struck. As you know, that tour has been postponed until next year, and we are awaiting the revised dates once they have been confirmed. It now seems like he’s been working hard on new material of his own, and two new songs have just been released onto Spotify, which are well worth checking out. The first of these is Like a Drug, an acoustic guitar driven song that is a nice, chilled listen. The other is called Fear Of Everything, a punchier song which gives more prominence to drums and keyboards, and we hope that these two songs are a taste of more to come from Jon. You can ‘Follow’ the Jon Carin artist page at Spotify to access these two songs, and over time, hopefully more.
