Confessions of a Fanboy

I guess I’m having a maudlin moment today.  It’s well-earned, if you ask me.  It just so happens we had a little sadness enter our lives yesterday, at the same time I’ve been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour.
Today’s song of the day is “Wish You Were Here.”  Most of the [...]

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I have a lot of topics out there I need to get to around here and I just haven’t had the time to explore them all in the depth and at the speed with which I’d like.  I want to continue re-visiting Tom Petty’s Echo.  I also want to continue with the Pink Floyd discussion [...]

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Today’s working vacation is off to a good start.  I wrote and published my review of AC/DC’s No Bull DVD for BC Magazine and I’m getting ready to start writing my review David Gilmour Live in Gdansk.  A quick word on the AC/DC before we move on.  Even though the No Bull set didn’t light [...]

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Well, I don’t know where I disappeared to this weekend but I’m back. Sort of. I’m back long enough to tell you that today’s break is a working break. I have research and writing to do today- research in the form of AC/DC’s No Bull, David Gilmour’s Remember That Night (and Live [...]

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News of the passing of Richard Wright and the arrival of an advance of David Gilmour’s Live in Gdansk album have sent me down a cosmic bunnyhole of Pink Floyd obsession the past couple of days.
Over the past couple days I’ve devoured The Piper At The Gates of Dawn (the mono and stereo mixes), Wish [...]

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The Birthday edition of the B-Sides Concept Album program. Tonight we discuss the passing of Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright, new releases from David Gilmour and Metallica, Oasis and Noel Gallagher, and R.E.M.’s most recent show from Germany.
Be sure to join us at 10 PM EDT, 9 PM CDT.

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There are perks to this thing I do, flinging the gushing confessions of my fanboy alter ego all over the web and splashing them before your eyes.  One of those perks?  I sometimes get cool music before the rest of you.  Take for instance the new double live album from David Gilmour, recorded with the [...]

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Despite having claimed to not know how to send text messages or e-mail, Oasis’ Noel Gallagher is maintaining something of a road journal on Oasis’ web site as the band kicks off their tour for the upcoming Dig Out Your Soul LP. In his latest entry, Noel says he and his co-horts have once [...]

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I know it doesn’t take much insight to find sadness in a piece like “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” but I find myself moved by it tonight.
I haven’t listened to this song or this album in well over a year and can’t explain what drew me to it tonight, but I’m listening to it now [...]

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I just realized something: the end of U2’s “Walk On” has a lot in common with Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse!” Guess what I’m off to listen to now?

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