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NAMM 2025: "The Alan Parsons Plugin Project" - PSP Audioware helps the legendary engineer to recreate the famous Wobbler effect that he used on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon

“It’s a much more controllable and deeper effect than any phaser I’ve ever heard,” says Parsons

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“I borrowed an iPod for a flight and put Moonmadness on it. Flying through the clouds, I was listening to Air Born thinking, ‘This is great!’” Why Baroness ex Peter Adams loves Camel

Brought up with Pink Floyd and Gentle Giant, the American guitarist discovered The Snow Goose live and never looked back – and Andy Latimer’s band inspired a musical ambition in him

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"We’ve played shows on mushrooms in the past." Blood Incantation made one of 2024's trippiest, most ambitious metal albums, and we're starting to see why

Blood Incantation talk all night raves, psychedelics and being mistaken for Depeche Mode

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"To connect with a little band called Body Count says a lot about David Gilmour": Ice-T on Law & Order, not blowing up the planet, and breathing new life into a Pink Floyd classic

A quiet word with Body Count's Ice-T

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“I had a long vamp out and I played an extra few notes. David smiled and said, ‘Tony, in Pink Floyd you don’t do that extra couple notes until far later’”: Tony Levin on playing for Pink Floyd in the post-Roger Waters era

The session icon discusses working with David Gilmour – and reveals he was asked to tour with Pink Floyd after his session work on 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Guitar World

“Before studying his playing, I was doing a lot of ‘Look how fast I can play!’ There wasn’t that much feel behind my music”: Sophie Lloyd names the guitarist who overhauled her perspective on what makes a good solo

Lloyd may be known for her shredding playing style – but learning Comfortably Numb proved to be a revelation for her technique

Guitar World

“People would say, ‘He took a trip and now he’s weird.’ He wasn’t weird at all”: Mick Rock’s “surprisingly simple” friendship with Syd Barrett, and other psychedelic adventures

Often called ‘the man who shot the 70s,’ the photographer experienced unforgettable moments with Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayers, Arthur Brown, Genesis and more

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The people behind Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown are planning a Syd Barrett movie

Could Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett and The Mamas & The Papa’s Cass Elliot be getting the big screen treatment?

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“This band works like a ouija board. No one’s fully in charge of how it operates, but you keep looking at the letters and seeing what they spell”: How Pearl Jam made Lightning Bolt and embraced their inner Pink Floyd

Thirty years after being blindsided by fame, Pearl Jam were still doing things on their own terms

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According to a new study, these are the 10 most popular rock band tattoos

Study reveals the top 10 rock bands inspiring tattoos globally

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"I'd like to do it again!": David Gilmour suggests there's more to come in Christmas message to fans

Pink Floyd man David Gilmour is not ready to quit

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“I realised this music is what influenced the stuff I’d been listening to – Pink Floyd, Genesis and so on”: Ben Short saved a Stravinsky album from a skip, and A Formal Horse was the result

The avant-rockers released debut album Here Comes A Man From The Council With A Flamethrower in 2019, when their guitarist-vocalist told Prog how they took their time and finally got there

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“Roger asked, ‘Who’s singing it?’ ‘Ice-T.’ ‘Approved!’” How Ice-T got Roger Waters and David Gilmour to stop bickering with a cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb

How David Gilmour ended up playing with Body Count

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“I remember trying to work out what extra notes he’d put in. I was so infatuated…” Gun guitarist Jools Gizzi on his prog hero Alex Lifeson

Scottish rocker discovered Jethro Tull fan, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream as a teenager – but Rush really stood out to him as he learned to play

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Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman will celebrate his 65th birthday by presenting a version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon with one of Switzerland's leading orchestras

All roads lead to Geneva

Guitar World

“Match the tone of the short-pants rock God”: Crazy Tube Circuits bottles Angus Young’s tone in a pedal – including the secret sauce that shaped his guitar sounds (and Kiss, Pink Floyd and Metallica’s, too)

The Heatseeker is designed to replicate the spirit of Young's Marshall stack, but also includes a circuit inspired by a coveted piece of vintage gear used by other big name players

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“They haven’t agreed on anything for 20 years”: How Ice-T got Roger Waters and David Gilmour’s go ahead for Body Count’s Comfortably Numb cover

More unlikely than his choice of song were the odds of the two warring Floyd members saying yes to it…

Guitar World

“Gilmour says, ‘I want to play on it’ – like, he doesn’t do this’”: Body Count rip through their Comfortably Numb reimagining on the Tonight Show, as Ernie C does his best David Gilmour

In an interview with host Jimmy Fallon, Ice-T recalled getting the approval (and assist) for the modern-minded reworking from Gilmour – while also getting the go-ahead from Roger Waters

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Ice-T over the moon to get enemies David Gilmour and Roger Waters to approve Comfortably Numb cover

Ice-T has explained how he managed to get David Gilmour and Roger Waters to sign off on his cover of Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb'.

Guitar World

“I got a chance to play the guitar that David Gilmour owned with serial number 0001 – and I was actually disappointed”: Why one of David Gilmour’s most iconic Strats underwhelmed Fender’s CEO – who tried to buy it at auction

Andy Mooney had already attempted to convince the Pink Floyd legend to let Fender reissue his legendary 0001 Strat, not long after he joined the company

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“I was on Battersea Bridge when the pig broke free. I drove to the power station and saw this look of schoolboy glee on Roger Waters’ face… ‘You sort this out, Po’”: Aubrey Powell’s Hipgnosis story

Storm Thorgerson’s right-hand man on breaking the law, pushing creative concepts, refusing to work with record labels, watching Pink Floyd get rich and staying friends by never taking sides

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‘They felt they couldn’t market us to white people’: 90s hip-hop iconoclasts Digable Planets return

As they mark the 30th anniversary of album Blowout Comb, the Grammy-winning trio revisit their egalitarian ethos, anti-fascist lyrics and Pink Floyd influences

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"The guy's a complete prick!... He's very damaged. He's obviously very, very deeply insecure": Roger Waters lashes out at Thom Yorke over Israel-Palestine stance

Former Pink Floyd man Roger Waters does not hold back

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“Man, this is a hit!”: Roger Waters’ vision, David Gilmour’s classic solo and a disco groove - the magic combination in Pink Floyd’s freak Christmas No 1

“It wasn’t my idea to do disco music," Gilmour said

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"A terrific primer for anyone unfamiliar with their crepuscular catalogue": Crippled Black Phoenix revisit the past on The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature

The 20th album from Underground linchpins Crippled Black Phoenix comes with a second disc of covers

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