This is something I mentioned in the recent podcast below but thought I post it here too.  About a month ago the powers that be at my radio station, WAAF asked if I could help them with doing a Pink Floyd weekend focusing in on "The Wall".  Finally their resident Floyd DJ is called into action!  I was only asked to provide material but I wasn't involved in the actual programming... unfortunately.

Anyway, that weekend is now upon us and it's a "Walls Of Floyd Weekend" on WAAF.  We're celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Wall, by giving you 30 minute Pink Floyd blocks (get it?) every hour all this weekend!  

I'll be on the air Saturday Night from 7pm to 12midnight EST (-5) here in the Eastern New England area on 107.3fm and 97.7fm WAAF.  If you are not local, you can still listen on line here! For when in your local time zone, click here!

It will be a little different from what you hear in my podcasts but it'll be almost as if Brain Damage was back on the radio again before it was a podcast.

If you are in the area, join me and WAAF as we kick off our Pink Floyd weekend with Pink Floyd tribute band, The Machine at Showcase Live on Friday night.  Doors at 6pm, show at 8pm.  Showcase Live is located at Patriot Place, next to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA. 

That's not all!  After the show, we'll have a movie screening of "The Wall" in Showcase Cinema Delux right next door at Midnight.  I'll see you there!

Show #145 Release date: 01. December, 2009

Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 28. June 1975. Here's a gig that been long overdue for a podcast..  

This features the second to last performance of Echoes with Roger still in the band.  Their performance is excellent and the sound is amazing (after fixing it up of course).

It was the last show of the North American Tour so in a dramatic finale, Pink Floyd's crew decided to go out with a bang and used up their remaining pyrotechnics around the stadium scoreboard.  The explosion at the climax of the show was so intense it blew the scoreboard to pieces and shattered windows in neighboring houses.   All in the name of Floyd.

Please note this will be the last podast of 2009.  I wish you a safe and happy holiday season and a peaceful New Year!

Set One:
01. Raving and Drooling
02.You Gotta Be Crazy
03. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-5)
04. Have A Cigar
05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9)

Set Two:
06. Speak To Me
07. Breathe
08. On The Run
09. Time
10. The Great Gig In The Sky
11. Money
12. Us And Them
13. Any Colour You Like
14. Brain Damage
15. Eclipse

Encore:
16. Echoes

Running Time: 2h:29m:44s

Show #144 Release date: 13. November, 2009

Pepperland Auditorium, San Rafael, CA, 17. October 1970.  This is from the master tape.  Great sound, great show but the band experienced some technical glitches at the start.  To make up for it, the Floyd perform incredibly well and just jam out.  If you dig early gigs, then this is for you.  Enjoy!

01. Astronomy Domine (3 attempts)
02. Fat Old Sun
03. Cymbaline
04. Atom Heart Mother
05. The Embryo
06. Green Is The Colour
07. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
08. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
09. A Saucerful of Secrets


Running Time: 2h:16m:37s

Show #143 Release date: 24. October, 2009

This is kind of like a revisit of an old theme… No set list for this one but if you have to know, its embedded in the file of the podcast.  Enjoy!  There are a few tracks in this podcast that have never been featured before on Brain Damage.

Running Time: 1h:35m:05s

Show #142 Release date: 11. October, 2009

I'm back.  I can't thank you enough for your patience.  Its been long enough so lots get this rollin'.  Back in July I posted a 1977 gig out of Cleveland and since then I got to visit the area.  The photo you see taken at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, is the entire reason behind this podcast.  Pretty simple.  We go back again to Municipal Stadium, this time 27th May 1994.

Set One:
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Learning To Fly
3. What Do You Want From Me?
4. On The Turning Away
5. Take It Back
6. A Great Day For Freedom
7. Sorrow
8. Keep Talking
9. One of These Days

Set Two:
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-5)
2. Breathe
3. Time
4. High hopes
5. The great gig in the sky
6. Wish you were here
7. Us and them
8. Money
9. Another brick in the wall
10. Comfortably numb

Encore:
1. Hey you
2. Run like hell

Running time: 2h:38m:29s

Show #TEST Release date: 4. October, 2009

This is a test... a dry run if you will.  This only a test.

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Show #141 Release date: 24. September, 2009

Here is a little something for you while I've been getting my production studio all updated and sorted out.

Occasional surrogate DJ/host/presenter Scott Middlebrook from Melbourne, Australia has come to the rescue once again in time of need. Hes put together a neat floydcast of songs performed live before they were committed to tape.   Well done Scott!

Thanks again for your infinite patience and all the kind words.  I'm almost done getting everything back to normal.  I pretty much had to rebuild and update the production studio from the ground up... anyway in the meantime and as always... please enjoy!

01. Point Me At The Sky [BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, UK, 2. December 1968]
02. Shine On You Crazy Diamond [Trentham Gardens, Stoke on Trent, 19 Nov 1974]
03. Raving and Drooling [Trentham Gardens, Stoke on Trent, 19 Nov 1974]
04. Gotta Be Crazy [Trentham Gardens, Stoke on Trent, 19 Nov 1974]

Dark Side of the Moon [Nakanoshima Sports Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 13. March 1972]
05. Speak To Me
06. Breathe
07. The Travel Sequence
08. Time
09. Breathe (reprise)
10. The Mortality Sequence
11. Money
12. Us And Them
13. Any Colour You Like
14. Brain Damage
15. Eclipse

Running time: 1hr:45min:26sec

My worst nightmare has come to fruition... A few days ago, one of my 4 year old, raid'ed internal harddrives decided it had enough.  In the process of fixing this (having to replace both drives), I accidentally deleted a partition in my external back up drive holding all my production programs, elements and even some music.  This caused a massive problem because when a partition is deleted, the machine won't see the drive and all its wonderful data. 

I was able to recover most and I hope all the data which was very time consuming (14 hours) not to mention very stressing on my external drive.  The next step is to do a back up again but I have to get another drive (1tb) to do so (hopefully today). 

So to make a long boring story short and boring... I'm hosed until further notice.  At the rate I'm going, it should not be long but there will be a lot of backing up, reinstalling, reconfiguring, testing and all that happy horse poop.

So, again... (this hasn't been my year) there will be no podcast this week and there is a 50/50 percent chance there will be one the following week.  This has turned out to be a costly and time consuming process so your patience is much appreciated.

Best,
Doc

Show #140 Release date: 30. August, 2009

I've been in a early to mid Seventies funk lately so what better time to take care of a request for a gig from that era.  We start out with a good bye song from Boston because us Bostonians are twisted that way then we find ourselves on the dark side of the largest city in Switzerland at the Hallenstadion, 9. December 1972.  Doctored for supersound... Enjoy!

Set One:
01. Speak To Me
02. Breathe
03. The Travel Sequence
04. Time
05. Breathe (reprise)
06. The Great Gig In The Sky
07. Money
08. Us And Them
09. Any Colour You Like
10. Brain Damage
11. Eclipse

Set Two:
12. One Of These Days
13. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
14. Echoes

Encore:
15. Childhood's End

Running time: 2hr:00min:11sec

Show #139 Release date: 15. August, 2009

It's nice being back to the norm and behind the mic again.  For this podcast, there's no specific agenda.  Much of the material featured branches off into solo elements and guest appearances.  You'll even get to hear from a few other Rock N Roll legends.  It's just one of those nice mix'casts of pure Floydness.  Enjoy!

01. The Nile Song - More
02. Ibiza bar - More
03. Maisie (outtakes 1 & 2)
04. Don't Ask Me (What I Say) - Joker's Wild 1965 demo
05. Love Song #6 - Zabriskie Point Extended Soundtrack [Rome, Italy, 16. November 1969]
06. What God Wants (part 1) [The E Center, Camden, New Jersey, 11. August, 1999]
07. What God Wants (part 2) - Amused To Death
08. What God Wants (part 3 feat. Jeff Beck) [Royal Festival Hall, London, 12. September 2002]
09. Poles Apart [Chateau de Chantilly, Chantilly, France, 31 July, 1994]
10. Marooned [Valle Hovin Stadion, Oslo, Norway, 29. August 1994]
11. Along The Shoreline - Broken China
12. Ah Robertson, It's You [Saturday Night Live, New York City, 12. December 1987]
13. Deep In The Blues (with Les Paul) BAM Majestic Theater, Brooklyn, N.Y., 18. August, 1988]
14. If [Colisee de Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 7. November 1987]
15. One of These Days (first live performance) [Paris Theater, London, BBC's Top Gear, 30. September, 1971]
16. Echoes [Paris Theater, London, BBC's Top Gear, 30. September, 1971]
17. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-5) [Venice, 12 August & Vienne, 31 July 2006]

Running time: 2hr:6min:01sec
WBCN and Les Paul - R.I.P.