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‘We ended up going down some cul-de-sacs’: On David Gilmour’s experimental first projects with Pink Floyd

David Gilmour joined Pink Floyd as the band was completing its final recording with original frontman Syd Barrett. But 1968’s Saucerful of Secrets didn’t herald a new direction, so much as the beginning of a long period of experimentation. You May Also Like: Often-Forgotten ‘David Gilmour’ Was Pink Floyd Leader’sRead More

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Ringo Starr begins work on a new studio album, with Toto’s Steve Lukather on board

Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, a current member of Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band, tells us he wrote a song for this as-yet-unnamed album.

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‘If I never do it again, that’s OK’: Adrian Belew dives into ProjeKCt work, with no King Crimson regrets

The Crimson ProjeKCt, a Robert Fripp-approved King Crimson offshoot group, begins its new tour today in Tel Aviv — even as the mothership band is set to restart featuring two of the ProjeKCt’s stalwart members. You May Also Like: King Crimson moved far afield on Discipline, but didn’t forget itsRead More

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‘They keep pulling me back in!’: Yes reunion in the works for 1990s-era member Billy Sherwood

Billy Sherwood, who worked with Yes as a touring musician, studio mixer, producer and then as a full-time member across the 1990s, has returned to the fold as a second engineer on their on-going new studio project. You May Also Like: Billy Sherwood + Tony Kaye and Chris Squire, “TheRead More

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Something Else! sneak peek: Chuck E. Weiss, “Boston Blackie” from Red Beans and Weiss (2014)