December 10th

  

 On December 10th, 1987 I saw Pink Floyd play BC Place Stadium in Vancouver on their A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Tour. Still one of the best concerts I have ever seen.

June 28th

  

 It was on June 28th, 1994 that I saw Pink Floyd in concert for the second time in three days. Having just seen Pink Floyd play indoors in Vancouver it was time to see them play Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton outdoors. Both shows were fantastic.

June 26th

 Hard to believe it was 30 years ago already. June 26th, 1994 my brother Citrus and I saw Pink Floyd on their The Division Bell Tour play B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.

Seven Inch Saturday (Pink Floyd)

Today's seven inch single is from Pink Floyd featuring the songs See Emily Play on side A and on the flip side is Scarecrow. Both songs were on the debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn released in 1967. The single I have is a mono version on pink vinyl reissue that was released in 2013 as part of Record Store Day. It was a limited edition of 5000 copies. Both songs were written by Syd Barrett are true classic psychedelic songs.

26 Years Ago Today...December 10th

It was twenty-six years ago today that I saw Pink Floyd play BC Place Stadium in Vancouver.

And it was three years ago today that I saw Roger Waters perform The Wall in Vancouver at Rogers Arena.

Pink Floyd Bottle of Wine

While on vacation recently in Parksville, British Columbia I went to a liquor store that was attached to our hotel I came across this bottle of wine that I had seen advertised in Rolling Stone magazine. The bottle I picked up was the Pink Floyd bottle of wine, which is a red wine (cabernet sauvignon 2010) produced by Mendocino Wine Company out of California. I know fuck all about wine, but was told that it is actually a really good wine. Made no difference to me as I just thought it was one cool looking label. Being a big Pink Floyd fan, I had to get me one of these. There is a series of bottles that are available under the label "Wines That Rock", the only other bottle I saw at this liquor store was the Rolling Stones one, which also looked very cool. But having to pack this Pink Floyd bottle in my suit case for the flight home, I only took the chance on one bottle. And as you can see from the pictures, it made it home in one piece, yay!!! Other bottles available are as mentioned Rolling Stones, Woodstock, The Police and The Grateful Dead. All the labels on these bottles are very sharp looking, I am hoping I can find the Dead, Stones and Woodstock ones. I have yet to try the wine, but I wouldn't know a good wine from a bad one.

19 Years Ago Today...June 28th

It was nineteen years ago today that I saw Pink Floyd play Commonwealth Stadium here in Edmonton.

19 Years Ago Today...June 26th

It was nineteen years ago today that I saw Pink Floyd play in Vancouver at BC Place Stadium.

Also on this day fifteen years ago, I saw Big Sugar play an airport hangar here in Edmonton. This show was an absolute gong show.

Also on this day twelve years ago, I saw Buddy Guy perform at the Jubilee Auditorium here in Edmonton.

As well on this day four years ago, I saw Megadeth and Slayer play in Edmonton at the Shaw Conference Centre.

And finally, it was on this day two years ago I saw The Sadies with openers The Sheepdogs play at The Pawn Shop here in Edmonton.

Rolling Papers

After all the gifts a person gets for Xmas, it's time to find a place for it all. Well, after doing some cleaning and throwing out of stuff. I stumbled upon some music memorabilia I forgot I even had. I will be featuring some of them over the following weeks. Today, I am gonna post some of the rolling papers I have collected over the years.

First off are some Tragically Hip papers. The first package are from a Hip show I saw in 2000.



Another package of Hip papers from a show in 2007.



Some Black Crowes papers from a show in 2006. A very cool cover for these papers.



Then of course some Slayer rolling papers that seemed to sell real good at the 2006 concert I bought them at. Yup, lots of weed smoked at that show.



Then a few packages of papers bought at the local head shop. Some Bob Marley papers, which only makes sense. Just surprised that the rolling papers are a normal size.



And my newest package of papers in which I just got for Xmas. Pink Floyd rolling papers, seems pretty appropriate to me.

Concert Shirt Of The Day Jan.30th (Pink Floyd)

Today's t-shirt is from the second and third time I saw Pink Floyd in concert. These shows were in 1994 when Pink Floyd were touring for their album 'Division Bell'. I made the trip to Vancouver to see them play at BC Place Stadium in front of 60,000 people. I went to this show with my brother, both of us on psychedelics. before the concert we were outside the stadium tripping out and drinking beers and trying to sell an extra ticket that we had, don't recall why we had an extra one, but we did. We eventually sold it to a homeless guy for a handful of change, making his day as he really wanted to see the concert. Out of the handful of change the guy gave me, I gave back enough change to the guy so that he could buy himself a beer at the show, talk about a guy being appreciative. He thanked us many times over. BC Place is a domed stadium, which made for an excellent light show and sound, just an amazing concert. After the show, my brother and I were walking outside the stadium and for some reason walking against the flow of traffic of thousands of people, if that wasn't bad enough, we are still tripping as many other people are as well, and at the time my brother had bright green mohawk, which made for a lot of people pointing and making comments about his hair, we laughed and laughed, good times indeed.

Two days later I made the trek back to Edmonton to see Pink Floyd play in front of 60,000 people at Commonwealth Stadium. This show was at an outdoor stadium which was cool, but in the summer in Edmonton, it doesn't get dark til 11 o'clock at night, so the light show and lasers didn't work as well here as in Vancouver. Nonetheless, another awesome performance by Pink Floyd.



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Concert Shirt Of The Day Aug. 5th (Pink Floyd)

Today's t-shirt is from the Pink Floyd (minus Roger Waters) concert I saw in 1987 in Vancouver at BC Place Stadium. Pink Floyd were on tour for their Momentary Lapse Of Reason album. This show was absolutely amazing, I still rate this as one of the best shows I have ever seen. I bought tickets for this show through a tour company that included plane tickets to Vancouver and a pre show party. I was only 17 years old at the time but was able to have drinks on the plane all the way to the show ( a whole hour and a half, drank the plane dry) and drinks at the pre party, so I was in all my glory, thinking I wasn't gonna be able to have drinks the whole time. On top of that, I did mushrooms before I got on the plane so I would have a buzz on for the big concert, well I have to say, everything worked out really well, made for an interesting plane ride I tell ya. 60,000 people in BC Place, all kinds of smoke and people tripping out on psychedelics, excellent tunes, wicked light and laser show, just an unbelievable concert.

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In concert news... Roger Waters will be playing Vancouver on Friday December 10th at Rogers Coliseum or whatever they are calling it now, 23 years to the day of first time seeing Floyd. Roger will be doing the Wall in its entirety, this should be an awesome show. My friend A-Bomb and I are going to this show (row 14 on the floor).