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“Rush Hashanah,” “VH1 Classic All Time Top 10,” “AC/DC Day,” “WHOlloween,” “VH1 Classic Gives Thanks For Pink Floyd,” “VH1 Classic One-Hit Wonders” and “VH1 Classic Celebrates Dylan”

This Fall VH1 Classic is bringing its viewers more of their favorite classic artists with all-new exclusive series and specials. The new slate of programming begins on Monday, September 29 as VH1 Classic and rock ‘n roll icons Rush celebrate “Rush Hashanah.” The network’s fall lineup also includes premieres of “VH1 Classic All Time Top 10,” and “VH1 Classic One Hit Wonders,” as well as never-before-scene documentaries, and past and present videos and concerts from artists including Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Bob Dylan, and The Who.

“Rush Hashanah” – Monday, September 29 beginning at 7PM*

From sunset on Monday, September 29 to sunset on Tuesday, September 30 rock band Rush will celebrate the Jewish New Year, during “Rush Hashanah” on VH1 Classic. The 24-hour tribute to Rush will include two of the band’s concerts including “Rush in Rio” and “R30″ as well as past and present videos from band.

“VH1 Classic Celebrates Dylan” – Tuesday, October 7 beginning at 8PM*

Bob Dylan continues his long history of great music, with the release of his compilation, “Tell Tale Signs,” from the “Bootleg Series” on October 7. In honor of this great release, VH1 Classic will air “Bob Dylan Unplugged” and the classic 1965 D.A. Penebaker documentary “Don’t Look Back” featuring behind-the-scenes moments with Joan Baez, Donovan and Alan Price, and Dylan’s iconic opening of “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”

“VH1 Classic All Time Top 10″ – Premieres Friday 10/10 at 10PM*

VH1 Classic will celebrate the biggest and best in music during “VH1 Classic All Time Top 10.” The new series will premiere Friday, October 10 at 10:00 PM with a new episode to air every Friday at 10:00 PM. Hosted by Mark Goodman, each episode will focus on a specific artist or genre of music including Def Leppard, Madonna, Van Halen, male singers, female singers, metal and many more.

“AC/DC Day” – Sunday, October 19 beginning at 6AM*

One of the baddest bands in the land, AC/DC is returning after eight years. The group’s new album, “Black Ice,” hits stores October 21 and VH1 Classic is celebrating the new release with a 24-hour marathon. Sit back and relax with AC/DC as VH1 Classic takes you through archival footage of the group, BBC concerts and one of the groups most seminal concerts, “Live at Donnington.”

In conjunction on Tuesday, September 16, VH1Classic.com kicked off “AC/DC Day” with their ultimate fan sweepstakes: “VH1 Classic Presents The AC/DC All Aboard The Rock & Roll Train.” One lucky fan will get the chance to attend the last LIVE AC/DC rehearsal at a secret location and party like a rock star as they hit the road from NYC in their own “party train.” All entries must be received by October 20. Go to http://www.vh1classic.com/ to enter to win and for official rules and guidelines.

“WHOlloween” – Friday, October 31 beginning at 6AM*

Viewers are in for a treat on Halloween as VH1 Classic dedicates 24-hours to one of the most iconic rock groups of all time, The Who. Throughout “WHOlloween” rock down memory lane with original series and specials including “VH1 Rock Honors: The Who,” “VH1 Classic Rock Doc: Amazing Journey – The Story of the Who,” “Classic Albums: Who’s Next,” as well as “BBC Electric Proms: The Who” and “On Tour: The Who Virtual Ticket.” Then at 9:00 PM settle in for the premiere of “The Who Live at the Isle of Wight.”

“VH1 Classic Gives Thanks for Pink Floyd” – Thursday, November 27 beginning at 11AM*

VH1 Classic is ‘giving thanks’ to one of the best rock bands in history — Pink Floyd. Throughout the day, the network will air documentaries including “The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story,” and “Pink Floyd: Which One’s Pink?” and will recount the story behind the making of one of the group’s most influential albums during “Classic Albums: Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon.” The ‘day of thanks’ will cap-off with an encore presentation of the band’s iconic movie “The Wall” and premiere the new concert “David Gilmour: Live in Gdansk.”

“VH1 Classic One-Hit Wonders” – Premieres Monday, December 1 – Thursday, December 4 at 9:00 PM

Hosted by Carrie Keagan, “VH1 Classic One-Hit Wonders,” will premiere on Monday, December 1 at 9:00 PM with the first two episodes in the series. Throughout the week, VH1 Classic will premiere two new episodes each night that will salute the biggest one-hit music phenomenons in various categories including dance, metal, rap, new wave, ladies and more. They’re the songs you can’t help but sing…and the music videos you love to watch.

* All Times ET/PT

Source: VH1

Background

Members:
David Gilmour (1968–present)
Nick Mason (1965–present)
Richard Wright (1965–81; 1987–present)
Former members:
Roger Waters (1965–85)
Syd Barrett (1965–68; d. 2006)
Bob Klose (1965)

Origin: Cambridge, England Flag of England
Genres: Progressive rock, Psychedelic rock, Experimental rock, Space rock, Electronic music
Years active: 1965–present (on indefinite hiatus since 1996)
Labels: Tower (US: 1967–69), Harvest (US: 1969–73; Europe: 1969–84), Capitol (US: 1967–74, 2001–present), Columbia (US: 1974–2000)

Discography

Studio albums:

1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – (1967) – #6 UK; #131 U.S.
2. A Saucerful of Secrets – (1968) – #9 UK; didn’t chart in the U.S.
3. Music from the Film More – (1969) – #9 UK; #153 U.S.
4. Ummagumma – (1969) – (Double album) – #5 UK; #74 U.S. (Platinum)
5. Atom Heart Mother – (1970) – #1 UK; #55 U.S. (Gold)
6. Meddle – (1971) – #3 UK; #70 U.S. (2x Platinum)
7. Obscured by Clouds – (1972) – #6 UK; #46 U.S. (Gold)
8. The Dark Side of the Moon – (1973) – #2 UK; #1 U.S. (1 week) (15x Platinum (Diamond))
9. Wish You Were Here – (1975) – #1 UK; #1 U.S. (2 weeks) (6x Platinum)
10. Animals – (1977) – #2 UK; #3 U.S. (4x Platinum)
11. The Wall – (1979) – (Double album) – #3 UK; #1 U.S. (15 weeks) (23x Platinum (Diamond))
12. The Final Cut – (1983) #1 UK; #6 U.S. (2x Platinum)
13. A Momentary Lapse of Reason – (1987) – #3 UK; #3 U.S. (4x Platinum)
14. The Division Bell – (1994) – #1 UK; #1 U.S. (4 weeks) (3x Platinum)

Live albums:

* Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988) (live) #11 UK; #11 US Platinum
* P*U*L*S*E (1995) (2CD, live) #1 UK; #1 US 8X Platinum
* Is There Anybody Out There? (2000) (live) #15 UK; #19 US Platinum

Major compilations:

* Relics (1971) (A-sides, B-sides, album tracks 1967-69) #34 UK; #152 US
* A Nice Pair (1973) #36 US -The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – A Saucerful Of Secrets (album)Gold
* A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981) (compilation) #37 UK; #31 US 2X Platinum
* Works (1983) (compilation) #68 US
* Shine On (1992) (boxed set) Platinum
* Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd (2001) #2 UK; #2 US 3X Platinum

Vinyl singles (1960s):

* 1967 (March 11th): “Arnold Layne” / “Candy and a Currant Bun” (#20 UK)
* 1967 (June 16th): “See Emily Play” / “The Scarecrow” (#6 UK, #134 U.S.)
* 1967 (November 18th): “Apples and Oranges” / “Paint Box”
* 1968 (April 12th): “It Would Be So Nice” / “Julia Dream”
* 1968 (December 17th): “Point Me at the Sky” / “Careful with That Axe, Eugene”

Other:

* Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967 documentary film soundtrack, featuring 2 tracks)
* “Give Birth to a Smile” (song featuring (uncredited) all four members from Roger Waters and Ron Geesin’s Music from “The Body”, 1969)
* The Man and the Journey (1969 aborted live concept album)
* Zabriskie Point (1970)
* Masters of Rock (1974)
* London ‘66-’67 (1995)
* 1967: The First Three Singles (1997)
* The Committee (1968) (Unreleased soundtrack from the film, The Committee)
* The Early Singles (Distributed with the Shine On box set)

Soundtracks:

* Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1968)
* More (1969)
* Zabriskie Point (1970)
* Obscured by Clouds (1972)

Top 20 singles:

* 1967: “Arnold Layne”;/”Candy and a Currant Bun” (#20 UK)
* 1967: “See Emily Play”/”The Scarecrow” (#6 UK, #134 U.S.)
* 1973: “Money”/”Any Colour You Like” (#13 U.S.)
* 1979: “Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)”/”Young Lust” (#1 UK, #1 U.S.)
* 1979: “Hey You”/”Comfortably Numb” (#19 U.S.)
* 1987: “Learning to Fly”/”On the Turning Away” (#1 U.S. Mainstream Rock, #55 UK)

Introduction

Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. They are known for philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and elaborate live shows. One of rock music’s most successful and influential acts, the group has sold over 200 million albums worldwide, and an estimated 73.5 million albums in the United States alone.

Pink Floyd are one of the heaviest-bootlegged bands in history, with bootleg recordings of the band numbering at least in the hundreds. Collectors of these bootlegs often call them RoIOs, or Recordings of Indeterminate/Illegitimate Origin. The vast majority of these are audience recordings of their various concerts, as only a few studio outtakes and soundboard recordings have leaked to bootleggers. The most popular exceptions are the unreleased Syd Barrett songs “Scream Thy Last Scream” and “Vegetable Man”, but there are others as well, such as “Lucy Leave” and a cover of Slim Harpo’s “I’m a King Bee” both from the first incarnation of the band. Many bootlegs before the 1990s featured singles such as “Candy and a Currant Bun” that had not been released on compilation discs, but these disappeared when the The Early Singles disc in the Shine On box set was released. Collecting bootlegs is usually easy, as the internet has made bootleg sales for profit largely pointless. Organizations such as Harvested have made a hobby of cleaning up and remastering bootleg recordings and issuing them to traders for free.

The hundreds of audience recordings vary in quality from excellent (concerts in 1994 and 1988) to abysmal (the era between 1967 and 1971). Audience noise is often absent, because audiences of the band in their early days were very quiet. There are sometimes recordings of standout quality in a period of otherwise low-quality recordings; an example is the Electric Factory show in late 1970, which was nearly soundboard-quality during a period when most other recordings were extremely poor. (Audience recordings would not regularly be as good as the Electric Factory show until 1988). Other standouts include the “Fireman” source of the Hollywood Bowl concert in 1972, in which a complete rendition of the pre-release “prototype” Dark Side of the Moon suite was played; the 9 May 1977 show in Oakland from the same source, which includes the last performance of “Careful with That Axe, Eugene” to date; and an excellent recording of the 24 April 1975 show in Los Angeles, taped by the legendary taper Mike Millard, containing the best-existing versions of Dick Parry performing a saxophone solo in “Echoes” and the prototype “Raving and Drooling” and “You’ve Gotta Be Crazy”, which would eventually become “Sheep” and “Dogs” respectively.

to be continued …