Visit this Billboard article to see the full lineup and schedule details.

If there was a suitable reason or things change a bit in the next year or two and everybody suddenly thinks, ‘Well, actually, I really would like to do that’ then I think it’ll happen,” he said. “But until there’s that sort of sea-change, the only thing that would generate it would be something the equivalent of Live 8.

The good folks at Voiceprint Music have released another gem, this time from former Lizzy/Floyd guitarist Snowy White. Born Terence Charles White, Snowy made his reputation playing numerous sessions for a wide variety of musicians such as Al Stewart, Cliff Richard and Peter Green. More famously Snowy toured as second guitarist with Pink Floyd augmenting the bands sound on the tours to promote The Animals and The Wall albums. By late 1979 however, tiring of the session scene, Snowy accepted the offer to join the rock band Thin Lizzy. Snowy recorded two albums with Thin Lizzy (Chinatown and Renegade) and completed a number of successful tours before deciding that the bands music and more importantly their lifestyle wasn’t to his taste.

He formed his own band featuring drummer Richard Bailey and bassist Kuma Harada. With this band he recorded his first solo album entitled White Flames. A single lifted from that album (Bird Of Paradise) became a surprise hit reaching the British top ten in early 1983.

From here, Snowy White recorded a number of blues based albums all of which were warmly received by the blues audience his records are aimed at. His latest album is a live album recorded in late 2006 in between commitments with the Roger Waters Band with whom Snowy has been touring for the last eighteen months.

Live Flames finds Snowy alongside The White Flames which features Juan van Emmerloot on drums, Walter Latupeirissa on bass and long time keyboardist Max Middleton.

Amongst the tracks which are mainly solely written or co-written by Snowy White with members of the band is a cover of the Peter Green song Long Grey Mare which was originally a featured song on the very first Fleetwood Mac album in 1967. The band turn the song into a showstopping performance here and it is a highlight of the album.

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A total of 17 lots will go live on eBay at 5.00PM (UK time). Each auction will be timed to finish slightly after the last to ensure fans who miss out on one item have a chance to bid on others. Andrew Page, Director of Fundraising at Crisis said:

We are very grateful to David for the huge support he gives to Crisis. The money raised from the sale of these items will support our work fighting homelessness and our projects which empower people to transform their lives.

To learn more about the Crisis foundation, visit their website here.

This book will most surely be on many Christmas lists this holiday season. Written by David Gilmour’s guitar tech, “The Black Strat” tells the story of Gilmour’s iconic black guitar, bought off the shelf at Manny’s music store, New York, in 1970. The book format is large-scale paperback in a high-gloss cover, and its 121 pages feature a photo or photos on almost all of them:

The chronological story begins with David Gilmour joining Pink Floyd in early 1968, his guitar at that time, his subsequent instruments leading to the purchase of the Black Strat in 1970, and the other guitars that have come and gone. It details all of the changes and modifications made to the Black Strat, it’s use on Pink Floyd tours and iconic albums, David’s solo projects, and various guest appearances throughout the years.

The price is £19.95 plus shipping, and is currently only available at this website.

Gilmour has played GHS strings since ’79 when working on The Wall, but he’s used non-standard gauges that until now were not available in sets. Visit David’s website for more info.

In December, Pink Floyd will be releasing a mega box set titled, Oh By The Way, to coincide with their 40th anniversary. It will contain all of the band’s studio albums, each packaged in a faux-vinyl sleeve. In case you don’t remember your Floyd discography, the albums are:

The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
A Saucer Full of Secrets
Ummagumma
Atom Heart Mother
Meddle
Obscured By Clouds
The Dark Side of The Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
The Wall
The Final Cut
A Momentary Lapse of Reason
The Division Bell

“I can’t see why I would want to be going back to that old thing. It’s very retrogressive.”

The event pays tribute to many who have helped contribute to the cause including:Former President Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, VH1 Save The Music founder John Sykes, Mariah Carey and NAMM, The International Music Products Association. In addition, a group of students from VH1 Save The Music grant recipient schools across the country will play together for the first time as an all-student orchestra, demonstrating the impact of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation.

Visit the official event website for additional details.

The motion picture will screen in the following cities:

• September 17 – San Francisco – Roxie New College Film Center
• September 17 – Houston – Studio Movie Grill
• September 18 – Brooklyn, NY – Southpaw
• September 24 – Philadelphia – The Khyber

Broadcast in High Definition to 166 locations in North America – 112 in the U.S. and 54 in Canada – the event will include a one-song live performance by David, who will also answer a selection of fans’ questions.

A longtime favourite of many Floyd fans, Fat Old Sun is one of David’s songs from the Atom Heart Mother album, an opus that was Pink Floyd’s first UK Number One album. It has since been eclipsed in the critical view by subsequent albums such as Meddle and the twin peaks of The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, but it can bear a re-evaluation.

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