Lots of news from my world.

Extraction

At the moment, I'm sitting in the parents' waiting room at Primary Childrens Hospital in Salt Lake City. Our son, Eli, who will be three years old next month, had his tonsils and adenoids removed this morning. They were huge and he was having difficulty breathing and eating food that wasn't soft.

The doctor came back about 30 minutes ago and said everything went well. So, now I'm just waiting to be called back into the recovery area. Christine's already back there -- they only allow one parent back at first.

Pink Floyd News

I've got a bunch of Pink Floyd news...

Syd Barrett dies

Original bandleader of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, has died. More news is over here. It's nice to see the band continues to pay tribute and respect to the guy.

Pink Floyd Pulse finally out on DVD!

The last PF studio album -- The Division Bell -- was released in 1994 and was followed by a worldwide tour of the band. In 1995, the band released a live album from the tour titled "Pulse." In addition to CDs, Pulse was also released on VHS and laserdisc. It would be twelve more years before Pulse was available on DVD. Today, it is available for purchase.

I got my copy last night. I pre-ordered it about six months ago and Buy.com got it to me a day early.

I was so excited to watch it. I've had it on VHS for a long time, but the sound and video quality is SO much better than the VHS, plus there are lots of extras. The sound was remastered for 5.1 surround sound and is available as a 640 kbps stream for even-better-than-usual DVD audio quality if your DVD player supports it (mine does).

Over four hours of Pink Floyd goodness including 145 minutes of actual concert footage.

You can get your copy from Amazon.com.

North By Northwest

This last weekend, Sons Of Nothing presented out FloydShow tribute to Pink Floyd in Spokane, Washington and Longview, Washington.

It was our first time in Spokane and the first time we were booked by a talent agency called Bravo Entertainment, so we were on our best behavior. The show was at The Big Easy Concert House and it rocked!

Erik Young, the lighting engineer at The Big Easy, programmed an excellent show that worked exceptionally well with the music. Kudos to him. He also worked with me to get our video running to all the TVs in the house as well as the two projector screens to each side of the stage in addition to ours behind the stage.

FloydShow in Spokane

We're looking forward to heading back to Spokane, maybe in October or November.

Saturday night, we played in Longview, WA which is about 30 minutes north of Portland. We played at the Cadillac Island Casino two years ago (when it was the Cadillac Ranch Casino), so we already had experience working with the management. The show went off well. My only complaint was that they didn't really prepare any lighting for the show and, as a result, the lighting presets used were a bit silly - being either too much or not enough for the music being played. The crowd seemed to dig it nonetheless.