A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd

Infobox Album |
Name = A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd
Type = Album
Artist = Various Artists


Released = March 23 2003
Recorded = January 2002–February 2003
Genre = Progressive rock and Indie rock
Label = Stanley Recordings Venice, California
Producer = John Would (on most of the 31 tracks)
Reviews *All Music Guide Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kxfyxqqaldke link]

"A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd" is a two CD compilation of Pink Floyd covers released in 2003 by Stanley Recordings then of Venice, California and now of Santa Monica, California. [http://stanleyrecordings.com/]

Background

"A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd" was conceived by members of Pink Floyd tribute band Which One's Pink? in response to inquiries from fans asking whether the tribute band had recordings for sale. The band decided to release its own covers of Pink Floyd songs in the context of a collection of "interpretative" covers that were performed in different styles and genres. As a result, most of the covers on "A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd" sound very little like the Pink Floyd originals. The compilation consists of two CDs -- one entitled "US" and the other entitled "THEM", a reference to the song Us and Them from Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon.

"A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd" has interesting connections to Pink Floyd and a unique mix of contributors. Tim Myer (covers "Goodbye Blue Sky") is a "guitar tech" with Roger Waters' touring band. [http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/tours/rw_2002.htm] Pierre DeBeauport (of Becca & Pierre, who cover "Childhood's End") is a "guitar tech" with the Rolling Stones and co-author of the Rolling Stones song "Thief in the Night" which appears on the "Bridges to Babylon" album. Shaun Guerin (covers "In The Flesh") is the son of Joni Mitchell drummer John Guerin. Big Lee's "Another Brick in the Mason's Wall" is a derivative work composed from Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 and was licensed as such by Warner Chappell Music -- the administrator of the copyright the compositions. "The 5 Minute Version of the Wall" by Rat Bat Blue contains a section from every composition that appears on Pink Floyd's album "The Wall". Mike Keneally (covers "Astronomy Domine") was a member of Frank Zappa's touring band and later a member of Steve Vai's band. Rat Bat Blue regularly performed "The 5 Minute Version" as part of its live set. Tortfeasor's "Pigs on the Wing" contains paraphrase from the opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the case of "Fowler v. Board of Education", 819 F. 2d 657 (6th Cir. 1987) which upheld a school board's action in suspending a teacher for showing her class the film "". Full opinion available here [http://www2.yk.psu.edu/~jlg18/484/pdf_files/ps_fowler.PDF link] "Shark of Shark 'N The Smoke" (covers "High Hopes") is a member of the American Alternative band Wild Colonials [http://www.wildcolonials.com] . Dave Chapple (covers "San Tropez") was a member of the touring band Love founded by Arthur Lee. Producer John Would (as "John Wood") was a member of Warren Zevon's touring band in the early 1980s [http://www.archive.org/details/wz1982-10-22.fm.flacf]

Title

The title of the album comes from a quote from Roger Waters 1987 Rockline interview in response to a callers question about his opinion of Pink Floyd's then new album A Momentary Lapse Of Reason he described it as 'A pretty fair forgery'.

Track listing

CD # 1 Entitled "US"

CD #2 Entitled "THEM"

Reviews

*François Couture on AllMusic.com [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kxfyxqqaldke]

*Matt Rowe on Music Tap [http://www.musictap.net/Reviews/VariousAFairForgeryOfPinkFloyd.html]

*Keith "Muzikman" Hannaleck on ProgressiveWorld.net [http://www.progressiveworld.net/var_pinkfloydtrib2.html]

*ProgNaut.com [http://www.geocities.com/prognaut/reviews/va-afairforgery.html]

*Jon Nelson on JamBase.com [http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=5789]

*Andy Gibbons in Neptune Pink Floyd Magazine [http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/magazine/2006/12/the-surrogate-floyd.php]