21-451: White Flames is the first solo album by British blues guitarist Snowy White , released in 1983. It includes the song " Bird of Paradise ", which reached No. 6 on the UK charts when it was released as a single. The album has been issued with several different track lists and at least once under the title Bird of Paradise , after the hit single. It was remastered and reissued on CD in 2010 with
42-536: A backing guitarist from 1977 to 1980), and more recently for Roger Waters ' band. He is also known for his 1983 single " Bird of Paradise ", which became a UK Singles Chart Top 10 hit single. Terence Charles White was born on 3 March 1948 in Devon, England. He grew up on the Isle of Wight and was self-taught as a guitarist, having received his first guitar from his parents at the age of ten. He moved to Stockholm in 1965 at
63-577: A little G&K amp became the backbone of Dave's guitar sound for that record. A video of longtime Pink Floyd recording engineer Andrew Jackson, sitting at the mixing console of the Astoria Studio, is available online. Numerous photographs taken in 1993 of the band recording The Division Bell on board the Astoria appear on the sleeve of the 2014 Pink Floyd album, The Endless River . Dara Ó Briain , Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath visited
84-495: A very comfortable working environment—three bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, a big lounge. It's 90 feet long. Gilmour bought the boat after seeing it advertised for sale in a copy of Country Life magazine in his dentist's waiting room, just a short while after admiring it while being driven past its moorings. Parts of each of the last three Pink Floyd studio albums, A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994), and The Endless River (2014), were recorded on
105-399: Is framed in mahogany and has mainly Crittall windows with taller, wider windows towards one end. It is topped by very ornate metalwork canopies and balustrades. I just happened to find this beautiful boat that was built as a houseboat and was very cheap, so I bought it. And then only afterward did I think I could maybe use it to record. The control room is a 30-foot by 20-foot room. It's
126-612: The Animals tour, approached him about joining Thin Lizzy. The collaboration with these two bands was very complicated; the invitation to rehearse the live show of The Wall for Pink Floyd, happened at the same time he was invited to become a full-time member of Thin Lizzy, with whom he recorded/co-wrote their Chinatown and Renegade albums. White left Thin Lizzy in August 1982. White's connection to Pink Floyd continued in later decades. White
147-618: The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames . Gilmour purchased the boat in 1986, because he "spent half of [his] life in recording studios with no windows, no light, but on the boat there are many windows, with beautiful scenery on the outside". The boat was built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno who wanted to have the best houseboat on the river permanently moored alongside his hotel, the Karsino at Tagg's Island . He designed it so that an entire 90-piece orchestra could play on deck. The boat
168-695: The Flesh US tour and in 2000, Waters again toured the US, this time recording a live album and making a film of the show. Again, from February to July 2002 White toured the world with Roger Waters. Another White Flames album (as a three-piece), entitled Restless , was released in May 2002. Spring 2005 saw the release of a new White Flames album, titled The Way It Is , with a basic four-piece outfit consisting of Richard Bailey (drums/percussion), Walter Latupeirissa (bass) and Max Middleton (keyboards). A DVD, The Way It Is...Live! ,
189-606: The Peter Green In the Skies session, and the extended, 8-track tape version of the Pink Floyd song " Pigs on the Wing ", featuring White's guitar bridge between the two parts. White has recorded five albums with his White Flames band. The first three were No Faith Required in 1996, Little Wing in 1998 and Keep Out: We Are Toxic in 1999. In 1999 White joined Waters for his band's In
210-592: The age of seventeen, spending more than a year there playing in a trio called the Train. In 1968 he purchased his signature guitar, a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop. White made his way to London by 1970, and found work as a session player and as a member of Heavy Heart. During this time he met Peter Green and the two began a lifelong friendship (he later appeared on Green's album In the Skies ). White had been recommended to Pink Floyd by Kate Bush 's former manager Hilary Walker, as they were looking for an additional guitarist for
231-571: The boat, as were parts of Gilmour's solo album On an Island (2006). His fourth solo studio album, Rattle That Lock (2015), was mixed and partially recorded there, as was his 2024 album ‘’ Luck & Strange ’’. It was also used for mixing the Pink Floyd live album Pulse (1995) as well as the Pulse film (1995), Gilmour's Remember That Night DVD/Blu-ray (2007) and his Live in Gdańsk (2008) live album/DVD. Bob Ezrin has mentioned, however, that
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#1732844376799252-547: The bonus track "For the Rest of My Life", a non-album B-side recorded live in the studio. Several songs differ slightly between the vinyl and CD editions of the album, with alternative mixes or edits in addition to the altered running order. All tracks are written by Snowy White Snowy White Terence Charles " Snowy " White (born 3 March 1948) is an English guitarist, known for having played with Thin Lizzy (permanent member from 1980 to 1982) and with Pink Floyd (as
273-411: The equipment was recommended by James Guthrie and Andrew Jackson . Nowadays the Astoria has a Neve 88R mixing console, as well as three Studer A827 multi-tracks and Ampex ATR-100 tape recorders, which were modified by Tim de Paravicini , Esoteric Audio Research's (EAR) founder. The conversion to a studio also required 14 miles (23 km) of cables, which were sourced from Van den Hul cables of
294-403: The floating studio posed a few problems when it came to engineering guitar sounds for A Momentary Lapse of Reason : It's not a huge environment (...) So we couldn't keep the amps in the same room with us, and we were forced to use slightly smaller amplifiers. But after playing around with them in the demo stages of the project, we found that we really liked the sound. So a Fender Princeton and
315-747: The floating studio/house while rowing up the Thames for the BBC television programme Three Men in a Boat . Gilmour's rendition of William Shakespeare 's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"), set to piano, was also filmed on the Astoria. According to an interview with Phil Taylor (Gilmour's guitar technician), the studio on the Astoria was originally equipped with a DDA AMR 24 mixer console and UREI 813 studio main monitors with Phase Linear amps. The UREI 813s were replaced around 1990 by ATC main monitors. Customised ATC SCM150ASL active speakers are used for
336-1036: The live band on the In the Flesh tour in 1977 to promote the Animals album. White's solo on " Pigs on the Wing " ( 8-track version only), was his first time playing for the band. During the tour, White started off the show by playing bass guitar on the song " Sheep ", as well as soloing during " Have a Cigar " and "Shine on You Crazy Diamond Part VIII". Following the tour, which ended in July 1977, White played guitar on Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright 's debut solo album Wet Dream , recorded in January–February 1978 and released in September 1978. In 1979 Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham , having seen White play with Pink Floyd in New York City during
357-463: The main left and right channels with a standard ATC SCM150ASL active speaker used as the centre channel . The centre channel sits above an ATC SCM0.1–15 subwoofer . The surround monitors are two ATC SCM50ASLs. A variety of near-field monitor speakers are used including Yamaha NS-10s and Auratones depending on who happens to be working at the studio. The acoustic design was done with the assistance of Nick Whitaker, an independent acoustician, and much of
378-916: Was completed and issued. White toured with Waters in The Dark Side of the Moon Live tour from June 2006, having played in Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and South America. He also performed with Waters at Live Earth . White formed a new band in 2008 named the Snowy White Blues Project. In Our Time of Living was released in April 2009. The group featured Matt Taylor: guitar/vocals, Ruud Weber: bass/vocals, Juan van Emmerloot: drums, and Snowy White: guitar/vocals. In 2010 White toured again with Roger Waters, in The Wall Live . In 2016, White's "Midnight Blues"
399-660: Was invited by former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters to perform at The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990, by the ruins of the Berlin Wall , along with other artists. Waters also called on White in 1991 for the "Guitar Legends" concert, in Seville . David Gilmour was the guest on White's 1994 album Highway to the Sun , appearing on the track "Love, Pain and Sorrow", with Gilmour playing his Digitech Whammy pedal-enhanced Fender Stratocaster , which
420-564: Was recorded at Gilmour's houseboat studio, The Astoria . Apart from guest appearances by Chris Rea , David Gilmour and Gary Moore , the album also introduced two new Dutch-Indonesian musicians, Juan van Emmerloot (drums) and Walter Latupeirissa (bass and rhythm guitar). Kuma Harada also played bass and rhythm guitar. White's next album project was entitled Goldtop , named after his Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Standard guitar. It featured material in which White has been involved from 1974 until 1994, including two tracks from Thin Lizzy, jams from
441-467: Was sampled on rapper Meek Mill 's track "Blue Notes". Due to health issues, he announced his retirement from playing live in 2019. Astoria (recording studio) Astoria is a grand houseboat , built in 1911 for impresario Fred Karno and adapted as a recording studio in the 1980s by its new owner, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour . It is moored on the River Thames at Hampton in
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