Following Floyd Supergroup chronicled between the covers Pink Floyd: In the Flesh (The com- plete performance history) by Glenn Povey and Ian Russell, Bloomsbury 1997 IT goes without saying that you're pretty “into” Pink Floyd if you fly all over the world in an effort to chronicle every per- turmance of the British supergroup. And it follows that you'd have to be pretty “into” The Pink if you actually wanted to read a book listing every per- formance (and even those gigs by Floyd members before the band formed). If this sounds like must-have informa- tion, you'll love Pink Floyd: In the Flesh. Uf you're more interested in good writing and band history, this is not the book for you. British authors Glenn Povey and Tan Russell covered the globe compiling the information found within this 256-page hardcover distributed by Vancouver-based Raincoast Books. Povey is the founding editor of Brain Damage, a magazine dedicated to all that is Pink Floyd; Russell is a regular contributor to the fanzine. Subtitled The complete performance history, this book is that and a bit more. The first entry: “Cambridge, England. Geoff Mott & The Mottoes. Spring 1962. Personnel: Roger (Syd) Barrett, guitar, vocals; Geoff Mort, vocals; Tony Sainty, bass guitar, Clive Welham, drums.” And the last, some 200 pages and 34 years later: “1 1th Annual Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, New York. Pink Floyd.” In between, lots of gigs, lots of band members, lots of madness, lots of great music. If you are a big fan of the band — and considering both Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall are among the best- selling albums ever, there are many of you out there — complaints about the book will be few. In addition to the chronological schedule of gigs, there are dozens of color photos. Gig posters, ticket stubs and alburs covers comple- ment the photo:. However, there is 2 glaring omission — no index. Keeping track of names and bands és an exer<‘s: akin to a Mensa Mind game, especially during the carly years. Also, given that much of the gig information (i.c. times, dates, locations, song lists) was culled from a myriad of sources, mistakes are possible. In fact, after just minutes of leafing through the book, News reporter Martin Millerchip found an error. Seems our man Martin was 2 young visitor to Canada in 1972. His first rip into the big city of Vancouver was to see Pink Floyd at Gardens Arena in September of that year. According to the book, Pink Floyd played three shows in two days at the PNE venue. Not according to Martin. Regardless, for Floyd fanatics, Pink Floyd: In The Flesh is a great book. — Andrew McCredie Phato Robert Ettis PINK Floyd guitarist David Gilmour (right) pets Trigger with Roy Harper aboard backstage at Knebworth in 1975. One of a number of great color images in the recently released book Pirik Floyd: In the Flesh. s a Eye on graphic design THE Autumn ’97 issue of the UK’S premier graphic design journal Eye has just arrived on these shores. Among the articles in this issue of the quarterly readers will find an essay on internet site design The diaphanous machine which examines ways designers can bring visual clarity and consistency to Web interfaces and new ways to organize navigation. A second article Television did it first compares the hype of the online medium with the older technology. Other pieces include a profile of radical ster designer Gunter Rambow, archival sam- - - ples of the “Mapbooks” and lurid covers of Dell Books pulp fiction, and an overview of graphic designs of music created by composers. Most of the scores are from the 20th cen- tury but one, a heart-shaped love song entitled Belle, bonne (shown above) was composed - by Baude Cordier at the court of Avignon, c. 1400. B.C. bestseller recounts sailors’ tales of terror — folm Goodman Dangerous Waters (Wrecks and Rescues off the BC Coast) “by Keith Keller, Harbour Publishing 1997 “There they were, two boaters without a bont, separated from each other by an undetermined distance, their horizons consisting of dis- tant mountains visible across ten kilometres of whitecapped water.” - Keith Keller, Dangerous Waters (Wrecks and Rescues off the BC Coast, Harbour Publishing 1997) KEITH Keller’s Dangerous Waters brings the horrors of Titanic experiences closer to home for B.C. readers. The collection of rwenty-one tales documents some of the more spectacular marine disasters off the coast through interviews with survivors, media accounts and accident reports. The author has divided the text fairly evenly into South Coast _ and North Coast adventures with photographs and maps to illus- trate each event. Excellent graphics by Graham Wagg help readers visualize some situations encountered by survivors and rescuers. As U.S. Coast Guard Lieut. Larry Littrell told Keller while dis- cussing a rescue mission in Juan De Fuca Strait: “The weather at the time was extremely dark, a heavy overcast with no moon, no stars, hard driving rain, and when we got on scene a lot of patchy fog and winds pretty strong out of the west. Nobody scems to get lost when it’s real nice out.” Wagg's illustration of Littell’s helicopter saving a boater off the southern coast of Vancouver Island provided Keller with the cover for Dangerous Waters. North Shore readers might remember the June, 1993 incident when West Vancouver chef Jurgen Schulte pulled two boaters (B.C. Lions president Glen Ringdal and his nephew Glenn Baron) from the Strait of Georgia while he was in a sailboat race to Nanaimo from Horseshoe Bay. The story of their rescue “Glen and Glenn Go Overboard” is worthy of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. The worst accident recounted in the book has striking similari- ties with the Titanic. The Norwegian cruise ship Meteor, on an eight-day cruise to Alaska, caught fire near Texada Island in the early hours of May 22, 1971. Sixty-seven passengers and nine- ty-one crew members were at risk as fire raged through the ship’s lower decks. Thirty-two crew members died during the fire, making it the second worst marine disaster in B.C. history. Among the peo- ple Keller interviewed during his research of the incident were Coast Guard communications officer Barry Hastings, the cruise ship’s master (now-retired) Captain Alf Momer and passen-.. ger Robert Scott Jr, who had travelled on the Meteor 36 times. 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