Man of Leisure Music was not so much founded as it just kind of happened over a period of time. The three gents who comprise MoLM -- Dan Kraft, Geoff Flynn, and myself (Gabriel Perry, aka Flupe) have all been avid fans and collectors of Pink Floyd music for many years. Indeed, the music of Pink Floyd is much of the glue that has brought us together as friends, and keeps us together as such, despite the fact that we live in three different states. (The state of confusion, the state of enlightenment, and the state of leisure.)

Our roots are in upstate New York, where Dan and I collected Pink Floyd bootlegs long before there were such acronyms as "roio" to kick around in describing the hobby. Flynn entered the picture later adding much energy and enthusiasm. His relentless dedication, generosity, and good spirit have placed MoLM on the strong footing it rests today.

Of course, the advent of the Internet and digital technology has also played a major role in catapulting our musical hobby into a new dimension.

(Pink Floyd, Circa 1971)

Dan, Flynn and I all slipped into our respective roles almost entirely by accident, but this has contributed to our success in finding, trading, remastering and re-releasing the rarest and lowest generation sources of live Pink Floyd music. Dan (affectionately known as Ranger Danalog, or simply Danalog, for his love of analog sound) is MoLM's remastering engineer. I'm MoLM's webmaster and secondary roio prospector, and Flynn (his first name was only used at baptism) is the major force in prospecting, trading, re-releasing, networking and promoting MoLM throughout the Floyd trading community. Both Danalog and I are eternally grateful and feel very lucky to have such a great friend in Flynn.

The first MoLM remastered re-release was of the last "real" Pink Floyd concert, the last Wall show performed at London's Earl's Court, June 17, 1981. Since then, the magic of Danalog's remastering skills has touched many an roio, particularly from the Animals and Wall Show concert eras. The most noteworthy release that MoLM has distributed to the trading community was The Definitive Wall Series, which consists of seven rare and unusual dates from the 1980-81 Wall show tours, and is of particularly high quality I might add.

How did we get our name? It's a mercifully short story. Flynn has always been in awe of Danalog's uncanny ability to do as little work as humanly possible, sleep until noon, and remain as unfazed as a sphynx concerning the on-goings of this crazy world. On a particular visit to Danalog's bungalow in sunny Arizona, Flynn couldn't help but keep calling him the "Man of Leisure." The rest, of course, is history.

- Flupe (Boulder, CO)