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Spare Bricks is a quarterly webzine covering the music of Pink Floyd, the band, its members and fans. Each issue is published in English. (It is alternately known as "Spare Bricks The Pink Floyd Webzine.")

Spare Bricks was started in 1999 by Rick Karhu, primarily as a free and non-commercial alternative to traditional print fanzines. The current editor is Mike McInnis.

The debut issue was published in July 1999, after a one-month delay when it wasn't ready for the announced June unveiling. Spare Bricks was a bimonthly webzine for the first two issues, but changed to quarterly publication beginning with issue 3.

Spare Bricks carries on in the tradition of numerous print predecessors (like The Amazing Pudding which ceased publication in 1993, and the defunct fanzine Brain Damage) by carrying a wide-range of articles of interest to both casual and hard core Pink Floyd fans, including feature stories, opinions, reviews, interviews and more. The webzine twists those traditions with some Web-specific notions about presentation and content, and takes a less "editor-centric" approach, encouraging contributors to mold their own stories to a great degree. Each issue focuses on a specific theme.

The webzine has been host to a wide variety of original columns including Gilmour, Guitars and Gear, KAOS Theories, RoIO Review, The Camera Eye, Floydian Places, Vinyl 101, Brick By Brick, Heroes for Ghosts and others.

Contents 1 Publication highlights 2 Past Issues 3 See also 4 External links

In the spring of 2005, the webzine featured an exclusive interview with Pink Floyd drummer, Nick Mason.

In the winter of 2000, the webzine was granted permission to print exclusive transcripts of an interview conducted with singer/bassist, Roger Waters.

The webzine has also featured interviews with numerous band associates, including backing singer Venetta Fields, photographer Rupert Truman, laser operator Mark Grega, DJ Jim Ladd (who appears on Roger Waters' Radio KAOS), singer Roy Harper, screenwriter Ted Shuttleworth and others.

The webzine has included contributions from Vernon Fitch (Pink Floyd archivist and author of several Pink Floyd books) and audio engineer, Johnny Valenzuela who recorded Roger Waters' performance of The Wall in 1990 at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

Previous issues of Spare Bricks can be found at the publication's official archive. The archive was unveiled August 1, 2006.

• Pink Floyd
• Roger Waters
• David Gilmour
• Syd Barrett
• Richard Wright
• Nick Mason
• Psychedelic music

• Spare Bricks
• Spare Bricks Archive