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In November 1967, Pink Floyd toured America for the first time, to promote their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In the first week of their visit, the English band were invited to play ABC Television’s prestigious American Bandstand show, hosted by Dick Clark, to mime to their recently-recorded third single Apples And Oranges. Now a Swedish artist known as Artist On The Border has painstakingly colorised the archive performance, frame-by-frame, bringing new life to the group’s mannered performance.
“I started the project in February 2021,” he reveals. “It ended on the 30th of December 2021. I’m not doing this again, like this.”
While in Los Angeles, Floyd were invited to stay with the Alice Cooper Band, in the group’s shared apartment on Beethoven Street in Venice Beach.
“The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was already a mainstay of our listening,” Cooper told this writer in 2020. “We totally got it, because it was like us, so weird and left-field – we didn’t think anyone else knew who they were. I remember that Glenn Buxton, our guitar player, really bonded with Syd Barrett, because they both used to play guitar through an Echoplex unit: they’d sit in Glenn’s room and get high and play guitar together all night.”
As Cooper recalls, it soon became apparent to all that Syd Barrett was having some mental health issues, which would ultimately cost him his place in the band.
“Syd was in a different headspace,” he recalls. “One night he got onstage, strummed one single chord, and got a shock from his guitar and mic: he stood there like a statue for an hour while the other guys just played around him.”
“I remember one morning I walked into the kitchen and Syd was sitting with a box of cornflakes in front of him, laughing, and he goes, ‘This is really cool, watch them!’” Cooper continues. “I’d no idea what he was talking about, there was nothing to see, but he was so high that he thought that the cornflakes were putting on a little show for him, singing and dancing, and he was having the best time watching them, he thought it was the most entertaining thing on the planet. I left the room and I could hear him laughing to himself for ages. At that point, I kinda had the feeling that he may be on the way to losing his mind…”
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- Pink Floyd - Relics - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $93.75, €90.75 (New Item) (arrived 24-Dec-2024 13:53)on December 26, 2024 at 12:58 pm
PINK FLOYD Relics (1971 UK first issue 11-track Stereo compilation LP featuring a collection of early singles, B-sides, album tracks & the previously unreleased recording 'Biding My Time', textured picture sleeve with artwork by Nick Mason. The sleeve shows light shelfwear with minor discolouration, the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with only a few marks to indicate play with the grooves remaining clean SRS5071)
- Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair - 2nd - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £25.00, $31.25, €30.25 (New Item) (arrived 18-Dec-2024 18:00)on December 26, 2024 at 12:58 pm
PINK FLOYD A Nice Pair (1973 UK 18-track double LP on the EMI box Harvest label with 'Gramophone Co' perimeter print, repackaging the albums Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & A Saucerful Of Secrets. Comes housed in the second edition gatefold sleeve with album artwork inners with shaped corners. The sleeve shows some faint shelf wear and both inners have a seam split to the bottom with handwritten title stickers but is otherwise in excellent condition. The vinyl discs are Excellent witha few hairline marks not affecting play SHDW403)
- Pink Floyd - Reflections And Echoes [On Record, On Stage & On Film 1965-2 - UK - DVD - £45.00, $56.25, €54.45 (New Item) (arrived 18-Dec-2024 16:03)on December 26, 2024 at 12:58 pm
PINK FLOYD Reflections And Echoes [On Record, On Stage & On Film 1965-2005] (2008 UK limited edition4-DISC PAL DVD set featuring a penetrating critical overview of the band from the psychedelic period of the 60s through to the Live8 show,investigating the often stormy personal relationships between the band members [in particular Roger Waters & David Gilmour], telling the stories behind the classic albums & reviews their spectacular trademark stage shows, complete with archiveand previously unseen interviews, powerful live performances and much more, packaged with 128-page book!)
- Pink Floyd - Ummagumma - 2nd - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £35.00, $43.75, €42.35 (New Item) (arrived 18-Dec-2024 16:45)on December 26, 2024 at 12:58 pm
PINK FLOYD Ummagumma (1969 UK second press 9-track double LP with 'Gramophone Co' perimeter label text & EMI boxed logos, front laminated gatefold 'Gigi' picture sleeve. The sleeve shows a little light ring wear scuffing & the vinyl remains inExcellent condition with minimal play SHDW1/2)
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 1st (A) - Complete - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £995.00, $1,243.75, €1,203.95 (New Item) (arrived 18-Dec-2024 16:57)on December 26, 2024 at 12:58 pm
PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here (Rare 1975 UK first issue 5-track vinyl LP with 'EMI Records Ltd' perimeter text on the labels & 'Waters-Gilmour-Wright' label credit for Part 5, indicating a first press, complete with the heavy card lyric innerwith cropped corners [later issues had rounded corners], glossy postcard with pinked edges & pinched spine picture sleeve, still with the original opened black shrinkwrap with the custom circular sticker attached on the front as well as the original vintage price sticker SHVL814) See 'moreinfo' for condition details... #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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