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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 - Another Brick In The Wall Part II - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $9.92, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 29-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 30, 2025 at 5:40 pm
PINK FLOYD Another Brick In The Wall Part II (1979 UK 7" single with picture labels & intact four prong centre, also including One Of My Turns, plain die-cut paper sleeve HAR5194)
- Pink Floyd - Animals - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $62.00, €59.50 (New Item) (arrived 24-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 30, 2025 at 5:40 pm
PINK FLOYD Animals (Rare 1977 UK first press 5-track LP with picture labels, the band's tenth studio concept album based on the conditions of British society in the seventies & loosely influenced by George Orwell's Animal Farm. Comes housed the original wide spined gatefold sleeve which is non barcoded and the original round cornered card lyric inner with 'SHVL 815 (I)' print & wide spined gatefold picture sleeve with 'Made & printed in Great Britain 7701 TM Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd'text inside. The sleeve is VG with some light general wear. The vinyl is clean & grades EX with only a single cosmetic scuff/hairline revealing light play SHVL815)
- Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair - 1st - VG - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £15.00, $18.60, €17.85 (New Item) (arrived 24-Jan-2025 12:11)on January 30, 2025 at 5:40 pm
PINK FLOYD A Nice Pair (1973 UK 18-track double LP, repackaging The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & A Saucerful Of Secrets albums with 'Gramophone Co' perimeter label text, housed in the original withdrawn 'W.R. Phang Dental Surgeon' gatefold sleeve with album artwork inners. The sleeve shows some notable general wear, as do the inners whilst the vinyl has some scuffs to indicate play SHDW403)
- Pink Floyd - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs - Greek - vinyl LP - £20.00, $24.80, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 24-Jan-2025 12:31)on January 30, 2025 at 5:40 pm
PINK FLOYD A Collection Of Great Dance Songs (1981 Greek 6-track vinyl LP, complete with picture inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light shelfwear and some ringwear, the vinyl is Excellent with just some light cosmetic clouding evident 14C064-07575)
- Pink Floyd - More - 5th - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $24.80, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 24-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 30, 2025 at 5:40 pm
PINK FLOYD More (1978 UK fifth issue of the 1969 13-track stereo LP on the two EMI box logo label with 'EMI Records' perimeter text, a fantastic soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's exploration of drug addiction on the Balearic Island of Ibiza, starring Mimsy Farmer & Klaus Grunberg, front laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve is Excellent with the odd faint crease and ring wear, while the vinyl appears seldom played SCX6346)
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