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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 - Atom Heart Mother - 3rd - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.80, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 26-Jul-2024 17:04)on July 27, 2024 at 1:04 am
PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother (1978 UK issue of the 1970 5-track LP, with 'EMI Records' perimeter label print & small boxed EMI logo. The gatefold picture sleeve is Excellent with little shelf wear & the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with only a few faint signs of play SHVL781)
- Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free - Tri-fold - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $19.35, €17.85 (New Item) (arrived 22-Jul-2024 15:30)on July 27, 2024 at 1:04 am
PINK FLOYD When The Tigers Broke Free (1982 UK four-prong centre 7" vinyl single, also including Bring The Boys Back Home, issued within the superb tri-fold picture sleeve with stills from the film inside. The sleeve displays some minor general wear and the vinyl shows only light signs of play, overall an Excellent example HAR5222)
- Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - 5th - Complete Stickered - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £75.00, $96.75, €89.25 (New Item) (arrived 22-Jul-2024 12:52)on July 27, 2024 at 1:04 am
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon (1979 UK issue of the classic 1973 10-track LP with 'EMI Records' label perimeter text, housed in the iconic gatefold picture sleeve with the custom sticker attached & the blue copyright statement inside lower left, complete with two large fold-out colour posters & two stickers. The sleeve [VG+] shows a little edge scuffing from shelf wear & the posters are unused. The vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with just a few minor cosmetic signs of play SHVL804) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.80, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 22-Jul-2024 12:52)on July 27, 2024 at 1:04 am
PINK FLOYD A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (1987 UK 11-track vinyl LP with picture labels, the group's first album after the departure of Roger Waters, gatefold picture sleeve with illustrated lyric inner. The sleeve has some minor general wear/foxing with light scuffing, whilst the vinyl has a few cosmetic surface scuffs, overall a Very Good example EMD1003)
- Pink Floyd - More - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £95.00, $122.55, €113.05 (New Item) (arrived 22-Jul-2024 13:15)on July 27, 2024 at 1:04 am
PINK FLOYD More (1969 UK first press 13-track stereo LP with stamped matrices ending '1G' & silver & black one box EMI labels, only used in 1969 before the introduction of the two box design in 1970. The Hipgnosis flipback sleeve is front laminated with the green tinted image of a West facing couple on the back, complete with the period company inner. The sleeve shows few signs of wear, whilst the vinyl shows light wear, mainly to Side 2. A decent copy to complete the collection SCX6346)
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