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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 - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs - 180gm - UK - vinyl LP - £14.99, $18.59, €17.24 (New Item) (arrived 27-May-2023 11:21)on May 28, 2023 at 1:08 am
PINK FLOYD A Collection Of Great Dance Songs (2016 UK/EU 6-track LP compilation, remastered from the original analogue tapes & pressed on 180gram Vinyl, housed in a deluxe picture sleeve with illustrated inner. Mint & unplayed in the hype stickered shrinkwrap PFRLP19)
- Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - Japanese - vinyl LP - £125.00, $155.00, €143.75 (New Item) (arrived 18-May-2023 09:39)on May 28, 2023 at 1:08 am
PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother (1974 Japanese Quadraphonic 5-track LP, fully compatible with conventional stereo systems, housed in a heavy duty textured gatefold picture sleeve with a unique six-page booklet containing a Japanese biography, photographs & English lyrics. The packaging is Excellent with just a little minor foxing inside, the vinyl is clean & grades Excellent to Near Mint with few signs of play EOZ-80008)
- Pink Floyd - The Final Cut - 1st - Stickered - UK - vinyl LP - £125.00, $155.00, €143.75 (New Item) (arrived 17-May-2023 15:27)on May 28, 2023 at 1:08 am
PINK FLOYD The Final Cut (Rare 1983 UK first issue 12-track vinyl LP with picture labels & A-1U matrix for Side One. Complete with the original black inner, the gatefold picture sleeve retains its title sticker affixed to the front and hasthe lyrics printed within while showing only light shelfwear and the vinyl remains in Near Mint condition with few signs of play SHPF1983)
- Pink Floyd - More - 5th - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.00, €28.75 (New Item) (arrived 17-May-2023 15:49)on May 28, 2023 at 1:08 am
PINK FLOYD More (1978 UK fifth issue of the 1969 13-track stereo vinyl LP on the two EMI box logo label with 'EMI Records' perimeter text, front laminated picture sleeve with East facing couple on the back cover. A fantastic soundtrack to Barbet Schroeder's exploration of drug addiction on the Balearic Island of Ibiza, starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grunberg. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play SCX6//3/46/)
- Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - 3rd - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.00, €28.75 (New Item) (arrived 17-May-2023 15:54)on May 28, 2023 at 1:08 am
PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother (1978 UK issue of the 1970 5-track vinyl LP with 'EMI Records' label perimeter text & small boxed EMI logo, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl looks barely played SHVL781)
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