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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 - Ummagumma - 2nd - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £45.00, $56.25, €52.65 (New Item) (arrived 01-May-2024 17:34)on May 2, 2024 at 7:34 am
PINK FLOYD Ummagumma (1969 UK second issue 9-track double LP with 'The Gramophone Co' perimeter text & EMI boxed logo on the label, front laminated gatefold 'Gigi' picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl remains near 'as new' with few signs of play SHDW1/2)
- Pink Floyd - Meddle - 2nd - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 27-Apr-2024 10:46)on May 2, 2024 at 7:34 am
PINK FLOYD Meddle (1978 UK second issue of the 1971 6-track vinyl LP with 'EMI Records' label perimeter text & EMI logo, featuring the epic classic Echoes. The textured gatefold picture sleeve shows only light shelfwear and a little spine creasing, the vinyl has some cosmetic scuffs not affecting play SHVL795)
- Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall - US - 3" CD single - £25.00, $31.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 25-Apr-2024 12:26)on May 2, 2024 at 7:34 am
PINK FLOYD Another Brick In The Wall (1988 US 2-track 3" CD single, also including One Of My Turns, housed in a clear 3" wallet still n the original hype stickered flat card longbox sleeve, with open shrink)
- Pink Floyd - The Wall - 1st + Sticker - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £595.00, $743.75, €696.15 (New Item) (arrived 25-Apr-2024 16:08)on May 2, 2024 at 7:34 am
PINK FLOYD The Wall (1979 UK 26-track double vinyl LP with picture labels complete with card lyric inners & title sticker, gatefold picture sleeve which does not list the band member names inside. Both the sleeve & vinyl are astoundingly Near Mint. An album that no collection should be without! SHDW411) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - Quad - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £150.00, $187.50, €175.50 (New Item) (arrived 25-Apr-2024 16:09)on May 2, 2024 at 7:34 am
PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother (Rare 1973 UK first press 5-track SQ Quadraphonic LP fully compatible with regular stereo setups, with 'Gramophone Co' label perimeter text. This earliest UK Quad pressing contains the 'drip' at the end of Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast continuing into the runoff groove, & comes housed in the original gatefold picture sleeve with the SQ logo top right & Quad series inner. A nice one previous owner example, the sleeve shows little of its age & the vinyl isNear Mint Q4SHVL781)
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