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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, $95.25, €87.75 (New Item) (arrived 18-Mar-2024 10:34)on March 19, 2024 at 9:25 am
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 just a little light shelfwear & despite foxing to the labels, the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play SRS5071)
- Pink Floyd - The Final Cut - 2nd - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.40, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 11-Mar-2024 08:53)on March 19, 2024 at 9:25 am
PINK FLOYD The Final Cut (1983 UK 12-track LP with picture labels, glossy gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics across the inner spread & black inner. The sleeve shows a little shelfwear, mainly to the edges and has seam split to the top, whilstthe vinyl shows only light signs of play SHPF1983)
- Pink Floyd - Animals - 180gm - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.40, €23.40 (New Item) (arrived 02-Mar-2024 10:10)on March 19, 2024 at 9:25 am
PINK FLOYD Animals (2016 UK/EU 5-track remastered LP for their tenth studio album, originally released in January 1977, pressed on 180gram Vinyl. Comes housed in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve with the lyric inner. The sleeve is Excellent [tiny half inch paper fracture in a top edge] & the heavyweight vinyl is Excellent with few signs of play PFRLP10)
- Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - 50th Anniversary Remaster 180 Gram - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $31.74, €29.24 (New Item) (arrived 05-Mar-2024 14:43)on March 19, 2024 at 9:25 am
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary 2023 UK/EU limited edition 10-track LP, newly remastered for this special anniversary release and pressed on 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl. First released as part of The Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary Box Set, this is the first time that the new remaster of this classic album has been available separately. Gatefold picture sleeve with iconic original cover artwork and replicas of the original poster & sticker inserts. New hype sticker, factory sealed. Recommended) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Remastered 180 Gram - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $31.74, €29.24 (New Item) (arrived 05-Mar-2024 14:57)on March 19, 2024 at 9:25 am
PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here (2016 UK/EU remastered edition heavyweight 180-gram vinyl LP of their September 1975 classic album. The Hipgnosis designed picture sleeve and bonus postcard are concealed inside a black shrink-wrap, complete withthe George Hardie designed 'machine handshake' sticker on the front. One of the all-time greatest albums. Essential!) #Top 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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