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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 Saucerful Of Secrets + Obi - Japanese - vinyl LP - £75.00, $95.25, €87.75 (New Item) (arrived 16-May-2024 18:00)on May 16, 2024 at 11:14 pm
PINK FLOYD A Saucerful Of Secrets (1974 Japanese issue of the 1968 7-track LP, complete with illustrated Japanese / lyric insert, pasted picture sleeve & picture obi-strip. The sleeve displays minimal wear and the vinyl remains in a 'near mint' condition EMS-80318)
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Remastered 180 Gram - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $31.74, €29.24 (New Item) (arrived 14-May-2024 16:12)on May 16, 2024 at 11:14 pm
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
- Pink Floyd - Animals - VG - Italian - vinyl LP - £30.00, $38.10, €35.10 (New Item) (arrived 14-May-2024 11:29)on May 16, 2024 at 11:14 pm
PINK FLOYD Animals (1977 first Italian issue 5-track LP, the band's tenth studio album based on the conditions of British society in the seventies & loosely influenced by George Orwell's Animal Farm. The matrices read '98434-A-7-1-77' / '98434-B-30-12-76' indicating a first issue (later pressings had '78' or '81' stampers, referring to the year), housed in a gatefold sleeve with 'Made In Italy by EMI Italiana S.P.A.' print on the back & lyric card inner. The sleeve has some notableedgewear and general storage wear; the vinyl has a few light surface scuffs and hairlines. A respectable copy of this difficult to find pressing)
- Pink Floyd - Animals - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $63.50, €58.50 (New Item) (arrived 14-May-2024 12:28)on May 16, 2024 at 11:14 pm
PINK FLOYD Animals (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 in theoriginal wide spined gatefold sleeve which is non barcoded & complete with the round-cornered lyric inner. The sleeve shows some general shelfwear and paper loss spots to the edges, despite this the vinyl is clean & grades Excellent with few signs of play SHVL815)
- Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - 5th - Complete - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £65.00, $82.55, €76.05 (New Item) (arrived 14-May-2024 12:42)on May 16, 2024 at 11:14 pm
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon (Circa 1979 UK issue of the classic 1973 10-track LP with 'EMI Records' perimeter label text, housed in the iconic gatefold picture sleeve which also retains the two stickers & two posters. The sleeve is EX- showing a faint amount of ringwear and a single crease towards the top of the opening edge. The posters & the stickers show some light foxing but remain unused & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition some light spindle marks to indicate play SHVL804) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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