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“It's always been a dream that one day I would go and see him [Syd], obviously. But it'd be extremely painful for me, and maybe painful for him. And I could take the pain, but I don't know if he could.

“There are also the great memories of being in a band with Syd, when he was such a joy and so outgoing. Just to be with him was wonderful, we had so many laughs and fun.”

Rick in an interview in September 2001.

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November, 1967 - Casa Madrona Hotel, Sausalito, California

📷: Baron Wolman

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URL: https://atagong.com/iggy/archives/2016/10/memory-marbles-2016-new-iggy-pictures-found.html

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Syd Barrett Pink Floyd - Architectural Association, Student Party Bedford Square, London England, December 16 1966. © Adam Ritchie

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March, 1967

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Roger W., 1970

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“Lions” (1963) by Roger Keith Barrett (Syd)

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unknown photoshoot - probably 196(7/8)

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20 y.o Syd❣️

1966 - 📷 by Angela Williams

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June 1963 - 17 y.o. Roger Barrett at Butlins Skegness

"Ha! Ha! Look at me! All wonky! Ha! Ha!" – his actual quote with which he captioned this photo

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1967

I've made only a close-up edit and I'm not srry

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Pink Anderson (1900-1974)

Pink Anderson was a historic figure whose music included Piedmont-style blues, folk music, ragtime, and traditional ballads. He was born in South Carolina and early on sang in the streets for pennies. He was self-taught as a guitarist and toured throughout the Southeast with a variety of medicine shows (including Dr. William R. Kerr's "cure all medicine") during 1915-1945, picking up work wherever he could. He was employed not only as a musician and a singer but as a dancer and comedian.

Anderson recorded four titles in 1928 but did not make another record until Harlem Street Spirituals in 1950 for Riverside. At that time he recorded such traditional folk material as “John Henry,’ ‘The Ship Titanic,” and “Wreck of the Old 97.” He continued to work at parties, street fairs, and medicine shows during the first half of the 1950s before retiring for a time due to ill health. But in 1961, the Bluesville label recorded three albums of unaccompanied performances by Anderson, documenting him in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The titles of the three records, Carolina Blues Man, Medicine Show Man, and Ballad & Folksinger, vol. 3, sum up Pink Anderson’s life well and are a large slice of the repertoire that he had performed during the previous 35 years.

Pink Anderson stayed active on a part-time basis up until the time of his death in 1974. His music represents the Carolina blues, and the tradition of the constantly traveling folk singer.

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Floyd Council (1911-1976)

Floyd Council was a blues singer and guitar slinger who played in the East Coast / Piedmont style. He didn’t record solo often, but he’s still said to have recorded 27 songs, many backing up the legendary Blind Boy Fuller.

Born in North Carolina, Floyd began his musical career on the streets of Chapel Hill in the 1920s, performing with two brothers, Leo and Thomas Strowd as “The Chapel Hillbillies.” He recorded twice for ARC at sessions with Blind Boy Fuller in the mid-thirties, all examples of the Piedmont style. He was sometimes promoted as ‘Dipper Boy Council’, and ‘The Devil’s Daddy-in-Law,’ but these were likely the invention of record companies, not genuine nicknames.

Council suffered a stroke in the late 1960s which partially paralyzed his throat muscles and slowed his motor skills, but did not significantly damage his cognitive abilities. Folklorist Peter B. Lowry attempted to record him one afternoon in 1970, but he never regained his singing or playing abilities. Accounts say that he remained “quite sharp in mind.” Council died in 1976 of a heart attack, after moving to Sanford, North Carolina.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Anderson and Floyd Council were both featured on a Blind Boy Fuller album called Country Blues: 1935-1940. The sleeve of that album caught the eye of Syd Barrett, the frontman for London band, The Tea Set. Barrett changed the band's name to Pink Floyd, and the rest is history.

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1967 - Stockholm, Golden Circle

📷 by Kenneth Ekberg

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Robert Wyatt about the wonderful experience of working with Syd Barrett. This is an extract from an interview with Robert Wyatt, drummer with The Soft Machine, and drummer on MadCap, talking about working with Syd. The interview is by Ritchie Unterberger, taken from the book: Unknown legends of Rock'n'Roll:

Q: I wanted to ask a question about someone else in the book who I won’t be able to interview. You drummed on some of Syd Barrett’s solo records.

Wyatt: I didn’t see them (the Pink Floyd) perform very much. I liked him. He was shy, he was thoughtful, and he was definitely onto something.

Q: Did you find him difficult to work with?

Wyatt: Absolutely not, no. Very easy. Almost too easy. He was very, very easygoing. So easygoing that you didn’t necessarily know what he wanted, or whether he was pleased with it or not, because he seemed quite pleased with what you did. I think possibly he may have suffered as well from moving into the world of commercial culture, as they did. I think it might have been very confusing for him. Being an artist, working in an attic, to us - this may be a silly illusion, it’s just a silly romantic dream, just like being a pop star. But I don’t think his romantic dreams were anything to do with the responsibilities of commercial pop stardom.

It’s not a snobbishness, this thing about commercial stuff. It’s just the fact that it seems to have a momentum all its own, and there seems to be demands made on it. You know how it is with, for example, Hollywood films–they’re really accountant-led. Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less, you know what I mean? It happens in the music itself as well. All the machinery that starts to come into gear, from management and touring and the whole way it’s done, the musician becomes a fairly small cog in a machine where all these sort of semi-comatose people in the industry certainly come alive, and they certainly know how to act. And suddenly, your whole life is being run by lawyers and accountants. And you’re meant to be very pleased, because you’ve made it and so on. But in fact, you’re just getting carried along in a flow where your own personal thing can get completely lost.

As I say, it’s not a question of snobbery. Some wonderful stuff comes out of that. But if you did have your own little thing, maybe it can’t survive being put through that kind of process. I have no idea, but I imagine that could easily have been what happened to Syd. That the actual success of the band just completely threw him off-balance, I can imagine.

Q: Is there truth to the stories that the musicians on his solo albums weren’t told what key the song was in, or that they just had to settle on whatever takes were completed?

Wyatt: That’s true, but I mean, that’s not very… I was brought up, musically, in the ‘50s. If you want eccentricity, and that kind of non-verbal world and those kind of weird signals that you have to pick up, you can’t beat jazz musicians, you know (laughs). I’m just reading the stories, as I say, about working with Mingus and all those people. Working with Syd Barrett’s a piece of cake, I think. I found him courteous and friendly. I can’t think of anything wrong with him. I really liked his songs. I liked them musically, I liked them lyrically, and I liked the way he sang them. I can’t fault him, really. I don’t think he did anything wrong that I know of. I just think that not everybody fits into the business. I know from personal experience, it’s not that easy.

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A Compilation of Pink Floyd Videos

Hi there! I haven’t really seen any compilations of the Floyd Boys, so I took the time out of my day to make a little post of some of the videos that are available on youtube of (mostly young) Floyd, organized by date. If any of the dates or other information is incorrect, or the links broken, feel free to tell me!

I don’t own any of the videos myself, btw.

Concerts / Performances

BBC Television performance of Pow. R. Toc. H. and Astronomy Domine, plus an interview of Roger and Syd being savage (May 14 1967) - Epilepsy Warning

Apples and Oranges, live in Los Angeles on American Bandstand (Nov. 7 1967)

Instrumental Improvisation from BBC’s The Sound of Change (Mar. 26 1968) - Epilepsy Warning

It Would Be So Nice in Rome, Italy (Apr. ? 1968)

Remember a Day (May ? 1968)

Interstellar Overdrive at Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, Italy (May 6 1968)

Samedi et Compagnie - Paris, France (Sep. 6 1968)

Let There Be More Light

Remember A Day

Let There Be More Light in Paris, France (Oct. 31 1968)

Let There Be More Light in Paris, France (Nov. 1 1968)

Forum Musiques - Paris, France (Jan. 22 1969)

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

A Saucerful of Secrets

‘The Man’ and ‘The Journey’ - Royal Festival Hall, London (Apr. 14 1969)

Afternoon (Biding My Time)

The Beginning (Green Is The Colour)

Cymbaline

Beset By Creatures of the Deep

The End of The Beginning (A Saucerful of Secrets)

Essencer Pop & Blues Festival (Oct. 11 1969)

Careful with that Axe, Eugene

A Saucerful of Secrets

Alternate Video

Music Power & European Music Revolution - Festival Actuel, Amougies Mont de l’Enclus, Belgium (Oct. 25 1969)

Green Is The Colour

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Interstellar Overdrive with Frank Zappa

Interstellar Overdrive at Fillmore West (Apr. 29, 1970)

KQED - San Francisco (Apr. 30 1970)

Atom Heart Mother

Cymbaline

Grantchester Meadows

Green Is The Colour

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun at Kralingen Pop Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Jun. 26-28 1970)

Concert at Festival De Musique - Saint Tropez, France (Aug. 8, 1970)

Atom Heart Mother

Embryo

Green Is The Colour

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun in a really old church in France (Jul.? 12? 1971)

Live at Pompeii - Pompeii, Italy (Oct. 1971) - [1974 re-release]

Echoes, Part 1

[On the Run]

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

A Saucerful of Secrets

[Us and Them]

One of These Days

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

[Brain Damage]

Mademoiselle Nobs

Echoes, Part 2

Any Colour You Like at Brighton (Jun. 29, 1972)

Interviews 

I’ll be adding more soon I swear

David Gilmour interview in French (Jan. 22 1969)

David Gilmour talking about how he gets his sound (fairly recent)

David Gilmour & Rick Wright talking about performing at the JFK stadium & Rick being a DJ lmao (story takes place in 1968, video is fairly recent)

Promotional Videos

Chapter 24 Promotional Video (Footage from 1966 and 1967)

Apples and Oranges Promotional Video (? 1967?)

Arnold Layne Promotional Video 1 (Late Feb. 1967)

Arnold Layne Promotional Video 2 (Apr. 29 1967)

The Scarecrow Promotional Video (Jul. ? 1967)

The Scarecrow Promotional Video Outtakes (Jul. ? 1967)

See Emily Play - BBCTV recovered footage (Jul. 6? 1967)

Jugband Blues Promotional Video (Dec. 1967) - Epilepsy Warning

Let There Be More Light Promotional Video (? 1968)

Point Me At The Sky Promotional Video (? 1968)

Tienerklanken Promotional Videos (Feb. 19/20? 1968)

Astronomy Domine - Tienerklanken

Astronomy Domine - Tienerklanken - Kastival

Corporal Clegg - Tienerklanken

Paint Box - Tienerklanken

See Emily Play - Tienerklanken

The Scarecrow - Tienerklanken

Corporal Clegg Promotional Video (Jul. 22 1969)

Green Is The Colour Music Video (Aug. 8 1970)

Misc.

An acoustic version of Echoes performed by David Gilmour & Rick Wright at Abbey Road Studios (2006)

A compilation of David Gilmour’s first year with Floyd (1968)

An hour long BBC broadcast of chronological footage of Pink Floyd performing from 1967 to 1972

Dark Side of the Moon short documentary

Early years interview with Roger Waters in 1968

Two Floyd sessions w/ Syd from Jan. 11-12, 1967

Which One Is Pink?

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1967

My two favourite Rogers

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April 29, 1967 - Amsterdam

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