rare 1968 footage of Pink Floyd

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Syd has gone, but they've dressed up Gilmour to look like Syd!

http://www.lifelikepictures.homechoice.co.uk/pinkfloyd.htm

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, I've seen an excerpt of this on "Pop Quest" back in 1975...

Actually, is that not Primal Scream? The shirts? the lanky lank haired frontman? The inability of frontman to carry a tune in a bucket (at least for the first two minutes) ... ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Jonathan are u Zong from BCB?

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Not Zong, and what is BCB?

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

it's juts a forum i'm a member of that pointed me to the Floyd, and there's a guy on there called Zong. BCB is Black Cat Bone. No worry.

― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Does this feature Roger Waters singing the song on a landing in a very grandiose old building? Virtually unwatched by anyone digital channel BBC4 repeated a late-60s vintage episode of Omnibus t'other week with just such a clip in it. It also had a 5-minute segment on the Beatles which included a lot of stuff I'm sure I've never seen anywhere else.
Given that BBC4 repeats stuff so often, you're in with a good chance of catching this again in the near future!

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That is, if it's the same 'set the controls' footage mentioned on the other thread.

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember seeign this footage on something like sounds of the 60s on the bbc when i was young and being slightly scared by it...

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it this, or Syd doing "wooooooooooooooo. woooooooooooooo"

ahem.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

no, it was def this - set the controls for the heart of of the sun in exactly that setting. if i remember, it was a decent episode (67 ir 68, i think) and also included some footage from the cream farewell concert at the abert hall and that footage of jimi hendrix on some uk program playing a cover of 'sunshine of your love'

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I saw this on -I think- Pop *Quiz* in the early 80s. Mike Read looked very pleased with himself when he announced it.
Yes, I'm sure it's the same location, if not the same performance as the one screened on BBC4 t'other week. However, the sequence in the "All My loving" Omnibus is obviously edited, whereas here you're getting three takes with (presumably) live audio, and, I imagine, without any captions/effects. At least you do if you win the ebay auction the guy's currently holding.

― harveyw (harveyw), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably not Roger's fault he's singing out of tune -- the way he's cupping his ear indicates to me that there were probably no vocals in his monitor.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Regardless, excellent bit of footage... transfered well, I think!

― sexxyDancer, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

this was actually a rerun of "Sounds of the 60s", which i remember well from its first transmission in 1991 (when BBC2 - and C4 - still, to an extent, aspired to be what BBC4 aspires to be today). it may be repeated in the early hours of Saturday morning from 1.20-2.20 am - at any rate, the Floyd will be featured in that edition (probably two editions showing back to back, actually).

who was the Mitteleuropean-sounding chap treating the band with such incredible distance and disdain, a perfect explanation of why the Marine Offences Act was so hated (people *simply didn't trust* the BBC to handle such music)? a friend of mine once said he'd seen Sir Huw Wheldon (former BBC senior executive) treating an early incarnation of Pink Floyd as though they were some kind of psychological curiosity, but Wheldon didn't have that accent, surely? when Waters spoke up in his impeccable RP tones i got a distinct feeling that ultra-conservatives of the time would have hated him more precisely because of his voice than they would have done had he adopted a Jaggeresque mockney; "he doesn't feel the need to speak like a prole BUT HE'S STILL NOT ON OUR SIDE"

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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