This may be my favorite version of this song. This is probably the highest energy level I have seen the band achieve, at least in videos. I never saw them live.
Typical 60's silly questions in interview " If your records aren't selling are you going to do something about it"?.. Rogers response is AWESOME "NO we are just going to do what we do".
"Are you commercial?" "If our records are selling then we're commercial." "I don't think you're commercial." "So that means our records aren't selling then." !!! Great version of a great song.
CoalTrain16 I know. Me Too! Have you heard his 'Fictitious Sports' album. Its the best of the Floyd 'Solo' efforts by about 40,000 miles! Mind you, its a far better band!
I'm not a huge fan of PF (just started listening to the four main albums a few months ago). I haven't really listened to any of the solo stuff besides a liiiitle bit of Waters' and I haven't really even given it a fair chance. I'll check out the Fictitious Sports thing though. Could be interesting, at the least.
Oh god, this was the time. Pink at its best. Halls full of smoke, everybody on the floor, girls in your arms and dreaming and flying away, 8 miles high. The best time in my life.
I love Roger's wit in this video, treating the word commercial as it is in the dictionary. Well if our records are selling here then we're commercial. I would say you're not commercial. So our records aren't selling then? Stupid interviewer.
sean Slevin He was an egotistical prick but without him Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall never would have happened. David was always a great musician but he was a shit lyricist. All lyrics from Dark Side - All Roger's.
because the music was revolutionary and they were not used to this. we would probably sound weird also if we would ask questions to some aliens from other planets lol
Damn, I wish we had gotten at least a few more years of Syd so as to at least have had some more footage of him. That's my thought everytime I see footage from the post-Syd 60's. Can someone please invent time travel so that we can film him more, record him more and get him his own band?
Syd named the band by juxtaposing two blues cats names he saw in the liner notes of an album by a cat named Blind 'Boy' Fuller, which he had in his possession, Pink Anderson and Floyd Counsil ( more Piedmont blues )
I just love watching old interviews of rock bands from the 60s and 70s. The host is always trying to figure out rock n roll. "Why do you do this and Why do you do that?" The response should be "If you don't know now, you never will."
I think also it is David Gilmour. At this time (1968) Syd Barret has been excluded (unfortunately) from Pink Floyd because use of acid, and nobody can control him. But the creator of the song is Syd. Very incredible !!!
I love it,it is so raw, such energy. Contrasted with the latest much more refined and sophisticated Pink Floyd, it's very cool to see where they came from. I like both Pink Floyds and EVERYTHING by Gilmour in recent years.
Pink Floyd were touring throughout much of 1968, and played venues in Belgium a number of times. The first visit was in February when they were filmed in a park, miming and messing about, for a Belgian TV show (these are on RUclips, look for Parc de Laeken). This performance is probably not in a TV studio (those were the days of miming to records, which they're not doing here). It might be at the end of August, at Kastival '68 in Kasterlee, but could be one of the clubs they played - the 68 tour schedule is linked to below, take your pick. And yes, in those days Floyd played loud - someone measured them at one gig at 120db, enough to damage your hearing if you're too close. But what the hell. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_World_Tour_1968 For all the was-that-Syd-at-1:21 posters : you never know. He was, by some accounts, quite likely to turn up at gigs and stand there staring fixedly at them. Most unnerving. If anyone can find a better-quality version of this performance, we might have the answer :)
i agree with you. its a good song with gilmour or gilmour and waters singing, but syd was the one who wrote the song and played and sung on the master track, so naturally his guitar style fits the song and so does his voice.
I bet you the great noise bands like Sonic Youth and Longwave have learned from the psychedelic-era Pink Floyd quite a bit....Nothing wrong with it. I can see this is also where the earlier The Cure and Echo & The Bunnymen got a little inspiration....love it!
I love this and what is so great about Pink Floyd is we got to see space/acid rock from them and total electronic 70's rock too. They were just brilliant all the way around and evolved many times over their course of existence. Unlike most, I enjoy the albums put out by David Gilmour and Richard Wright too, even the Division Bell. It's just solid music to throw on from track 1 to the end.
lol interviewer, its not named after the colour, but after 2 blues/jazz musicians, man Roger is just rockin out! u hear his voice clearly in this video too, I adore Roger's little bass twitch he does with his hair
Mason rocked!! Man could they play with sounds and ur head! 72 prov ri civic center. Quadaphonic sound 1st time. Man speakers as large as a car. Can still remember the seat. Which is a testament to their music hehehe ;-)
Nick Mason said in his book, Inside Out, that he experimented with the Keith Moon style of drumming for a while. Must have been exhausting! Love Roger getting crazy on the bass here.
I really love this version of Floyd. Punky as fuck. More footage of that drum kit shakin' please. Some of the other versions with Roger screaming thru' the song really are insane. Essential time in English music.
A lot of punk bands where big fans of syd barrett. In fact The Dammed where huge early pink floyd fans so much in fact that wright was to produce one of their early albums.
Freakin awsome to this day! Nice reply to the nutty newsguy hehe (Owner of EVERY P Floyd there is) one 8 track, oops dating myself.lol Pink floyd was/IS the cassius clay, pavorotti, whitey ford, Al Unser etc etc of the music world. Yes flicker flicker flicker POW :-) Bit loud on this though (
Positively Gilmour. He had slightly shorter hair there, playing his white Stratocaster (see pictured on the Ummagumma album cover in '69). Here he sings the higher "woooo wooo" parts, but yeah, I didn't know Waters sang as much on this one, filling Syd's parts. Nice one, although a whole middle section of the song is missing...thanks!
It's not impossible. I've read several reports of Syd turning up at the early '68 gigs and glaring at the band he had just been kicked out of. It's possible that he was more pleasant once and they let him backstage at one of those... who knows.
That was an amazing video of their early day, or their transitional day I guess I should say. I always figured that this time in their lives was a very dark time and it certainly comes through in the music. Does anyone know, is this part of a larger video? Anyone have a link to the whole thing?
yes, astonishing, no? great to hasve live footage of this, even if the editing is atrocious. look at the lads enjoying themselves! priceless! thanks for posting, sir. thewordofgord
This may be my favorite version of this song. This is probably the highest energy level I have seen the band achieve, at least in videos. I never saw them live.
Watch 'One of These Days' by Pink Floyd, live in Pompeii!
Gary Gomes But it doesn't feature Syd :(
Gary Gomes Playing this 'high energy' number really fucked them up physically. They had to take the next 35 years off!! They've gone now!
David Renwick Syd... I hear you.
They're really rocking out
Nick is murdering his drums, awesome xD
Ivo Wilson He certainly is! Sounds like he's trying to beat a dent out of the side of the group's van.
Ivo Wilson I noticed that too!
the dent being syd missing, rogers vocals are a mess :(
Typical 60's silly questions in interview " If your records aren't selling are you going to do something about it"?.. Rogers response is AWESOME "NO we are just going to do what we do".
They did what all the greats do/did....wait for the rest of the world to catch up
"Are you commercial?" "If our records are selling then we're commercial." "I don't think you're commercial." "So that means our records aren't selling then." !!!
Great version of a great song.
Holy shit, Nick Mason is exceptionally aggressive here! That drumming could rival Keith Moon's.
CoalTrain16 Only in your head it could rival Keith Moon! Even Nick is laughing at you!
Sorry I offended, man. Just making a lighthearted observation.
CoalTrain16 I know. Me Too! Have you heard his 'Fictitious Sports' album. Its the best of the Floyd 'Solo' efforts by about 40,000 miles! Mind you, its a far better band!
I'm not a huge fan of PF (just started listening to the four main albums a few months ago). I haven't really listened to any of the solo stuff besides a liiiitle bit of Waters' and I haven't really even given it a fair chance. I'll check out the Fictitious Sports thing though. Could be interesting, at the least.
CoalTrain16 Its a lot more than interesting! You'll love it! It's got Robert Wyatt on it for starters....
Love Mason's drumming. Like there's no tomorrow.
That would be crazy if that was Syd lurking and observing from behind the P.A. speakers
Hahaha, It's the vegetable Man
Shhh ;)
I want to believe
Top Ten Pink Floyd Songs!
seven!
Nick is awesome!
It's the first time I realize how important are the drums in this particular song. The timing is perfect.
Holy shit nicks drumming in the video is crazyyyyy wow. He's so good!
Oh god, this was the time. Pink at its best. Halls full of smoke, everybody on the floor, girls in your arms and dreaming and flying away, 8 miles high. The best time in my life.
I love Roger's wit in this video, treating the word commercial as it is in the dictionary. Well if our records are selling here then we're commercial. I would say you're not commercial. So our records aren't selling then? Stupid interviewer.
Roger the egotistical prick that would be lol 😁
sean Slevin He was an egotistical prick but without him Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall never would have happened. David was always a great musician but he was a shit lyricist. All lyrics from Dark Side - All Roger's.
Agree Roger was the driving force regarding Lyrics as you know I'm not the brightest but surely harder to write the music? Just asking.
sean Slevin You're right, you're not the brightest. You are wrong on writing, each part is difficult in their own rights, now leave me alone.
No problem I leave you alone no abuse you won't hear from me.
In any video I've ever seen of a band being interviewed from the 60's or 70's the interviewer always asks the stupidest questions
because the music was revolutionary and they were not used to this. we would probably sound weird also if we would ask questions to some aliens from other planets lol
Absolutely amazing, sinister, intense performance!!
i have such a huge crush on roger waters. he absolutely murders his bass here, and his sassy attitude
Jennifer Lieu watch furry slow speed Pink Floyd on RUclips
The most wild performance of this song I've ever seen....
love these guys
Roger's interview cracks me up.. "I think your not commercial"... "So our records aren't selling here..."
Damn, I wish we had gotten at least a few more years of Syd so as to at least have had some more footage of him. That's my thought everytime I see footage from the post-Syd 60's. Can someone please invent time travel so that we can film him more, record him more and get him his own band?
yessss, I wish there were more footage with Syd, it’s just simply not enough
He's in this at around 1.16 minutes
@@Sandwich13455 You mean behind the amp?
Their early work is out of this world
Syd named the band by juxtaposing two blues cats names he saw in the liner notes of an album by a cat named Blind 'Boy' Fuller, which he had in his possession, Pink Anderson and Floyd Counsil ( more Piedmont blues )
Uuummm yeah we know... (yawn)
I didn"nt see anyone asking you stupid son of a bitch.
If anyone wants facts on Pink Floyd they wont be askng some dipshit named Kieth Hall
***** When Chris' ancestors 1st came to Ellis Island the officials there apparently left an "r" out of his last name!
40 years after this recording, and it still shivers . The band is still far the best, last millenium and this century :-)
The best Pink Floyd!!!!
I just love watching old interviews of rock bands from the 60s and 70s. The host is always trying to figure out rock n roll. "Why do you do this and Why do you do that?" The response should be "If you don't know now, you never will."
Best performance ever
Gracias por compartir. Emocionante ver surgir a la Banda más grande de todos tiempos. Saludos Floydianos. Gustav de Rosario 🇺🇦
never seen this before....awesome!
thanks for sharing!
Roger said that he gives a damn about not selling the band's record instead they will do what they like..Thats the words of true artist ..!!
Thanks for sharing 🙏💜
Shine on 💎
The guys were on fire that night!
wow! fucking awesome song!
Que bateria insana é essa!!
Valeu Nick!!
David's feedback is killer at the beginning of the song.
wow, fantastic!
This is the most aggresive performance I've ever seen of the Floyd.
This was awesome it brought good spirits into me c: thanks Pink Floyd for existing.
This was before I knew of Pink Floyd, at this time I was into Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix, and Steppenwolf.
I think also it is David Gilmour. At this time (1968) Syd Barret has been excluded (unfortunately) from Pink Floyd because use of acid, and nobody can control him. But the creator of the song is Syd.
Very incredible !!!
Excellent interview. Very insightful.
I love it,it is so raw, such energy. Contrasted with the latest much more refined and sophisticated Pink Floyd, it's very cool to see where they came from. I like both Pink Floyds and EVERYTHING by Gilmour in recent years.
Pink Floyd were touring throughout much of 1968, and played venues in Belgium a number of times. The first visit was in February when they were filmed in a park, miming and messing about, for a Belgian TV show (these are on RUclips, look for Parc de Laeken). This performance is probably not in a TV studio (those were the days of miming to records, which they're not doing here). It might be at the end of August, at Kastival '68 in Kasterlee, but could be one of the clubs they played - the 68 tour schedule is linked to below, take your pick. And yes, in those days Floyd played loud - someone measured them at one gig at 120db, enough to damage your hearing if you're too close. But what the hell.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_World_Tour_1968
For all the was-that-Syd-at-1:21 posters : you never know. He was, by some accounts, quite likely to turn up at gigs and stand there staring fixedly at them. Most unnerving. If anyone can find a better-quality version of this performance, we might have the answer :)
i agree with you. its a good song with gilmour or gilmour and waters singing, but syd was the one who wrote the song and played and sung on the master track, so naturally his guitar style fits the song and so does his voice.
It cracks me up because of the way Roger answers the questions. He's very matter of fact about everything..
Savage & Psychedelic!...I like!...
I bet you the great noise bands like Sonic Youth and Longwave have learned from the psychedelic-era Pink Floyd quite a bit....Nothing wrong with it. I can see this is also where the earlier The Cure and Echo & The Bunnymen got a little inspiration....love it!
Funny you mention that, I always heard alot of Syd's licks in Sonic Youth.
I love this and what is so great about Pink Floyd is we got to see space/acid rock from them and total electronic 70's rock too. They were just brilliant all the way around and evolved many times over their course of existence. Unlike most, I enjoy the albums put out by David Gilmour and Richard Wright too, even the Division Bell. It's just solid music to throw on from track 1 to the end.
This is exactly what music should be: exciting, original, creative, and totally unique. Totally unlike most of the shit that exists today.
Muchos dirán que es ruido pero me encanta la pasión con la que tocan y reinterpretan sus propias canciones
😂😂😂 then I love this "noise"
love love love for this
They became much more commercial after Ummagamma. By the way, amazing answer to this journalist
What a great live performance.
lol interviewer, its not named after the colour, but after 2 blues/jazz musicians,
man Roger is just rockin out! u hear his voice clearly in this video too,
I adore Roger's little bass twitch he does with his hair
This song is totally unique-sounding in the rock annals; its sound almost anticipated punk/metal.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing!!!
wow astounding great song
Fantastic bit of drumming Nick! Just a Great bit of film. Thanks for posting.
Mason rocked!! Man could they play with sounds and ur head! 72 prov ri civic center. Quadaphonic sound 1st time. Man speakers as large as a car. Can still remember the seat. Which is a testament to their music hehehe ;-)
love the drums on this
Nick Mason said in his book, Inside Out, that he experimented with the Keith Moon style of drumming for a while. Must have been exhausting! Love Roger getting crazy on the bass here.
awesome!! rogers getting into it!!!
It gets better the more they keep playing
Genesi... C' era una volta...
Great stuff!
i died in that best live ever
Nick drumming... Fucking insane
It rocks!!
That '66 Strat is gorgeous!.
I really love this version of Floyd. Punky as fuck. More footage of that drum kit shakin' please. Some of the other versions with Roger screaming thru' the song really are insane. Essential time in English music.
Good answer!
wow what energy
A lot of punk bands where big fans of syd barrett. In fact The Dammed where huge early pink floyd fans so much in fact that wright was to produce one of their early albums.
Wow, this is obviously the Punk version of "Astronomy Domine". They seemed really pissed off. Thanks.
both are great at their own way
Good luck selling records with that attitude, Rog.
Freddy Cellophane He did alright I think...
You got to admire his attitude though. He will continue to do what he wants to do despite the critics.
Yeah. With that kind of attitude they'll never make it.
The Pink Floyd of waters and Gilmour is just another commercial band!!! No matter if they are called legends...
this is something REAL
If you knew anything, Syd didn't want to be Pink Floyd anymore, he wanted to be a normal person who isn't looked at like an icon.
Gilmour might have said--Great music often doesnt sell to the masses. We DONT CARE if it sells.
Freakin awsome to this day! Nice reply to the nutty newsguy hehe (Owner of EVERY P Floyd there is) one 8 track, oops dating myself.lol Pink floyd was/IS the cassius clay, pavorotti, whitey ford, Al Unser etc etc of the music world. Yes flicker flicker flicker POW :-) Bit loud on this though (
Piper at the Gates of Dawn Is The Best Album Of Pink Floyd. In My Opinion.
ricardo tapia yes
Yes it is
Nick is so cool!! :)
Positively Gilmour. He had slightly shorter hair there, playing his white Stratocaster (see pictured on the Ummagumma album cover in '69). Here he sings the higher "woooo wooo" parts, but yeah, I didn't know Waters sang as much on this one, filling Syd's parts. Nice one, although a whole middle section of the song is missing...thanks!
Best performance of the song Ever!!!
eu gosto de som cabuloso,estes antigos sao isso)
Heavy psychedelic. Good stuff.
it is good!!...
I want whatever Nick Masons on...what a drummer.
It's not impossible. I've read several reports of Syd turning up at the early '68 gigs and glaring at the band he had just been kicked out of. It's possible that he was more pleasant once and they let him backstage at one of those... who knows.
What a SOOOOUUUUUNNNDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2:38 2:43 Gosh! I really liked Roger's vocals and his screams here.. 💥
Total Space Rock!!!!!!!!!!
NICK MASON BROKE THE DRUMSSS...!!!!!! HE's POSSESSED... YEAAAAHHH..!!!!
Very good video Mate!!!
thanks very much. ;-))
aetio
I was unaware until I saw this, but there is an obscure Belgian law forbidding images of guitar players' faces.
That was an amazing video of their early day, or their transitional day I guess I should say. I always figured that this time in their lives was a very dark time and it certainly comes through in the music. Does anyone know, is this part of a larger video? Anyone have a link to the whole thing?
yes, astonishing, no? great to hasve live footage of this, even if the editing is atrocious. look at the lads enjoying themselves! priceless! thanks for posting, sir.
thewordofgord
I got this on my English book looool
Some great footage of Roger in this...
"Do you like the colour?" "Yes." "Ah, yes..."
@hellraiser7974
Syd was ousted from the band just months before this - they actually just didn't pick him up for practice one day, apparently......
Mason owns that kit in this clip. They were so heavy for their time