There's no " Britain's " about it - this is the ultimate psychedelic single !"£$%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$£"! Free games for May ...................................
Floyd Rules Whiter Shade of Pale is not too Bad though back in the early Syd yrs there are a lot of psychedelic music 🎶🎵👍♈ and a few after Dave took Syds place still had to throw the Poco Song in there
@@sratus yes ….. and no. We all took LSD and smoked marijuana in those days and most of us emerged unscathed, perhaps even enlightened by these experiences. There wasn’t much cocaine or heroin in use at that time, but the easy availability of different types of pills was a massive problem, leading to overdosing and eventual liver damage.
Doesn't matter how many times I have heard this, It always sounds as fresh as the first time! Absolutely my favorite single ever! Have been listening for 55 years now!
_Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ might well be my 2nd fav album of all time, even though DSOTM IS my ultimate fav. I realise I'm necessarily discounting such treasures as Sgnt Peppers, Ok Comp, Pet Sounds, and Led Zep I, but this just sounds too good for me. Nice upload.
I was 13 years old,on holiday in Blackpool, July 1967,memories of this being played on Radio Caroline North from just across the sea, walking along Blackpool's beaches, everyone's radios tuned to Caroline, bought this then and still have it, lovely times , Thankyou Caroline.
That was the first of three consecutive appearances where they mimed to See Emily Play. You can see Syd gamely going along wit it but not really enjoying it. Apparently he became more reluctant as the weeks went on. Shame we don't have the full tapes
7th July, 2006 Syd Barrett took his leave from this plane, to 'See Emily Play'. Sometimes the rest they seek can only be obtained, when they brush the dust of this Earth from their feet. RIP Syd & thanks for sharing your thoughts, before they were stolen from you 😊
It saddens me that Syd became so disenchanted with how mainstream music was becoming, along with possible obvious undiagnosed Mental Disorder, and then if you read and watch some of the documentaries...and read the stories of people putting LSD into his cereal or other breakfast food without him knowing. That right there to me is criminal. In my High School years I loved LSD, and to me if you knew how to control it per se, it was amazing. But when taken in the wrong setting, I can see how someone could mentally shatter from it. But this is my Favorite Song Floyd Song....well, top 5.
They even threw him in a broom cupboard while having a bad trip before. And it wasn't just LSD, there was STP, too. 10x stronger than acid and would have you tripping for days and days. No doubt those psycho freaks he stayed with dosed him with that too. Even the cats got LSD
@@TheFergyme Well in North America he did according to Peter-Wynne Wilson, their light show guy when they were there in November 1967. This is when the others really said Syd was going off the rails. I think he was aware he was going a bit mad but also had this self-destructive sort of "moth flying into a flame" attitude. It's fun to feel unreal and like the world is completely different until it isn't. I've abused psychedelics in a similar fashion and have ended up in some pretty bad states because of it, luckily I was able to come out of it. STP was nasty shit, I think most "acid casualties" were honestly getting messed up by this instead of LSD. Jim Morrison could handle 10,000 micrograms of LSD and he was no acid casualty. He could function on so much of it and the photos of him in '67 with the hugest pupils I've ever seen just casually sitting around is a testament to that. Morrison probably had a similar attitude, but unlike Syd, wasn't able to come out of the twilight. Jim replaced acid with booze by '68 and The Doors all taking LSD in those times were a smart group who I think knew better than to dabble with STP which was all over Haight Ashbury, causing acute psychosis regularly.
Yes, you can hear it on the Golden Circle gig Stockholm from 1967 which is easy to find here, Sadly you cannot hear the vocals. PAs were rubbish in those days and the band just played too loud. Same with all live tapes of the Floyd in those days. Syd was just too quiet. I don't think the rest of the band were keen on the song "not the sort of thing a chap wants to play..." They hated having to play their hits. They protested by performing "Reaction In G."
Viewing this tape, you can tell Barrett is still very with-the-program. He's miming perfectly well, he's selling the performance nicely. You cannot tell me that that guy in this video isn't interested in pop-stardom. Rewinding a bit, if one goes and watches the alternat video for Arnold Layne, when put side × side with this, one gets the idea that Barrett was still in control, 100%, definitely in the 'Layne' video he's 100% the guy you hear everyone gushing about for all these decades. Id argue that minus any contradictory evidence, he's still 'Syd' here. Compare these two videos (this one+alt video for Arnold Layne) eith, say, "Apples & Oranges"+"Jugband Blues." The difference is starkly evident, even if only speculation/anecdotal. From the original Arnold Layne video to Apples + Oranges, recorded just a short eight months following....its fairly drastic. Then, by the tape for Jugband Blues, he looks utterly void of whatever spirit inhabited him earlier. One gets a tangible sense of that legendary loss by viewing each tape in sequence, imo.
The white Fender with the reflective discs was actually an Esquire - it only had one pickup - as opposed to a Telecaster, which had two pickups. It was Syd's favorite guitar, but he left it out in the rain during one of his episodes, and it was lost to the mists of history. He did eventually use a Telecaster during his brief solo career after PF.
im sure it wasnt just the drugs with syd,many have said that,there were other things that led to his breakdown if you want to call it that, it started i feel with losing his father when he was about 15 or 16 for me that was the start,its a very complex case ,we will never know what caused him to crash and burn its a sad story ,but i still believe in the last 30 or so years he was in his own way content or accepting about what happened to him, his music with The floyd is amazing still ,and the solo records to, but the music business took a terrible toll on him,so sad ....
Isn't this pretty much all that survived of the recording? And shows such as this one did not allow for artists to play or sing live, they had to mime along to playback of what was usually the studio version anyways, unfortunately.
Well that lasted for 1 year after Syd left off in 1968 Probably u also should not bother listening to Pink Floyd albums after that What they created after that Every one knows Probably your music sense is as dumb as your comment about David Gilmour
Genesis were 2 or 3 years behind Floyd and were more baroque/Old English and not as psychedelic. But both bands were beloved by the stoner crowd in the early to mid 70s (same with Yes, Jethro Tull, ELP). Anyway while both bands changed over the years, Floyd never became shameless sellouts like Genesis did in the 80s.
This tape was long thought lost. BBC practice was to overtape recordings, videotape being an expensive luxury and BBC funding being notoriously inadequate. Somehow this one survived, damaged but precious. It's all we have. Treasure it.
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Great to remember when we were all happy with Black and White TV, Mono sound, Pirate Radio and VCRs that didn't work,but the music was the best ever.
Nobody in Britain had a VCR in 1967!
The damaged tape gives it a feeling of what I call "black and white psychedelia". Gives it a disturbing ambiance I enjoy.
Agreed!
You meant like what’s called? You didn’t invent the word for the visual effect
@@ferea_896 Was about to say the same thing lol. Then noticed your comment was from today too
Cracking song from a cracking band they don,t make them like this anymore sadly.
Britain's greatest ever psychedelic single.
There's no " Britain's " about it - this is the ultimate psychedelic single !"£$%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$£"!
Free games for May ...................................
I agree!
Floyd Rules Whiter Shade of Pale is not too Bad though back in the early Syd yrs there are a lot of psychedelic music 🎶🎵👍♈ and a few after Dave took Syds place still had to throw the Poco Song in there
It's a tight run for sure , though personally I always slightly preferred "Homberg".@@GrayWolf3334
Syd was so beautiful. I was a little girl growing up in London, and he totally enchanted me.
Indeed he was..
@karencrookshank4971 me too. There are a few who kind of sum up that era in London, and Syd was definitely one of them - he was a flower child 😍
@@irenahalder ' A young, talented man whose mind was destroyed by a destructive drug culture' might be more accurate than 'flower child'. Poor guy.
@@sratus yes ….. and no. We all took LSD and smoked marijuana in those days and most of us emerged unscathed, perhaps even enlightened by these experiences. There wasn’t much cocaine or heroin in use at that time, but the easy availability of different types of pills was a massive problem, leading to overdosing and eventual liver damage.
Double like for syd.. And freddie😜
This song had always fascinated me. Enjoy it as much today as I did 56 years ago. So different!
Syd's blank expression here is super haunting. Rest In Peace.
See Emily Play is a timeless masterpiece
Doesn't matter how many times I have heard this, It always sounds as fresh as the first time! Absolutely my favorite single ever! Have been listening for 55 years now!
Its an old song that somehow never ages.
_Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ might well be my 2nd fav album of all time, even though DSOTM IS my ultimate fav.
I realise I'm necessarily discounting such treasures as Sgnt Peppers, Ok Comp, Pet Sounds, and Led Zep I, but this just sounds too good for me.
Nice upload.
I was 13 years old,on holiday in Blackpool, July 1967,memories of this being played on Radio Caroline North from just across the sea, walking along Blackpool's beaches, everyone's radios tuned to Caroline, bought this then and still have it, lovely times , Thankyou Caroline.
Thanks fort posting. Syd in rare form.
It’s crazy this is the same band that put out DSOTM. Syd infamously was really starting to lose it this year. 1967. Sadly. Mental illness sucks.
Thank You...Gracias.
such a beautiful song!
roger and syd so friggin cute here......looooooooove this song.
Wow How great they are !!!
It was exactly 10 years before my born.
They sound like early Spinal Tap.
I was the 1000º to like. Everytime seeing Emily play!
That was the first of three consecutive appearances where they mimed to See Emily Play. You can see Syd gamely going along wit it but not really enjoying it. Apparently he became more reluctant as the weeks went on. Shame we don't have the full tapes
7th July, 2006 Syd Barrett took his leave from this plane, to 'See Emily Play'. Sometimes the rest they seek can only be obtained, when they brush the dust of this Earth from their feet. RIP Syd & thanks for sharing your thoughts, before they were stolen from you 😊
See that crazy diamond shine.
Remember Syd wasn’t happy playing on “top of the pop”
Yeah, I saw a real sad interview where he wasn't with it.
I think it was something to do with John Lennon saying The Beatles would never play on Top Of The Pops again.........
Sys was, however, perfectly ecstatic to play American Bandstand the same year! ruclips.net/video/YsjAVV_GZqE/видео.html
who would be happy about pretending to play your music rather than actually playing it?
that was by the 3rd show, after his "lost weekend" when he showed up a different person
Wow!
Aaaaaah, this is the roots of Tender Buttons!!
If LSD didn't drive Syd mad, Waters eventually would have.
I love this reaction!
The only song by Floyd that I actually like!!!
I concur.
What a sad life you must have.
Check out Arnold Layne and Lucifer Sam
absolutely fantastic. Syd hated being on that show and the commercialism of pop.
Like it or not, “commercial” songs are what sell records, so being underground has its disadvantages, like starvation.
Ya you know ffs
Did anyone else listen to See Emily Play and think it sounds like David Gilmour singing?
no
Precious. And funny how they had that circular thing behind them. A coincidental preview of the circular screen years later.
he was leading the whole Pink Floyd, thats how big Syd was
It saddens me that Syd became so disenchanted with how mainstream music was becoming, along with possible obvious undiagnosed Mental Disorder, and then if you read and watch some of the documentaries...and read the stories of people putting LSD into his cereal or other breakfast food without him knowing. That right there to me is criminal. In my High School years I loved LSD, and to me if you knew how to control it per se, it was amazing. But when taken in the wrong setting, I can see how someone could mentally shatter from it. But this is my Favorite Song Floyd Song....well, top 5.
They even threw him in a broom cupboard while having a bad trip before. And it wasn't just LSD, there was STP, too. 10x stronger than acid and would have you tripping for days and days. No doubt those psycho freaks he stayed with dosed him with that too. Even the cats got LSD
Is this all actually true though ? Who’s said this ?
Well according to duggie fields,his flatmate,he didn't consume large amounts of lsd and was quite sane!
@@Valientlink Or maybe he took it himself willingly.
@@TheFergyme Well in North America he did according to Peter-Wynne Wilson, their light show guy when they were there in November 1967. This is when the others really said Syd was going off the rails. I think he was aware he was going a bit mad but also had this self-destructive sort of "moth flying into a flame" attitude. It's fun to feel unreal and like the world is completely different until it isn't. I've abused psychedelics in a similar fashion and have ended up in some pretty bad states because of it, luckily I was able to come out of it. STP was nasty shit, I think most "acid casualties" were honestly getting messed up by this instead of LSD.
Jim Morrison could handle 10,000 micrograms of LSD and he was no acid casualty. He could function on so much of it and the photos of him in '67 with the hugest pupils I've ever seen just casually sitting around is a testament to that. Morrison probably had a similar attitude, but unlike Syd, wasn't able to come out of the twilight. Jim replaced acid with booze by '68 and The Doors all taking LSD in those times were a smart group who I think knew better than to dabble with STP which was all over Haight Ashbury, causing acute psychosis regularly.
First time I ever seen it
its play back!
top of the pops always was playback xd
Great song. It sounds a bit beatlenesque and the organ solo is very like the doors.
Did they ever attempt this live?
Yes, you can hear it on the Golden Circle gig Stockholm from 1967 which is easy to find here, Sadly you cannot hear the vocals. PAs were rubbish in those days and the band just played too loud. Same with all live tapes of the Floyd in those days. Syd was just too quiet. I don't think the rest of the band were keen on the song "not the sort of thing a chap wants to play..." They hated having to play their hits. They protested by performing "Reaction In G."
Viewing this tape, you can tell Barrett is still very with-the-program. He's miming perfectly well, he's selling the performance nicely. You cannot tell me that that guy in this video isn't interested in pop-stardom. Rewinding a bit, if one goes and watches the alternat video for Arnold Layne, when put side × side with this, one gets the idea that Barrett was still in control, 100%, definitely in the 'Layne' video he's 100% the guy you hear everyone gushing about for all these decades. Id argue that minus any contradictory evidence, he's still 'Syd' here.
Compare these two videos (this one+alt video for Arnold Layne) eith, say, "Apples & Oranges"+"Jugband Blues." The difference is starkly evident, even if only speculation/anecdotal. From the original Arnold Layne video to Apples + Oranges, recorded just a short eight months following....its fairly drastic. Then, by the tape for Jugband Blues, he looks utterly void of whatever spirit inhabited him earlier. One gets a tangible sense of that legendary loss by viewing each tape in sequence, imo.
That white Telecaster in syds grasp.
The white Fender with the reflective discs was actually an Esquire - it only had one pickup - as opposed to a Telecaster, which had two pickups. It was Syd's favorite guitar, but he left it out in the rain during one of his episodes, and it was lost to the mists of history. He did eventually use a Telecaster during his brief solo career after PF.
"I'm self contained..."
“You fill me with inertia.”
Experimental utopia…free thinking..beauty…..it made sense
The playback distortion mirrors Syd's deteriorating state of mind.
Is there any colour bot here?
im sure it wasnt just the drugs with syd,many have said that,there were other things that led to his breakdown if you want to call it that, it started i feel with losing his father when he was about 15 or 16 for me that was the start,its a very complex case ,we will never know what caused him to crash and burn its a sad story ,but i still believe in the last 30 or so years he was in his own way content or accepting about what happened to him, his music with The floyd is amazing still ,and the solo records to, but the music business took a terrible toll on him,so sad ....
This is just footage of them playing with the studio version playing over it😐
Isn't this pretty much all that survived of the recording? And shows such as this one did not allow for artists to play or sing live, they had to mime along to playback of what was usually the studio version anyways, unfortunately.
The sound of 🕉️
suenan como los beatles o me equivoco?
No,mi hablar ,floyd siempre fueron originales ,quizás te evoquen el tema de los coros
SYDDDD
Cant they recreate this with AI put it to good use fantastic footage could be restored
I love this Pink Floyd, not the boring rubbish that came with the Dave Gilmour.
Lol fuck off. They created undeniable masterpieces from 1972-1979 with Gilmour.
Well that lasted for 1 year after Syd left off in 1968 Probably u also should not bother listening to Pink Floyd albums after that What they created after that Every one knows Probably your music sense is as dumb as your comment about David Gilmour
You're an asshole, man
You'd probably never know of pink floyd, if it weren't for Gilmour joining and them continuing.
Most of the stuff that you're referring to was written by Waters
Early Genesis was the same sort of music. Far away from what both groups became.
Genesis were 2 or 3 years behind Floyd and were more baroque/Old English and not as psychedelic. But both bands were beloved by the stoner crowd in the early to mid 70s (same with Yes, Jethro Tull, ELP). Anyway while both bands changed over the years, Floyd never became shameless sellouts like Genesis did in the 80s.
@@arkanoiddude The Floyd never sold out, they just sold their creative genius down the river .........................
Ffs dont post it if the video is not good quality. Very frustrating. No stars
If it is all that is available, then better to post than have no historical record at all.
This tape was long thought lost. BBC practice was to overtape recordings, videotape being an expensive luxury and BBC funding being notoriously inadequate. Somehow this one survived, damaged but precious. It's all we have. Treasure it.
Prime example of a Chad I'd say.
Will that's hilarious!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't be daft, laddie.