Pink Floyd Part 1
Pink Floyd is a British psychedelic rock band from the 70's and 80's known for their worldwide success and longevity of their music.
The earliest predecessor to Pink Floyd was a band that had many different names, most commonly The Abdabs or The Screaming Abdabs. This band was formed in 1964 by Roger Waters. The band lineup was: Roger Waters(lead guitar), Nick Mason(drums), Rick Wright(rhythm guitar and keyboards), Clive Metcalfe(bass), Keith Noble and Juliette Gale(vocals). Roger Waters knew Mason and Wright from school and also attended school with Syd Barrett and David Gilmour. Metcalfe and Noble left the group before the year ended. To replace them Bob Klose(lead guitar) and Chris Dennis(vocals) joined. Roger Waters switched to bass guitar and Rick Wright discontinued playing rhythm guitar, focusing on keyboards and organs. Gale left the band after she married Wright. Bob Klose was a classmate of Syd Barrett and David Gilmour at Cambridge University and shortly after Chris Dennis joined Klose brought in Barrett to replace him. Barrett and Klose would share vocal and guitar duties. Barrett, Klose, Waters, Mason, and Wright first called themselves Tea Set. Barrett then came up with the name The Pink Floyd Sound which came from the name of two blues musicians from the southern United States: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council(some sources say that Barrett came up with the name The Pink Floyd Sound on spot when they were playing at a show the same night as another band that had the same name). Sound was dropped from the band’s name and later The was dropped as well. Bob Klose left the group in 1965 because he wanted to play jazz and blues while Barrett was more interested in psychedelic rock and pop. When Klose left Barret became the lead guitar and lead vocalist and began composing his own songs. Barrett and the others quickly started experimenting. Their songs were stretched out with instrumental passages incorporating feedback, electronic screeches and strange, haunting sounds. They incorporated light shows into their performances to increase the psychedelic effect. Pink Floyd became a favourite of the underground culture playing at numerous now famous underground venues. The band formed Blackhill Enterprises, a rock music management company, in a six-way partnership along with their managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King. Blackhill Enterprises would go on to manage many acts including The Clash and later on Syd Barrett as a solo artist. In early 1967 Pink Floyd earned a contract with EMI and their first single, "Arnold Layne", made the Top 20. The follow up song, "See Emily Play", reached the Top 10. They also released their debut album in 1967, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. This cd showcased the bands fascination with space travel. Towards the end of 67' Syd Barrett would take a darker turn. He had always been driven by his eccentric ways and quite frequent experiences with LSD but this was something different. The burden of fame and his acid-dependant mind was too much for him, he withdrew into a debilitating madness.
so not much so far, pretty rough, a lot of the early information is hard to come by
The earliest predecessor to Pink Floyd was a band that had many different names, most commonly The Abdabs or The Screaming Abdabs. This band was formed in 1964 by Roger Waters. The band lineup was: Roger Waters(lead guitar), Nick Mason(drums), Rick Wright(rhythm guitar and keyboards), Clive Metcalfe(bass), Keith Noble and Juliette Gale(vocals). Roger Waters knew Mason and Wright from school and also attended school with Syd Barrett and David Gilmour. Metcalfe and Noble left the group before the year ended. To replace them Bob Klose(lead guitar) and Chris Dennis(vocals) joined. Roger Waters switched to bass guitar and Rick Wright discontinued playing rhythm guitar, focusing on keyboards and organs. Gale left the band after she married Wright. Bob Klose was a classmate of Syd Barrett and David Gilmour at Cambridge University and shortly after Chris Dennis joined Klose brought in Barrett to replace him. Barrett and Klose would share vocal and guitar duties. Barrett, Klose, Waters, Mason, and Wright first called themselves Tea Set. Barrett then came up with the name The Pink Floyd Sound which came from the name of two blues musicians from the southern United States: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council(some sources say that Barrett came up with the name The Pink Floyd Sound on spot when they were playing at a show the same night as another band that had the same name). Sound was dropped from the band’s name and later The was dropped as well. Bob Klose left the group in 1965 because he wanted to play jazz and blues while Barrett was more interested in psychedelic rock and pop. When Klose left Barret became the lead guitar and lead vocalist and began composing his own songs. Barrett and the others quickly started experimenting. Their songs were stretched out with instrumental passages incorporating feedback, electronic screeches and strange, haunting sounds. They incorporated light shows into their performances to increase the psychedelic effect. Pink Floyd became a favourite of the underground culture playing at numerous now famous underground venues. The band formed Blackhill Enterprises, a rock music management company, in a six-way partnership along with their managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King. Blackhill Enterprises would go on to manage many acts including The Clash and later on Syd Barrett as a solo artist. In early 1967 Pink Floyd earned a contract with EMI and their first single, "Arnold Layne", made the Top 20. The follow up song, "See Emily Play", reached the Top 10. They also released their debut album in 1967, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. This cd showcased the bands fascination with space travel. Towards the end of 67' Syd Barrett would take a darker turn. He had always been driven by his eccentric ways and quite frequent experiences with LSD but this was something different. The burden of fame and his acid-dependant mind was too much for him, he withdrew into a debilitating madness.
so not much so far, pretty rough, a lot of the early information is hard to come by
posted by Dev at 11:46 PM
0 comments
