PINK FLOYD

the youtube pplains posted explains

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8121173.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/house1.jpg

For sale: House where Pink Floyd formed being sold for first time in decades

The north London home where Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason formed Pink Floyd has come up for sale for the first time since they lodged there in the Sixties.

The three-storey house, which has barely been altered since then, is being auctioned on September 20 with a guide price of £1.2 million and needs total refurbishment.

It was at the property — in Stanhope Gardens, Highgate — that the young musicians developed the psychedelic sound and look that was to propel them to superstardom.

The Victorian home was owned until his death this year by their influential former college tutor and landlord Mike Leonard, who was also briefly a member of the band that evolved into Pink Floyd.

Rock experts said the house played a crucial role in the formation of the group that went on to record huge selling concept albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and the rock opera The Wall.

Mark Blake, author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd, said: “It was a very good environment for young student musicians to be living. It gave somewhere for them to live and somewhere to rehearse with a sympathetic landlord who did not mind about them making a noise. This is where Pink Floyd started to come together.”

Mason, who became the group’s drummer, and bass guitar player Waters are believed to have moved into the downstairs self-contained flat in September 1963, while early lead singer Barrett arrived about a year later. Barrett was put in charge of catering — with a budget of 20p a day. Keyboard player Richard Wright also lodged at the house.

The dusty interiors still retain much evidence of the avant-garde musical influences that Mr Leonard — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art — introduced to the rhythm and blues band then known as The Tea Set.

Instruments such as bongo drums, tambourines and a huge homemade xylophone lie scattered around as well as the spotlights, prisms and crystals that were an influence.

In the attic there is a rare Binson Echorec 2 echo unit. The Binson was used by Barrett and later by David Gilmore to develop the Floyd sound. Leonard’s workshop, where he designed and built the complex “lysergenic” lighting systems that contributed to Pink Floyd’s image and featured in a Tomorrow’s World BBC broadcast from the house in 1968, has also survived.

In a recent interview Mason said that the bonnet of his Aston Martin is buried in the overgrown garden.

Chris Coleman Smith, of Savills Auctions, which is handling the sale at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, said the sale was a rare opportunity to buy an unmodernised family house in Highgate. He added: “Who knows, we might get some Pink Floyd fan flying in to buy it.”

i'll take the binson off their hands.

Instruments such as bongo drums, tambourines and a huge homemade xylophone lie scattered around as well as the spotlights, prisms and crystals that were an influence.

I hope the house is in better condition than the stuff inside it. Here's the aforementioned xylophone:

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8121174.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/house2.jpg

The three-storey house, which has barely been altered since then, is being auctioned on September 20 with a guide price of £1.2 million and needs total refurbishment.

I've seen listings for supposedly nice houses that were in actuality total fixer-uppers, and conversely listings for distressed properties that are somewhat run down but hardly unlivable.

This is like every house in Highgate.

Yes, short of a few things that are apparently lying around the place, this sounds like the least remarkable house in England.

Thanks to buzza's post in the Fairport Convention thread which is how I found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0cpTuWyBpY&feature=relmfu

This is amazing. Thanks!

I've seen some of that footage on youtube. I think Syd was still officially in the band still at that point?

Dave looks so young and out of place. Like "what am I doing here singing these songs???". He's like "I'd NEVER say YIPEE"

He looks at the camera and is like "that's right, I'm not Syd, what the fuck are you going to do about it?"

Dave totally has this look on his face like, "I'm glad this is on French TV and nobody will ever see it."

anniversary of RIck Wright's passing...

He looks at the camera and is like "that's right, I'm not Syd, what the fuck are you going to do about it?"

A friend of mine was a huge Syd Barrett freak in the 60s, and was overjoyed when he saw that The Pink Floyd was coming to his hometown (Ann Arbor). Said overjoyment turned to disappointment as soon as the band hit the stage. "Who's that guy?! That's not Syd!"

from a village voice recap of the recent Joshua Light Show performances:

"Overseen: "Roger Waters of 'The Wall' seen taking a seat as lights dimmed at Terry Riley show w/Joshua Light Show NYC," tweeted @TV_Strategist."

Joshua Light Show got a mention in some Pink Floyd book I was reading, seeing his work during their first trip to NY.

xpost omg loving this Bouton Rouge vid

I laughed out loud when Dave stares down the camera at 3:42

Mason's awesome in this!

neat video.
dan, whatever happened to that ultimate floyd bootleg mix you were doing? the world needs it.

I think Rog & Mason went shirt shopping together before the show. Dave looks like he's dashing off to his accounting job afterwards.

floyd boot will have to wait, been busy with too many other projects!

"Leonard's Lodgers" ?

I've not heard that one before...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19666068

Trucks of a logistics/transport company I see regularly during my commute have this logo:

http://m4.licdn.com/media/p/2/000/082/047/03c5e18.png
Maybe a bit far-fetched, but I always think of it as a tribute/reference to Relics

http://jagjaguwar.com/blog/2012/02/lia-ices-delivers-a-beautiful-new-video-and-covers-pink-floyd/

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb2zthScEI1qzy30io1_500.jpg
this rules

That was one of the first boots I ever bought.

yeah, i've had that show forever, but never saw that cover art til recently. prog-tastic!

That was the cover of the CD. Caught my eye and got my purchase.

Yes! That was the first PF boot I bought also, there is a clearer version out there from a more recent rebroadcast, the version of Biding My Time is OUTRAGEOUS, Rick's out of tune trombone!

what's the clearer version called? not sure what i have.

The one I have does not have a name, but there is a boot out there called More Madness From The Massed Gadgets Of Auximines which is the same rebroadcast. Best way to tell the difference is 'The Man & The Journey' fades in during Grantchester Meadows and the better quality ones open with a female stage announcer. Let me know, I can hit you up.

A Dutch female announcer, to be precise. There are many different versions from this show out there, but the one recorded in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam has the best quality me thinks, because it was a professional radio broadcast.

This was the first bootleg I bought

http://paradise-records.ocnk.net/data/paradise-records/product/d5a4ae09d6.JPG

hmm mine doesn't have the announcer! curses! hit me up!

me too! or hit Tyler up and tell him to be nice and share.

HIT US UP
hey you know what was released on this day way back in 1970? this album!
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/424624_10151094466427308_1445657283_n.jpg
rules

RULES

such a great cover too

Utterly rules.

you mean UDDERLY

I was utterly implying udderly.

no doubt this will be milked for lols

friend of mine had this bootleg, it ruled
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/789c37d012f711ef6d68dd5357ab41f4/100878.jpg

Oh, that bootleg? It's the best.

That cow's name was Lulubelle III apparently.

Lulubelle:cows::Rover:dogs

XP - Tyler, sure thing, will post a link later tonight when it's uploaded.

Pink Floyd

Live at the Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Netherlands

September 17, 1969

http://wtrns.fr/90bgaQQh4fm_Rwc

you rule!

Rule x2!

Thank you sirs!