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The band was billed as THE Pink Floyd until it was explained as to where the name came from.






Do YOU know the origin of the name ??

They have not been THE since that nutcase Barrett freaked out.

Oh...and yes, I do.

Say what you mean

Mean what you say.

They were originally called The Pink Floyd Sound.

Not The Pink Floyd.

Named after Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

Incorrect. In ads, at least, in Europe, (France, specifically, and maybe Spain) they were referred to as "The Pink Floyd" sporadically until at least 1969.

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Originally called The Pink Floyd Sound.

Do your homework, numbnuts.

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Christ , not a Pink Floyd name argument.

Leave Jesus out of it.

Syd Barrett-led era: 1965–1968
Pink Floyd evolved from an earlier band, formed in 1965, which was at various times called Sigma 6, The Megga Deaths, The Screaming Abdabs, The Architecture Abdabs, and The Abdabs. When this band split up, some members — guitarists Rado "Bob" Klose and Roger Waters, drummer Nick Mason, and wind instrument player Rick Wright — formed a new band called Tea Set. After a brief stint with a lead vocalist named Chris Dennis,[6] guitarist and vocalist Syd Barrett joined the band, with Waters moving to bass.[7]
When Tea Set found themselves on the same bill as another band with the same name, Barrett came up with the alternative name The Pink Floyd Sound, reputedly after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.[8][9] However, in "The A-Z of Names in Rock," Mark Beech argues that these two musicians were unknown in Britain, citing an item in the London Evening Standard, according to which Roger Waters shared a flat in 1967 with Mick Steadman, whose cats were named Pink and Floyd.
For a time after this they oscillated between 'Tea Set' and 'The Pink Floyd Sound', with the latter name eventually winning out. The Sound was dropped fairly quickly, but the definite article was still used occasionally for several years afterward; David Gilmour is known to have referred to the group as "The Pink Floyd" as late as 1984,[10] though they never released any recordings under that name.
In the early days, the band covered rhythm and blues staples such as "Louie, Louie", but by the time the Pink Floyd name was entrenched, they had gained notoriety for their psychedelic interpretations, with extended improvised sections and 'spaced out' solos.

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What does my Mexican mailman, Jesus, got to do with this?

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"If Frank Zappa cut a fart and mixed it to stereo, I'd buy it!" - jimmie d

God, it is soooooooooooo cool to argue and prove you are right about a bands name. Will you be my friend? Hell, will you give me hard anal sex? Man, SOOO fucking cool! I was never allowed to se a copy of the cool book in high school.

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“The power of pop music to corrupt and putrify the minds of world youth are virtually limitless."

You never got the cool book because you were too gay.

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Barrett might have been predisposed physically to losing it after taking LSD and whatever else he did but he was certainly more of a victim to drugs than a nutcase or a freaked out soul.

Barrett was probably the biggest reason Pink Floyd happened and became so successful so show some respect!

"Interstellar Overdrive", 10/25/69, Amougies, Actuel Festival. FZ was the emcee. Beefheart played at this festival too, and their performance of "My Human Gets Me Blues" at the event has been released on CB's "Grow Fins" box set, with FZ introducing the band.

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Let's hear it again for the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

Thanks for posting that! Yes, that photo settled a lot of arguments when it surfaced four or five years ago. At least on the Pink Floyd lists I subscribed to at the time.

Y'know, I don't think I realized that any of the Amougies show was *on* "Grow Fins"... I'll have to pull that off the shelf when I get home...

A disc of nothing but Frank's jams at Amougies was eventually compiled and circulated. An interesting historical artifact, but not his best performances.

Nice to see the level of *love* displayed around here. Wow!

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In fact, it's on both disc 4 and disc 5 - the audio track is track #1 on disc 5, and video footage of it is one of the CD-ROM tracks included on disc 4!

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Let's hear it again for the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE LOVE.

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A C#m7-5
Love, love will keep us together;

F#7
Think of me babe whenever

D
Some sweet talking guy comes along singing his song --

Dm
Don't mess around, you got to be strong,

A A+
Just Stop, 'cause I really love you,

A6 A7
Stop, I'll be thinking of you --

D A E7sus4 A
Look in my heart and let love keep us together.



A C#m7-5
You, you belong to me now,

F#7
Ain't gonna set you free now;

D
When those guys start hanging around, talking me down,

Dm
Hear with your heart and you won't hear a sound.

A A+ A6 A7
Just stop, 'cause I really love you; stop, I'll be thinking of you --

D A E7sus4 A A7 A
Look in my heart and let love keep us together, whatever.



Bridge:


C G D A F Dm7 A
Young and beautiful someday your looks will be gone;

C G D A F Dm7 E7sus4
When the others turn you off who'll be turning you on?


I will, I will, I will,


A C#m7-5
I will be there to share forever;

F#7
Love will keep us together.

D D6
Said it before and I'll say it again, while others pretend,

Dm Dm+7 Dm7 Dm6
I need you now and I'll need you then.

A A+ A6 A7
Stop, 'cause I really love you; stop, I'll be thinking of you --

D A E7sus4 A A7 A
Look in my heart and let love keep us together, whatever.


E7
I will, I will, I will


A A+ A6 A7
Stop, 'cause I really love you; stop, I'll be thinking of you --

D A E7sus4 A A7 A
Look in my heart and let love keep us together, whatever.

E7
I will, I will, I will, I will.

Words & Music by Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka
Recorded by The Captain & Tenille, 1975 (#1)
Grammy winner, 1975, record of the year

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I have seen some downloadable (by Torrent) bootlegs of the Amougie Festival on www.dimeadozen.org
Don't know if Zappa is on any of them though.

This is probably the worlds greatest website for collecting and trading bootlegs (except maybe for Zappateers.com) for just about any sort of band and music you could imagine !!!

Try searching under ''Pink Floyd''...

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Alan Thicke: ''Now Frank, for those of us who have seen you as some kind of guru over the years, that's a kind of nihilistic assesment of music. Where's the hope ?''
Frank Zappa: ''Well, there isn't any...''

This might be off-topic here, but have any recordings surfaced of FZ's jams with the free jazz musicians at the Amougies festival? This pic is kind of tantalizing:



I mean, the Floyd is fine and all, but I want to hear FZ jam with Grachan Moncur and Archie Shepp.

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"When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air. You can never capture it again." -- Eric Dolphy

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^So do I.



Yeah. I think he would have gone insane anyway, drugs just amplified it. His solo stuff is pretty cool, too. Octopus is a beast song.

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"Once you go black, you never go back."
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AGREED! Holy hell,does anyone have this recorded?!!!!

[b] what an incredible photo, it looks like FZ is playing his butchered Gold Top[b]

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

Please shut the hell up before I kill myself!

Go ahead on 'n get it over with then
Find you a bridge 'n take a jump
Just make sure you do it right the first time
'Cause nothin's worse than a Suicide Chump