That was the hip thing to do in those days, but I like the effect in this case. For the band photo in the middle, I chose a publicity photo from 1969. I purposefully made the cover art to match the two earlier Pink Floyd BBC albums I made.
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However, the video and audio definitely proves it happened.Ġ5 Careful with that Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)Ġ7 Moonhead (Pink Floyd)Ġ8 Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd with Frank Zappa) In case you want to see it and not just hear it, there's a high quality video of it on YouTube.Īs an aside, I find it amusing that when both Zappa and the members of Pink Floyd were asked about this musical collaboration decades later, they all had no recollection of it happening, though they did remember meeting each other. What makes this special and unique is that Frank Zappa joins in and does a lot of soloing. Pink Floyd performs their instrumental "Interstellar Overdrive" later in 1969. I'm just sticking it here because I don't have a better spot in my musical collection to put it. I must confess that the final song here isn't associated with the BBC at all. I hope that was supposed to be a joke! Luckily, the half minute of talking takes place during a lull in the music, so I think I was able to remove it without it being noticeable or affecting the flow of the song. I wouldn't have minded since he was talking about the moon landing, except what he said was inane or dumb, ending with the comment that when people finally land on the moon, they'll be able to find out if it in fact is made out of green cheese. I edited out about 30 seconds of it, because about a minute into the song, a BBC announcer spoke over the music. The song after that is an instrumental called "Moonhead." It came about because the BBC thought it would be clever to have Pink Floyd play their "spacey" music during the broadcast of the first person landing on the moon in July 1969. It's a jokey Christmas number, and it's sung by the drummer Nick Mason. However, it didn't actually get played by the BBC until 1975. The next song, "Merry Christmas Song," was written by Pink Floyd and apparently recorded by the BBC in 1969. The first four songs come from the last "normal" BBC studio performance Pink Floyd did, in May 1969.
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Thus, this album is kind of an end of an era. So 1969 was the last time they released a single that wasn't taken from an album. Similarly, they began thinking in terms of cohesive albums and not individual songs. They did return to the BBC a couple more times, but each time, they performed entire concerts.
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After 1969, Pink Floyd no longer played only a few short songs each time they showed up at the BBC. The way I look at it, these five albums all go together, gathering up all the little bits and pieces of their musical output during that time.
#All pink floyd albums 1992 plus
Two others, plus this one, contain BBC performances, also from 1967 to 1969. Two are stray tracks collections covering 1967 to 1969. This is the fifth Pink Floyd album I've posted so far. I've got a lot of Pink Floyd material to post, because I think they're fantastic and a lot of their stuff didn't make it onto their studio albums at the time.