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Peter Whitehead’s rarely seen pop art masterpiece: ‘Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London’
12.30.2010
04:17 am
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Copping its title from an Allen Ginsberg poem, Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London is the quintessential cinematic pop explosion. This rarely seen 1968 documentary directed by Peter Whitehead captures a time when rock and roll was the most powerful force on the planet.

Beautifully shot, with a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd supplying the soundtrack, it is perhaps the only true masterpiece of the period, offering a visually captivating window on the ‘in’ crowd. Revealing, often very personal interviews with the era’s prime movers - Michael Caine, Julie Christie, David Hockney and Mick Jagger - are interspersed by dazzling images of the ‘dedicated followers of fashion’, patronizing the clubs and discotheques of the day. As a trusted confidant of the Rolling Stones, who had filmed their first US tour, and a member of the inner circle, Whitehead was able to give an unusually free rein to his eye for detail.”

Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London is not currently available on video. This is from an out-of-print Japanese laserdisc. Dig it! It contains footage of the coolest human being to walk the earth: Swami Lee Marvin.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.30.2010
04:17 am
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Christian Pink Floyd ‘parody’: ‘Hey, Satan, leave our thoughts alone!’
12.20.2010
04:32 pm
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“Hey, Satan, leave our thoughts alone! All in all you’re just another snake on the crawl!”

A Christian take on Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall.” I love her “wind machine”!

Via Christian Nightmares

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.20.2010
04:32 pm
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‘White Light, White Heat’: Documentary on Velvets, Bowie, Roxy, Pink Floyd…
10.15.2010
02:41 am
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Terrific entry in the BBC series The Seven Ages Of Rock.

The story of how artistic and conceptual expression permeated rock. From the pop-art multi-media experiments of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground to the sinister gentility of Peter Gabriel’s Genesis, White Light, White Heat Place traces how rock became a vehicle for artistic ideas and theatrical performance. We follow Pink Floyd from the fated art school genius of Syd Barrett through the global success of Dark Side of the Moon to the ultimate rock theatre show, The Wall. Along the way, the film explores the retro-futurism of Roxy Music and the protean world of David Bowie.

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.15.2010
02:41 am
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Scream thy last scream, Vegetable Man: Early unreleased Pink Floyd tracks
10.14.2010
07:48 pm
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The Syd Barrett-penned “Scream Thy Last Scream” was supposed to be Pink Floyd’s fourth single (fitting in after “Apples and Oranges” and before “It Would Be Be So Nice”) but the song, and its intended b-side, “Vegetable Man” (about a loser superhero) were never released. Having said that they’ve been heavily bootlegged for years, since acetates (glass test pressings) were cut. In fact, there are several versions (mono, two stereo mixes) known to exist. I can’t believe such amazing songs have never been given legit release on a Pink Floyd or Syd Barrett compilation.
 

 
“Vegetable Man” was memorably covered by the Jesus and Marychain as the b-side to their “Upside Down” single.
 

 
You can download a full complement of these tunes at the great Pathway To Unknown Worlds blog.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.14.2010
07:48 pm
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‘An Hour With Pink Floyd’: Live TV Performance, 1970
10.10.2010
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1970 Pink Floyd performance for San Francisco public TV Station KQED.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.10.2010
02:20 am
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Dark Side of Nintendo
04.01.2010
08:42 pm
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Forget the Flaming Lips and the Easy Star All Star-Dub Band versions of Dark Side of the Moon, this is far better. A fellow by the name of Brad Smith recreated the most famous Pink Floyd album in 8-bit using Famitracker, sound rendered with NSFplug. It sounds like Kraftwerk covering Pink Floyd! You can download the entire album here.
 

 

 
Bonus: The above clip is one of the all-time greatest Pink Floyd moments, the original band performing Astronomy Domine on a TV program called Look of the Week. Dig the classical music critic! What a tool.

Via our friends at World of Wonder

Posted by Richard Metzger
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04.01.2010
08:42 pm
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Pink Floyd Jammed Live While the Apollo Moon Landing was Broadcast on the BBC in 1969
07.22.2009
12:05 am
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This really happened!

“It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn’t seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays.” —David Gilmour of Pink Floyd

No shit! This is amazing!

My moon-landing jam session by David Gilmour

Thank you Chris Campion!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.22.2009
12:05 am
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