My favorite band is Pink Floyd. Yes, I do admit that The Beatles are the greatest band of all time but Pink Floyd holds a special place in my heart mainly for their work on “Dark Side of the Moon” and “Wish You Were Here,” two albums that portray the pinnacle of psychedelic music. Yet, the link I bring you today comes from a very different Pink Floyd. A Floyd well before there first release of “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” in August of 1967. A Floyd that held a completely different sound under a different band leader named Syd Barrett. Of course, less then one year after this video was recorded Barrett performed his last concert with Pink Floyd and because of his unstability due to excess LSD usage and deteriorating mental health he was impossible to deal with on stage for he continually changed chord progressions and melodies to a mash-up of ideas in his head. But, here in February of 1967 we are still in the emerging years of the young Pink Floyd Sound and we should celebrate this awesome rare video from the UFO Club.
At the end of the performance of the free form, “Interstellar Overdrive,” a particularly ugly Paul McCartney (sorry Paul) with a wierd mustache and long hair is interviewed about this rise in Psychedelic Music. While his 
appearance may not be pleasant his view on this new music is sharp. He speaks of the rise of Psychedelia positively, saying that it is just simply a new way of expressing oneself through music and while people may fear it there is really no need to. Well, Paul, after watching this video with suited dancers dancing some warped mix of 50’s moves and swaying,and constant images of protests and ominous headlines I am honestly a little scared. After watching the video I just could not stop thinking to myself, Roger Waters should only know what he, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and one guitarist with a haunting voice named David Gilmour will do in a few years time.
Check out the Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr0hdXPH92M
One more link for you guys on this Friday morning. Staying with the theme of Psychedelic let us focus on a band that got lost in the craze and never gained the respect they deserved. In 1967, Tomorrow became one of the first English Psychedelic bands, along with Pink Floyd and The Soft Machine. There single, ” My White Bicycle,” while being an interesting piece of rare psychedelia never gained much success. Probably, the best thing to come from “Tomorrow” was Steve Howe who after “Tomorrow” became the guitarist for the much more succesful progressive rock group “Yes.”
Check out the song: http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=4442495
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