April 30 1970 , Pink Floyd played an hour-long set in an empty Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, filmed for broadcast by small local television station called KQED.
“At that point, they were really anxious to have whatever publicity they could,” remembers the program’s co-producer at KQED, Jim Farber. “We did not have much of a budget. Pink Floyd did the performance and offered the rights for a certain number of airings for practically nothing. My memory is we paid them $200.”
I think the keyboards of Richard Wright are what creates the spacey trippy vibe
Yeah and it's ashame he's not recognized. He aligned the journey in every song. Nice observation man
That's true!
What keyboard is he playing here? Btw, where's Sid? Had he already left the band even though he wrote this song?
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 yes, he left soon after David joined. Well, he was kicked out.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 A Farfisa Compact Duo. Also a Hammond L-122 which IIRC PF owned as part of their US backline inventory at the time...his UK/Europe Hammond at this point in time was an M-102, a slightly nicer spinet and a very popular unit in the UK as well as here. He'd later upgrade to a C-3 console (used Abbey Road's house RT-3 on DSOTM), and also later had a cutdown B-3, a Keyboard Products/Bill Beer chop I believe.
53 years ago. And still a masterpiece. One of the best songs of the band.
The incredible creativity of Syd Barrett
Syd made music an experience by putting his Art into it and he did LSD because he wanted to put his trip into his music I honestly think that Syd owned part of PF and should of been given money $$$$$ think about it Syds Arnold Layne & Emily songs put PF on the charts before that they were just cover band they had no right to remove Syd permanently that is why he left him self go gained like 100+ lbs
@@atom9w554 The band did give syd his royalties even his he wasn't apart of the band anymore, the band make sure of it
@@atom9w554Syd supposedly made up to $5 million for his contributions, so he was fine.
@@atom9w554 When you play in a band, and you've got one of the band members concentrating on, and excelling in drugs, and forgetting about music you have got to get replacement for that person a.s.a.p.
They had no idea how Iconic they would become.
This performance lacks in energy - did they feel like a Syd tribute band? Move on with your own stuff, guys! I'm guessing your audience will follow you.
Syd was a guitar genius whom Hendrix felt was a peer. Im not even going to listen to this version.
@@mikehemens9359 great attitude
Great sarcasm here LOL!
@@mikehemens9359 Syd was a brilliant artist but his guitar talent was not on part with Hendrix imo
I love Mason's drum work on this tune. I feel it gives a controlled chaos to the whole tune. This is one of my favorite early Floyd tunes. 🥁
Couldn’t agree more. Outstanding drumming
agree... and Nick plays this still today. Saw him 2022 in Munich.... imagine... 52 years....
And Rick's keyboards
Nick Mason always looks so peaceful, even amidst thundering drums.
. . . and he still looks as calm when surrounded by thundering pistons at classic car racing meetings like the Goodwood Revival.
Or driving his classic Ferraris
He is the Koala bear of drummers.
He was stoned af
Many drugs...very effective....
Yet another example of why Nick and Rick are the unsung heroes of PF.
Indeed. Keyboards and drums drove the early Pink Floyd sound. Syd just noodled whatever over them, and Roger was okay at thrumming away and came up with a few creepy sounds on the bass but was never a virtuoso bass player.
@@badtux Ive always thought the same. Both mason and wright together made Animals proper brilliant. But Syd didn't noodle over them, they noodled over Syd. It wasn't until after his departure when both of them really began to shine individually imo..
Yes yes yes
@@badtux Rick and David were also quite symbiotic. David also helped Roger with his playing. It was interesting to see David walk over, mid-performance and tweak a tuning peg on Roger's bass. DG has an excellent ear. PF would not be what they became without those 5---->4 specific people. God Bless them all.
@@badtux Syd just noodled whatever over them"? I really hope you're not an idiot, just that's the only Syd's song you've ever heard. BTW , totally butchered by the pretty boy.
I saw them at Newcastle City Hall UK in 1968. The group caught the same train as I back to London. Sat in the same carriage , real early days! Amazing night and amazing memories!
Wow that sounds so crazy!!
nick . one of the most criminally underrated drummers ever
No he is one
He struggled in songs like Mother and Two Suns in a Sunset.
You should catch his Nick Mason's Saucerfull of Secrets tour, I saw them a few months ago & it was soooo good
@@Nrgheal and round my way in England they play in some small interesting venues 😀👍
@@rc4a0frios live or in studio?
Gilmour was always a genius with the guitar. Even back in '68. The focus was less on him then but he still shone through.
I see whatcha did there....
Its just sad how Syd was kicked out by the band and replaced by his own friend, Gilmour. Both great nonetheless.
@@PaliSB94 they didn't have much choice. The novelty of Syd standing there motionless on stage not touching his guitar or playing the same note the whole show was not going to be entertaining for very long, though I would have loved to have seen it.
They like to show Gilmour's face rather than playing in this video, eh? And more of Waters' playing than his face. Hmm....
@@nebula1924 I thought they kicked him out cause he got sent to a mental hospital or something like that
Love these raw early 70's floyd tracks , they come alive , brilliant ! Best band of their era hands down !
RIP Richard Wright. Gone too soon. I really enjoy listening to Richard play keyboards. I am lucky to have seen him perform live, on the original The Wall tour, in Los Angeles, California. He was awesome, as were the rest of the band.
Lucky yu.he from Slovenia
Lucky you. From Mexico.
I was also there!
He was always brilliant in the Floyd shows. His style was the best, and I always preferred his musical creativity to all the flashy virtuoso keyboardists of the seventies.
I'm happy with your comment arklat. I thought PULSE was their finest show and to have Roger with his then new and sensational contribution was the crowning glory for me. But everyone was on their game - wonderful. I play it almost daily at the moment. But I also enjoy exploring back to their very early years when the music was, I will say, less melodic and far more exotic (but interesting) for me as a contrast to the amazing Dark Side of the Moon and later. I just thought Pulse was the culmination of their performances and after that there was some but not a lot more that I could put up there at the same height. They weren't a complete group any more and that's a great loss to the fans. I know there were more performances but I revel in the PULSE music, timing, construction and end result. But we luckily have remastered and even quadrophonic re-issues to enjoy.
A week after this, they showed up on a Friday afternoon, unannounced, set up, and played an impromptu concert outside, on the UCLA Quadrangle, for the few hundred of us, lucky enough to have been there...
Thank's so much for your comment. Just a simple question: where??? Thank's for your answer.
You are my hero Steve. Never wash your brain dude
what was the setlist?
"It was during this tour, on April 30, that Pink Floyd played an hour-long set in an empty Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, filmed for broadcast by small local television station called KQED. “At that point, they were really anxious to have whatever publicity they could,” remembers the program’s co-producer at KQED, Jim Farber. “We did not have much of a budget. Pink Floyd did the performance and offered the rights for a certain number of airings for practically nothing. My memory is we paid them $200.”" "Pink Floyd, for as strong an underground following as they building in the United States, were so eager for an American audience that they played a free concert at UCLA a week later. (Farber traveled to Los Angeles with the band in the hopes of getting some additional footage, but none was used. The free concert, he explains, “was really a disaster.”)" maybe a disaster for filming but not playing......around this time was their best IMO
This was a Thursday. This same night, the NY Mets beat the SF Giants 4-1 in front of only 5,100 people. The winning pitcher was none other than Nolan Ryan! Wellll!
I loved the early years,, this is one of my favourites. I Love the trippy, psychedelic Floyd,, some of their best☮️💜🎸🎹Rick is amazing on keyboards
Saw them in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1970. They had an image being the most techno-heavy band in the world. Compared to what most bands bring on stage today it was nothing. But they played very very good. In the end Gilmour sat on a persian carpet with his Strat and with a binson echo he made roaring space sounds on full volume, it went on and on, people who had smoked too much passed out in the dark.
1970 in a nutshell. Well played.
RIP Rick Wright, the musical heart of Pink Floyd.
And Syd as well, who actually wrote the song.
I'd say Syd was the heart and Nick was the heartbeat.
This video was a Thursday show at the Fillmore. They also played Wednesday. There was a small crowd which included my girlfriend and me. It was an impromptu performance, not advertised, so there were only a couple hundred people. I don't remember how I heard about it. I just remember rounding her up along with the blanket we always took because sitting on the floor was uncomfortable and, frankly, it was filthy. We usually kept it folded to sit on but this time we had so much room we spread it full out in the center of the hall, laying back and snuggling. It was like a private show. I still get a kick thinking about it.
That blanket must have been as filthy as the ground itself.
@@johnnada649 lmao not a single mention about how cool his show must of been.. Just the filthy stinking flea ridden blanket
@@festival3051 lol ! Ya exactly. A Pink Floyd performance that people would sell a kidney for, right in his face but chooses to focus his recollection on a mangy dirty blanket !! Wtf
3 of 3 comments are obsessing over 'DIRT' = 3 A👌's
anyone that would spread a blanket on filthy floor the way you describe is there for the performance of a lifetime. Just sayin'............... I would lay back and snuggle on the blanket too. It can be washed just the same way you can shower when you get home. Cheers! ~ kimie
Just a massive tune. So full of energy
Sid Barret es y será la esencia de pink floyd 'pese a quien pese'
When I was having a nervous breakdown the piper at the gates of dawn seemed to make some kind of sense it reminded me of other stuff
"Underrated" must be by far the most repeated word in KZhead.
12 likes? This comment is so underated
"Criminally Underrated" is the most criminally underrated cliché on KZhead.
Early Floyd is overrated.
I guess there just aren't enough ratings on KZhead, then!
Being underrated is highly overrated.
Next lifetime, let's put the camera on Gilmour DURING HIS SOLO PLEASE.
Jhensy2012 AGREED😡😡
OMG...wtf...talk about missing the boat...
Swap it out for images of Syd Barrett play the song.
Fermer vos yeux!
It was PBS.
What can you say? When they were obscure, they were incredible; and when they became well known they became even better.
you can also say different things
And then they got obscured by clouds.
I grew up watching KQED public television. It was out of San Francisco. They always had really good concerts on.
I was a young teen when I first heard just a few minutes of a song from their first album. I was blown away!!!! None of my classmates had even heard of them, I was a die-hard fan. I still am. Their music has helped me sail through so much turbulence in my life. Now I’m almost 70 years old and I still play their albums more than any other artist. True rock gods. Stones, Beatles, Mothers of Invention, LED Zeppelin.... man, we had it so good. Magic.
And now we have it on KZhead. Peace
love those Mothers
alright alright dont brag
Amen
Now we have kpop and 100gecs. I envy you.
Ancient gods, keepers of the mysteries of sound
виталий зайцев indeed! Pink Floyds music is translating those ancient secret archetypes of knowledge that the Eleusinian Mysteries represented. Kykeon was the great sacramental brew used for communicating with the dead, Peering beyond the veil, seeing form take shape from the mists of time!
A perfect description of the best rock band ever 👏
Absolutely! :-D
You are right my friend,vitalyi
They didn't keep anything. WE don't know how to seek. We don't know the balance between drugs and discipline
One of a kind music by an "insane genius"! Barret's best song in my opinion. Waters did a great job of making sure Syd wasn't forgotten. No one who suffers from mental illness should be cast aside or forgotten. Syd reminds us that those who suffer from mental illness are often very likable, intelligent and gifted people. That is why his former band mates cried after seeing what had become of him when he showed up unannounced in the studio in 1975. They were more than likely viewing this performance as a tribute to him. Great performance by Nick and Rick too!
I was hooked when a workmate lent me some albums, Piper at the gates of Dawn, an early Hawkwind album, a Keef Hartley LP and one by Vanilla Fudge " the one with keep me hangin- on psychedelic version. Astronome Domine was my all time favourite. Still is! Saw them in the Liverpool stadium. '68 or '69? Still a fan and over 70 years old!
Always loved that double bass drum work
Back in 1968 ,in high school ,I first heard this song,learn to play it (bass player)and fell in love with Floyd. Here it is Sept 2018 and I still have the same vigor as back in 68. P.S. Yeah I still have my 2 basses and amp =I sometimes drag them out and jam with my stereo ! :-Q
Thanks to all whom gave me a thumbs up
You're an absolute legend
Most timeless band in the world
Örök utazók, téren és időn át...fantasztikus
I can hear Roger saying to himself - 'check out this Gilmour cat I found'. The collective genius that is The Pink Floyd, pioneered by Syd, ushered in by timing, experimentation, advent of a culture of musicianship, the stars aligned and they knew they were onto something big. As fans we can't say we walked in their shoes, clearly they worked tirelessly and strategically, advantageously sprung up from fertile ground and fertile imagination with great talent. the value of the whole always greater than the sum of its parts. One of the greatest case studies in artistry & business & culture.
So much time to kill. spending it watching these old videos. Seeing the young guys is a great way to spend your entire day&night.have loved them for years.
no studio trickery,just 4 guys with 4 instruments making incredible music together. i hope more rare footage like this resurfaces.
but pink floyd loved doing studio trickery lol, obviously you won't see it in a live performance
What an absolutely magnificent historical document!
Floyd did some of their best work with no audience present!
Pompeii?
i like parmesan cheese Fillmore San Francisco April 1970 with no audience
If a tree falls in the forest and no one was around, did it really fall ? Seriously, though, gotta love these recorded performances.
best song syd ever wrote
I like Bike too..but this is his best, what an opener!!!
Syd was coming off an acid trip Pink Floyd was impressive
@@matthewferguson7084 interstellar overdrive and scream thy last scream were good aswell.
The whole song is just chromatic half steps up and down
@@sdefonta lyric wise that’s why they said wrote
This is what they opened with, when I saw them at Death Valley in Clemson, South Carolina on the Pulse tour. It was the greatest concert I ever went to. Got to see Dark Side in its entirety. The gold lasers went all the way into outer space. Truly an epic event.
And the bass drum hitting the pitre dish thing I'll never forget that
This is the first song I ever owned from PF. It was released on a promotional album from Capitol Records in 1970, called The New Spirit of Capitol, and featured a number of singles from some now very famous artists. I still have it on vinyl.
There I was in 1969, 15 years old, in my friend's living room, listening to his mom's Sears Silvertone stereo console, peeking on California Orange Sunshine Barrel. Yep! I was spaced out listening to this I will tell you!!!! Thanks for listening. kind regards, Rob
Sweet memories! Peace
LMFAO 😂 Orange Sunshine and Purple Microdot 🤪
We are blessed to have this archival footage. It's as close as we are ever going to get to Mother's in Birmngham summer 69.
I wish they could have kept more of the avant-garde edge they captured at this time into their mainstream period. The daring and experimental always gets sacrificed to achieve widespread recognition. Guess I should be thankful for all that we got out of this creative force we call Pink Floyd!
Yep, I think "Money" says it all!
I think about this too. I think was more of how life happened to them when syd lost his mind. After Dave completely took the role, alot of hard feelings came about because they pretty much lost their friend, and most of the post syd/calmer pink floyd was written about syd, so Naturally it gave them a more calm psychedelic rock feel. I'm sure they would've stuck more too their roots if what happened to syd never happened and Dave never joined as syd kinda had some punk roots.
This was the first Pink Floyd song I had ever heard. It was on a compilation album from Columbia I think. It certainly was prophetic of what was to come from them. Needless to say I was impressed...
The youngins just don't know how wonderful this band once was.
Does 21 count as a youngin?
Zzzzzzzzzz........
It’s wonderful that we live in a time when great music is preserved to be rediscovered by future generations
Of course they do. They're aware and they enjoy them just as much as the rest of us.
i asked to be born so i could see pink floyd especially the early days, so my check in spot was november 1968, which was very inconvenient, needless to say pink floyd started without me. 51 years later im discovering them every week, its like opening christmas presents every week.
My first PF album was Ummagumma on an 8 track tape. As they said back then, "Far out, man!'
My beloved aunt got me the double album when I was 12 or 13...blew my mind.
Wow I was 4 years old but sill remains my favorite band. I was lucky enough to see them in New Orleans on Division Bell tour
i saw that tour also at the rose bowl.they opened up with this song and had the liquid screens going it was amazing.
I was at that Rose Bowl show but came away disappointed. Fortunately I saw them perform Dark Side of the Moon and Meddle in the mid 70's at what I believe to be their peak. When i saw them perform the Division Bell I felt they they had so many additional performers and came across as too slick and lacking real emotion. That was just my perception of it of course.
@@mag2469 Was there at the Rose Bowl as well. When they opened with A.D., I went berserk. Drove down to see the San Diego show as well. Gods.
One of the greatest vids I’ve ever seen on KZhead; Rick Wright is GOD
The best band of the world forever and ever 🙏
This is truly fascinating. David Gilmour taking on Syd Barrett's guitar and vocal role in The Pink Floyd. And doing it justice! Remarkable. Absolutely remarkable.
What's really fascinating to me, prior to hooking up with Roger, Nick, and Richard.., Syd and David were traveling around busking together. David would have known Syd, and would have some idea of how to emulate him, but then he is David Gilmour, so he also has his own genius to add to the band.
When I was in high school (mid 70s) I would leave my stereo radio on (tuned to the college station) all night as I slept. I can remember waking up when this would play b/c it just sounded so good!
Extraordinario trabajo de Ricky Wright. Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷.
I love this song. It´s really something marvellous
I remember this on TV; I was 12. Thanks for the flashback!
Ah one of my favourite Pink Floyd numbers. To be able to reproduce it live says much about their musicianship. Thanks so much for posting an absolute gem
Perfect, great to hear and see
How can it be perfect without Syd?
@@zarathustra3830 Syd self destructed
Its like a PBS broadcast. Love it!!!!
I saw them in 1975 the first concert I ever went to they did everything from Dark Side of Moon to the hole wish you was here some stuff from animals that wasn't released yet and older stuff a good $4.50 well spent
$4.50 wouldn't buy a bottle of water now at a show eh. Sound about right
Yeah saw that Van! ...blew my mindd
First set: ECHOES, intermission followed by ALL of DarkSide and I believe that was it as I recall Vanshow.
To be fair, $4.50 was approximately what I earned from two hours work at McDonald's a year later. My hourly rate is a bit higher now, but I would still pay that for such a concert.
Saw of 1973 Madison Wisconsin 4bucks doom awesome, windowpane
Awesome! The quality of image is incredible for a footage from 1970.
Sound quality good too.
This is like a fantastic find man.
Álcio Mota yes présentation was everything, they were precise about that.
In 1970 we were already living in houses, with running water and electricity, you know ! :-)
Yes, and unlike most video footage from "rock concerts", the videographer was not "going psycho" with his own "effects". Big thanks to those KQED video guys!
Brano ascoltato dal vivo in Rotterdam nel 1971 dove vivevo.magica serata Pink Floyd di un altro pianeta extraterrestri.sono la mia vita.sono dentro di me.magici eterni.w i Pink Floyd unici.Dainese Aldo.
Amazing drumming from Nick Mason. Great work, tricky double kick and tribal toms feel at times.
Proprement génial. Un des chefs-d'oeuvre de Pink Floyd lors d'une magistrale interprétation.
Etienne ROUX oui.
The greatest band that has ever been or ever will be, all bow with eternal hails...
Great song great tribute to Syd he done this song so well when he was there, sad he wasn't there longer, this is 1 of the best band's ever 😃🤟
Thank you for the upload!!
I´m thinking of a cold night out in the countryside, with the grass illuminated by the lights of a nearby deserted highway. I feel the cold on my back and gives me the jitters. I see the steam of my breath in the air. I am all alone. Yet somehow, I am filled with hope and excitement for the future.
KQED, the radio station in my neck of the woods🤙
Very thankful to you and kqed ’ for airing this Such a clear and great sounding video Amazing how these great videos pop up after so many years. Thanks again
There is so much to enjoy here. A Syd tune, played live that 100% showcases how talented Nick is and has Rick's vox and synth up front. Amazing.
Preferred part: the improvisation of Rick WRIGHT on organ Thanx for the upload !
Awesome! Very much like the Ummagumma version. Always loved how they stopped in the middle and let Rick float in the Ether with the Farfisa/Binson. Great rare footage!
One of my favorite songs ever.
That's just an amazing performance. I had never seen this before now. Thank you for sharing.
was lucky enough to have parents to take me in 93 or 94 to see them. miss you dad, happy mothers day mom
So you saw the Division Bell concert! 1994! It was amazing , awesome and divine. Best concert of my life!
Great parents, good son!
Many many thanks for this, love this channel more and more, its like Christmas everyday i look though your uploads, cheers, hugs and haha kisses
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Nice....very nice.
Nice
I was living in the Bay Area at the time and was lucky enough to see this when KQED first broadcast this . . . classic stuff!
Absolutely love this footage great video 😊 Thank You
I miss that era, remember PF was so far out man, trippy for sure!
Thank you mister Gilmour 😃
muriel mottet you should thank me for writing the song
Syd Barrett😎
syd barett wrote it...
Long live the true genius behind Pink Floyd...the Crazy Diamond, Syd Barrett
while I certainly give Syd much respect, the others did write the bulk of what we now know to be Pink Floyd. So Dave and the others deserve a healthy chuck of credit as well
Holy Cow!!!! What a great flashback. This is definitely number one Floyd. Sorry suckers, you missed it. And who the hell doesn't like this video???? Are you kidding. Floyd at their best, raw, fun, and trippy.
Fantastic, shows they all are Great.
Your number # 1 HDPinkFloyd
Fave version is Ummagumma but this is right exactly in the same time frame so the arrangement is almost identical love this!!!!
Awesome clip!!!!! So great to see a true and raw live performance!!!
As I’ve grown older, I’ve come to better appreciate the genius of this pre-AOR radio, pre-“classic rock,” unhinged weirdo psychedelic Pink Floyd material. Don’t get me wrong, I like _Dark Side of the Moon_ through _The Wall_ just fine. And I LOVE that Roger Waters is still out there, inventing tour concepts and challenging people and getting involved in politics and speaking truth to power. But Pink Floyd’s post-1972 concept album/progressive rock period, engaging as it is, can get so overburdened with gimmicks that it really overwhelms the music, while their earlier kids-with-instruments-and-mics-unchained-in-a-studio Syd Barrett-influenced period is so reckless and always teetering on the edge of disaster, it’s great fun to sink into. 🙂 Thanks for uploading this! ❤️
What do you get when you have 4 geniuses playing this good in a single band? You get the Floyd, PINK FLOYD!
Dammit I wish they were showing Dave the whole time during his incredible guitar parts with the Black Strat. Eargasm.
This is fantastic, Syd live and kicking. Man, thanks to the person who placed this video. Really great.
no kidding, awesome find, thanks for posting.Great quality.
I believe this is the US tour where their gear was stolen in New Orleans. They got most of the gear back except for a couple of guitars and basses. Dave picked up the Black Strat so it's a new guitar in this performance.
Eric: This black Strat which David is seen playing here isn't THE BLACK STRAT. This guitar was among the gear stolen after a gig at the Warehouse in New Orleans on 16MAY1970. A lot of the gear was eventually recovered but Dave's two Strats, one white, one black, were never recovered
Follow Up: the guitar seen here was purchased at Manny's in NYC at the outset of this tour. After the theft in New Orleans, a little over two weeks after this footage was shot, the band canceled the rest of the tour and went home. Enroute home Dave returned to Manny's and bought the guitar now known as THE BLACK STRAT.
the best Floyd channel on youtube, thanks again
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Richard querido, gracias por ese clima Floydiano...!!! Donde estes ❤
Saw this when it was first aired been looking for it ever since
Is the definition of Psychedelic Music
They had no idea how rich and famous they would become.
So happy I found this channel.
How beautiful this cant be better!!!!!
Amazing to think this was filmed 50 years ago, when I was nearly ten. Alarming, in a way!
I like to watch Nick play the drums on this tune. He's so intense!
Fantastic bass playing from waters on this one
When the KQED show aired I was disappointed that AD wasn't there. I loved the song from the dynamic Ummagumma version; in fact it is still today my all-time favorite track, and Ummagumma is my desert-island album (along with David Byrne's Catherine Wheel soundtrack). So this is a real treat. Over the years I've collected 60 versions of AD by the band (or by Dave solo). This is typical of their performances of the song in 1970, not the best and not the worst. Very satisfactory, however, and fun to see as well as hear them.
"silly arse silly arse silly arse silly arse...."