Getting started Pink Floyd? First Steps

We gathered together as a few people with guitars and amassed one of the most prominent bands. Now I understand the role of Ken Chapman, who collected around these talented musicians. He was something of a detonator, forcing musicians to play his songs, which now no one remembers, he seems to have blown their creative potential, spurred them to write their own music.

No, it is clear that without it, would be a different manager, or the boys would play themselves, but still has the merit of Chapman, and considerable - he saw in each of the musicians of talent. Having played a role, group manager of «T-Set» safely dissolve over time, and now if we think about it, the only world-wide fame thanks to Pink Floyd. At least, I read about it in the main only in an interview with the legendary musicians of the group.

So, Ken Chapman and his team melted, left team, who decided to work independently. A group called The Pink Floyd Sound, and the name finally stuck. The initial composition - Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals), Roger Waters (bass, vocals), Nick Mason (drums) Syd Barrett (vocals, guitar). Already in 1965 the group made its debut at the London club Countdown, and the musicians were already fee of 15 pounds apiece. Their songs, they had a little more and repertoire consisted mostly of songs The Rolling Stones, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, an arrangement which they have changed considerably, adding a long guitar losers (apparently, even then the musicians start to think about their own style, guitar solos - this is a brand name Pink floyd). Besides the "huge" fee, the guys were still able to regularly give concerts in Cambridge and London, where they are, incidentally, often overlap with the band Jokers Wild, a leader whose name was David Gilmour.

In 1966, the group acquires manager Peter Dzhenerom and again renamed (at the request of Dzhenera), but not as dramatically as it once was - now called simply «Pink Floyd». Creative leader Syd Barrett, the group becomes. He began writing songs for his band, Pink Floyd and all fail to fulfill other people's songs - now they only play songs of their own. Lyrics Barrett is not always clear, sometimes even crazy - probably affects his passion drugs, which led to internal dissension group. Although there is a bright and songs like «Bike», apparently written by or before he got hooked on drugs or in rare moments of enlightenment.

Concerts, but in January 1967 was one of the events that influenced the music world by no less than the appearance of The Beatles. Rather, it was an event that precedes the more important event. 11/12 January 1967 Pink Floyd band in the studio, "Studio Sound Tekniks" (London) recorded two songs Barrett («Arnold Layne» and «Let` s Roll Another One ») and two long instrumental compositions, arrangements which create together ( «Interstellar Overdrive» and «Nick` s Boodie »). The four songs included in the collection «Tonite Let's All Make Love In London».

And in August of this year released his first debut album «The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn». From this album, it is clear that Barrett of their comrades, they say, ran over authority - of the twelve tracks were written eight songs to them. What was he did not quite healthy Barrett, so were his songs. Steady, nervous, sometimes frantic.

While recording the album the musicians realized that Barrett to work harder and harder. He could just during recording or a concert and even take to change this or that loss, playing his impromptu sing a song or not, as had been planned. Maybe for him it was in the order of things, but friends could not get used to such rotations. Status of Syd Barrett became heavier threads connecting it with the real world became thinner, and work with him was all the harder. However, despite the difficulties of interaction between Barrett and his colleagues, the album was recorded and received by the public to cheer.

One of the most clear to me the songs on this album - «Bike», most children's song and light Barrett. Generally, an album many songs, in which Barrett has put his childhood, and he did it, but a song about a bicycle I liked the most.