Radio Dupree: Pink Floyd '67 - great show although weak vocals

Enjoying the show

The rare Stockholm 1967 Pink Floyd live recording is a real gem, although one can scarce see the vocals at all. Here is Radio Dupree's report from the Pink Floyd Happening at Gyllene Cirkeln (The Golden Circle) in Stockholm yesterday on Saturday May 7.

The mind was to get a public playback of the uncommon and uncirculated recording that Anders Lind made at Pink Floyd's first call in Sweden in September 1967.

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Anders held an institution to the "performance" where he told the audience about how it all happened:

"I used to read different bands and I asked Pink Floyd's manager if I could show them. He said: OK, just hope you won't do anything bad with it."

Then Lind pressed the go button of the old Revox machine and we could see a British voice announcing the lot in a traditional way: "Give them a big hand..."
Then came the beginning bars of Matilda Mother, organ and bass. Syd Barrett's vocals could be heard faintly in the background.

The set and the tape recorder

Earlier Anders Lind had explained that there was no such matter as a PA system back in '67, and there was no one mixing the sound. The phone came from the amps on level and the point from the vocal microphones were sent to a pair of small vocal amps. The voice was a solution of each musician handling their own amp, and during the picture the vocal amps would likely not be adjusted at all. But the want of vocals on the record can likewise be a solution of Syd's health and/or attitude at the time. Maybe he did not reach the movement to talk out loud, by some reason.

Matilda Mother had a longer instrumental role in the heart and a quick search at the lookout made clear that it clocked in on around 5:20, more than two minutes longer than the album version.
Next call is Pow R. Toc H. which is a long instrumental (except for some bird like screams in the beginning).

The notion so far is that the set is quite large for a 1967 band. Syd plays some mean guitar and Roger Waters bass is cheap and sometimes aggressive. Rick Wright's organ wanders between odd (arabian?) scales and pure eerie sounds, and Nick Mason gives the tom toms a good bash.

The yet unreleased Cry Thy Last Scream is next. We can't see any vocals on this one at all, but this is a great tune! The lads are forward of their time, nine or ten days earlier the punk explosion!
Some more psychedelic improvisation: Set The Controls For The Affection Of The Sun. Here the vocals are slightly audible again.

The big hit single See Emily Play is succeeding and here some spontaneous audience singing is pick the gap where Syd's singing should be. The last part is Interstellar Overdrive.
Cry Thy Last Scream is the highlighting of the show. A studio recording of this song exists, but by some reason EMI will not loose it. A true mystery!

The Golden Circle tape is likely the sole existing recording of an entire 1967 Pink Floyd concert. Yesterday we were allowed to see all of it except one song. More on that and the possible release of the recording, coming soon here on the Radio Dupree blog.

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Live music was played by Lost In Rick Wright's Wardrobe. Here's a taste: