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Pink Floyd History

Pink Floyd

Syd Barret, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason all belonged to one of best psychedelic rock bands of all time known as Pink Floyd. Each of these members had a unique talent that created such great music. Syd Barret was a writer and vocalist/guitarist, on the bass was Roger Waters, Richard Wright was the organist, and the drummer was Nick Mason.
The history of the band starts back when they were all teenagers around the age of 16. All of the members were in a Saturday morning art class. They all enjoyed music and art together and they started to play whenever they had free time. Soon after they had been playing with each other for awhile and getting used to the style they all played they started playing at a night club called the UFO. The bands name has changed a lot since the start. They actually had quite a few names that they went by before Pink Floyd was introduced. The band started out being called Sigma 6, then they started getting referred to as T-set. One of the unusual names that they came up with after T-set was Meggadeaths. Meggadeaths was the idea of Roger Waters which stuck with them for not so long. Then Architecture Abdabs was an idea for a name since they all enjoyed architecture. Architecture Abdabs was the last name that wouldn’t stick for the band. The next name has stuck with the band for as long as anyone knows the name “Pink Floyd.” Syd Barret claims that there is a story behind it, but really there isn’t. Syd had two blues heroes as he was growing up listening to music. Pink Anderson, and Floyd Council both were major influences for Syd when he was growing up. They shortened those two names and now they are known as Pink Floyd.
The band really wasn’t anything big until they started to play songs from their first album which was called Piper at the Gates of Dawn. The way that Syd would get his lyrics was just anything that he read about he would make note of it...

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