Rare Pink Floyd Poster - San Diego 10/18/70

Check out this ultra rare Pink Floyd poster! It promotes a 10/18/70 gig in San Diego. The band played Intercollegiate Baseball Facility, University College of San Diego, San Diego. Pink Floyd performed in San Diego for the first time at the Intercollegiate Baseball Facility (a.k.a. the Polo Field) at UCSD. Touring behind their Atom Heart Mother album, they had played the previous month for their largest audience ever -- over 500,000 people -- in Paris. Despite their popularity in Europe, Floyd was third on the San Diego bill, behind Hot Tuna and Leon Russell.

Tickets cost $3.50 for the general-admission show, which started at noon. "There was a big marijuana protest on the grounds at the same time," recalls one-time concert promoter Dan Tee, a member of UCSD's Student Body Council at the time and one of the people behind the show. "About a hundred people were carrying signs and chanting 'legalize it, legalize it,' and it seemed like there were at least that many cops around too. "(The protestors) weren't too organized, though. Before long, most of them were going into the concert instead of protesting.... We used a bunch of their (abandoned) sign poles to prop up a temporary fence that gate-crashers tore down to get into the concert."

The San Diego date was one of the few where the experimental song "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" was performed by the band. It lasted around 20 minutes. "They actually sat at a little folding table and ate for part of the song," says Tee, "with tapes of voices and sound effects playing in the background."

The band returned to San Diego one year later (10/17/71) to play a show at Golden Hall that became widely bootlegged.

12/3/67 Pink Floyd Poster - Hendrix Package Tour

Check out this Pink Floyd poster from 3rd December 1967 featuring Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, The Nice, Eire Apparent, Outer Limits, Amen Corner, Pete Drummond, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, UK.

It was (for sure) a mass of talent crammed onto one bill. For 3 weeks in December 1967, aboard a fleet of buses which cries-crossed the country leaving no major town unturned, the artists listed on this poster set out to bring a taste of London to the provinces.

Through the sixties, package tours were very popular. The Move's manager Tony Secunda explained, "The idea was to cram as many bands on to the bill as possible, not simply because it made financial sense, also because it gave massive exposure to bands who might never get out there."

The Jimi Hendrix Experience closed each show with a forty minute set; The Move received an hour; Pink Floyd had seventeen minutes; Amen Corner got fifteen minutes; The Nice had twelve minutes. Eire Apparent and The Outer Limits, eight-minutes apiece. "But eight minutes was enough," Secunda shrugged. "If you were a new band, and you couldn't prove yourselves in eight minutes, you might as well give up there and then."

With sixteen cities and thirty-one shows; all but the opening London gig with both an afternoon matinee and an evening performance, the tour represented a staggering task:

November 14 (Royal Albert Hall, London)
November 15 (Winter Gardens, Bournemouth)
November 17 (City Hall, Sheffield)
November 18 (Empire Theatre, Liverpool)
November 19 (Coventry Theatre, Liverpool)
November 22 (Guildhall, Portsmouth)
November 23 (Sophia Gardens, Cardiff)
November 24 (Colston Hall, Bristol)
November 25 (Blackpool Opera House, Blackpool)
November 26 (Palace Theatre, Manchester)
November 27 (Queens College, Belfast)
December 1 (Central Hall, Chatham)
December 2 (The Dome, Brighton)
December 3 (Theatre Royal, Nottingham)
December 4 (City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
December 5 (Green's Playhouse, Glasgow)

Nice guitarist Davy O'List says, "Immediately you were done your set, you could leave, which was great; we used to be on third; sometimes I'd stay back to watch the Floyd play, but it was off to the nearest pub or wherever, and wait to be hauled out again." Or not, as it sometimes transpired.

"Everyone used to hang out with everybody else," stated Noel Redding. "Us lot (The Experience) were really close with The Move. Trevor Burton, the rhythm guitar player with The Move, used to travel with us, and if I was running late, I'd travel with The Move. So after the show, we'd all go to pubs, get pissed, then attempt to get on the coach at the time; we'd miss the coach and have to get buses and..."

Pink Floyd were probably the most surprising addition to the lineup. With Two Top Thirty hits in 1967, a Top Ten LP and tours in their own right, had already established the group amongst the country's top-flight psychedelic attractions, and there was little doubt that they could comfortably have taken billing alongside any band in the country.

According to Tony Secunda, however, Floyd's managers had a reason for taking the package tour. "Basically, they were worried about Syd Barrett, but needed to keep the band's name out there, but nobody knew if Barrett was up to it. The general feeling was that he wasn't."

Pink Floyd's set was made up of one song, a full on version of "Interstellar Overdrive." According to Davy O'List, "Syd was an amazing guitarist," O'List continues. "He really was, as much as Hendrix was in his own right." And in later, with both Jimi and Barrett long since absent from the scene, British journalists slavered at the thought of how these geniuses of the guitar might have related to one another. In a 1974 edition of the English New Musical Express, journalist Kent asked Peter Jenner, "Surely the two uncrowned kings of rock, Hendrix and Barrett, must have socialized in some?

"Not really," replied Jenner. "Syd didn't talk to anyone."

Move bassist Ace Kefford agrees. "Syd never spoke to anyone. He hardly moved sometimes. He was on another planet."

Sometimes Syd didn't show for a gig and Pink Floyd got Davy O'List to fill in, "It was a fairly straight forward guitar thing, so I was able to pick it up quite quickly," recalls O'List. "At first I kept my back to the audience while we were playing, and the audience was really impatient, shouting 'turn round, Syd,' and things like that. So I turned round, and they all shut up immediately. Then turned back and carried on playing." After Barrett's departure the Floyd was confirmed, O'List admits, he entertained hopes he might be invited to replace him full time. "But of, they'd already decided on Dave Gilmour by then."

Pink Floyd Poster - Rare Italian EMI Promo

Pink Floyd poster, ULTRARARE! early '70s original and absolutely genuine Italian-only, EMI / Harvest, promo-poster, great & unique graphic & still in great near mint condition! I think that this depicts the Man and the Journey concept.

The Man and the Journey is the name of one of Pink Floyd's early concept-shows performed the first time April 14, 1969 in Royal Festival Hall, London. It consists of several of their early songs coupled with material that would appear on the film More, which was written simultaniously. The event was titled 'The Massed Gadgets Of Auximenes - More Furious Madness From Pink Floyd'. The material was incorporated into two album-length suites, The Man and The Journey. The concerts also included visual performance elements such as the sawing and construction of a table and consumption of afternoon tea onstage.

'The Man and the Journey' were Both parts of the show contained of improvisations around different Floyd songs,

The 17 September performance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is the most widely bootlegged of the shows on the tour because it was broadcast by radio station VPRO. Plans for an official live album release of The Man and the Journey were considered, but abandoned due to overlap of material with Ummagumma.

This set finds the Pink Floyd at what some consider their post-Barrett psychedelic high-water mark in 1969; most of the movements in these pieces were cut, reassembled, and rerecorded for their movie sountrack albums from the same period: Zabriskie Point, and More.

See the set list here:

THE MAN
a) Daybreak (band-version of Grantchester Meadows)
b) Work (early version of Biding My Time)
c) Afternoon (break, where tea was served for the band on stage)
d) Doing It (Up The Khyber)
e) Sleeping (Quicksilver)
f) Nightmare (Cymbaline)
g) Daybreak (Instrumental version of Grantchester Meadows)

THE JOURNEY
a) The Beginning (Green Is The Colour)
b) Beset The Creatures Of The Deep (Careful With That Axe, Eugene)
c) The Narrow Way (Band-version of The Narrow Way, part three)
d) The Pink Jungle (Pow R. Toc H.)
e) The Labyrinth Of Auximenes (mid-section from Interstellar Overdrive)
f) Behold The Temples Of Light (Instrumental)
g) The End Of The Beginning (Celestial Voices from A Saucerful Of Secrets)

'The Man and the Journey' is only available on bootleg-recordings. One recording circulating is done by dutch radio VPRO in Amsterdam September 17, 1969. A part of the show was recorded for the radio-show 'Top Gear' on May 12, 1969. The recording has been released on the more ore less official italian CD: 'Pink Floyd - The Complete Top Gear Sessions' (GDR CD 9206/AB).

the following shows are known to be recorded and are circulating on tape:

14 April 69: Royal Festival Hall, London (I think the original performance. A tape of this show exists but is very very rare. Easily identifiable because it has IO as an encore. A lot of people still list the 26jun69 show as this show).

22 June 69: Free Trade hall, Manchester. Has Set the Controls as an encore, tape contains lots of cuts

26 June 69: Royal Albert Hall, London. a.k.a. The Final Lunacy. Brass and Choir on the closing section of a Journey. Two different recordings of this show are available.

8th August 69: Plumpton Festival The Journey only — Roger introduces it as “the second half of… a kind of concept thing… we did around the country a bit earlier this year.”

17 September 69: Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Recorded and broadcasted by Dutch radio, and the source of many RoIOs. Recently the (almost) complete concert was rebroadcasted and treed on Echoes. This is the version to hunt for. The broadcast only misses the non-musical parts (Work, the bird noises in daybreak, etc.) and is in soundboard quality. This show had no encore. Behold the Temple Of Light lacks keyboards, because Rick Wright left his usual spot and ran to the big pipe organ of the Concertgebouw and plays that during the ‘The End of the Beginning’ section.
“Biding My Time”

Pink Floyd Poster - "The first holiness kitschgarden for the liberation of love and peace in colours".

1968 Original First and only Printing Beautiful design Concert Poster. Concert Poster "The first holiness kitschgarden for the liberation of love and peace in colours".

Performers ; Pink Floyd, The Cream, Small Faces, Moody Blues, Traffic, The Move and many more.

Venue ; Den Haag - The Netherlands
Date ; June, 21 - 22, 1968.

Artist ; Armand Perrenet . This is one of the most beautiful Psychedelic design Concertposters that I know!
Size ; 61 x 43 cm