Pink Floyd

6 May 1968
First European International Pop Festival, Piper Club, Rome, Italy


CD 1
1. Italian announcer (0:39) 
2. Astronomy Domine (6:44) 
3. Roger Waters Interview (2:48) 
4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (8:28) 
5. Interstellar Overdrive (6:38) 

Running length: 25 min 17 sec


Source: fm > unknown > cdr > shn

Torrented at www.NeptunePinkFloyd.co.uk

Quality: EX+

Comments:
All tracks: First European International Pop Festival, Piper Club, Rome, Italy. 
May 6th, 1968. VPRO Rebroadcast.

A very strange version of 'Interstellar Overdrive' if I may say so, it starts with 
drumming and Dave making a peculiar 'birdy' clicking noise on his guitar, 
then it goes into sort of a free form jam, one wouldn't think it was 'Interstellar 
Overdrive' one listened to until the familiar chords sequence set in near the end..

[ITALIAN PRESENTER: Arisaltiamo tra un po'. E' un tecnico che si è dimenticato un 
piccolo particolare.]

[DUTCH COMMENTATOR: Opnamen van het eerste internationale popfestival van 4 tot 
8 mei jongstleden gehouden te rome. In deze uitzending muziek van Pink Floyd, 
The Nice and the Byrds en bovendien interviews met Roger Waters van Pink Floyd en 
Roger McGuinn van the Byrds. Dit zijn de Engelse Pink Floyd.]

[ITALIAN PRESENTER: We start with the Pink Floyd.]

[ROGER: This song is called 'Astronomy Domine'.]

Astronomy Domine

[ROGER: Thank you, thank you.]

[DUTCH COMMENTATOR: ...Dit zijn de Pink Floyd. Een engelse viermansgroep. 
Bezetting: orgel, gitaar, bas en drums. De titel van het nummer dat u gehoord 
hebt is Astronomy Domine, een nummer dat ook te vinden is op hun tot nog toe enige 
langspeelplaat 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. De geluidskwaliteit van deze met 
behulp van de italiaanse radio onder nogal gebrekkige omstandigheden door ons 
zelf gemaakte opnamen is natuurlijk niet te vergelijken met de plaatopnamen van 
dit soort muziek, waaraan vaak maanden aan wordt gewerkt. In Rome hadden we ook 
een gesprek met de basgitarist en zanger van deze groep 'Roger Waters']

ROGER: I would say that Rome is an absurd place to organize a pop festival you know. 
If it would've been me I would never have picked Rome you know. 
Ah... Anyway you know it's not you know, it's not a sort of pop-pop festival, 
if you see what I mean you know. If I was organizing a pop festival in England 
and wanted to make money and draw big crouds you know,  I'd have on ah... 
well all the people have sold alot of records in England this you know is 
Engelbert Humperdink and old people like that you know, and those are the people 
who should really be playing in a pop festival. If the ... wants to fill the place, 
now if he doesn't. If he wants to cated to a minority audience then, 
well I'm certainly in Rome, this evenings alot of groups anyway where I don't know 
about the italian groups or their association, but anyway the groups in the first 
half, really a minority, well The Move possibly not, but The Nice and us are 
certainly a minority appeal you know, and we should be playing in much smaller 
clubs where there aren't these bloody television lights shining you know. 
We couldn't use our lightshow at all, it was obvious as soon as we arrived. 
We decided not to use it because we were gonna have a real hassle within.]

[INTERVIEWER: Yes, like you think there is a new kind of, let's call it 
experimental or progressive pop music emerging which appeals to a certain, 
a little bit older public than usual public?]

[ROGER: Yeah, there is.]

[INTERVIEWER: And which is especially on LPs?]

[ROGER: Yeah, definetely.]

[ROGER: ....called 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun'.]

[DUTCH COMMENTATOR: Rome was inderdaad een absurde plaats om een popfestival 
te organiseren, zegt ook Roger Waters. 't financieel fiasco van 't festival is 
inmiddels genoegzaam bekend. Groepen als Pink Floyd en ook the Nice die u straks 
gaat horen zijn nu eenmaal geen hitparade groepen. De muziek is voornamelijk 
te vinden op langspeelplaten die door een relatief klein, maar zeer deskundig 
publiek worden gekocht. Ontwikkelt zich op deze manier een progressieve popmuziek? 
'Zeker', zegt Roger Waters, ''t festival in Rome was dan wel een Pop festival, 
maar je hebt pop en pop. Als je met popmuziek geld wilt verdienen, moet je mensen 
als Engelbert Humperdinck vragen'. Vervolgens een nummer van de nieuwe LP van 
Pink Floyd, die per 1 Juni in Engeland is uitgekomen. Song of the Sun heet het 
of iets dergelijks, de titel was niet helemaal te verstaan.]

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
Interstellar Overdrive


May 6th, 1968:
Transcription and italian to english translation of the italian announcer done by 
eduss. Transcription and dutch to english translation of the dutch announcer 
done by SnaPsH0t

[ITALIAN ANNOUNCER: We will start jumping again in a while. 
A stage-technician has forgotten a little detail (meaning he has forgotten to 
plug some instruments to the mixer)]

[DUTCH COMMENTATOR: Recordings of the first international popfestival last 4-8 may 
held in Rome. During this broadcast music from Pink Floyd, The Nice and 
the Byrds and also interviews with Roger Waters of Pink Foyd and Roger McGuinn 
of the Byrds. This is the english pink Floyd.]

[DUTCH COMMENTATOR: This is the Pink Floyd. An english 4-man band. Consists of: 
organ, guitar, bass and drums. The title of the song just heard is 
Astronomy Domine, a song you can find on their up to now only record [lp] 
'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. The soundquality of these under difficult 
circumstances with the help of the italian radio made recordings are not to be 
compared with the studio recordings of this kind of music, worked on for 
several months. In Rome we talked with the bassguitarist and singer of this 
band 'Roger Waters']

[DUTCH COMMENTATOR: Rome indeed was an absurd place to organize a popfestival, 
according to Roger Waters. The financial flop of the festival is already known. 
Bands like Pink Floyd and also the Nice, to be heard later on, are no hitparade 
bands. You will find this music on LP's bought by a relative small, but expert 
audience. Is there in this way developing a progressive kind of popmusic? 
'Certainly', Roger Waters says, 'The festival in Rome was a POP festival, 
but you have pop and you have POP. When you want to earn some money with popmusic, 
you have to invite people like Engelbert Humperdinck. Next a track from 
the new album of Pink Floyd, released june 1 in England. Song of the Sun or 
something like that, didn't catch the title completely.]

Enjoy!



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