eMusic Review
To witness Pink Floyd at the UFO Club in 1966 was to explore a darker side of "swinging London." The time-bomb that was frontman Syd Barrett's daily acid use was already ticking, but the group's edgy, iconoclastic concerts — in-crowd affairs with kaleidoscopic light shows — were must-sees for the likes of Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix.
It made sense, then, when filmmaker Peter Whitehead opted to include footage of Floyd in his contemporaneous British Film Institute documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. In so doing, the director trapped the nascent Floyd in amber, providing us with a potent snapshot of the band that pre-dates the release of their debut single “Arnold Layne.”
What we have here is an enhanced CD that draws on the audio/visual material that was nailed for Whitehead's film at London's Sound Techniques Studios in January 1967. The visuals include footage of Floyd playing all 16 minutes and forty-six seconds of “Interstellar Overdrive,” plus pertinent period interviews with the likes of Mick Jagger and the actress Julie Christie. The audio content comprises the same version of “Interstellar Overdrive,” plus the 12-minute improvised jam “Nick's Boogie.”
The "official" version of “Interstellar Overdrive” would… read more »
