Pink Floyd - London 1966 - 1967 Reviews

This was an interesting buy. I got it for $5 at a United Way Book/DVD sale. I grabbed it rightaway because it was a DVD/CD set. The CD has just the two tracks and the DVD has a live performance/Audio/Visual thing for each track. There's interviews with Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, etc. There's also some video showing what London was like in the 60's. It's a pretty neat DVD. There are so much hippies around your jaw drops. The two performances on the video were at the UFO Club in late 1966 and at the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream Festival on April 29, 1967.

Getting to the music now. The earliest music from this band I had heard before I got this EP was from The Dark Side of the Moon so I was hoping this would be good because there isn't much I don't like from this group. I was surprised at how much I did like it! It's all instrumental and there's only two tracks, but they're epic. Interstellar Overdrive has this awesome organ that plays in and out of the entire track that I just love. At times it's a very dark creepy drone, which gives me chills. To me, this is almost jazzy in a way. Like the stuff Coltrane was doing in the 60's too. Just jamming away and seeing what comes out. I love that kind of music and this track is no exception. It's a pretty chill track but it picks up at the 10 minute mark and gets faster, and it's at this point were the track goes up and down. Fast, slow, fast, slow. Messes your head up. Nick's Boogie was titled after the drummer Nick Mason and his use of Tom-Toms in the track. I wouldn't say one could boogie to this track but I can see the hippies with their eyes closed moving their hips and swaying their arms. This track isn't as good as the first one but it features echo in the guitar and a couple other effects. This one is more experimental for sure, but it's still good. This track was never released but parts of it were featured on the track A Saucerful of Secrets from A Saucerful of Secrets.

I don't own much Pink Floyd at all but this EP has me wanting to explore the bands earlier material for sure.