JOE BOYD - Full 2001 Interview - Syd Barrett. Recording Pink Floyd. Managing the UFO Club

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I love this interview with JOE Boyd - Pink Floyd's first producer. Recently unearthed from tapes. I interviewed Joe in 2001 for my documentary "The Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story ". Joe takes us on a wonderful journey through his encounters with Pink Floyd, including recording their first record , 'Arnold Layne' and running the famous UFO Club where Pink Floyd were the resident band for a few heady months from Dec 1966 to June 1967.
To Joe, Syd Barrett was the creative genius without whom Pink Floyd would never have emerged as such a distinctive band.
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[@waynesilverman3048]

Love u vid s John ,do u have any clue when the new Have you got it yet? Syd documentery comes out on DVD or streaming ? I couldn't see it in Bradford when it was in the cinema for 1 night only

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@@waynesilverman3048 apparently it’s available on dvd and streaming now

[@waynesilverman3048]

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Or very good

[@fabsmorgado330]

Thank you mr. Edington! You are a master craftsman of interviews.

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Wow, thank you

[@clubderunzensiertendichter]

Thank you very much for posting this great authentic interview ! In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, justice & truth we express our feelings with music on our channel. Greetings from Germany ... CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS

[@dr.buzzvonjellar8862]

Candy and a currant bun is staggeringly good.

[@johnfloydman7735]

Thank you for sharing this 🙏🙏.. It was really a golden time. the six months at the UFO..

[@ReneAlexisPenalozaMunoz]

Very insightful. Thank you so much for posting.

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Glad you enjoyed it!

[@justinparkerthewildwolf6394]

Thanks John, love and respect from Melbourne Australia 🦘

[@bradparker9664]

Fantastic interview!

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Much appreciated!

[@jamesheath7601]

Syd is amazing

[@Swat-ed5bt]

Excellent upload. Thanks John ❤

[@OlafProt]

Joe's book White Bicycles is still one of my favourite music biographies. The music always came first with him. And he was so lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and he encountered all these amazing people. And of course has an insight few others have, in terms of - in particular - Syd Barrett and Nick Drake. Reading his book you get so enthused, I went and bought the first four ISB albums without having heard them (but didnt like them lol). But such is his excitement about music.

[@sabrinafojo2490]

What they don't mention is that this place was the Mecca of Project MK Ultra

[@scalperjim]

This is incredible. Thanks so much! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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You're so welcome!

[@tothelighthouse9843]

One day I was on a trail of breadcrumbs, meandering thru the valleys & peaks of youtube. Suddenly I discovered the little clearing in the woods that is your incredible video 'Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case For Reasonable Doubt'. Which led to your interview with Phil Collins showing up in my recommends today. Genesis in all it's versions was part of my velvet youth, so of course I clicked & watched. Which led to this video, & now I know I'm about to plunge into the deep sunlit green water that is Syd Barrett. Again, lol! I did a deep dive several years ago, but I can't wait to see what your interviews reveal. Thank so much for this particular wander I'm on. Thank you for documenting so many stories while the storytellers are still with us, & thank you for sharing these documents on youtube.

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It’s my absolute pleasure. Enjoy the journey!

[@fak2397]

This is gold! Thank you!

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My total pleasure!

[@eugenegd2112]

Once again... Thank you very much for everything ❤

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You're welcome 😊

[@ToddRock16]

Even know-it-all Rock n Roll Officianadoes will enjoy and gin new insightsg from this fascinating interview. 🎉 Well Spoken, and thoughtful Joe Boyd gives a ground level view view of the scene in London in those days. Priceless perspective on not Judy Syd Barrett and early Floyd, but keen insights on the cultural environment that inspired and informed the visions, ideas and creativity of London musicians in 1966-1968. THANK YOU ❤❤🎉🎉

[@Lemma01]

Fascinating insights - The Floyd are an important part of the culture of my first thirty-five years - I still have many of their early albums to listen to on long car journeys: majic.

[@pjamdragon1]

Imagine a record producer telling Beethoven to keep his songs to 3 minutes. Telling an artist to color inside the lines is unjustifiable… “…too many people got in the way” - RK Syd Barrett

[@pjamdragon1]

Too bad some of the musicians who were in bands like Ray Manzarek and Mitch Mitchell after Morrison and Hendrix passed didn’t get together with Syd with Sir George Martin producing… what could have been 🤔

[@eugenegd2112]

Do you think Manzarek's playing would have fit with Syd's guitar style?

[@pjamdragon1]

@@eugenegd2112 maybe, maybe not. It would take some time and adaptation. Just saying it would have been interesting. Both were without bands after Jim’s death and Syd’s departure from Floyd. Really any musicians who were available for various reasons. Maybe AI will give us something to wish there was more of 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@eugenegd2112]

@@pjamdragon1 I have a very high opinion of Manzarek and he's the guy who got me into keyboard playing, that being said I feel Ray was more of a chatterbox keyboard player and Syd was taking his time while playing, but that's just me. I would really like to see The Doors continue as an instrumental trio playing prog jazz after Jim' passing. peace

[@hughoshea1986]

Thank you John for uploading another one your extraordinary interviews. It’s heartbreaking to see Joe recollect how upsetting it was to see the change in Syd. Joe was such a wonderful producer & thoughtful/empathetic man. We’re so lucky that you have recorded so many interviews with these important people from the 60’s era.

[@husq48]

As far as just the simple songs on that album, "Lucifer Sam" is clearly the best, should have been a big hit!

[@giovanniscardetta333]

Wonderful interview as usual, John Congrats and great thanks

[@christophercruz8359]

A Doors connection. People have called me crazy, but I believe that Pink Floyd's story is similar to the Doors. It's interesting to find out that the Floyd's demo was given to Jac Holzman, in the hopes of getting the band signed to Elektra Records.

[@djshowtrial4565]

Yeah! Interesting how Jac Holzman would take a pass,I had no idea that Elektra had scouting into the British scene. . . I imagine that he had signed Love to the label by this time but maybe hadn’t accepted the Doors, I saw an interview where he had to see two performances by that band before recognizing the potential. . . I imagine that Floyd of that era would seem really experimental but Barrett wrote these great singles too . . A difficult matter to consider for Elektra

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

Great John, you provide real quality Floyd copy from people involved. Did you read about the electric shock thing? pretty heavy eh, could you talk to Alice Cooper about it please?

[@papalaz4444244]

It's interesting here because I would say "Arnold Layne" was stealing the clothes and wearing them. A transvestite. Joe's interprettion is...... different lol

[@richalderson6069]

Yeah a bit more uh, explicit Lol.

[@papalaz4444244]

@@richalderson6069 Freudian slip? lol

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[@ronschwolsky1626]

Syd is such a tragic character. So sad.

[@ronschwolsky1626]

*was.

[@michaelholtermann9129]

The healthy Syd Barrett was very creative. He was a talented, gifted young man. The first record with Pink Floyd The Piper...... is a good record.. Unfortunately Syd had the wrong friends. He took LSD several times a week. That's too much. No brain can handle that!!! He became lethargic..... He didn't live in the here and now..... He was mentally absent... He had thinking and speech disorders.... He was no longer productive... He could no longer play the right scales.... He wanted to climb walls.... He wanted to start a cult..... He wanted to get married and become a doctor.... He wanted to hit his sister Rosemary on the head with his guitar 🎸... At 22, Syd was a sick person. Syd wrote another 52 songs. 🎞️🎥 His whole life should be made into a film. I'm interested in how Syd lived with his illness? I don't know if he ever found redemption or peace for his soul.

[@hippydippy]

I could easily see how Syd who (started as an artist who could work alone & focus) could have very easily have been overwhelm by fame. Especially with his mental conditions. He was an absolute diamond. Pun intended.

[@adamfindlay7091]

Thank you thank u THANX!!!☮️🦉🎻 Thank all of you haters. You have NO idea what youre texting about. My god, get a clue, life, have an original brain germination. Piper: listen, then go out, hum or sing one of these songs, the spiri psychedelia experience will grow out of that; youll be tripping through out the dragonfly stratosphere - re: WITHOUT acid, mushrooms, mescaline, LSectasy. This work is beyond genious. If you dont know, youre missing out. As well as Mozart .

[@hallucalation66]

Too bad you cut off all non-Floyd related stuff. I would love to hear his thoughs on Soft Machine or stuff he produced for Elektra. Needlessly cut off!

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Why do you believe he was cut off by me ? He didn't talk about those as this interview was solely about Syd Barrett. That's why !

[@hallucalation66]

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES There was sharp cut offs in the middle of his sentences during the editing for this video.

[@mikebon8352]

Pink Floyd ClockWork-ed UK... into a meek society... All became sheep after that era...