Friday, 11 May 2018
1002 Sounds of the Sixties
First viewed : 5th October 1991
This was nothing to do with the Radio Two show of the same name but ten half hour collections of performances from the archives loosely grouped by genre : beat groups, folkies, pyschedelia etc. Many of them have become very familiar over the years given the Beeb's notorious wiping of its archives in the sixties and seventies leaving a restricted pool from which to draw material.
The highlight of the series was the Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd's encounter with Austrian musicologist Hans Keller on a programme called The Look of the Week. The group got to perform Astronomy Domine but at the price of being savaged by the lugubrious and conceited music professor. What amuses me most about the footage is that Keller introduces them and says to the audience "I don't want to prejudice you , hear them and see them first" but then goes on to say "To my mind, there is continuous repetition and proportionately they are a bit boring". It would be interesting to hear his idea of a biased introduction. He goes on to interview Roger Waters and a still compos mentis Syd Barrett and castigates them for being too loud -"I can't bear it". The guys, even the notoriously prickly Waters, are surprisingly polite to him under the onslaught.
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Perhaps Keller thought the same of all "rock" music, but I'm inclined to agree with him re the Floyd being boring!
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