Pink Floyd / Concerts and Tours
This is an overview of the concerts and tours of the British rock band Pink Floyd . As early as the mid-1960s, the band was experimenting with light and sound effects that turned their performances into events and at the same time served as models for later bands.
The lighting effects
Pink Floyd was one of the first bands to use lighting effects at their concerts. Initially, so-called liquid light shows were an integral part of their appearances; colorful oils were projected onto screens behind the band, which formed constantly changing bubbles under the influence of heat. In addition, there were stroboscopes that threw colorful flashes at the audience. Mike Leonard, the band's lighting technician, developed new methods of generating graphic light patterns.
In the 1970s, scaffolding and lifting platforms from the construction industry were used to carry the light installations, some of which could be raised and lowered during the show. In the mid-1980s, the lighting designer Marc Brickman used hundreds of freely movable headlights and lasers that corresponded to the current state of the art. In the 1990s, laser technologies developed for atomic research and high-speed photography were used.
From the “Dark Side of the Moon” tour, a round projection screen appeared on the stage, nicknamed “Mr. Screen ”received. Specially made films and animations were shown on it. In later appearances, the edge was equipped with colorful movable headlights.
Also from the “Dark Side of the Moon” tour, disco balls were part of the show, and they got bigger and bigger over time. On the "Division Bell" tour, a diameter of 4.90 m was reached. The sphere was pulled to a height of over 20 m, where at the climax of the show it opened radially and released a 12 kW headlight.
Concerts and tours
- From March 1966: Performances at the Marquee Club , London
- September 30, 1966: first benefit concert for the London Free School , All Saints Church, Notting Hill , London; further concerts in the same place followed
- October 14, 1966: International Times founding party at The Roundhouse , London
- December 23, 1966: first appearance at the UFO Club , London; last appearance: 1./2. September 1967
- 29./30. April 1967: The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream , Alexandra Palace , London
- May 12, 1967: Games for May , Queen Elizabeth Hall , London
- May 29, 1967: Barbeque 67 , Spalding (Lincolnshire)
- 4th - 12th November 1967: first USA tour
- November 14 - December 5, 1967: Jimi Hendrix 's second tour of England with The Move , The Nice , Amen Corner and Pink Floyd ( Syd Barrett's last tour) and Lemmy Kilmister as a roadie
- June 29, 1968: Midsummer High Weekend , Hyde Park , London
- July – August 1968: Pink Floyd World Tour 1968
- April – September 1969: The Man and the Journey Tour
- June 27, 1970: Bath International Music Festival
- September 1970 – October 1971: Atom Heart Mother World Tour
- October – November 1971: Meddle tour
- January 1972 – November 1973: Dark Side of the Moon Tour
- June 1974: French Summer Tour
- November – December 1974: British Winter Tour
- April – July 1975: Wish You Were Here Tour
- January – July 1977: In The Flesh, promotional tour for the album Animals
- February 1980 – June 1981: The Wall Tour (1980–81) ( Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81 )
- September 1987 – July 1989: A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour (documented on the album Delicate Sound of Thunder and the film of the same name)
- June 30, 1990: Knebworth Festival
- March – October 1994: The Division Bell Tour (documented on the album Pulse and in the film of the same name)
- July 2nd, 2005: Live 8 , Hyde Park , London
- May 10, 2007: Syd Barrett Tribute Concert
literature
- Vernon Fitch: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. Collector's Guide Pub., Burlington 2005, ISBN 1-894959-24-8 .
- Nick Mason : Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2004. ISBN 0-297-84387-7 .
- Nicholas Schaffner: Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. Sidgewick, London 1991. ISBN 0-517-57608-2 .
- Glenn Povey and Ian Russell: Pink Floyd: In The Flesh: the complete performance history. St. Martin's Griffin, New York 1997. ISBN 0-312-19175-8 .
- Gerald Scarfe: The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall. Da Capo Press, [New York] 2010. ISBN 978-0-306-81997-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Leonard: The Man Who Created Pink Floyd's Light Show Magic on DangerousMinds.net (English)
- ^ Catherine McHugh: Welcome to the Machine . Lighting Dimensions, September 1994 (English)
- ↑ James Hall: David Gilmour, Royal Albert Hall, review: 'the full Floyd experience in all but name' . The Telegraph , September 24, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Own a bit of Pink Floyd history! on brain damage - pink floyd neys resource
- ^ Lemmy Kilmister: White line fever: die Autobiographie , Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3453-67525-4 , p. 67.