Bob Klose

Bob Klose (* 1945 , in various publications - sometimes incorrectly - also called Bob , Brian and Rado Klose or Close ) is a British photographer and guitarist. Klose was a founding member and first lead guitarist of the rock band Pink Floyd . Klose left the band early, even before the first professional recordings took place. He can only be heard on early bootlegs of the songs Lucy Leave and I'm a King Bee .

Before the band Pink Floyd was founded in its final form, school friends Bob Klose, Roger Waters , Richard Wright , Nick Mason , Clive Metcalfe and Keith Noble, as well as Rick Wright's future wife Juliette Gale, played music in the style of the then popular rhythm and blues . After several line-up and name changes ("Sigma 6", "The T-Set", "The Meggadeaths" and "The Abdabs"), the musicians Klose, Waters, Wright, Mason and the newcomer Syd Barrett "Pink Floyd" formed ", Initially called" The Pink Floyd Sound ".

Since Klose was more interested in jazz and blues than in the psychedelic ideas of Barrett, he left the band in 1966 and turned to his later profession, photography .

In a 2001 interview with the BBC about his role in the early Pink Floyd, Klose said that his guitar work in the band, especially in conjunction with Syd Barrett, brought a " rhythm and blues " sound in the style of the Rolling Stones . The characteristic psychedelic Pink Floyd sound only developed after he left . Looking back, Klose praised the band's musicality. He was particularly impressed by Syd Barrett's rhythmic skills.

On David Gilmour's solo album On an Island (2006) he appeared again as a guest musician (as Rado Klose ) for the first time.

Web links

• www.pinkfloyd.co.uk - Official Pink Floyd band website
• Website, identified Bob = Rado K.