Another Regression To Childhood..

...I loved seeing this interview on the BBC's 'sounds of the sixties', ooh, quite a few years ago now when the sixties were less of a faded memoery, and I still do. It features a short excerpt from Pink Floyd, but when they were 'THE Pink Floyd', replete with the late Syd Barrett doing the 'boom boom boom chii chiii' song, long before they ascended to the pantheon of patron sainthood of patronizing, followed by an interview with the even-later-than-Syd Hans Keller, music critic and all rounder (he intriguingly enough was a big football fan, what I wouldn't give to see a clip of him in full flow eulogizing over Jimmy Greaves or whoever; actually I wouldn't give anything but still would like to see it).

Hans interviews Syd together with a very young Roger Waters, in a manner which Victor Lewis-Smith disparaged as patronizing (ironically, see above) but I don't agree; I think that Keller had a sneaky regard for them in spite of it all, and the interview was largely good natured and cooperative on both sides, this was still a few years before punk of course, and Roger and Syd come across as comparatively articulate for the era.