Pink Floyd Video:

		List Price: $26.49		Label: See for Miles Salesrank: 67558 Released: October 11, 1994
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The Pink Floyd London 1966-1967 [VHS] Reviews:
Good of the Early Years ...
2009-11-27 - This review is for the Pink Floyd London 1966/1967 DVD only, All Regions edition.

This promotional film footage shot by director Peter Whitehead of both Interstellar Overdrive and Nick's Boogie (Live/Studio) is quite interesting and of good sound/video quality. I purchased it for just over $10.00 (USD) new and well worth it for that cost but it is a bit short though content is great of the early Pink Floyd era. Also, I found the interviews with Mick Jagger, Michael Cain, Julie Christie, and David Hockney interesting to varying degrees along with the cool cameo of John Lennon and the Yoko Ono Happening scenes.

In all, it is well worth it if you genuinely dig the early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett before his mental breakdown (two extended music jams). As a veteran musician myself, I also learned a few things watching this too.

Drops of Ambrosia from an empty cup of the gods
2009-01-13 - This is the real thing. This is what the fuss was all about.

This is The Pink Floyd, prior to their first record contract, in a studio, in late 1966. This is the band that blew the Beatles and the Yardbirds away at London unground clubs like Roundhouse, before the media attention, before the Games For May, before their first hit single. This is the unedited footage originally released in shorter length on the 1968 Documentary Film "Tonite, Let's Make Love In London." Bootleg sound recordings of this circulated for several years in the mid 1980's before the film saw release on videotape in the late 1980's, the orginal unedited footage started quasi-legitimate release shortly thereafter. This material has been subsequently released in a myriad of different editions and formats since then.

It is amazing that we even have this; so much of Syd Barrett's original incarnation of The Pink Floyd was undocumented, unrecorded, that a handful of radio and TV appearances (that were often lip-synched) in 1967 and a few alternate or previously unreleased studio tracks (a few of which were legitimately released 2 years ago on the "Piper At The Gates 40th Anniversary Edition") are about all that survive to document the original Pink Floyd phenomena. (Find the rest of them through bit-torrent websites on fan-made and remastered compilations like "Have You Got It Yet" Vols. i & 2, and "What Syd Wants.")

If you are a post-Atom Heart Mother fan of the band, you might not fully appreciate the performances herein, they're not The Wall, or even Dark Side Of The Moon, they're a short snapshot of a blazing, groundbreaking group of artists who shook the ground and lifted their thunder to the heavens in London's nacient psychedelic community, making music and sounds that the world had never heard before. But if you are, and you haven't seen this footage yet, you owe it to yourself to lay down a few of your hard-earned shekels and step 42 years back in time and hear the real, original, Pink Floyd experience.

Art music video magic
2008-01-03 - Pink Floyd live in London 1966/1967 DVD is the art of film, sound, lighting, graphics, people, and places. Interesting looks back in time at the youth of a rock band and the people who came to see them.
This time period seems to be no different than the rave culture of the 90s. For the beatles, the who and rolling stones to recognize Pink Floyd as something to be look at and heard, is the turning point to further investigate their talent and where it may go.
This DVD shows the studio work and places they performed. It's a great flash back in time to see a band ahead of its time. This must have been a magical moment for the people who were there to say hey, I was there and look at me now and what did I gain if anything. Haircuts back then look no different than they do today.



Made me sad...
2007-12-17 - I just don't get it. A just-barely-OK lengthy take of "Interstellar" with footage including some weird (not at all in a good/interesting way...I mean weird that anyone decided that it was relevant to the Floyd) faux-psychedelic documentary about London circa '66/'67 interspersed with precious few live clips (again, not that bomb...some footage finds PF looking about as enthused as a kid in church) and you have this perplexingly disappointing release. This is almost bootleg level in terms of editing quality and intention as a piece of art but that besmirches the good name of the better quality bootlegs I've enjoyed in my life. This so totally sucks and was probably only vaguely authorized by the band. It certainly seems designed to slip into the "gimme everything" filterless, fanboy bloodstream. Which is a shame. Don't waste your money. Even if you're hardcore...it just might make you angrier...

Worth a look
2007-10-05 - This review is for the Pink Floyd London 66/67 combination two disc DVD/CD set.

Quite good, in fact. But viewers should be aware this is not the "Tonite Let's All Make Love In London" movie. It is a combination of filmed portions from that movie, with complete uncut versions of The Pink Floyd performing, "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Nick's Boogie," both from the movie's sessions, and a second audio disc with remastered versions of both tunes. The DVD includes interviews with Mick Jagger, Michael Caine and others, possibly from the original film (I haven't seen it) and Allen Ginsberg reading his poem whose title the movie bears. The CD has about an EP's worth of material, and the DVD lasts long enough to make you feel you've watched something. Both tracks are unique, that is; not album tracks, even though as every Pink Floyd fan knows, a plethora of releases of these tunes are available. The advantages of having this are the DVD and the superior sound.

If you're not sure if this version is the two disc edition, try entering "Pink Floyd 1966" in Amazon's search box. That will bring up specifically the two disc set. I can't tell whether this edition includes the audio-only disc, so I must conclude it does not. You could also write the seller and ask.