re: #77 nines09

One of my best friends back in the day was a huge Floyd fan. We went to the original Electric Factory in 1970 to see them. It was a very intimate club, you sat close to the stage. We were right in front, they kept the lights very low most of the time. Huge drum kit. Lots of keyboards. I wasn’t a big fan of them at that time, but the one thing I will always remember was the way they had that place wired for speakers. They were everywhere. They had guitar coming from the back..the ceiling…the floor. Like they did with the records. It was like 3D. Richard Wright was wailing away on one of those extended jams they would go off on, and he crawled halfway on top of his one organ that had a box like an old coffee grinder on it. And he started turning it…slowly….and gathering speed..and the sound of his organ started to spin around the room like a huge Leslie, but it was the fucking room. Insane.
Listening to Interstellar Overdrive right now on phones….beautiful noise.

I was at that show. Also not a fan of their earlier stuff, I started really taking notice around ‘Dark Side’ like everyone else. But yeah, that show was ridiculous for its time - and I marveled at the sheer amount of gear they hauled around.

I saw a lot of shows at the Factory - Small Faces with Marriott and Faces with shy boy Stewart, Elton John’s first East Coast show chief among them. I still regret not having gone to see Jimi there. Todd R in The Nazz opened that show.