Mama Miriama Band

Pink Floyd in 1964 came from a band called Sigma 6, which subsequently changed its name to T-Set, Megadeaths, The Screaming Abdabs, The Architectural Abdabs and The Abdabs. When the band broke up, some of its members (guitarists Bob Klose and Roger Waters, drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright) formed a new band called Tea Set. After a short time with Chris Dennis as lead vocalist, guitarist and vocalist Syd Barrett, Beatles fan and rhythm and blues, joined the band, which Waters went on to play bass. In the summer of 1965, Bob Klose was forced to leave the band because of pressure from their parents and their college professors, and the group became a quartet, with Barrett, Waters, Wright and Mason. Thus, Barrett emerged as the main songwriter of the group, and soon began writing new songs with influences from rhythm and blues of Bo Diddley, although the publication of Eight Miles High Byrds Californians and especially their Revolver album countrymen the Beatles in 1966 led to the rise of psychedelic rock, a genre in which Barrett was more at ease.

In the fall of that year, agreed in September Tea at a concert in Northolt, just outside London with a band with the same name that was to act in the same place. Under this circumstance, Barrett suggested another name for the group, The Pink Floyd Sound, which came from the combination of the names of two bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. For a short time the name was between Tea Set and The Pink Floyd Sound, but eventually the latter was finally imposed. The Sound faded fairly quickly, but would be used regularly to The 1968. English productions of the band during the era of Syd Barrett were credited as The Pink Floyd and their first two singles in the U.S. David Gilmour is

Pink Floyd became one of the favorite bands of the underground movement, playing in places like the UFO Club, the Marquee Club and The Roundhouse. In late 1966 the band was invited to compose music for the film by Peter Whitehead, Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London, and was filmed recording two tracks (“Interstellar Overdrive” and “Nick’s Boogie”) in January 1967. Although there were very few samples of this music in the film, the session was released as London 1966/1967 in 2005.

Given their growing popularity, the band members decided to form Blackhill Enterprises in October 1966 in partnership with their managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King, to distribute the singles “Arnold Layne” in March 1967 and “See Emily Play” in June the same year. The first climbed to the top 20 in the charts in the UK, and the second went to number six, giving the band a chance to appear for the first time on national television at the Top of the Pops in July 1967.

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