Release date: Oct. 4, 2005

This is not your ordinary concert video.

The recently released DVD, "Pink Floyd 1966/1967," plays more like a time capsule of a bygone period of music history.

It's Pink Floyd, but not the Pink Floyd you're probably thinking of. This isn't "Money," "Comfortably Numb" or anything else you've probably heard.

This predates all of that. It's a trippy, instrumental, wandering Pink Floyd before they were signed.

The DVD contains two Floyd songs from that time - "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Nick's Boogie" - performed in the studio and a London club called "UFO."

It gives insight to how the songs were created - watching Syd Barrett play slide guitar with a lighter, Nick Mason's malleted drum work, a Binson Echorec creating havoc with notes.

It's also a look at the London scene of that time - the dancing, the performance art and John Lennon.

Lennon can be seen wandering around at one point, the filmmaker lucky enough to have his camera rolling. (Funny that Lennon was there, and so was Yoko Ono, but the two hadn't met yet.)

For the main part of the movie - the Floyd performances - there are no words, only music.

Interviews follow the 30-minute instrumental movie - the filmmaker Peter Whitehead, Mick Jagger and Michael Caine among others.

Overall, it's interesting to see how the band sounded in the beginning days of the Syd Barrett era.

It gives new perspective on their music, and new perspective on the 1960s as seen from the "other side of the pond."

Fans of psychedlic rock would enjoy it, as would diehard Floyd fans who'd like to see a little more of the band's history.

Posted by jeffhahnedisabled at October 20, 2005 9:38 AM