![]() ![]() Pink Floyd played a concert in front of paying customers at the Fillmore West the following night, reprising all of the half dozen songs they’d performed for KQED’s cameras, as well as other early favorites like “Astronomy Domine” and “A Saucerful of Secrets.” The original Fillmore wasn't hosting rock concerts in 1970 - Bill Graham had transferred his operations to the Fillmore West on Market and Van Ness - but it was made available to the band and KQED for this special TV performance. Portable video, the way we think of it, didn’t even exist.” Pink Floyd's Richard Wright singing during 1970 performance (KQED) Because the technology just wasn’t that advanced yet. There’s a certain amount of vibration that was caused just from the sound of the amps. The KQED production team brought “a huge mobile truck the size of a boxcar that held the video recording equipment” outside the original Fillmore Auditorium so the performance could be “recorded as well as you could outside the studio at that time. So we decided we might as well make a proposal to them.” ![]() “John Coney, the other producer, really liked their music. “When I went to work at KQED June of 1969, I proposed the idea that we do a program with them,” he explains. He first saw Pink Floyd in a basement club in London in 1967, when Syd Barrett (soon to be replaced by David Gilmour) was still the band’s lead guitarist and principal singer-songwriter. Simulcast on KQED radio, the special was set up as a direct result of Farber’s enthusiasm for the group. So how in the world did the Pink Floyd program happen in the first place? Connecting with Pink Floyd You might be wondering: in 1970, KQED was more known for Sesame Street than psychedelic rock. After months of negotiations, KQED has been granted the right to exclusively premiere film of one of those songs, "Astronomy Domine." Recently, KQED unearthed raw footage of Pink Floyd's performance, which included a half hour of music not included in the original program. Widely bootlegged in the decades since, the performance is now officially available on DVD from the band. My memory is we paid them $200.” Roger Waters making sound effects during "Astronomy Domine" (KQED) Pink Floyd did the performance and offered the rights for a certain number of airings for practically nothing. “At that point, they were really anxious to have whatever publicity they could,” remembers the program’s co-producer at KQED, Jim Farber. It was during this tour, on April 30, that Pink Floyd played an hour-long set in an empty Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, filmed for broadcast by small local television station called KQED. In the midst of their third stateside tour, they weren’t selling out stadiums. Top 50 after three years of recording and performing. In the last week of April 1970, though, they had yet to crack the U.S. In the last week of April 1973, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon reached No. To watch previously unseen video of Pink Floyd playing "Astronomy Domine" in 1970, scroll to the bottom of the story. ![]()
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