(taken from youtube)

I:

well, if I may turn first to Roger, I would like to ask one fundamental question of which our televiewers might not be quite aware… the significance of it, because they didn’t hear all of it: why does it have all to be so terribly loud. For me is francly too loud. I just can’t bear. I happened to be grown up in a string quartet, which is a bit softer so,.. er.. why does it have to be so loud, so amplified.

RW:

Well, i think it doesn’t has to be. that’s the way we like it, and… we didn’t grow with the string quartet and I guess this could be one of the reason. Why so loud. It doesn’t sound “terribly” loud to us…

I: (a bit annoyed)

Is actually not everybody who hasn’t grown up in a string quartet turn into a loud pop group, so your reason is not “altogether” convincing. But I accept that you like it. But I am saying is that… if one gets “immune” to this kind of sound one might find difficult to appreciate soft kind of sound, say yes? no?

SB

I don’t think so…

I:

no?

SB:

…i mean everyone of us can listen, and some of the sounds are very quite….

etc.

This how the interview opens, which I transcripted because I find amusing how much it convey hostility from the moralist interviewer towards the embryo of one of the British band who will make history in rock music. Ironically the rock that has more in common to a quartet string than perhaps all the rock bands of the generation after the Beatles.

Incidentally, the interviewer string quartet original work is noewere to be found. Not that this fact necessarily demonstrate anything. But still.

I also find this British way of moving verbal hostility very fascinating. It makes me think like a verbal chess sequence of moves. Something like: “now I open with a horse on D4 so that he has to move his queen in front of his king….”

The interview continues covering very interesting parts, about Pink Floyd’s effort in finding the right avanue for their musical performances. They were interested in a concert like environment and they described how they were trying to get away from the “pop dance” gigs. Syd was still functioning properly.