pink floyd
October 25, 1969, Frank Zappa jammed with Pink Floyd at the Amougies festival. Early 2006, an audience recording of this performance turned up.
1969/10/25 concert "festival actuel", amougies, belgium
David Gilmour - guitar & vocals
Richard Wright - organ
Roger Waters - bass & vocals
Nick Mason - drums
with
Frank Zappa - guitar (4 & 5)
| pink floyd:
the early years 1965 - 1972 (2016, 11 cd, 8 blu-ray discs, 9 dvd, 5 7" singles, uk, pink floyd records) - incl. frank zappa performing 'interstellar overdrive' with pink floyd at amougies |
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| pink floyd:
the early years - 1969 - dramatis/ation (2016, 2cd+dvd+blu-ray, uk, pink floyd records) - incl. frank zappa performing 'interstellar overdrive' with pink floyd at amougies |
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bootlegs
| pink floyd:
on stage with zappa (2006, cd, ??, ??) - feat. frank zappa |
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floyd: pink
floyd meets frank zappa (2006, lp-bootleg, ??, shadow man records) - feat. frank zappa |
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| pink floyd:
astronomy domine (2007, cd-bootleg, ??, moonage daydream records) - feat. frank zappa |
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| "Just mention the word Amougies, and fans of Pink Floyd
and Frank Zappa will immediately know what you are talking about. This
was going to be the first ever rock festival in France. Europe's answer
to Woodstock. It was originally going to take place in or near Paris,
but French authorities forbid it and the marquee was eventually set up a
few miles outside the French border, on Belgian soil and held at Mont de
I'Enclus in Amougies in the Tournai municipality. The Actuel festival
was organized by the publication of the same name in collaboration with
the BYG record label. It took place over 5 nights, entertaining an
audience of 15-20,000 to a unique mixture of progressive pop, free jazz
and contemporary music including Pink Floyd, Ten Years After, Colosseum,
Aynsley Dunbar, Freedom, Keith Relf's Renaissance, Alexis Korner, Don
Cherry, Nice, Caravan, Blossom Toes, Archie Shepp, Yes, Pretty Things,
Chicken Shack, Sam Apple Pie, Pharoah Sanders, Soft Machine, Captain
Beefheart, East Of Eden, Fat Mattress, and many more. Frank Zappa was
present at the festival in a twofold capacity. First, as Captain
Beefheart's road manager; secondly, as M.C., assisting Pierre Lattes, a
famous radio/TV presenter at the time (and the pop music editor for
Actuel magazine). The latter task proved problematic given Zappa's
limited French, the prevailing language among the audience, who
themselves didn't seem to understand much English. Instead, Zappa
relinquished his M.C. job for one of occasional guest guitarist. He
plays with almost everybody, especially with Pink Floyd, Blossom Toes,
Archie Shepp and Aynsley Dunbar, a fabulous drummer he will hire shortly
thereafter. He introduces his friend Captain Beefheart and provides a
powerful stimulant to all the other musicians. Most legendary, of
course, is Frank Zappa's jam with Pink Floyd on a very extended
"Interstellar Overdrive". The festival was filmed by Jerome
Laperrousaz, and the film was to be called MUSIC POWER. Due to
objections from various bands (most notably Pink Floyd) whose permission
hadn't been properly secured, the film was never officially released." |
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