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  • How tough would it be to go on live, as a green band, after hearing the host of the show say he doesn't like you?

    "OK guys, you suck! You're on in two seconds."

  • i d like that please someone HERE make a spanish traslation about the conversation in the interview. AT LESS: the english lirics could be too. i am from Chile. MANY THANKS LOVE SYD

  • I'm just curious to hear what Hans would've had to say about today's pop music.

  • Syd's facial expression at 6:11

  • "for me frankly it's too loud, i just cant b-a-r-r-e-t-t," like this comment if you decoded what i heard the interviewer say.

  • cool stuff, cool stuff, rest peacefully syd, you always rock man!

  • The look on Syd's face is priceless when Hans asks him questions.

  • Wonderful Tape. I love this. so great.

  • Have some Acid and listen again Hans!!!!!

  • Did syd just relate to what was going on in his head whilst he was on acid, he was just human as much as you never wanted him to be. It's a time deal, Someone else would have done it at some point. react

  • Blah Blah just enjoy and stop debating

  • ... Roger wasn't really citing that as a reason why it is loud, but merely pointing out the different backgrounds therefore different tastes.

    The asshole called Hans went on the say that "not everyone that doesn't grow up in a string quartet becomes a pop band, so your reasoning is flawed" [paraphrasing]. Now wasn't that a ridiculously idiotic thing to say!?

    If I was Roger I would have followed with "well not everyone that grew up in a string quartet thinks our music is too loud ASSHOLE"

  • OK, I say again that Hans Keller [I learned the name from the comments] was an asshole in this interview:

    He cited the fact that he grew up in a string quartet as a reason (or a factor) in why he thought that they were "terribly loud". But when Roger said that they (the band) didn't grow up in a string quartet (to use Hans' own reasoning) so that's one of the reasons why they didn't think it was terribly loud.....(see my next comment)

  • Yes he has the right to express his opinion, but he was being a douche by saying [paraphrasing] "I don't want to prejudice you before you hear them, but here are four reasons why I think they suck". Then he went on to try and prejudice the viewers. That guy is/was an asshole.

  • pure P S Y C H A D E L I C!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • this is almost the ONLY video on youtube of ANYTHING earlier than A Saucer Full Of Secrets <3

    Much Love to this channel of Floydness :D

  • Hans Keller "perhaps its my fault I dont appreciate them" I cant get mad at someone for being honest.

  • Hans Keller - He lived in a cellar.

  • WOW, never i thought Syd on vid. Damn I'm old.

  • why is music not like this anymore

  • that dude is such an asshole!

  • Wow! Thanks for posting!

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  • 0:21 roger sounds like a horse

  • @corydonald1 he looks like one too.

  • I thought that because the Interviewer was ugly, he would be necessarily intelligent. But i´ve noticed that ugly people are not necessarily intelligent too..

  • hhahah i would like to take this interviewer to a Grind Core show heheh Pink Floyd would sound like Vivaldi hehe

  • Like it or don't; in my opinion they are genius.

  • I have the entire Discovery box set. >:D (I HAVE THIS ALBUM SUCKA'S

  • I believe Hans paid more attention to Pink Floyd's music than most of the people who claim to be fans nowadays. He could actually point out things he didn't like, when today's "fans" just say "Pink Floyd is awesome!"

  • so much for the "syd the nutcase" theory. 

  • lmfao,I get bored just by looking at Hans.perhaps I'm too much of a teenager to fully appreciate him

  • He didn't want to bias us before listening to the song ...just had 4 quick comments, some of them stating that it was way to loud and that he is too much of a musician to appreciate that kind of music ...HA HA Ha HA HA - absolutely love that guy, he's the sort of person who brings laughter to the world not even knowing it :-)

  • That performance was way in the hell out there and ahead of it's time, (ala a psychadelic Kurt Cobain), so that poor conservative old school chap hosting the show had no chance whatsoever of grasping any of what he was witnessing. His loss...

  • The critic seriously doesn't bother me. Life is more interesting when you get questioned for the things you love to do! I like their little smirks here :3

  • Never mind the critic, please.

  • chill out people.

  • Very interesting critique/interview. I love Pink Floyd.

    

  • Great vid. I love the fact that they had the energy to answer this stiff's questions. That guy had no good reason to be interviewing them, if you ask me. (check his pulse please ;) Good stuff here.

  • that performance kind of sucked

  • @CabLuigi This argument has reached a level of useless. I could be 25, 10 or 80, you're never pretentious to talk about the music you love. Actually I find it rather pretentious of you to say that I'm a patronising saddo because I'm starting to think that you're closer than me at being that kind of person. Anyways, you may say whatever you want.. But you might as well write on the wall because I won't be reading nor replying.

  • of course if ur fucking fault u don`t apreciatted u fucking moron, what the hell is that shit "too much of a musician to fully apreciatte it??? " fuck u very much

  • As much as i dont agree with Hans i have to say i like it that he speaks his own mind. Today everbody is just "kissing ass" to everybody in interviews! I hate hypocrits, just say what you have to say!

  • Remember that back then Pink Floyd was just starting. They were an experimental band. They had a lot of criticism, and it's a real common thing for innovating bands.

  • Excuse me Mustache Man! Smoke Up and Die sir.

  • That was actually a sick bit of music. 

  • Wow, if Hans Kellar thought Pink Floyd was boring and repetitive, imagine what he would say about modern music, he would rip them apart. All they say is "I'm sexy and I know it" or "Baby" or "Sexy Bitch" all throughout the song.

  • opening song?

  • @Immigrant312 Pow R. Toc H.

  • What i would give to live in the 60s and see them live with syd :/

  • DID THAT NIGGA JUST TRASH PINK FLOYD??? I HOPE HE'S BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW AND ALL THEY DO IS PLAY PF TRACKS OVER AND OVER AGAIN... VERY LOUDLY!!

  • What does Syd Barret have in his hand that slide down the guitar strings? It makes good sound.

  • @nightmuffin937 Zippo lighter?

  • @WowHeCantFeesch =) THANK YOU

  • When Hans got home at night, his fat and

    Psychopathic wife would thrash him

    Within inches of his life.

  • THIS IS SOOOOOO FUCKING COOL !!!!

    A SNAC FER A BLEET, 'N A DIN FER A SHANE....

  • What year is this?

  • @ricardovega 1967

  • Yes Hans it is your fault you don't like them! Get with it man. Tune in and drop out. Oh wait your gone into the Interstellar.

  • Roger Waters is badass

  • The best thing is the intro :)

  • Hans Kellar's forehead is fucking massive, it must block out the sun.

    It's a Fivehead.

  • Stop hating in Kellar. He doesn't like them and he doesn't have to, but as he says "they have an audience" - he understands that music like this must be heard.

  • Hans was just criticising, ok he may have seemed a bit lenient on the matter but you have to remember that Floyd were doing something very new for that time, you can almost consider it as the "Heavy Metal" of that era. Not in the sense of heaviness, but in the sense of something different, more bizarre and loud. When something is new and different people at first will criticise it heavily because they want to see how it makes them feel. So really, some of you people should just fucking grow up.

  • @jamesbonello1 Oh shut up you patronising saddo.

  • @CabLuigi You're not a very clever fellow are you? That was neither patronising nor sad in any way. Therefore, I would ask you to go read some books, maybe you start thinking. (Y)

  • @jamesbonello1 It was incredibly patronising. You strike me as the sort of person who enjoys the sound of their own voice. Do you lecture all your friends on music history as well? Do they think you're ever so clever?

  • @CabLuigi Now you're just concluding things. If you have any hint of reason within you, you should SEE that what I said wasn't patronising, it was merely fact. Nearly everyone here is assuming the worst from the critic and actually it is not the case, including you. So just chill out, grow up, and try understand more what I was trying to say rather than blindly concluding that I'm trying to talk down to anyone, because quite frankly my post was never actually aimed at anyone but the video itself

  • @jamesbonello1 So much contradiction in your comment.

    You said that your post was aimed at the video? But you posted: "you people should grow up"

    You tell me you're not patronising, yet make an assumption that I dislike the critic? (what if I agree with him?) Then you tell me to "grow up!?"

    Your post was fact, but obvious fact! Most people who like Pink Floyd aren't stupid. WE KNOW THAT MUSIC CHANGES OVER TIME.

    Also, you're like 25, so it's quite pretentious that you lecture on 60s music.

  • @jamesbonello1 Yeah probably, maybe you are so deep I am lost

  • me encanta esta cancion!

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  • Oh but Wait, The Pink Floyd Was a string quartet, a trend setting pop group and by far the most influential artists of the century and possibly this century, someone please give Hans a hit of window pain !

  • If that's the song they picked to introduce themselves to the previous generation, no wonder the old squares were scratching their heads over it.

  • hans kellar has 64 youtube accounts

  • esta buenisima esta cancion

  • Careful with axe Eugene LOOK OUT! HANS!

  • c'mon give Hans a break. He said why not yo!

  • Hmm... i'm more into the newer Floyd but they where really good with Syd Barrett too!

  • Who's hans?

  • SCUMBAG HANS

  • why not(:

  • Hans is such a wank!

  • It was Hans fault he didn't appreciate them...

    It's so sad Pink Floyd never went on do anything meaningful...(LOL!!!)

  • Han just sounds like a total twat!!!! :D

  • and my third point is..

    dang.. I have a pretty sweet cock broom

  • mustache man is a dick

  • @BeardedSailor1 i think theres a dick hiding under his satche

  • 'The Pink Floyd. You are going to hear them in a minute and I don't want to prejudice you. Hear them first and we'll talk about them after, but they are shite, repetitive and have an uncivilized taste for loudness.'

    Seriously Hans?

  • I will never understand why people think that the more complex music gets the better it is (which seems to be the implication of the statments made by Hans). Some of Charles Mingus' most basic compositions are his best. Repetition can be a good thing!

  • didnt he say he didnt want to create prejudice before we heard them?

  • i see what the man was saying about too much volume. There's a lot of factors at play. One thing is that those old amps start to sound best when they are turned up pretty far. Also, repeated loud sound levels damage cause hearing loss, so people start to go louder and louder over time to compensate.

    You know a band is too loud when you have to wear earplugs.

  • Hans who?

  • mestros arquitectos sonicos

    es de mis bandas predilectas

    siempre lo a sido y siempre lo sera

    hasta el confin de el universo...

  • the guy at the beginning is such a fuckin' loser!

  • Come on, don't slag off Hans - he dares to have an opinion. Rejoice!

  • @LarryFlames Besides that, Mr. Keller was a Holocaust survivor. Did you know that? He was interned for nearly 3 years in Dachau. He was a very accomplished violinist and contributed greatly to promoting classical greats like Arthur Fiedler, Percy Faith, and Frank Chacksfield--hardly the credentials of a loser. In 1966-67 Pink Floyd's sound was so wierd and bizarre even to pop music fans. Yes, he died in 1986 at the age of 70--20 years before Syd Barret passed away. God rest both souls!

  • @chev6art Thank you for that. I didn't know anything about him. I do get bored of people on YouTube posting comments such as "Yo dickhead - you're an arse!". I'm sure neither Syd or Hans would approve.

  • @LarryFlames

    Totally agree! And he does not just give his opinion, he does that with respect towards the band. Today (at least in Argentina) we have some idiots that have tv shows and, if they don't like the music, they try to make the band look stupid and ridiculous.

  • Ok Hans isn't a good man here but please don't say he's an ass he brought pink floyd to the TV and if he doesn't like this music it's only because he's from another generation who didn't listened this kind of music... sorry for my bad english I just wanted to say that but if you don't like my english let's talk my language and it will be better for me^^.

  • @turkniktout Why do you say Hans isn't a good man? He says what he feels - without resorting to foul language youtube heads! Can you drones express yourselves without swearing? I'm specifically talking to50sTo90sRockLover and brasiliennr1, oh yes and metalbornmetalbred

    Why don't you all go back to college or something? You sound like drivelling idiots.

  • @LarryFlames Why don't you get a life or something? You sound like a troll.

  • @turkniktout Proving my point nicely, with your totally unnecesary aggression. I can assure, I have a very full life.

  • jokes on you Hans Kellar, you are most likely dead by now.

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  • HANS YOU'RE AN ASS

  • The fact that the presenter doesn't like it just makes the performance ten times cooler..

  • @Vlodrak Like Bob Harris introducing the NY Dolls and Roxy on the OGWT...

  • no me imagino el momento incomodo que habran pasado Syd y Roger

  • Pink Floyd don't like you stupid idiot

  • "The Pink Floyd" I mean "the"? ok then. As for Hans.. you are dead so who cares what you had to say back then. Buddy, PF went on to overtake your world of musicology. The people have spoken you arrogant little shit you.

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  • voivod!!

  • @666fuckoffandie Hey! At least they're big Syd Barrett fans! Love their interpretation of Astonomy Domine!

  • @chev6art yeah the intro sounds like pink floyd couldve done it themselves

  • @666fuckoffandie I hear Barrett's influence in other stuff they've done. Opens up a, "What if....?" for me. Syd Barrett: The way he would've sounded in the 1980's....and beyond.

  • @chev6art i suppose so

  • Yes Hans is being a bit of a snob and even a straight up asshole, But I'm so sick of seeing interviewers sucking up to bands who are absolute shite,

    I mean if this is his approach with Pink Floyd I would just love to resurect him (I'm guessing his passed by now) to interveiw some of the crap thats on the radio today.

    Not that all bands today are shite, You just gotta dig deeper.

  • I don't want to prejudice you, listen to them first then we'll talk about them...but first let me tell you that they suck.

  • "Por que tienen que sonar tan fuerte?"... que viejo pelotudo, se ve que nunca tocó un instrumento y se alegró la vida con los sonidos que ellos producirian :s

  • yeah yeah yeah... what the hell did he know anyway.... Typical BBC/establishment of the 60s

  • fuck you hans!

  • is really cool how they handle the critics of Hans.

    They teach a lesson on how to never give up and acomplish something

  • What and idiot that man ... they handle it pretty well ...

  • Awwh, what an arse you are Hans.

  • I love the look that Roger gives to Syd when shit-for-brains starts on about the string quartet :D

  • Pink floyd always will be one of the biggest rock band, Barrett era, Waters era, Gilmour era,, I don't mind,, pink floyd forever

  • i wonder how would it be if velve underground had played with pink floyd in a festival

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  • 62 people didn't make it past 1:47

  • The best Pink Floyd era, only with Syd

  • @arvid0391 I agree. The Barrett era was the best. It was the Golden Age. But now, presently, where is Floyd at? Feet of clay?

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  • This Hans Keller guy is a snobbish dick!

  • This is one of my all time favorite youtube videos.

  • =)) this guy at the beginning cracks me up!!! too much of a musician to understand pinkfloyd??? u do not know what music....

  • This is the drive that inspired me.... this is bold.... this is creative.... now I sail in the Red Waters....

  • I'm Hans Keller's dealer.

  • the judgement at the beginning is really funny. thank you therefore.

  • Hans had a broomstick up his arse...

  • get stuck here

  • Fantastic clearly sid is driveing this track

  • I see a bit of Dieter from Sprockets in this guy..haha.

  • how crazy was Syd at this point? :(

  • @StanleyWiddos He really wasn't at this point he had sense and awareness around him, he had wit, was a fun guy with a good attitude. I believe just shortly after doing Emily Play he disappeared for 3 months (may be wrong on the date) after those 3 months he was out of it, I guess he experimented too much, had too much bad trips, and was there in body but not in mind.

  • @StanleyWiddos We are all a little bit crazy, I don't think Syd was much more crazy than you and me, but the level of madness was more noticeable in his case. Now if you excuse me... Theres a stain on the wall that is talking to me

  • @StanleyWiddos Apparently he wasn't, or at least, he was still able to control what the public saw. And what we see is a young man on his way to doing great things with Pink Floyd: Not camera shy, not afraid to to be on stage, not afraid answer Keller's acerbic questions, and definitely the most shining musician in this performance of Astronomy Domine. This is the Syd Barrett we saw too little of. What a sad loss, but a sober lesson as to what LSD can do to a talented man....

  • I love the host..."I don't want to prejudice you but, I think they suck"...haha, what a jackass.

  • Syd Barrett seems pretty lucid to me. i wonder what happened to him O_o

  • @aphkumund This video was released in May 1967, I believe, and he was fine up until about August, when their first album was released. After that, his mental state slowly deteriorated, until about December, when the band just couldn't tolerate it further.

    You can hear an audio interview of him in September, and there's a video of him stage performing in America in December. You will notice a difference.

  • @OzDeist idk, it's strange bc people say different stories. thanks though mate.

  • 6:48 waters is like whaaaaat lol

  • damn i wish they did more songs

  • Thumbs up if you find it funny how this was viewed as the talentless pop of its day when now we really understand those words.

  • Mustache guy Epic Fail...

  • if you like early floyd check out our band's improvisational instrumental and if you like that like this comment ^^

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  • @ExperienceGreenBand Nice voting up your own comment. I can do that too.

    Here's a protip: Stop spamming Floyd videos.

  • @pashedmotatos

    well we admit it, the bandmates liked the comment and some friends, but we're not responsible for the other 20 likes :) + we're not spamming floyd videos (we only commented on three), we love floyd and quality music and just hoped there are musicians who can appreciate us ^^

  • @ExperienceGreenBand Check out Tame Impala!

  • "Perhaps I'm a little bit too much of a musician to appreciate them." (1:30). What an arrogant, egotistical remark to make! If ever I heard a backhanded slap of a concessionary compliment, that's it!

  • @tpipen22 go spout your religious garbage somewhere else.

  • what what what???? Who´s the pop group here???!!!

  • Love the Hans Keller bit. It shows the context of the time -when youths collided with the underground scene, truly separate from the establishment & could upset the adults. Boring?! Go study your Shubert records, Hans! I'll show you hostility! Good for Waters & Barrett for standing up to this oaf. "A regression to childhood" Ha. Gotta love that rift ! things are too safe now - the parents smoked weed & grew up on BeatlesStonesZeppelinFloyd -How's a kid to rebel these days? o yeh, the punk rock.

  • @surfercrow how abt some nice quiet Franz Liszt, that interveiwer was a self important douchebag

  • @woppy42 OH SO FUNNY, MR COMEDIAN, AHH MAN YOU MUST BE SO COOL SAYING THIS STUFF ON YOUTUBE

    DO YOU FEEL PROUD THAT YOU ARE FUNNY ON YOUTUBE BUT SUCK IRL COZ I WOULD

  • Sorry, just over the border then. Either way, I just don't see the point of his critqiue as Pink Floyd were clearly aimed at people with an open mind whether, pharmaceutically or otherwise. Still nobody back then how popular they would be in years to come.

  • what month was this in?

  • i love this video, his intro was amazing, the song was mind blowing, and a great interview