Pink Floyd vs Hans Keller (1967)

"People who have an audience ought to be heard" Well, I think millions of people around the world should be thankful for your tolerance, souldn't they, Mr. Keller?

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Music

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• Pink
• Floyd
• vs
• Hans
• Keller
• 1967

[dannycheesums]

Keller says he doesn't want to prejudice the viewer by talking before the performance, and then he does just that! Unrelated note - it was totally normal for TV presenters back in the 60s to smoke on screen, but now it stands out a mile its so noticeable!

[SamBlob]

What do people really remember about Pink Floyd? Not the serious fans, but people in general? The concept albums, especially "The Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall". These were after years of experience, and were mainly the concept of Roger Waters with Syd Barrett long gone from the scene.

Would they be remembered if "Games for May" was all to remember them by? Probably not. We do not have Keller's comments on their later work. He might have said: "Well, they finally grew up!"

[HerringElwood]

Keller was certainly no fool, but he did make a bit of an ass of himself here - and I speak as a classical music fan and as a Floyd fan. I heard an unrelated story about him doing a radio him broadcast of some "experimental" music which consisted of him wandering round the studio hitting things and recording the sounds - then repeated the "performance" a few hours later and nobody noticed any difference! He certainly knew his stuff, he just wasn't prepared for anything like Pink Floyd.

[glarpspooge]

Keller wasn't an idiot, by any means, he probably just underestimated them. He was doing his job interviewing them that day. No-one can be spot on all the time.

[ledzeppize]

LOL, this guy is a fucking jackass

[DangerMcDeathface]

I find Hans Keller to ne a pompous jerk here. All he is doing is trying to cut down a "pop" band and complain about youthful experimentation. His whole thing about the volume of Pink Floyds performance was absulutely stupid. What an ass. If Syd Barrett wants his guitar to split ears, then let it. I love the wild free flowing songs Syd Barrett era Pink Floy wrote, so maybe I am a bit biased, but I feel that Keller completely missed their point and was unfairly critical of them..

[BarbaraAnnLovegrove]

Further to my comment below - it's not that profundity and ambiguity of emotional expression are unknown in jazz, or folk, or pop; they're just rarer there than in so-called classical music! Incidentally, Keller loved a lot of 20th century music too: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Shostakovich - their most challenging pieces are MUCH wilder and more avant-garde than Pink Floyd even at their most pseudo-experimental could ever have conceived.

[LiLBastard67]

".....Keller analysed so perceptively, so provocatively will continue to inspire, astound and fascinate music-lovers long after Pink Floyd are totally forgotten."

Problem with your take is that Pink Flody will not be forgotten, Truly a legendary band both when fronted by and after the depature of Syd Barrett. Loved by many members of even today's budding generation. I have the strong belief if anyone will be "fogotten" in the music world it is your heroic crictic, Hans Keller. Hans who? 

[BarbaraAnnLovegrove]

No, wheels1984, the music later known as "classical" was NOT the popular music of its time. In 18th/19th cent Europe most people listened to "folk". Many classical composers were of "humble" birth but their audience consisted largely of aristocrats & upper middle class professionals. A sadly restrictive situation but each of the greatest composers evolved a unique way to create music of unprecedented harmonic/rhythmic/textural/str­uctural complexity & profundity/ambiguity of emotional expression

[wheels1984]

@BarbaraAnnLovegrove

Pink Floyd will never be forgotten as long people listen to recorded music. Quality is never forgotten, misplaced for short periods, maybe. I love the term classical music, otherwise known as the "popular" music of its time. No doubt with its detractors who thought like yourself it would be totally forgotten.

[maxearle1]

Hans Keller clearley couldnt accept that this untamed sound would quickly influence a whole new genre of music and inspire millions.