Pink Floyd – “Let There Be More Light” (TV – 1968)
This Feb. 24, 1968 TV performance from the (French, I presume) show Baton Rouge, is a rendition of their 5th UK single. Sung by Rick Wright and new guitarist David Gilmour (not miked very well). The studio version of this song contains Gilmour’s first recorded guitar solo with the band.
Original leader Syd Barrett was still technically with the band at this point, but was soon to be let go permanently, due to his increasingly erratic behavior.
“Written on a Plane, Headed West”
Flying westward across America
Headed for the San Francisco Bay
To trace the steps
Of Ferlinghetti
To walk the same
City streets that Kerouac
& Ginsberg walked on
50 yrs past
Where “Howl” was first
Screamed
& the Beat Revolution roared
Wondering if I’ll recognize
Any of the same places
That I’ve read about
In books, once banned &
Reviled,
Now considered classics
Flying
High above the ground
Somewhere deep in the
American Midwest
3 more hrs to go
Until United
Touches down on California
Soil & I’ve never made it
Off the East Coast
Never walked beneath
The Calif. Sun
Or breathed in
Cool Pacific air
I wonder what lies ahead
All I can see is endless
Mtns. & dirt & clouds
Rocky valleys
Not a building in sight
Bad elevator music
Passing as modern jazz
Is playing in a speaker
Above – sounds like a
Daytime soap opera theme…
The Beat Patrol 