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KING BEE (Harpo) in « Their first recordings » (2015)

Syd Barrett: Fender Telecaster Guitar, lead Vocal; Bob Klose: Lead Guitar; Nick Mason: Drums; Roger Waters: Harmonica, Bass guitar; Wright: Guitars.

Klose :

« C’est définitivement Syd, avec sa Telecaster, Roger et moi jouions tous les deux de l’harmonica dans le groupe, donc cela pourrait l’un de nous deux là-dessus. C’est moi qui joue le solo sur le titre, il y a une note fausse particulière qui m’est assez familier (rires) »

« Random Precision : Recording the Music of Syd barrett 1965-1974 », David Parker.

Mason:

« Yes (...) Bob play the solo on King Bee ».

«Acid Tales », Record Collector, August 1973.

«Well, I'm a King Bee

Buzzing around your hive

Yes, I'm a King Bee, child

Buzzing around your hive

I can make good honey

Let me come inside

I'm young and able

To buzz all night long

You know I'm young and able

To buzz all night long

When you hear me buzz, little girl

You know some stinging's going on

(Well, buzz some) I'll sting (yeah)

Well, I'm a King Bee

Can buzz all night long

Yes I'm a King Bee

Can buzz all night long

Well, I buzz better baby

When your man is gone»

DOUBLE-O-BO (Syd Barrett) in « Their First Recording » (2015)

Syd Barrett: Guitar, lead Vocal; Bob Klose: Guitars; Nick Mason: Drums; Roger Waters: Bass; Rick Wright: Guitars

Bob Klose :

« Double-O Bo était une sorte d’hommage à Bo Diddley … un truc tiré de James Bond 007. Le titre constituait le texte principal ! Je pense que nous n’avions qu’un couplet d’écrit (…) ».

« Random Precision: Recording the Music of Syd barrett 1965-1974 », David Parker.

Bo Diddley was a private eye

Hand was fast and his I.Q. high

D.A. said «Double O, you won't last

Slow down boy, you living too fast»

Well, Double O had a Cadillac

Machine guns and a bullet-proof back

Engine taken from a 707

Sounds like a sure way to get into heaven

In his pocket, 5 pounds of lead

Keep Bo Diddley from getting dead

Another thing helped Bo keeping alive

Was a snub-nosed, Smith And Wesson, Colt 45

Well, Bo drank gallons of rye and bourbon

Martini's dry, and you better serve them

Martini so dry, the shaker burst

Bo keeled on his side and died of thirst

BUTTERFLY (Syd Barrett) in « Their first recording » (2015)
Syd Barrett: Guitars, lead Vocal; BobKlose: Guitars;Nick Mason: Drums; Roger Waters: Bass;Rick Wright: Guitars

One of the tracks from the first demo under the name The Tea Set w/. Bob Klose.

Bob Klose :

« C’était un shuffle-type écrit en Mi aussi loin que je puisse m’en souvenir. Ce n’est pas une grande perte dans l’histoire de la musique (…) (rires) ».

« Random Precision : Recording the Music of Syd barrett 1965-1974 », David Parker, 2001.

Listen all you girlies

Even though I haven't met you

Gonna catch you soon

In my butterfly net

You'd better watch out

Sometimes when I watch you

I stretch out my hand to touch you

Cause it drives my me wild

To see you flutter by

You butterfly

I won't squeeze you dead

Aiming through your head

I just want your love

I won’t write your name

In Latin in a frame

Cause framing is a chain

Listen all you girlies

Even though I haven't met you

Gonna catch you soon

In my butterfly net

You'd better watch out»

LUCY LEAVE (Barrett) in « Their first Recordings » (2015)

Syd Barrett: Guitars, lead Vocal; Bob Klose: Guitars; Nick Mason: Drums; Roger Waters: Bass; Rick Wright: Guitars

It took several years and the release of an obscure italian book to hear this song for the first time. Some has doubted the authenticity of this tape

Interviewer:« The Legend seems to state the first ever song played was Astronomy Dominé».

Nick Mason:«Wrong. Our first song written was called Lucy Lee in Blue Tightor something like this. We has recorded it but we have never

released it ».

«Interview avec Nick Mason», Rock & Folk, July 1973.

Bob Klose :

« The songs at this time were mainly band’s efforts, although i think Lucy leave was written by Syd(…) I think i took the lead on Lucy Leave»

« Random Precision : Recording the Music of Syd barrett 1965-1974 », David Parker.

Nick Mason :

« That was at Broadhurst Gardens (...) A friend of Rick's, i can't remember his name, was a junior in the studio and managed to get access to it. He was unofficially allowed to use some down Mme for us to record ».

« Acid Tales », Record Collector, August 2013.

Leave, when I ask you to leave, lucy

Please, far away from me, lucy

Oh, go little girl

Seen, is (oh so) broken up about you, lucy

Mean, treat me and done me harm, lucy

Been, in love with you and your charms, lucy

Oh, go little girl

I'm in love with you, lucy

You got my heart

You got my heart, oh no!

You tear me apart

You just won't let me go

You hold on so tight, so tight I just can't breath

Now lucy leave, lucy

Leave, when I ask you to leave, little girl

Please, far away from me, little girl

Yeah! go little girl

Seen, is (oh so) broken up about you, lucy

Yeah! Go»

WALK WITH ME, SYDNEY (Roger Waters) in « Their first recording » (2015)

Syd Barrett: Guitar, lead vocals; Nick Mason: Drums; Bob Klose: lead guitar; Rick Wright: Keyboards; Roger Waters: Guitar, lead-vocals, Juliette Gale : lead-vocals.

Roger Waters:

«There were things I wrote very early on, like a song called «Walk with me Sidney», which I wrote about Syd. Juliette Wright, who was then Rick Wright's girlfriend, sang some of it. It exists on tape somewhere, it might eventually come out »

« In the Flesh », Mojo Magazine, November 2004.

Roger Waters:

«I sang my first song on a Tube train, busking to get money for student Rag Week with Juliette Gale. It was written to be sung by a girl and called Walk with me Sydney - relating, yes, to Syd Barrett»

«Pink Floyd star sees dark side of digital», Times, 2 May 2015.

Ooohhh, Walk with me, Sydney

I’d love to, love to, love to, baby you know

Ooohhh, Walk with me, Sydney

I’d love to, love to, love to, love to

Walk with me, Sydney, it’s a dark night

Come on, come on, hold me tight

Well, I’d love to, love to, love to

But I got flat feet, fallen arches

Baggy knees and a broken frame

Meningitis, peritonitis

DTs and a washed-up brain …

Ooohhh, Roll with me, Sydney

I’d love to, love to, love to, baby you know

Ooohhh, Roll with me, Sydney

I’d love to, love to, love to, love to

Roll with me, Sydney, it’s a dark night

Come on, come on, hold me tight

Well, I’d love to, love to, love to

But I got flat feet, fallen arches

Baggy knees and a broken frame

Meningitis, peritonitis

DTs and a washed-up brain

Ooohhh, Walk with me, Sydney

I’d love to, love to, love to, baby you know

Ooohhh Walk with me, Sydney

I’d love to, love to, love to, love to

Walk with me, Sydney, it’s a dark night

Come on, come on, hold me tight

Well, I’d love to, love to, love to. But I got

Flat feet, fallen arches

Baggy knees and a broken frame

Meningitis, peritonitis

DTs and a washed-up brain

Remember Me (Barrett) in « Their first Recordings » (2015)

Syd Barrett: Guitars, lead Vocal; Bob Klose: Guitars; Nick Mason: Drums; Roger Waters: Bass; Rick Wright: Guitars

Remember me. I've been here before

Remember me. I've been here before

Can't you see. I'm wanna stick around some more

Can't you see. I want some love from you

Can't you see. I want some love from you

Don't go away now. I've got something to give to you

I'll try to be, as good as gold to you

Try to be, as good as gold to you

But don't blame me girl if I'm far from cold to you

Remember me, I've been here before

Remember me, I've been here before

Don't go away now

Goin' to stick around some more

Yeah