This had the effect of totally obscuring the band itself, except for their shadows, which Barrett took advantage of: he would hold his arms up during parts where he was not required to play, making his shadow grow, shrink and undulate, adding to the visual spectacle. During the Barrett era, dynamic liquid light shows were projected onto enormous screens behind the band while they played, and the band also incorporated large numbers of strobe lights, which were controlled manually by an engineer. Pink Floyd were among the first bands to use a dedicated travelling light show in conjunction with their performances. Just tapes of bird noises in quadraphonic sound, you know, with birds singing, and pheasants taking off in the distance, and swans taking off from water, a tractor driving down one side of the room, and an airplane going over the top, and all these things carrying on, all just from just different sound effects records, you just stick them in and you create a type of mood. We had one half-hour-long tape, which we'd play for the half an hour the audience was coming in just before we started our show, and things like that. Yes, we did all sorts of strange things, you know, for live concerts as well, we used to make up tapes for the audience to come in by. As well as visuals, Pink Floyd set standards in sound quality with innovative use of sound effects and panning quadrophonic speaker systems.īesides the music, an elaborate part to any Pink Floyd live show is the special effects.

Pink Floyd were considered pioneers in the live music experience for combining intense visual experiences with music to create a show in which the performers themselves were almost secondary.

Pink Floyd's reunion, performing at Live 8 in London, July 2005

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