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Band Members

• Guliette Gale - vocals, flute
• Keith Noble - vocals, cello
• Roger Waters - backing vocals, lead guitar
• Richard Wright - backing vocals, rhythm guitar
• Nick Mason - Drums, percussion
• Clive Metcalfe - bass guitar

The band went through a number of name changes including The Abdabs, The Architectural Abdabs (due to the fact Waters and Mason met on an architecture degree) and The Screaming Abdabs but were unable to keep band members and the group broke up in 1965 when Metcalfe and Noble left the band. Keith Noble now works as a drama teacher at Brantwood School, Sheffield. Two new members joined the band to augment these leaving members: In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ... George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. ... A backup vocalist is a vocalist that sings in harmony with the lead vocalist, with other backup vocalists, or alone but in the background of a song. ... Lead guitar refers to a role within a popular music band, especially a rock band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums. ... Richard William Rick Wright (born July 28, 1943 in Hatch End, London, England) is a self-taught pianist and Keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. ... A backup vocalist is a vocalist that sings in harmony with the lead vocalist, with other backup vocalists, or alone but in the background of a song. ... Rhythm guitar is a guitar that is primarily used to provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment for a singer or for other instruments in an ensemble. ... Nicholas Berkeley Nick Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. ... A drum kit (or drum set or trap set) is mostly a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... British musician Clive Metcalfe, a student from Southampton Art College and Chelsea School of Art in the early 1960s, played bass guitar as a member of the 1965 band The Abdabs (a. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ...

• Bob Klose - guitars
• Chris Dennis - vocals

Klose, a classmate of Syd Barrett and David Gilmour from Cambridge, was brought in to replace Metcalfe and, as a consequence, Waters was "demoted" to bass. Chris Dennis, who was the new lead vocalist was soon replaced by Barrett. Shortly after, Waters, Wright, Mason, Barrett and Klose, formed the Tea Set, which soon became The Pink Floyd Sound and later, simply Pink Floyd. It was soon after when what was the earliest incarnation of Pink Floyd made their first recordings. In late 1964, the band recorded four songs on a demo: "Lucy Leave", "King Bee", "Double O Bo", and "Butterfly". Rado Bob Klose (born 1944; sometimes referred to as Bob Close or Brian Close in various publications) is a British musician and photographer. ... The classical guitar typically has nylon strings. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Roger Keith Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. ... David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge) is an English guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a member of the band Pink Floyd. ... Martin EB18 Bass Guitar in flight case. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ...

In the following months it became clear that Klose's jazz-influenced style was not compatible with Barrett's more improvisational free-form style, and Bob Klose left the band in the summer of 1965. Jazz is a style of music which originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at around the start of the 20th century. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ...

The Screaming Abdabs

The Screaming Abdabs was also the nom de plume used by Pink Floyd on unofficially sanctioned live bootleg recordings which were recorded directly through the mixing desk in concerts, including: A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ... A bootleg recording (or simply bootleg or boot) is an audio and/or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist, or under other legal authority. ... BBC Local Radio Mark III radio mixing desk In professional audio, a mixing console, mixing desk (Brit. ...

• Brain Damage (Dark side of the moon) (1972 - Hammersmith)

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