Apéndice C Selección de Extintor
C.2 Selección de los extintores para el riesgo
Mason has played concerts to raise funds forCountryside Alliance.*[12]He is a board member and co-chairman of the Featured Artists' Coalition.*[13]*[14] Mason has resided atMiddlewick Housenear Corsham, north Wiltshire, since 1996.
2.2.7
Discography
With Pink Floyd
Main article:Pink Floyd discography
Solo albums
• Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports– 3 May 1981*[5]
With Rick Fenn
• Profiles– 29 July 1985*[5]
• White of the Eye– 1987 (soundtrack)*[5] • Tank Malling– 1988 (soundtrack) With Michael Mantler
• The Hapless Child – 1976*[6] • Something There – 1982*[6] • Live – 1987*[6]
• Review – 2000 • Concertos – 2008 As a producer
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre – The Asmoto Running Band (1971)*[6]
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre – Round One (1974)*[6]
• Robert Wyatt–Rock Bottom(1974)*[6] • Gong–Shamal(1976)*[6]
• The Damned–Music for Pleasure(1977)*[6] • Steve Hillage – Green (1978); co-produced with
Steve Hillage. Mason also plays a drum on “Ley- lines to Glassdom”*[6]
2.2.8 Books
• Into the Red: 22 Classic Cars That Shaped a Century of Motor Sport (with Mark Hales) – 3 September 1998 (first edition), 9 September 2004 (second edi- tion)
• Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd– 28 October 2004*[5]
2.2.9 References
[1] “Pink Floyd Reunion Tops Fans' Wish List in Music Choice Survey”, Bloomberg, 26 September 2007, re- trieved 25 May 2012
[2] “Pink Floyd's a dream, Zeppelin's a reality”,Richmond Times-Dispatch, 28 September 2007, retrieved 25 May 2012
[3] Discovery Channel Documentary,“World's Most Expen- sive Cars”
[4] University of Westminster presentation ceremony pro- gramme, 26 November 2012
[5] Mabbett, Andy (2010). Pink Floyd – The Music and the
Mystery. London: Omnibus,.ISBN 978-1-84938-370-7. [6] Miles, Barry; Mabbett, Andy (1994). Pink Floyd the vi-
sual documentary ([Updated ed.] ed.). London :: Om-
nibus,.ISBN 0-7119-4109-2.
[7] “Artists”. Lpmusic.com.
[8] Boshoff, Alison (2011-12-03).“Pink Floyd family values: It's not just rioter Charlie Gilmour... how four rock stars had EIGHTEEN children by eight women”.Mail Online
(London). Retrieved 20 December 2011.
[9]“Into the Red”. Tentenths.co.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
[10] “Stock photography image of Mason of in his special painted Aerospatiale AS 350 helicopter”. Photographers- direct.com. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
[11] Sunday Times Rich List 2006–2007, A & C Black (ISBN 978-0-7136-7941-0)
[12] “Bryan Ferry to play Countryside Alliance Benefit Con- cert”.
[13] Youngs, Ian (16 October 2010). “Pink Floyd may get back together for charity”. BBC Online. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
[14] “FAC Chairman Nick Mason in keynote interview at In The City 2010”.Featured Artists' Coalition. 20 Septem- ber 2010. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
2.2.10
External links
• Nick Mason's Drummerworld profile • Nick Mason interviews
• Ten Tenths official site
• Inside Out book page from Pink Floyd official site • Pink Floyd Drums: The Division Bell Tour Drums • An interview with Nick Mason by The Drummerʼs
Journal, 2014
• An interview with Nick Mason with "Floydian Slip" host Craig Bailey, November 2014
Chapter 3
Past Members
3.1 Syd Barrett
Roger Keith “Syd”Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English musician, composer, singer, song- writer and painter. Best known as a founder member of the bandPink Floyd, Barrett was the lead vocalist, gui- tarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band. Barrett left Pink Floyd in April 1968 and was briefly hospitalized amid specula- tion ofmental illnessexacerbated by drug use.*[2] Barrett was musically active for less than ten years. With Pink Floyd, he recorded four singles, theirdebut album (and contributed to the second one), and several unre- leased songs. Barrett began his solo career in 1969 with the single "Octopus" from his first solo album,The Mad- cap Laughs (1970). The album was recorded over the course of a year with five different producers (Peter Jen- ner, Malcolm Jones,David Gilmour,Roger Watersand Barrett himself). Nearly two months after Madcap was released, Barrett began working on his second and final album,Barrett(1970), produced by Gilmour and featur- ing contributions from Richard Wright. He went into self-imposed seclusion until his death in 2006. In 1988, an album of unreleased tracks and outtakes, Opel, was released byEMIwith Barrett's approval.
Barrett's innovative guitar work and exploration of ex- perimental techniques such asdissonance,distortionand feedback influenced many musicians, including David Bowie&Brian Eno. His recordings are also noted for their strongly English-accented vocal delivery. After leaving music, Barrett continued with painting and dedi- cated himself to gardening. Biographies began appearing in the 1980s. Pink Floyd wrote and recorded several trib- utes to him, most notably the 1975 albumWish You Were Here, which included "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", as homage to Barrett.
3.1.1
Biography
Early years
Syd Barrett was born as Roger Keith Barrett in the En- glish city of Cambridge to a middle-class family liv-
ing at 60 Glisson Road.*[3]*[4]Barrett was the third of five children.*[3]His father,Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominentpathologist*[3]*[5]*[6]and he was related to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.*[5]*[6] In 1951 his family moved to 183Hills Road.*[3]*[4]
Barrett played piano occasionally, but usually preferred writing and drawing. He got a ukulele at 10, a banjo at 11*[7]and a Hofneracoustic guitarat 14.*[8]*[9]A year after he got his first acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar and built his ownamplifier. One story of how Barrett acquired the nickname“Syd”is that at the age of 14 he was called after an old local Cambridgejazzdou- ble bassist,*[9]*[10]Sid“the beat”Barrett, which claims Syd Barrett changed the spelling to differentiate himself from his namesake.*[11]Another story is that when he was 13, his schoolmates nicknamed him “Syd”after he showed up to a field day at Abington Scout site wearing a flat capinstead of his Scout beret because “Syd”was a “working-class”name.*[12]He used both names inter- changeably for several years. His sister Rosemary stated, “He was never Syd at home. He would never have allowed
it.”*[10]
At one point at Morley Memorial Junior School he was taught byRoger Waters' mother, Mary.*[13]Later, in 1957, he attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys*[14] (with Waters).*[3] His father died of can- cer on 11 December 1961,*[9]*[15] less than a month before Barrett's 16th birthday.*[16] Also on this day, Barrett had left the entry in his diary for this date blank.*[9] By this time, his brothers and sisters had left home and his mother decided to rent out rooms to lodgers.*[15]*[17]*[18] Eager to help her son recover from his grief, Barrett's mother encouraged the band in which he played, Geoff Mott and The Mottoes, a band which Barrett formed,*[9]to perform in their front room. Waters and Barrett were childhood friends, and Waters often visited such gigs.*[3]*[9]*[19]At one point, Wa- ters even organised a gig, aCNDbenefit atFriends Meet- ing Houseon 11 March 1962,*[3]but shortly afterwards Jeff Mott joined the Boston Crabs, and the Mottoes broke up.*[9]
In September 1962, Barrett had taken a place at the Cam- bridge Technical College art department,*[20]where he metDavid Gilmour.*[21]During the winter of 1962 and
early 1963, theBeatlesmade an impact on Barrett, and he began to play Beatles songs at parties and at picnics. In 1963, Barrett became aRolling Stonesfan and Barrett and then-girlfriend Libby Gausden saw them perform at a village hall in Cambridgeshire.*[21]It was at this point Barrett started writing songs; one friend recalls hearing “Effervescing Elephant”(later to be recorded on his solo albumBarrett).*[22]Also around this time, Barrett and Gilmour occasionally played acoustic gigs together.*[23] Barrett had played bass guitar with Those Without during the summer of 1963*[23]*[24]and both bass and guitar with The Hollerin' Blues the next summer.*[23]In 1964, Barrett and Gausden sawBob Dylanperform.*[21]Af- ter this performance, Barrett was inspired to write "Bob Dylan Blues".*[25]Barrett, now thinking about his fu- ture,*[23]decided to apply forCamberwell College of Artsin London.*[26]Barrett enrolled in the college in the summer of 1964*[23]to study painting.*[27]
Pink Floyd years (1965–68) Main article:Pink Floyd
Starting in 1964, the band that would become Pink Floyd evolved through various line-up and name changes in- cluding “The Abdabs”,*[28]*[29] “The Screaming Abdabs”,*[29]“Sigma 6”,*[29]*[30]and“The Meg- gadeaths”.*[29] In 1965, Barrett joined them as The Tea Set*[29]*[31](sometimes spelled T-Set).*[32]When they found themselves playing a concert with another band of the same name, Barrett came up with“The Pink Floyd Sound”(also known as “The Pink Floyd Blues Band”,*[32]later “The Pink Floyd”).*[nb 1]During 1965, they went into a studio for the first time, when a friend ofRichard Wright's gave the band free time to record.*[nb 2]*[31]In the summer of 1965, Barrett began an affair with Lindsay Corner.*[39]
During this summer Barrett had his firstLSDtrip in the garden of friend Dave Gale,*[39]*[40] with Ian Moore andStorm Thorgerson.*[nb 3]*[39]In one period of ex- perimentation with LSD, Barrett and another friend, Paul Charrier, ended up naked in the bath, reciting:“No rules, no rules”.*[41]That summer, as a consequence of the continuation of drug use, the band became absorbed in Sant Mat, aSikhsect. Storm Thorgerson (then living on Earlham Street) and Barrett went to a London hotel to meet the sect'sguru; Thorgerson managed to join the sect, while Barrett, however, was deemed too young to join. Thorgerson perceives this as a deeply important event in Barrett's life, as he was intensely upset by the rejection. While living within close proximity of his friends, Barrett decided to write more songs ("Bike" was written around this time).*[35]
London Underground, Blackhill Enterprises and gigs Main article:Blackhill Enterprises
While Pink Floyd began by playing cover versions of AmericanR&Bsongs,*[42]by 1966 they had carved out their own style of improvised rock and roll,*[43]*[44] which drew as much from improvisedjazz.*[45]After Bob Klose departed from the band, the band's direc- tion changed. However, the change was not instanta- neous,*[nb 4]with more improvising on the guitars and keyboards.*[35]Mason reflected, “It always felt to me that most of the ideas were emanating from Syd at the time.”*[nb 5]*[35]
At this time, Barrett's reading reputedly included: Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings,Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan, andThe I-Ching. During this period, Barrett wrote most of the songs for Pink Floyd'sfirst album, and also songs that would later appear on his solo albums.*[48]In 1966, a new rock concert venue, theUFO(pronounced as “you-foe”),*[50]opened in London and quickly be- came a haven for Britishpsychedelic music. Pink Floyd, the house band,*[46]*[50]*[51]*[52]was its most popu- lar attraction and after making appearances at the rival Roundhouse,*[52]*[53]*[54] became the most popular musical group of the "London Underground" psychedelic music scene.*[8]
By the end of 1966, Pink Floyd had gained a reliable man- agement team inAndrew KingandPeter Jenner.*[55]To- wards the end of October 1966, Pink Floyd, with King and Jenner, set upBlackhill Enterprises, to manage the group's finances. Blackhill was staffed by lodgers Jen- ner found in his Edbrooke Road house, and among oth- ers, Barrett's flatmate, Peter Wynne Wilson (who be- came road manager, however, since he had more experi- ence in lighting, he was also lighting assistant).*[56]King and Jenner wanted to prepare some demo recordings for a possible record deal, so at the end of October, they booked a session at Thompson Private Recording Stu- dio,*[52]inHemel Hempstead.*[nb 6]*[56]King said of the demos: “That was the first time I realised they were going to write all their own material, Syd just turned into a songwriter, it seemed like overnight.”*[57]
King and Jenner befriended American expatriate Joe Boyd, the promoter of the UFO Club, who was mak- ing a name for himself as one of the more important en- trepreneurs on the British music scene. The newly hired booking agent,Bryan Morrison, and Boyd had proposed sending in better quality recordings. From Morrison's agency the band played a gig outside London for the first time.*[58] In November, the band performed the first (of many) strangely named concerts: Philadelic Music for Simian Hominids, a multimedia event arranged by the group's former landlord, Mike Leonard, at Hornsey College of Art.*[52]*[58] They performed at the Free School*[59] for the following two weeks, before per- forming at the Psychodelphia VersusIan Smithevent at the Roundhouse in December, arranged by the Majority
Rule for Rhodesia Campaign, and an Oxfambenefit at theAlbert Hall*[52](the band's biggest venue up to this point).*[58]
Releases
Tonite Lets All Make Love in London Main article: Tonite Lets All Make Love in London
At the beginning of 1967, Barrett was dating Jenny Spires (who would later marry futureStarsmember Jack Monck), however, unknown to Barrett, Spires had an af- fair withPeter Whitehead. Spires convinced Whitehead (who thought the band sounded like “badSchoenberg") to utilise Pink Floyd in a film about theswinging Lon- donscene.*[60]So at the cost of £80, in January, White- head took the band intoJohn Wood's Sound Techniques in Chelsea,*[61] with promoter Joe Boyd in tow.*[60] Here, the band recorded a 16-minute version of “In- terstellar Overdrive”and another composition, “Nick's Boogie”.*[60]*[61]Whitehead had filmed this record- ing, which was used in the film Tonite Let's All Make Love in London*[61]and later on the video release ofLondon '66–'67.*[60]*[61]Whitehead later commented about the band that: “They were just completely welded together, just like a jazz group”.*[60]
Record deal Boyd attempted to sign the band with Polydor Records.*[49]*[62]However, Morrison had con- vinced King and Jenner to try to start a bidding war between Polydor andEMI.*[62] In late January, Boyd produced a recording session for the group,*[49]*[55] with them returning to Sound Techniques in Chelsea again.*[nb 7]*[49]*[64] After the aforementioned bid- ding war idea was finished, Pink Floyd signed with EMI. Unusually for the time the deal included recording an al- bum, which meant the band had unlimited studio time atEMI Studios, in return for a smaller royalty percent- age. The band then attempted to re-record “Arnold Layne”, but the Boyd version from January was released instead.*[63]
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Main article: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The band's first studio album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was recorded intermittently between February and July 1967 in Studio 3 at Abbey Road Studios, and pro- duced by former Beatles engineer Norman Smith.*[65] At the same time, the Beatles were recording "Lovely Rita" for their album,Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in Studio 2. By the time the album was released on 4 August, “Arnold Layne”(which was released months earlier, on 11 March) had reached number 20 on the
British singles charts*[66](despite being banned by Ra- dio London)*[63]*[67] and the follow-up single, "See Emily Play", had done even better, peaking at number 6.*[66]The album was successful in the UK, hitting num- ber 6 on the British album charts.*[66]Their first three singles (including their third "Apples and Oranges"), were written by Barrett, who also was the principal vision- ary/author of their critically acclaimed 1967 debut al- bum. Of the eleven songs on Piper, Barrett wrote eight and co-wrote another two.*[68]
Departure from Pink Floyd
Through late 1967 and early 1968, Barrett's behaviour became increasingly erratic and unpredictable, partly as a consequence of his reported heavy use of psychedelic drugs, most prominently LSD.*[8] Many reports de- scribed him on stage, strumming one chord through the entire concert, or not playing at all.*[69]At a show at The Fillmorein San Francisco, during a performance of “Interstellar Overdrive”, Barrett slowly detuned his gui- tar. The audience seemed to enjoy such antics, unaware of the rest of the band's consternation. Interviewed on Pat Boone's show during this tour, Syd's reply to Boone's questions was a “blank and totally mute stare,”accord- ing toNick Mason, “Syd wasn't into moving his lips that day.”Barrett exhibited similar behaviour during the band's first appearance onDick Clark's popular TV show American Bandstand.*[70]Although surviving footage of this appearance shows Barrett miming his parts of the song competently,*[71]during a group interview after- wards, when asked two questions by Clark, Barrett's an- swers were terse, almost to the point of rudeness (though, Clark noted, they had been flying non-stop from Lon- don to Los Angeles). During this time, Barrett would often forget to bring his guitar to sessions, damage equip- ment and occasionally was unable to hold hispick.*[72] Before a performance in late 1967, Barrett reportedly crushedMandraxtranquilliser tablets and an entire tube ofBrylcreem into his hair, which subsequently melted down his face under the heat of the stage lighting,*[73] making him look like “a guttered candle”.*[74]Nick Mason later disputed the Mandrax portion of this story, stating that“Syd would never waste good mandies”.*[75] During their UK tour with Jimi Hendrix in November 1967, guitaristDavid O'ListfromThe Nicewas called in to substitute for Barrett on several occasions when he was unable to perform or failed to appear.*[76]Sometime around Christmas, David Gilmour (Barrett's old school friend) was asked to join the band as a second guitarist to cover for Barrett, whose erratic behaviour prevented him from performing, with the idea of retaining a five- member line-up of the band. For a handful of shows Gilmour played and sang while Barrett wandered around on stage, occasionally deciding to join in playing. The other band members soon grew tired of Barrett's antics and, on 26 January 1968, when Waters was driving on
the way to a show atSouthampton University, the band elected not to pick Barrett up: one person in the car said, “Shall we pick Syd up?" and another said, “Let's not bother.”*[77]*[78]*[79]*[80] As Barrett had, up until then, written the bulk of the band's material, the initial plan was to keep him in the group as a non-touring mem- ber̶asThe Beach Boyshad done withBrian Wilson̶ but this soon proved to be impractical.*[79]*[81]*[82] Gilmour subsequently became a full-time member of the band.
According to Roger Waters, Barrett came into what was to be their last practice session with a new song he had dubbed "Have You Got It Yet?". The song seemed simple enough when he first presented it, but it soon became im- possibly difficult to learn and they eventually realised that while they were practising it, Barrett kept changing the ar- rangement.*[79]*[82]He would then play it again, with the arbitrary changes, and sing “Have you got it yet?". Eventually they realised they never would, and that they were simply bearing the brunt of Barrett'sidiosyncratic sense of humour.*[83]Waters had called it“a real act of mad genius”.*[79]*[82]
Barrett did not contribute material to the band afterA Saucerful of Secretswas released in 1968. Of the songs he wrote for Pink Floyd after The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, only one, "Jugband Blues", made it to the band's second album; one, “Apples and Oranges”, became a less-than-successful single; and two others, "Scream Thy Last Scream" and "Vegetable Man", were never offi- cially released. Barrett supposedly spent time outside the recording studio, in the reception area,*[84]waiting to be invited in. He also showed up to a few gigs and glared at Gilmour. Barrett played slide guitar on "Remember a Day" (which had been first attempted during the Piper sessions), and also played on "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".*[85]On 6 April 1968, the group of- ficially announced Barrett was no longer a member,*[84]