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It's So Far Out It's Straight Down (29:40) 

Quality: VG

All tracks: UFO Club, Tottenham Court Road, London, England. January 20th, 1967.

Mathilda Mother

[PERSON#1: It's a revolution of youth against the old values of society, it's not a political revolution in the sense that there's no actual party...]

[PERSON#2: The late Martin, the late Kraust who...]

[PERSON#3: I think, I think that if people feel, if people feel that what we're doing is disrupting their order, then what we're doing is anarchy]

[PERSON#4: ... happening as a plain gesture and plain gesture just because you like to play, because you like to make games maybe of a more artistic form.]

[PERSON#5: Alot of people could come into the scene from outside, the London scene and it had had a little problem assimilating how sweet everything is.]

Interstellar Overdrive

[COMMENTATOR: The Pink Floyd once called the undergrounds house orchestra, on friday nights they and other groups play at UFO, U, F, O. An unidentified flying object, a nighttime environment where films, projection and music make the undernights nightclub a huge entertainment scene. For the rest of the week it is inprobably an irish dance hall. It's here that the underground becomes most obvious to any young peoples movement. The only people over about 30 are reporters come to investigate what's going on. They're treated with news tolerance by the people they're investigating. One of the aims here is to make music a felt experience, to make the patterns of light and sound merge and fuse deep inside each listener. The attempt has been called psychedelic or mind expanding. Psychedelic is a silly term used by commentators as a blanket word to cover anything they don't fully understand, if this is psychedelic then psychedelic music may be with us for some time. Many people claim it to be the next popular music. Music as experience, not as melody.]

[COMMENTATOR: The underground movement in London is small as yet. Elsewhere it has become a great force, instant theatre, happenings, light and sound shows, psychedelic music are spreading, today's underground may be the answer to tomorrows leisure.]

Comments:

Mathilda Mother has the alternative lyrics and is interupted by comments: On Interstellar Overdrive there is a commentator talking about UFO and psychedelic music.

This one seems to be making the rounds already! It's the full broadcast of the Granada TV Scene Special (commonly subtitled It's So Far Out It's Straight Down) ... for a total running time of just about 30 minutes! This is by far my favorite "non-concert" roio. It's a great documentary on the underground scene in London, around 1966/67. Has two pieces by Pink Floyd, commonly named the "underground house orchestra". The songs performed are Matilda Mother and Interstellar Overdrive but they are unfortunately overlapped, for the most part, by commentary. This is much better in sound than the previous versions. It comes from a 1st generation source. Highly recommended to everyone. This should give the young Floyd fan a good view on how things were in 1967 ... and also a couple good laughs. - PL