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I’m trying to practice more. Maybe it’s working.

Bobby Klein: "Jim was irreverent and mischievous. One time we were shooting outside and he suddenly disappeared. He came back with this cheeky smile and I took his picture. Only later, when I got the photos developed, did I realise what he had been doing: he’d hidden behind a tree, got himself aroused and, through his trousers, was pointing his erection right at my camera."

January-February 1967, Venice Beach, California. © Bobby Klein.

"The biographers seem to have lost Jim's sense of humor. I can't impress upon you enough that it was always there....He was the funniest human being I ever met. Simply that, the funniest human being I ever met." – Fud Ford New York's Central Park, spring 1968. Photo by Paul Ferrara

The first day the band arrived in the studio, Botnick recalls, “they had pretty much the first two albums ready to go. The thought that Paul had was that we were to be invisible – to allow them to capture the magic of The Doors as you went to hear them.” He adds: “They were totally different than anything else I was recording. I was recording the Beach Boys, The Turtles, The Ventures… and The Doors were totally different, it was the beginning of that era of American sixties music.”.   1966.11  First photo session group ©Joel Brodsky

MORE THAN just a good rock group, The Doors represent two things to their millions of followers. Either they project the music-plus-sensuality that is The Doors musical sense combined with Morrison's presence, or they can project the strange drama and rock that comes from Morrison's head.” -Pop Scene Service, April 6, 1968

©  Joel Brodsky, November 1966, New York

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Falling into the unknown

Let the moon decide where I'll go

I'll keep on walking through the rain

The blues won't ever leave me alone

I keep running down the same road

Like I'm living in a blackhole

I guess that's really why I play

The blues won't ever leave me alone...

-Orianthi

i love soundcloud

contralto propaganda forever

Can we normalize the idea that women can have deep voices? please?? Especially for trans women who feel gross or out of place for their deep voice.

Please, break the standard that all women have high pitched, perfect, feminine voices.

Roger Waters and Syd Barrett, interviewed by Hans Keller, circa. 1967.

“Keller was a dick to them. But the lads come off as very polite and well spoken by comparison.”

Pink Floyd during a photoshoot, 1967.

“I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.” — Syd Barrett.

Syd Barrett and Richard Wright in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29 April 1967. Photo by Nico van der Stam.

“I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.” — Syd Barrett.

Richard Wright, Just Having a Sip, Somewhere mid MCMLXX’s.

“We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.” — Richard (Rick) Wright.

Pink Floyd recording their song 'Scarecrow' at Abbey Road Studios, London on March 22nd, 1967.

"Just listen to Syd's songs, the imagination that he had. If he hadn't had this complete breakdown, he could easily be one of the greatest songwriters today. I think it's one of the saddest stories in rock "n' roll, what happened to Syd. He was brilliant - and such a nice guy.” — Richard Wright.

Rick Wright during recording sessions of the album, ‘Obscured by Clouds' at Strawberry Studios, Château d'Hérouville, France 1972. Photo by Jean-Denis Mahn.

"Paint Box" and "Remember A Day" were done soon after Syd left and we still hadn't established the way the band was going to work. Syd, I am sad to say, was no longer capable of working so it came down to Roger, Dave and myself writing songs and I think it came later that we started writing songs together. For example, "Echoes" was where we discovered the best music we created at the time was when all three us of got together and collaborated rather than individually coming to the studio with a song.” — Richard (Rick) Wright.

Pink Floyd - Recording sessions at Capitol Studios, Hollywood Los Angeles. May 1970. Courtesy of Capitol Records Photo Archive.

Q: ‘I think Mr. Wright's keyboard work during the early Floyd years was one of the most distinctive elements of the band's sound, and was definitely a key to the band's success. Who were the influences on this keyboard style in the beginning?’

“That is interesting. I would have to say, not necessarily keyboard players actually influenced my sound. For example, I can give you a good example, one of the people I was very influenced by was Miles Davis, the trumpeter and his style of playing the trumpet certainly influenced the way I played the keyboards and also Bill Evans. Simply look at Jazz and that has influenced my way of playing the keyboard.” — Richard (Rick) Wright.