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Re:Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixtie... by helsinkiandrew on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:37AM (#27784099)
Unfortunately the ‘video’ didn’t really exist in the form that we know it today and often it was just the band playing with a light show:

Pink Floyd on the BBC in 67:

https://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE

Re:Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixtie... by twic on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:44AM (#27784199)
My dad remembers having seen Pink Floyd live while at university, which i think would be 1963 - 1967. He said they had a similar light show live, based on a sort of lava lamp projector device, like this modern one:

https://www.mathmos.com/mathmos-space-projector-light-with-l...

Re:Easy Listening Acid Trip: An elevator ride through Sixtie... by Joeboy on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:13PM (#27785235)
For some of that period, they were living in Mike Leonard's house. Leonard was a lecturer at Hornsey Art College, specializing in light shows. To some extent, Pink Floyd's early career was an offshoot of his need for a musical component to his multimedia shows. Here's a (sadly monochrome) indication of the sort of thing they got up to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjrxxYBsi4&t=278s