I think in the modern day world of seemingly infinite guitar effects, some people take for granted how inventive and revolutionary early Pink Floyd was, especially Syd.

What an honor to be mentioned by the Great Lee Harris, Jed Tyler is our guitarist (Big Syd Barrett Fan) and he used the Selmer amp for all our music in the studio! Selmer is the guitar tone of Juliez Andrewz

@CHlEFFIN

2 жыл бұрын

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@waynesilverman3048

2 жыл бұрын

Juliez - where did he get the guitar I tried to get one but they stopped making them but that was 12 years ago

@juliezandrewz7508

2 жыл бұрын

@@waynesilverman3048 It was built for him, Jed Tyler uses the same guitar Syd Barrett Fender esquire

@juliezandrewz7508

2 жыл бұрын

@@CHlEFFIN kzread.info/dash/bejne/ka2YsNKNgaisl6w.html

@valleywoodstudio7345

2 жыл бұрын

Really cool - I've a 1969 Traynor Guitar Mate 3 installed into the carcass of a Thunderbird Twin Fifty with its original Goodmans Axioms still installed - the Goodmans are a major part of the Selmer sound. Great combo of classic Canadian and early 60's Brit!

My first amp was a Selmer Treble 'n' Bass, still got it, currently sitting in the corner of my living room.

@rgbplumbinghilton

2 жыл бұрын

great amps. Wish I still had mine!!

@PaulJonesy

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, had one of those, long gone.

@Tee-mq2zn

2 жыл бұрын

Aargh! I literally put mine in a rubbish bin in 1980 I was so annoyed by it and couldn't get on with it. It probably needed a good service....

@starshineraiser6729

2 жыл бұрын

So lucky.

@francescocagnacci

2 жыл бұрын

I envy you

Syd was the finest guitarist and influenced so many great players, including Marc Bolan, David Bowie, even Hendrix himself. Syd was off the charts talented and innovative, he was intergalactic , he really was.

@oosqueezemylemon

2 жыл бұрын

yes! I'm glad someone is here to say this - Syd was a genius

@williamolsen20

2 жыл бұрын

I think he equated music with colors, and he was just and example of pure artistic expression. It is sad that it could not have lasted longer.

@BeesWaxMinder

2 жыл бұрын

18:33 - i’m surprised there isn’t a KEMPER profile of a Selmer T&B somewhere out there…?🤷‍♂️

@williamolsen20

2 жыл бұрын

@@BeesWaxMinder There should be, because for one thing Syd had a unique sound, and you need that Selmer sound to get it.

@starshineraiser6729

2 жыл бұрын

100% yes. I remember listening to Piper at the Gates on a great stereo for the first time. Syd’s guitar tone shook my senses. I couldn’t believe someone could get such a complex tone, not even talking about echo, just when he strums chords. To this day, his tone and style are unmatched. It’s so explosive.

Syd’s guitar on the song Apples and Oranges… Is completely mind-boggling… I listen to that all the time just to hear That guitar sound

@malcolmhardwick4258

2 жыл бұрын

he has his own style and thats what counts !

@benjaminfowler4513

2 жыл бұрын

It's so filthy

@stephenhenderson5322

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agreed. That wah and treble control/abuse is crazy. Then into those crystalline esquire/tele chords during the chorus- perfect. Syd era has way more cool and enigma in both songwriting and guitar playing than anything that came later.

@bristlefist

Ай бұрын

It's amazed me since I was about 16 years old. That quacky fuzz wah doesn't sound like anything else from that time or any since. There's a video on here of an italian guy that recreates all those sounds with the original selmer gear, a original binson and he uses a couple different fuzz pedals and a coloursound wah. He gets apples and oranges spot on. It's unbelievable, right down to the exact same feedback squeal at the end.

Saw nick mason’s saucerful tour live. I was completely blown away by how good and authentic the guitar tones were. Truly some of the best I’ve ever heard! Great to see Lee talk about gear!

Been wanting a Selmer in a can for years. I bought this pedal the second it was listed and can’t wait to get it. INCREDIBLE!!! Thank you Anderton’s Syd is my favorite guitarist ever for his tone and technique.

@BeesWaxMinder

2 жыл бұрын

Please post how you get on with it?

I absolutely love Pipers, Saucer full of Secrets and Rarities albums. Later Floyd is great too, but Syd era was Pink Floyd in my humble opinion.

I guess i’m in that state of mind all the time, bc it’s still my favorite. I don’t hear beatles influence in floyd’s psychedelia, I hear the source of it in Syd’s own chromatic scales and pointillist, painterly approach to his playing work. The tone is another thing entirely, but Sydks playing dances all over the line between chaotic noise and musicality we’re still exploring today in various genres.

@bristlefist

Ай бұрын

Agreed

He wore a scarlet tunic, and blue green hood it looked quite good.

Im not the biggest fan of the early floyd stuff but there are definitely some gems in there. Also I heard that Gilmour would always throw in a few Syd songs to his set so that Syd would make some money off the live CD/DVD's sales

Syd era Floyd will always be my favourite. Lucifer Sam is a song that brings me great joy and has been covered by MGMT and The Lightning Seeds in more recent years.

@weaselsuit

2 жыл бұрын

Love and Rockets also did Lucifer Sam as a b-Side in the eighties.

"I'm happy with people who say, 'For me, Pink Floyd was really Syd Barrett. After that it went downhill.'" - Nick Mason

@kriddz

2 жыл бұрын

did he really say that?

Got mine a few days ago. It's really an amazing box. Definitely not a traditional overdrive, very amp-like. It does this great almost fuzzed out lofi-ish sound, but it's also very dynamic. But it also can get that bright cleanish yet relatively smoother 60s type sound, like Kinks Kontroversy era, some Who tones, brite bitey surf stuff. It's kind of brit 60s garage in a box. Really loving it, I can't think of anything else like it.

@Dwightpower88

2 жыл бұрын

Nice, good review!

Thank you Lee Harris for the shout out! Your a top lad indeed.

I have a mint copy of Syd Barrett's album: The Madcap Laughs. Great solo album.

@brianberthiaume7930

2 жыл бұрын

Yep I have that on vinyl and also Opel.

Always been my favorite band. In 2016 I finally got to see David Gilmour in concert, which happened to be during my wife and I's 3rd wedding anniversary that week, he announced his North American tour dates as we put in our vacation time off. It restarted a love of playing for me, I had stopped playing out of frustration and depression and thankfully haven't put it down since then. A few weeks after the concert and boasting all over Facebook about the show I was contacted by an author that was putting together personal recollections of Pink Floyd Concerts and had asked more my contribution. Jump to the winter of 2019 my wife then surprises me with tickets to see Roger Waters and of course Covid happened, but after waiting two years we're finally going this July. All I need now is a chance to see Nick Mason's group to complete the Pink Floyd circle as much as possible these days.

I went to see nick masons saucerful of secrets last month,amazing live truly. And the guitar work from Lee and Gary kemp was brilliant. A great show and nick mason still a legend behind the drums. And that guitar aswell.❤️

This is straight up one of the best ever gear related vids I've ever seen and I'm not even an obsessive Floyd fan (well, maybe a little). Excellent stuff fellas, thank you!

Big Syd fan! Tones easily achived with a couple of $25 Behringer pedal and super clean amp.

Saw these guys ('Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets') a few weeks ago at Sheffield City Hall, two years after the original date. They were bloomin' excellent, absolutely brilliant. I took pictures of all their pedal boards before the kick off, lots of lovely things.

@MuckingAboutWithMyHeadrush

2 жыл бұрын

How funny.. was at the same gig, took the same photos.. :) we nerd.

@AndyH2O

2 жыл бұрын

@@MuckingAboutWithMyHeadrush Excellent!

Can Pete and Lee do some blindfold challenge videos like they used to do with Lee and Chappers where they choose rigs for each other, or had to make a rig on a budget? It can be the same videos but a new updated one to showcase newer products and the new store

@JohnW335andTele

2 жыл бұрын

I agree!

Can't even imagine how long i've been waiting for a video like that on yt...

LOVE Syd Barrett !!!!🙃👾

@ashleywood1628

2 жыл бұрын

me too !

@malcolmhardwick4258

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashleywood1628 It was he who made me a tele nut for years ! Even though he had an Esquire but close enough !

Fantastic story and great to meet the power behind bringing early Floyd back live! Lee (Captain Lee!) you really must get UmmaGumma and listen to the live version of Saucerful of Secrets. Brings the hairs on the back of your neck up!

Come on Fender give us The Syd Barrett signature Esquire !

@Spuzzmacher

2 жыл бұрын

Fender instead decided to give us an artists page saying Syd wasn’t a very good guitarist. Real nice, Fender. I had G&L build me a custom esquire instead.

@malcolmhardwick4258

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spuzzmacher Syd not a good guitar player ! Thats just nuts. His gutar playing was at some other wordly level !

Excellent video. Tone has always been a mystery. Love Syd's guitar playing.

On Saucerful, Syd played slide/guitar on Remember a Day, and supposedly played bass on Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun. Plus both Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man were recorded for that album (and/or a single for that album) but were not used.

@CoreyW6292

2 жыл бұрын

If they had included Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream.......holy smokes, their 2nd album would have just been too awesome......especially if they had left "One in a Million" the original instead of making it Corporal Klegg.

@soarornor

2 жыл бұрын

Scream and Vegetable Man are two of Syd’s most amazing songs.

@Spuzzmacher

2 жыл бұрын

As well as the Instrumentals known as “sunshine”, plus the unfinished “Beechwoods”, and all the random takes of “have you got it yet”s. When you add it all up, there was quite a bit of Syd material recorded for it & it’s obvious that at some point the decision was made to remove most of it. I wish they’d make a full-length “in the studio” release of Saucerful, to let us in to that explosively creative moment in time.

Great interview, thanks both. For those that can't get to see the band live there's a great video version available on DVD/Streaming.

Great video! I'm a massive Syd geek and for me is the essential era of PF. Captain, you gotta go back and listen again. There is a great compilation- An Introduction to Syd Barrett released in 2010. Give it a go 👍

I first heard Pipers when I was about 15, so around 19 years ago and thought it was the weirdest thing ever, but I loved it and have done ever since. As great as the interview was, I’m happier to hear that Nick Mason sounds like such a stand up guy.

He wore a scarlet tunic, a blue- green hood, it looked quite good, he had a big adventure, amidst the grass, fresh air at last

there's almost nothing that hits as hard as that bombed-out A-G motif starting all of See Emily Play's verses... it's just absolute magic

Great interview. Thank you! That pedal sounds amazing; very Syd.

That Interstellar Overdrive sound is phenomenal

Syd's guitar solo on Lucy Leave is my favorite solo of all time.

@iTaLenTZ027

Жыл бұрын

That one is actually Bob Klose

Syd was pure genius and was a completely true original. Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a definitive album in the history of rock music and his solo albums (Madcap Laughs; Barrett) are some of the most original and haunting works of music ever recorded. They make Nick Drake sound like The Backstreet Boys. Pure artistic genius of the highest degree that has ever been achieved by man. More akin to Bach & Beethoven then later Pink Floyd.

That's the tone! Wow!

I saw them at the usher hall in Edinburgh recently and they were amazing !! the tone that both lee and Gary have is epic..goosebumps

Great too see syd is still inspiring new players some will credit syd as making new tones not seen before in music such as distorted tones

@simoneric8183

Жыл бұрын

Yes Syd influence is still certainly greater and wider than we think. I'd give just one example among many others : Syd has bent other musicians minds more than he has on Gilmour's. Take just Wire's example : listening to them is aknowledging a much greater sense of creativity / strangeness exploration than the Floyd remainings Syd left behind him... kzread.info/dash/bejne/la6ItrppnK-qpKw.html

Syd Barret was too far ahead of his own mind. Remains my favorite of the pink Floyd eras.

@bristlefist

Ай бұрын

It's the only PF era I like. Hasn't been anything like it since.

@Mxulin

12 күн бұрын

@@bristlefist Because it's objectively a lot better

Fab video! Nice to hear the Scarlet Tunic in isolation after hearing it the night before this video at the Saucerful of Secrets show in Croydon. In case anyone was wondering what strings are on the Esquire - Lee uses Rotosound Roto Yellows 10-46 😁

Saw Lee with Saucerful of Secrets a few weeks ago at Sheffield City Hall, they were incredible. Worth going to see.

I have the 70th anniversary Fender Esquire, one reason why I bought it is Syd, might need to invest in that pedal, damn GAS.. I saw Saucerful of Secrets couple of weeks ago, amazing show! Great video, thank you!

live in Pompeii is crazy!! the best love it so much

Saw Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets in 2018. They sounded GOOD !!!

I wondered if any of the band would pop into Andertons when they passed through Guildford, so pleased to see this interview. I was at the G-Live gig and thought Lee or Pete might be in the audience, but didn't see them. Lee H comes across as a great guy, and the story of how the band came together was very interesting to hear.

I'm fascinated with that Orange amp in the background.

Cool! Glad I stumbled on this... congratulations Lee, saucerful is fantastic! You guys breathe new life into that early Floyd. You're playing is superb and you guys have totally nailed Sid's sound! I was sure that had to be Nick's idea. Mind blown. Thank you... please come to Atlanta georgia!

Very cool pedal and guitar!

Really glad to here Syd was still with it in his later years.

I saw them in Liverpool. Brilliant!!

What a great guitar player, Lee Harris. I saw him playing early parts of Pink Floyd tracks at the KKL of Lucern: amazing ! Thanks for the thrill 😉🎸

I got to see a show in Chicago from the first tour, and I’ll be there for the rescheduled show this October👍 Fantastic stuff!!!

18:33 - i’m surprised there isn’t a KEMPER profile of a Selmer T&B somewhere out there…?🤷‍♂️

Having seen Saucerful of Secrets recently in Plymouth, I was blown away by the musicianship and how some of the sounds are created. It was an amazing. I struggled to access some of the early albums but live it all came together to me.

Syd's era is top floyd in my book! the piper at the gates of dawn is easy top 3 floyd album.

Andertons does some fantastic videos, this is one of them. 👏 ✌️

There are a lot of opinions on this one. The Captain meets series is not where you go for the playing, people, it's about talking to interesting artists! Also, I think it's fair and sensible that The Captain tells it like he feels it. He does not connect with the early Floyd, that's ok. I for one felt this was an interesting conversation. Lee had some interesting stories to contribute, we got to learn about some old tech and how it has been revived, and those who did not knew got to learn some tidbits about the legendary Syd. Thanks for sharing!

I enjoyed this vodeo immensly. The early Pink Floyd era has some of their best material, that I grew up with in the 60s. That pedal is simply awesome!

@malcolmhardwick4258

2 жыл бұрын

That pedal..those sounds !

@Spuzzmacher

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I grew up in the 90s and was listening to a lot of the muddy mush that was being made then like everyone else. In ‘94 my mom gave me Piper and the sound of Syds guitar was so visceral it blew my mind. 30 years after that, I’ve got a pedalboard full of gear trying to get shimmering highs and fuzzy lows with a bit of ethereal delay and it dawns on me…. it’s Syd’s sound.

This was very cool to watch and learn some more of the history of Pink Floyd.

Syds music was amazing ,

I've got a Peavey TNT Bass rig which puts out 80 watts of thump if needed, but also use two other separate amps to punch out 25 watts of high tone. Of course tone from 2 separate Blackstar Flys and 1 Blackstar Fly bass amp for tone compressor while the 2 Flys produce my third delay tones. Yes, got bass compression and delay but have all tied via an MXR and seven other pedals, mostly Boss for overall tone. I think it is cool to have a Selmar but instead: if I might say, use it to create your tones at home and use the power brutes for stage or rehearsal. I also have a 100 watt mosfet Marshall racket power amp that drives a 4-12 cab MX version for tighter lows which is and will be my stage and rehearsal rig.

I have this pedal and it is awesome! I’m not a huge Syd Barrett fan so that wasn’t the reason I bought it - but I love the sound of Selmers and it does not disappoint. If you can stretch to £260 I would recommend this pedal without hesitation if you want to have something that nails that old late60s early 70s British rock sound.

Traveling by telephone syd was ahead of his time

Terrific. Thanks, Lee and Lee.

What a great interview, what a great guy, what a great guitar player.

Absolutely can see the greatness in Syds handling of the Binson. I treated myself to a T-Rex Replicator D'Luxe, which is a real tape echo using cassette tape. And even though it has Tap Tempo it never does the same stuff twice. That's the blessing and the curse with these things. It takes skill and practice to handle them in a way that people who have only used BBD and digital delays just would never expect. I fell into that trap as well but I'm happy I did.

My favorite amp is my 65 Amps Marquee, which TMB Channel is based on a Selmer Treble N Bass preamp, with a midrange control added, which is paired to a AC30 style power section. They say that the Selmer preamp is similar to the larger Brown Panel Fenders from the early '60s.

I am Selmer, I am watching and I'm dying for somebody to start remaking those amps. I keep almost buying old Selmer amps on Reverb where the only two things keeping me back are: 1. The price 2. The knowledge that they'd blow the doors out of my mancave. Whoever owns the Selmer amp brand, please bring out an affordable amp at attenuates and I'll be throwing my money at you :D

@dubster82

2 жыл бұрын

I just bought an attenuator to use mine.

@vask8ers1

2 жыл бұрын

@@dubster82 oh can you tell me what attenuater so I can use my selmer treble n bass in my apartment?

@dubster82

2 жыл бұрын

@@vask8ers1 I've got a Rivera Rockcrusher, but there's a massive choice these days

@vask8ers1

2 жыл бұрын

@@dubster82 is there any cheap ones that work well with the selmer treble n bass mk2?

@dubster82

2 жыл бұрын

@@vask8ers1 I'm sure there are. I only have experience with the Rockcrusher and the Motherload Elemental which I also really liked, my friend has a couple he got second hand. Unfortunately it's a fixed load and I only opted for the Rivera because its switchable between 8 & 16 Ohm

What an interesting video about the early days! I saw Pink Floyd at the Docklands Arena in 1989, what a show. This has inspired me to listen to the early albums with which I am not familiar.

@soarornor

2 жыл бұрын

The early albums are the best. Up through Meddle. Saucerful is great. More is excellent. Ummagumma is one of the top albums ever made. You’ve got some really extraordinary discoveries ahead of you.

I've been waiting for a Selmer TnB sim pedal for years now... This is on my shopping list....

Great Video. There is a lot of pre Meddle stuff that is really cool such as Cymbaline and Green Is The Colour along with Ibiza Bar (from More soundtrack) and Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Arnold Layne and much much more.

Syd was the crazy diamond

Watched saucerfull of secrets in Glasgow a few years ago on their first tour. It was fantastic..

I used to get my “Barrett” sound from an overdrive and wah wah pedal played stationary in the higher frequencies,,sounded pretty decent should say

Slide guitar on "Remember a Day"

I'm not the biggest fan of floyd but the musicianship on every record is outstanding.

Selmer treble n bass amps are expensive if you want the mkII version which is what syd used however the later models can be baought for very cheap. I was lucky enough to find a mkII for a really good price with a cab. I saw Nick Masons saurcerful of secrets live and it was incredible.

The esquire replica is sick, I have a cv esquire and it gets me pretty good Syd sounds

@Spuzzmacher

2 жыл бұрын

After 25 years I finally got my dream guitar custom built by G&L. …an esquire to Syds spec. Trying to get my head around it, it’s so bright it’s hard to wrangle.

saw Saucerful of Secrets in Liverpool recently… ACE!!

Saw them at Oxford, effin phenomenal

@thorpyfx2679

2 жыл бұрын

me too, first time i got to hear my pedal design in the hands of Lee Live.

@gazb2069

Жыл бұрын

@@thorpyfx2679 great job mate

All the guitars on “Remember A Day” off of Saucerful are Syd.

Piper at the gates of dawn is an absolute masterpiece

Jimmy Page put the same circular mirrors on his Tele, as he saw on Syd’s. Imitation

Check out David Bowie rendition of Arnold Layne with Dave G and the band at the RA hall, it’s uncanny. My 1st Floyd gig was the perfect moon shot at Earls Court.

Please add links to find these pedals.

Hey all...at 16:14, there's a shot of two pedals on the carpet. In the foreground, bottom right side, there's a pedal or something, by Fender. I couldn't make it out. Anyone know what it is? Just Curious.

there was a Selmer amp I loved to use at Scar Studios in Camden Town

The Blockheads were such a tight band. Wonderful.

Crazy! I’ve actually been looking for this forever! Selmer in a box. Now if we can get some of those early Led Zep sounds. Not the RAH or Lemondrop. Got those.

@dyangordon6151

2 жыл бұрын

I would advise you really you put an lpb boost in front of the RAH to get it right for zepplein stuff..its basically a box of rock circuit mosfet thing thats sort of there ..I make a clone that has a swich which lifts a cap out of the circuit and I find it turns it from ok to really pagey..ive yet to test a univox ud50 in front of it in place of the lpb but the lpb works well because it doesnt colour your guitar going in..I'd say do that instead of buying a whole new pedal ,.the circuit is there it just needed a bit more signal..I'd also recommend the Catalinbread Belle Epoch deluxe...

Syd era is the best in my opinion. Raw and experimental

I'm sure Grimble Grumble is delighted to have a pedal named after his jacket.

oh Captain! I think you need to have another try with the right tunes from the earlier era. I would advise getting the album Relics. Also if you have the means to play vinyl then get the L.p. simply to do the old "gaze at the artwork thing" there are a couple of tunes on there that i always found intriguing even as a 15 year old Ac/DC and GnR fan. "Paintbox" was a favourite. I spent a few years in a band that occasionally strayed into the odd obscure cover version and on a few occasions even played Echoes (the Pompei one) upto the end of the cool bass jam in the middle. That gained a very dubious and unsure reaction from the crowd. We also used to do Astronomy Domini, Fearless, we opened a gig with Breathe at The Night and Day Cafe in Manchester where I shortly after saw The Black Keys! I digress. Syd was a great guitar player and its a lot of fun to play Astronomy and Interstellar Overdrive, give it a go, you may come around to the Madcap way. Just be careful with that axe Eugene 😁

Honestly Syd Barrett's stuff is the only Pink Floyd stuff I love.

Fascinating stuff 👍 Haha I've got one of those MkII TnB50s. It's in my airing cupboard waiting for me to finish recapping it. 🙄

See Emily Play and Arnold Layne are genius songs by Syd.

It's funny the video mentioned the Jimmy Page Tele, and I got to play a Fender Custom Shop Jimmy Page Tele, and soon after that I ended up with a NOS Mexican Fender Classic '60s Telecaster. Both guitars look basically the same, but I actually like the Mexican one better, due to the neck profile. I did through some Fender '64 Reissue Tele pickups in the guitar though. It seems to vary from guitar to guitar whether I prefer USA or Mexican Fenders. I have it form a good source that EVH like the Mexican Fenders better than the USA Fenders, and wanted all of his guitars built in Mexico, in the beginning of the EVH Brand.

I saw Lee playing in the Blockheads: great show with Phil Jupitus on vocals

Dom Joly playing Syd Barrett tunes. Pigs can fly after all.