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Bob Klose left in 1965, at the behest of his father and college tutors, and Barrett took over on lead guitar. According to Mason, this period "… was the beginning of a realisation that songs could be extended with lengthy solos." The band auditioned for the ITV programme Ready Steady Go! (whose producers expressed enough interest to invite them back into the studio audience the following week), and also for another club, and two rock contests. The Pink Floyd Sound later became the resident band at the Countdown Club near Kensington High Street in London, and played three sets of 90 minutes, from late at night until early the following morning. The four-song session became the Tea Set's first demo tape, and included the R&B classic "I'm A King Bee", and three Syd Barret originals, "Butterfly", "Lucy Leave", and "Double O Bo", which-according to Mason-was "Bo Diddley meets the 007 theme." They had managed to secure recording time through Wright's friend at a studio in West Hampstead, who let them use some "down time" for free. Minus Wright-who had taken a break from studying-the band first performed in a recording studio in December 1964. Derived from the given names of two blues musicians that Barrett had in his record collection-Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, Barrett created it on the spur of the moment, when he discovered that another band, also named the Tea Set, were to perform at one of their gigs.ĭennis was posted to Bahrain, thrusting Barrett into the spotlight as frontman. During Dennis' tenure, the Tea Set acquired an alternative name-the Pink Floyd Sound. With the Tea Set lacking the vocals of Noble and Metcalfe, Klose introduced them to Chris Dennis, a technician with the Royal Air Force. Barrett joined the Tea Set in 1964 and moved into Stanhope Gardens alongside Klose and Waters. Waters and Barrett were childhood friends the bassist had often visited Barrett as he played guitar at his mother's house. Syd Barrett, then aged 17, arrived in London in the autumn of 1963, to study at Camberwell College of Art. In a period when everyone was being cool in a very adolescent, self-concious way, Syd was unfashionably outgoing my enduring memory of our first encounter is the fact that he bothered to come up and introduce himself to me. Metcalfe and Noble left the band shortly thereafter in order to form their own band. The band's name was changed several times, from the Megadeaths, to the Architectural Abdabs, to the Tea Set. Mason later moved out of the flat, and accomplished guitar player Bob Klose moved in. They used the front room of the flat for rehearsals. Leonard was a designer of light machines (perforated discs spun by electric motors to cast patterns of lights on the walls), and for a time played keyboard with the band. In September 1963 Mason and Waters moved into the lower flat of Stanhope Gardens, owned by Mike Leonard, a part-time tutor at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Sigma 6 played songs by The Searchers as well as material written by fellow student Ken Chapman, who became their manager and songwriter. Early gigs were for private functions, and the band rehearsed in a tearoom in the basement of Regent Street Polytechnic.
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Wright's girlfriend Juliette Gale was often a guest artist, and Waters initially played rhythm guitar before switching to bass.
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With the addition of Wright the band became a sextet, and took the name Sigma 6. They were joined later by fellow student Richard Wright. The pair first played together in a band formed by Keith Noble and Clive Metcalfe, along with Noble's sister Sheilagh, an occasional singer. Nick Mason and Roger Waters met at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London, where both were studying architecture.