The bands name
Pink Floyd has always stood out as being unique. The lyrics from
Have a Cigar give reference to the probable question they may have often heard early on:
Oh by the way, which ones Pink?
Did you know there actually was a Pink? His name was Pink Anderson, born Pinkney Anderson in Lauren, South Carolina, USA, February 12, 1900 (
read about Pink here). And the name Floyd comes from Floyd Council, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, September 11, 1911 (
read about Floyd here). Both were blues musicians.
Apparently Sid Barrett owned some of their albums and derived the legendary Pink Floyd name from them.
From Wiki:
With the Tea Set lacking the vocals of Noble and Metcalfe, Klose introduced them to Chris Dennis, a technician with the Royal Air Force. During Dennis' tenure, the Tea Set acquired an alternative namethe Pink Floyd Sound. Derived from the given names of two blues musicians that Barrett had in his record collectionPink 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.
Syd Barrett, of English progressive rock band, Pink Floyd, came up with the band's name by juxtaposing the first names of Anderson and North Carolina bluesman, Floyd Council. Barrett noticed the names in the liner notes of a 1962 Blind Boy Fuller album
Ive always found it interesting, living and working here in the Carolinas that the Pink Floyd name actually originated from here. I downloaded a Pink Anderson MP3 album Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues with Baby Tate(1961,1962) (
see here at Amazon), which I surprisingly found very entertaining. The rendition of Hes In The Jail House Now, a classic song that appeared in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? contains lyrics you wont hear elsewhere due to todays fear of political correctness. The music reminds me of several of Pink Floyd bluesy songs,
Seamus comes to mind.
I was also able to obtain some Floyd Council music from Carolina Blues (1937-1947) (
available here). You can hear the samples of both, or purchase them if you like at Amazon.
, all I can say is check my nickname 
through spending time with my uncle and not only them, Zepplin, Black Sabath, Iron Maiden, The Doors, The Beatles, Metallica and many more, but Dogs remained special as one night I woke up on the sound of dogs barking and I thought it was down the street but it was the music and time passed and I grew up and started listening to my own music and one day BOOM!! I came across Dogs and all of the memories came rushing back....I remembered why I'm listening to every band off the above, coz that's what I was raised listening to, and there was this unclear memory of some cartoon movie, or movies!!! which was cleared to be The Wall - Pink Floyd & Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
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