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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...




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




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