[in-enaction] Pink Floyd: Music for Architectural Students

| we notice Music for Architectural Students
| is back in force over Internet radio stations
| and torrent sites. probably a late homage
| to Syd Barrett -- apparently

M.W.: Tell me about The Floyd--how did they start?

S.B.: Roger Waters is older than I am. He was at the architecture school 
in London. I was studying at Cambridge--I think it was before I had set 
up at Camberwell (art college). I was really moving backwards and 
forwards to London. I was living in Highgate with him, we shared a place 
there, and got a van and spent a lot of our grant on pubs and that sort 
of thing. We were playing Stones numbers. I suppose we were interested 
in playing guitars--I picked up playing guitar quite quickly...I didn't 
play much in Cambridge because I was from the art school, you know. But 
I was soon playing on the professional scene and began to write from there.

M.W.: Your writing has always been concerned purely with songs rather 
than long instrumental pieces like the rest of The Floyd, hasnUt it?

S.B.: Their choice of material was always very much to do with what they 
were thinking as architecture students. Rather unexciting people, I 
would've thought, primarily. I mean, anybody walking into an art school 
like that would've been tricked--maybe they were working their entry 
into an art school. But the choice of material was restricted, I 
suppose, by the fact that both Roger and I wrote different things. We 
wrote our own songs, played our own music. They were older, by about two 
years, I think. I was 18 or 19. I don't know that there was really much 
conflict, except that perhaps the way we started to play wasn't as 
impressive as it was to us, even, wasn't as full of impact as it 
might've been. I mean, it was done very well, rather than considerably 
exciting. One thinks of it all as a dream.