Follow-Ups to Answer from Expert Ed McKenna

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NakedHazel wrote at 2007-10-26 04:15:33
Just to ad a little more...their name changed many times and at one point they had settled on "The Tea Set", and when they found themselves playing a concert with a band of the same name, Barrett came up with the name "The Pink Floyd Sound" (later "The Pink Floyd").

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Maria wrote at 2008-10-16 17:28:34
thanks a lot ed for your answer! i'm hearing the piper at the gates of dawn for my first time,

GOOD START, so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Matt wrote at 2009-01-19 08:27:28
He is absolutely right. I have a cd documentary on Syd Barrett to back him up on that. Also, a biography of John Lennon that I just finished reading (which I recommend to everyone) talks about these two famous blues musicians. Also Pink Floyd went through several other names before finally ending on that name too.

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dilwich wrote at 2011-02-25 20:10:14
Its from the latin Pinkus Floydus which is the name given to something that outlives its usefullness.

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