We had one half-hour-long tape, which we'd play for the half an hour the audience was coming in just before we started our show, and things like that. Yes, we did all sorts of strange things, you know, for live concerts as well, we used to make up tapes for the audience to come in by. As well as visuals, Pink Floyd set standards in sound quality with innovative use of sound effects and panning quadrophonic speaker systems.īesides the music, an elaborate part to any Pink Floyd live show is the special effects. Pink Floyd were considered pioneers in the live music experience for combining intense visual experiences with music to create a show in which the performers themselves were almost secondary. Pink Floyd's reunion, performing at Live 8 in London, July 2005