{"id":1764,"date":"2009-07-20T15:28:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2009-07-20T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:28:55","slug":"well_it_was_the_sixties_after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/well_it_was_the_sixties_after\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It Was the Sixties After All&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/2009\/07\/lets-go-to-the-moon.html\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>, a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brain-damage.co.uk\/latest\/david-gilmour-on-pink-floyds-moon-landing-jam.html\">tidbit<\/a> that ought to be of interest to some of my Loyal Readers, particularly Cranky Robert:<br \/>\nIt seems that the prog-rock band Pink Floyd performed live instrumental music during the BBC&#8217;s coverage of the Apollo 11 landing, something I&#8217;d never heard before. David Gilmour refers to it as a &#8220;jam session&#8221; in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/jul\/02\/apollo-11-pink-floyd-session\">remembrance<\/a> today in the <i>Guardian<\/i> newspaper. The piece was called &#8220;Moonhead,&#8221; and, if I&#8217;m understanding correctly, they played it during cutaways when the NASA action slowed down. The entire 12-minute piece was played uninterrupted later in the broadcast. You can hear it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i2HHT7txFQ0\">YouTube<\/a>, naturally; according to the notes on the video clip, it&#8217;s never been officially recorded but has turned up on a couple of bootlegs.<\/p>\n<p>Those must&#8217;ve been strange times indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wil Wheaton, a little tidbit that ought to be of interest to some of my Loyal Readers, particularly Cranky Robert: It seems that the prog-rock band Pink Floyd performed live instrumental music during the BBC&#8217;s coverage of the Apollo 11 landing, something I&#8217;d never heard before. David Gilmour refers to it as a &#8220;jam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}