Doing some digging around today for more early Floyd memories and memorabilia, I've just stumbled across this advert (for sale on eBay)
It's not the usual reproduction, but rather a very random auction sold on the premise that it might be Pink Floyd related. I can't really see anywhere else to post this?
This is an original 1966 print ad for the Tea Council/Tea Information Service, London, promoting a competiton for bands to enter where you had to write a song titled "Join the tea set" and then re-name your band "The Tea Set" and then presumably become rich and famous (though the rules stated in the ad include the clause that you have to assign the rights over to Keith Prowse Ltd). There is an interesting Pink Floyd tie-in with this: PF were calling themselves "The Tea Set" in the mid 1960s but when they went to perform at a gig one time they found another band already called "The Tea Set" (presumably this band, or a previous iteration of it) and so Syd Barrett changed the name of his band to "Pink Floyd" on the spot!
It measures approximately 14.75" x 10.25" overall, has no tears or stains, comes from a dry, high-altitude, smoke-free environment, and is strictly graded
"Fine".
This vintage ad is not any kind of later reproduction, photocopy or reprint (most ads were published at one time only, and never commercially reproduced).
The story, as you all no doubt know already, is that they turned up for a gig (I can't remember which one, but I think it might be mentioned in Nick Mason's book Inside Out) and there was another band with the same name "The Tea Set" - and this was when Syd is supposed to have come up with the name The Pink Floyd. As an aside, not long after finding this ad on eBay I stumbled across this website (link) which goes into excruciating detail about how Syd didn't come up with the name at all, it was a Mr. Pyle, but I digress...
Is this random advert the birth of the 'other' Tea Set who then went on to force Syd, Waters, Mason and Wright to rethink their band name?
It's not the usual reproduction, but rather a very random auction sold on the premise that it might be Pink Floyd related. I can't really see anywhere else to post this?
This is an original 1966 print ad for the Tea Council/Tea Information Service, London, promoting a competiton for bands to enter where you had to write a song titled "Join the tea set" and then re-name your band "The Tea Set" and then presumably become rich and famous (though the rules stated in the ad include the clause that you have to assign the rights over to Keith Prowse Ltd). There is an interesting Pink Floyd tie-in with this: PF were calling themselves "The Tea Set" in the mid 1960s but when they went to perform at a gig one time they found another band already called "The Tea Set" (presumably this band, or a previous iteration of it) and so Syd Barrett changed the name of his band to "Pink Floyd" on the spot!
It measures approximately 14.75" x 10.25" overall, has no tears or stains, comes from a dry, high-altitude, smoke-free environment, and is strictly graded
"Fine".
This vintage ad is not any kind of later reproduction, photocopy or reprint (most ads were published at one time only, and never commercially reproduced).
The story, as you all no doubt know already, is that they turned up for a gig (I can't remember which one, but I think it might be mentioned in Nick Mason's book Inside Out) and there was another band with the same name "The Tea Set" - and this was when Syd is supposed to have come up with the name The Pink Floyd. As an aside, not long after finding this ad on eBay I stumbled across this website (link) which goes into excruciating detail about how Syd didn't come up with the name at all, it was a Mr. Pyle, but I digress...
Is this random advert the birth of the 'other' Tea Set who then went on to force Syd, Waters, Mason and Wright to rethink their band name?
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