with McDonald’s and Giles’s departures made official in January 1970.
The original line-up played their last show at the Fillmore West in San Francisco on 14 December 1969
the original line-up’s last show on 14 December 1969
Ummagumma represented a departure from Pink Floyd’s previous work. Released as their first double-LP on EMI’s Harvest label, the first disc contained live performances of the band’s concert staples recorded at the Manchester College of Commerce and Mothers , a club in Birmingham . The second LP contained experimental contributions…
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During this period the band played a series of shows in November 1969 at the Matrix and the Family Dog venues in San Francisco
The debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King , was released in October 1969 on Island Records . Fripp would later describe it as having been “an instant smash” and “New York’s acid album of 1970” (notwithstanding Fripp and Giles’s assertion that the band never used psychedelic drugs).…
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Their first live gig as Genesis followed in September 1969 at a teenager’s birthday.
After Banks and Gabriel decided to follow suit, the four returned to Regent Sound in August 1969 and recorded four more demos with Silver: “Family” (later known as “Dusk”), “White Mountain”, “Going Out to Get You” and “Pacidy”.
Their big breakthrough came on 5 July 1969 by playing as a support act at the Rolling Stones ‘ free concert in Hyde Park, London , before an estimated 500,000 people.
A third single, “Where the Sour Turns to Sweet” / “In Hiding”, was released in June 1969.