Bob Klose

Bob Klose ( born 1944, in various publications - sometimes wrongly - Bob, Brian and Rado Klose or Close called ) is a British photographer and guitarist. Klose was a founding member and first lead guitarist of the rock band Pink Floyd. Klose left the band early on, even before the first professional recordings took place. He can be heard only on early bootlegs of the song Lucy Leave and I'm a King Bee.

Before the band Pink Floyd was founded in its final form, the school friends, Bob Klose, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, Clive Metcalfe and Keith Noble, and later the wife of Rick Wright Juliette Gale, music played in the style of the then-popular Rhythm and blues. After several occupation and name changes ( " Sigma 6", "The T-Set ", "The Meggadeaths " and "The Abdabs " ) formed from the musicians Klose, Waters, Wright, Mason and the newly added Syd Barrett "Pink Floyd " first, however, still " called The Pink Floyd Sound ".

Since Klose more for jazz and blues interested than for the psychedelic ideas Barrett, he left the band in 1966 and turned to his later career, to photography.

Klose said in a 2001 interview with the BBC about his role in the early Pink Floyd, that his guitar work in the band, especially in interaction with Syd Barrett, brought a " rhythm and blues " sound in the style of The Rolling Stones. Only after his departure, the characteristic psychedelic Pink Floyd sound developed. Klose praised in retrospect, the musicality of the band. In particular, the rhythmic skills Syd Barrett had impressed him very much.

On David Gilmour's solo album On an Iceland (2006), he was (as Rado Klose ) with the first time as a guest musician.