In 1968, after the two bands were booked to play together at the Cheetah Club in Los Angeles, Pink Floyd came to stay with Alice Cooper, the band.
"Our band lived together in Venice Beach, in a small house on Beethoven Street, and we invited Pink Floyd to stay with us, as I think they’d ran out of money for a time," Cooper told this writer in 2020.
The bands had bonded, Cooper recalls, after discovering that they both had the same primitive light show - "a box with lights on the floor, that you could play like a piano, to make the lights flicker" - and the American band were already fans of their English counterparts: "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was already a mainstay of our listening: we totally got it, because it was like us, so weird and left-field."
