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guitar during a performance at the Winterland Ballroom, causing the strings to come off, and during a recording for The Pat Boone Show he confounded the director by miming the song perfectly during the rehearsal, and then standing motionless during the take. King quickly curtailed the band's US visit, sending them home on the next flight. Shortly after their return from the US the band supported Jimi Hendrix's tour of England, but Barrett's depression worsened the longer the tour continued, and his absence on one occasion forced the band to book David O'List as his replacement. Barrett's position as frontman was becoming less secure. Wynne Willson left his role as lighting manager and allied himself with the guitarist. Pink Floyd released "Apples and Oranges", but for the rest of the band Barrett's condition had reached a crisis point, and they responded by adding a new member to their line-up. David Gilmour was already acquainted with Barrett, having in the early 1960s studied modern languages at Cambridge Tech, while the latter studied art. The two had performed at lunchtimes together with guitars and harmonicas, and later hitch-hiked and busked their way around the south of France. In 1965, while a member of Joker's Wild, Gilmour had watched The Tea Set, and two years later the band asked him to become the fifth member of Pink Floyd. Barrett had
Classic lineup (1968–1979)
recently suggested adding four new members, in the words of Roger Waters, "… two freaks he'd met somewhere. One of them played the banjo, the other the saxophone … [and] a couple of chick singers". While Barrett reluctantly agreed to Gilmour's induction, Steve O'Rourke (an assistant to Bryan Morrison) gave Gilmour a room at his house, and a salary of £30 per week. Gilmour immediately went out and bought a custom-made yellow Fender Stratocaster, from a music shop in Cambridge (the instrument became one of Gilmour's favourite guitars throughout his career with Pink Floyd), and in January 1968 he was announced as the band's newest member. To the general public he was then the second guitarist, but as Barrett's performances continued to ebb, privately the rest of the band began to see him as a replacement. One of Gilmour's