Bob Klose - Recent Years

Recent Years

Klose confirmed in John Edginton's BBC documentary The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story that his guitar can be heard on the unreleased early acetate single "Lucy Leave/"I'm a King Bee". In the documentary he also talked about Syd Barrett: "If you had said to a young Syd, ‘Look, this is your bargain in life, you know, you’re going to do this fantastic stuff, but it won’t be forever, it’ll be this short period. There’s the dotted line, are you going to sign for this?’ I suspect, maybe, a lot of people would sign for that, for making their mark."

In 2006, Klose wrote an accompanying essay for a picture book of previously unpublished Rowland Hilder's watercolor paintings, entitled "Rowland Hilder's British Isles".

Klose appeared as a guest performer on David Gilmour's 2006 album On an Island (credited as "Rado Klose" rather than his former professional name "Bob Klose"). The same year, he appeared on Paul "Mudd" Murphy's album Claremont 56, as well as Chico Hamilton's album Juniflip, on which he is also listed as a co-writer for one of the songs ("Kerry's Caravan"). On both of these albums, he is credited as "Bob Klose".

In 2007 he took part in BBC Radio 2's program “Days in the Life”, which was dedicated to Pink Floyd. In the first part of this show he spoke about early days with Barrett.

He also played on Blue River, a 2007 electronic album by Smith & Mudd, a collaboration between Paul "Mudd" Murphy and multi-instrumentalist/producer Benjamin James Smith.