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RIP Syd Barrett
annabelle:
:) When Syd joined The Tea Set, he replaced a guy called Chris Dennis, I think it was about 1964. After a while gigging under this name, Syd invented the name "The Pink Floyd Sound", eventually becoming Pink Floyd. Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright were in this original line up. Syd spent approx three years with the band writing some of the best known early Floyd songs and if he hadn't done so much acid, who knows? Or perhaps the drugs enhanced his creativity but eventually pushed him over the edge? Anyway, he was Floyd's main man in the beginning and I am sure an inspiration for some of the later songs.
Dirty Gertie:
One of my personal favourites.....
Effervescing Elephant
An effervescing elephant
with tiny eyes, and great big trunk
once whispered to the tiny ear
the ear of one inferior
that by next june he'd die, oh yeah!
because the tiger would roam
and the little one said oh my goodness I must stay at home
and everytime I hear a growl
I'll know the tiger's on the prowl
but I'll be really safe you know
The elephant he told me so
And everyone was nervvy, oh yeah!
and the message was spread
to zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus
who wallowed in the mud and chewed
his spicy hippoplanckton food
and tended to ignore the word
prefering to survey a herd
of stupid water bison, oh yeah!
and the jungle took fright
and ran around for all the day and the night
but all in vain because you see
the tiger came and said "Who me?
You know I wouldn't hurt not one of you
I much prefer something to chew and
you're all too scant, oh yeah!"
He ate the elephant...
RIP Syd
tenpolequint:
Next you will be telling me you also like early Tyransaurous Rex in the Marc Bolan Steve Peregrin Took era.
spy:
ive got a mouse and he hasnt got a house. I dont know why they call him ...
RIP
tenpolequint:
There are so many great lyrics I think I need to put my Barret albums on my harddrive.
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