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RIP Syd Barrett
burgerman:
a truely mad genius, im sure will be missed by a lot of peeps out there, left us with some amazing stuff to remember him by,
tenpolequint:
He didnt join pink floyd as he article said, he started Pink Floyd. But his abuse of drugs made him unreliable at turning up to gigs and he went crazier than he already was. As Eeyore stated Shine on you crazy diamond was a tribute song to Syd Barrett. I was a big fan of Syd Barrett , his lyrics are surreal strange. In his solo albums you can tell he is out of it alot. He had a thing about gnomes.
I did here back in the early nineties of his mad antics in cambridge libary, stuffing books in his coat and running out of the libary.
When I was in the sixth forum many winters ago, Bike was a popular song often requested and encord when I used to carry my guitar around.
Jake:
RIP Syd
Wish You Were Here
:cry:
thermidorthelobster:
--- Quote from: "Jake" ---RIP Syd
Wish You Were Here
--- End quote ---
Yeah, unfortunately he'd not really been "here" for about 30 years... Poor guy.
When the Floyd released Echoes a couple of years back, with several Syd songs on it, I strongly suspected it was to give Syd's bank account a bit of a boost from the royalties.
The BBC were all over the place, saying alternately that he'd formed Pink Floyd and that he'd been invited to join it by Roger Waters. At least the songs they played on the radio were from the right albums.
tenpolequint:
--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---
The BBC were all over the place, saying alternately that he'd formed Pink Floyd and that he'd been invited to join it by Roger Waters. At least the songs they played on the radio were from the right albums.
--- End quote ---
The BBC were saying he did not form Pink Floyd
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