RIP Syd Barrett

[Warrior]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_barrett

All true Pink Floyd fans should know who Syd Barrett was. He died a few days ago at the age of 60.

Im listening to my "Wish You Were Here" Vinyl right now.

Truly a sad day for Pink Floyd Fans.

[Formerlaxdemon]

I caught this on the news and was shocked. At first it just said Pink Floyd founder dead, and I thought they meant David Gilmour, but then I remember that he came on later and eventually replaced Barrett.

Still, it is a shame that all things must pass in time.

[Warrior]

I caught this on the news and was shocked. At first it just said Pink Floyd founder dead, and I thought they meant David Gilmour, but then I remember that he came on later and eventually replaced Barrett.

Still, it is a shame that all things must pass in time.

Yea, Gilmour was brought in a short time before barrett left. It was originally to make Pink Floyd a 5 piece band, But as Syd began to miss more and more practices/shows Gilmour eventually just replaced him.

Interesting note, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was primarily produced my Syd Barrett if any one has this album you can clearly see the contrast of playing style that Barret/early Pink Floyd had to the later Pink Floyd which shared Roger Waters, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour as the main creative members of floyd. (Dark side of the moon/wish you were here)

Another side note. Wish you were here was actually made because the members of Floyd saw Syd Barrett at a recording studio and wrote the album after him. He was involved in Acid even more and was falling apart.

Listen to the song "Shine on you crazy diamond" and think about Syd Barrett getting big into Acid and leaving the band and its actually really sad.

[twin58]

Im listening to my "Wish You Were Here" Vinyl right now.

Not, I assume, the "Wish You Were Here" released by Badfinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_You_Were_Here_%28Badfinger_album%29) in 1974.

I am aware that another group released an album by that same name in the same year.

What surprises me the most about hearing of Syd Barrett's death is learning that he was still alive to begin with. I had been under the impression that he died long ago.

I can't recall which pre-DSOTM albums, if any, I have. I do have an album, Harvest Heritage SHSM 2020, Harvest Heritage 20 Greats (http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=821671), that has a cut by Syd Barrett.

I'll add a link to an image of the album if I can find one.

Pink Floyd U.K. Box Set, Compilation, Sampler and Soundtrack LP Discography (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PFArchives/DUKLPcom.htm#HH)

Scroll down to the category "Albums" and sub-category "C. Samplers;" then click on the link "Harvest Heritage."

[Hooligan]

The whole "The Wall" album was about Syd Barrett's life. Listen to it again, and think of Syd. RIP and long live Pink Floyd! (from one of your biggest fans)

[moondog]

I'm playing "Terrapin" right now. LSD can be very dangerous...

I feel bad for Pink Floyd. When they were making some of their earlier albums at Abbey Road studios, the Beatles were recording their final albums there, and Pink Floyd thought their stuff was so good, then they overheard the stuff the Beatles were putting out, and were frustrated...Floyd's amazing, and there would be no Floyd without Syd.

[KnightsLAXDad]

While written about another, it seems appropriate for Syd as well, "Shine on you crazy diamond"

[RockStar]

While written about another, it seems appropriate for Syd as well, "Shine on you crazy diamond"
The papers kept saying it was written about Syd. I dunno, I'm not a huge Floyd fan and have never dissected any of their lyrics.

[KnightsLAXDad]

The papers kept saying it was written about Syd. I dunno, I'm not a huge Floyd fan and have never dissected any of their lyrics.

I always heard that it was written about the death of Keith Moon.

Edit: I was way off base since Keith Moon died in '78 and the song was written in '75. A little googling seems to indicate that it was a tribute to Syd Barrett after all.

It seems even more appropriate now.

wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_On_You_Crazy_Diamond

[twin58]

Oh, no. The terrific rock musician Arthur Lee (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=arthur+lee&btnG=Search+News) has died.

It's not worth starting a new thread, because there is a connection to Syd Barrett. From the Wikipedia entry for Arthur Lee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lee_%28musician%29):

He has often been compared to Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson. Barrett, early on in the brief pop star phase of his life, freely let it be known that Love was an influence on his band, Pink Floyd.

I'll bet that an overwhelming majority of TLF listers have never even heard of the man, but to show you how influential he was, the Washington Post's appreciation of Arthur Lee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401683.html) was written by Tim Page, whose usual task is reviewing operatic performances and classical music concerts.

Appreciation
The Everlasting 'Forever' Of Arthur Lee

By Tim Page
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 5, 2006; Page C01

Arthur Lee and his off-again-on-again rock group Love made only one great album -- a brooding, opulent and improbable dream called "Forever Changes," released in the fall of 1967. Still, such devotion has this single disc inspired over the decades that the news of Lee's death from leukemia -- on Thursday, in Memphis, at age 61 -- affected his more ardent listeners as a personal loss.

"Forever Changes" is one of those works of art that are not for everybody but are very much for some people, along the same lines as Malcolm Lowry's novel "Under the Volcano" (which generally bores and annoys those it fails to bowl over) or Alain Resnais's "Last Year at Marienbad" (which is regularly chosen as both one of the best and one of the worst films ever made). It was never a "hit" -- there were dozens of records in 1967 that outsold "Forever Changes" many times over. But it never quite went out of print, either, and, year after year, devotees passed on copies to new listeners with evangelical fervor, with the result that its legion of fans is notably multi-generational. And so my 19-year-old son and his musician friends love "Forever Changes" just as much as I did at their age, and for many of the same reasons, few of which have anything to do with nostalgia.

One of Arthur Lee's biggest advocates is Little Steven, of Little Steven's Underground Garage (http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/). Surely he'll have much to say about this on his show, which is usually heard on Sunday evenings.

This is a major loss.

[BCHSlax99]

:banghead: The whole "The Wall" album was about Syd Barrett's life. Listen to it again, and think of Syd. RIP and long live Pink Floyd! (from one of your biggest fans)


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Like sum1 said be4 Wish you were Here was wrote for him. After his mental illness started getting to bad for him to perform after they put out A Saucerful of Secrets. Then they wrote the album which i believe was supposed to only have three songs on it...Two of them became the "Dogs" and "Sheep". They were replaced with Welcome to the Machine and Have a Cigar. Which were about how harsh the music business is and about the bands current condition.

You can find material relating to insanity in almost every work of art after Syd's mental break down...