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  • His death will never be forgot!

  • Could it be, that everyone else was crazy and Syd just got too normal?

  • @IluvAmbienttrance That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense...

  • Happy Birthday sweet Prince

  • happy birthday!, happy birthday!, I really love u man!..

  • poor guy

  • I just don't like the idea that he isolated himself from pink floyd, from his long time best friends, and ended up lonely, But then At least we can remember his music

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  • the mind is a fragile and mysterious synchronicity of chemical-electrical-emotional interaction. what brings on mind expansion in one person can bring total disaster in another. Syd probably went too far, and overloaded his psyche and lost himself.

  • Hallucinogens are very special drugs that command respect. They're not necessarily for recreation and some people have underlying psychological problems that are exacerbated or even brought out by a trip. Psilocybin mushrooms and lysergic acid diethylamide have given many people many beautiful experiences but they are not toys! Syd Barrett was talented and had all of the capacity to make this music in him already, regardless of his drug use. Giving drugs the credit for a human's talent is silly.

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  • la cancion mas hermosa que he escuchado y que escuchare siempre, jamas podre oir otra cancion mas hermosa que terrapin ♥.♥

  • I don't get me. I love those that Syd influenced... Nick Drake, Robyn Hitchcock, the rest of the Floyd Crew, etc... but never quite copped to him personally. maybe I need more, I dunno. It's a shame he lost it, stuff of legends, really...

  • it's a shame he went crazy, real talent right here.

  • @NEDM404 he went nuts because of the huge amounts of acid...he took a half gram at one time thats 5,000 hits...it is a shame but, his music still...is brilliant...I could care less if he went nuts...it's the fact that died upsets me...and diabetes at that..man..it's such a shame..Rest in Peace and shine on you crazy Diamond.

  • 10 people can fuck off

  • People that still pin syd & gilmour against each other need to shut the fuck up. Yeah syd made pink floyd, and his presence was still felt in the group's later releases even after he left, but lets not pretend that gilmour's role in the group & contributions wasnt important. Syd and gilmour are two greatly respected guitarist/musicians (as they should be), lets just leave it at that, kay? cool.

  • @dirtynuke you're right but without syd they made the best song in this world and the best album in my opinion . Echoes and The Dark Side Of The Moon.

  • Syd made the Floyd. Without him there would be no Floyd. He set the platform with the Piper album, for not only the rest of the band, but the entire musical world.

  • @dirtynuke Bear in mind that Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band came out at the same time. It's a shame really but Piper is overlooked in favour of Sgt Pepper all the time, and Sgt Pepper was slightly more of a platform setter

  • One of my favorites. I can replay a dozen times at a bunch.

  • So I live near a head shop called terrapin. I'm going there tomorrow just to ask if it's named after this song. It's got to be though, right?

  • @morse3388 no

  • Pretty bad guys, sorry...

  • @artiebarnes

    that's perfectly fine, frankly, i'm pleased the whole fuckin' world did'nt turn on to barrett, unlike his former band. in fact, its a pretty good barometer of where heads are, methinks.

  • Just like how Syd's biography "Crazy Diamond" recollects, Pink Floyd wouldn't have gone anywhere without Syd...and Pink Floyd wouldn't have gone any farther with Syd. Thanks for the contributions you made Roger Keith Barrett and be sure to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond!"

  • thank you syd :)

  • Syd Barrett was to Pink Floyd what Sid Vicious was to The Sex Pistols...... He made them interesting, without them they were just another band. And the impact his dive into the deep end had on them gave them the artistic inspiration they needed to carry on without him: When Syd was there, he used his own crazy visions to write the songs himself and the rest just played them. Watching the craziness first hand as he deteriorated gave them the artistic shock they needed for Dark Side, Diamond, etc.

  • @klapp08 Spot on. I've never liked Pink Floyd post-Syd...it just sounds like 60s elevator music to me. I don't even get the over-the-top love for dark side of the moon. It's not that interesting or creative to my ears. It sounds like sane people trying to write insanity-inspired music. Wheras, Syd's songs sounded like actual insanity and surreality and all that good stuff. Seeing who he became in later life is almost scary...makes you realize how fragile the human mind really is.

  • @avedic exactly, i personally really like the post syd pink floyd, but pink floyd wouldent be anything without syd barret in it. i preferr the syd era because it defines psychedelic, after he left pink floyd just lost the psychedelic feel

  • @klapp08 that is nonsense....david gilmour and roger waters did a great stuff with pink floyd. syd marked one period of pink floyd, but you have to respect all of them, especially roger and david

  • @stickyfinger24 I completely agree man, I wasnt saying the music that Syd wrote was better than Gilmour and Waters, quite the opposite in my opinion--Waters wrote all the real meaningful, groundbreaking stuff, especially in Animals and The Wall, while Syd's was pop-ish and shrouded in psychedelia. My point was, Roger and David aren't near as interesting of a character in real life as Syd, and if Syd wouldn't have went crazy, they'd have never had the chance/inspiration to create what they did

  • beautiful song...thx for posting

  • thx for sharing....in my opium dream....

  • Looking for the tab for this song...

  • I love Syd and I love his music.

    He brings a smile to my face and tears to my eyes. :)

  • I picture My Bloody Valentine doing a cover of this.

  • @typeanoise Smashing Pumpkins did a great live version back in the early 90s...and they were quite inspired by My Bloody Valentine, so that's probably the closest you'll get. :)

  • @avedic

    Thanks for the info! :)

  • Thumbs up if u prefer syd, roger and david TOGETHER!!

  • @nikosstanidis and rick!

  • @nikosstanidis you forgot nick:(

  • @nikosstanidis SYD BROUGHT THE LUNEY ASPECT OF PF AND DAVE BROUGHT THE DRAMA AND SOUNDSCAPES SO ALL IN ALL IT WOULDNT WORK IF SYD AND DAVE WERE IN PF TOGETHER AND THE ALBUMS FROM MEDDEL AND ONWARD PROBABLY WOULDNT HAPPEN. BUT YEA IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THEM ALL TOGETHER

  • @nikosstanidis

    Roger, Syd and David were never together for long. The 5 piece band only lasted a few weeks during early 1968.

  • @nikosstanidis

    What, a few songs on Saucerful of Secrets and a few live gigs? I like all three, especially Syd, then David, then Roger. But all are pro.

  • Without psychedelic drugs in the 60's this music would have never happened!

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  • @dannymagoo8 Whats up your ass man? The reason why Syd and many others went mad was simply because they dropped LSD all day every day lol! Sounds like you need to take a chill pill!!!

  • @fatadam16 lsd makes clear that nothing is real and most people learn something for ever and never need a chill pill and some other people are lost forever. syd barret is musicly showing whats going on on lsd so you can get high without it. thank you very much syd for making me high on music.

  • @fatadam16 but your comment is stating that people should go out and try lsd and itll be great! but it is actually a very dangerous drug that drove many people crazy

  • @dannymagoo8 Where did i say that? I dont even do LSD lol! I said it changed the way people made and played music is all. Your putting words in my mouth man.

  • @fatadam16

    actually no fatadam im afraid your wrong sorry.

    Acid is not what drove syd insane. im sure it didnt help a great deal but it was underlying problems such as schizophrenia, autism e.t.c. and trying to cope with a band which made him retreat into solitude. acid alone wouldnt do that, hasnt done it to me or anyone i know anyway

  • @electricblue451 ok syd barrett is one of my favorite musical artists of all time, I know for a fact that he never had autism or schizophrenia, he took too much LSD and went mentally insane, or atleast partially at the time. Autism and schizophrenia are the disorders associated with him later on in his life in an attempt to explain his mental disorder, his best friends admitted that he was a totally different person overnight, acid overdose

  • @fatadam16 Ya, also without psychedelic drugs syd would still have his mind and 40 years of his life back.. his mind was kinda sacrificed for this music..

  • @VincentDelmino kinda seem's that way, doesn't it? at least he made some dope music

  • Terrapin is a species of turtle. Did you know that?

  • my hair's on end about you... What does that mean?

  • @malaikanini

    I'm guessing goose bumps

  • Syd is beautiful with his stoned eyes....

  • It is intriguing that in the history of Floyd. Various facets, several chapters of an epic that has changed as if the past millennia. FLOYD FOREVER ... SYD is the guy .. IS THE TRUE GENESIS FLOYDIAN...

  • gilmor owns, wtf. when did this i dislike david trend start?

  • @hispaniccheese Most like Gilmour better, but base Syd song always get hardcore fans on em.

  • david gilmor is ok too

  • love and peace man!!!!!!!!:)

  • @treehuggerlass Shut the fuck up you generic, cliche' slinging little piggy!!

  • @goldphishie people like what they want to like and YOU can't do shit about that,so shut up.

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  • @peaceloveandrockism Says the person named "peaceloveandrockism" while defending "treehuggerlass". You guys sound like fucking 14 year-old girls. That movement is fucking dead and you know nothing about it. Try to be fucking original why dont you? You uncultured, illiterate swine. Everything you have to say has all been said before. Im not trying to change your overkilled, burnt-out views, Just point that you stand for nothing but the sad the death of a generation. So fuck you and your arrogence

  • @goldphishie Hipster alert.

  • @FuckingDoug No bro, Im just an angry person

  • @goldphishie No, you're just a hipster.

  • @goldphishie an angry hipster. haha

  • @goldphishie the only reason the movement is dead is pricks like you. what are you a cop? chill out captain buzzkill

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  • @goldphishie "You guys sound like fucking 14 year-old girls." <-culture! actually, culture = educated, polished, and refined.. your opinion is the opposite of culture, lol! here's a clue: you have richard nixon's opinion (originality!) about whatever 'movement' you claim to know is dead when it's easily proven alive in world events. It's an ideal - not a movement - a permanent part of society. peaceful revolutions have happened recently, no thanks to people with your ideals. Boom, Roasted!

  • @jjdttn exactly thank's for standing up.

  • you should not compare gilmour to barrett. gilmour taught syd mostly everything he knew about guitar.

  • Does anybody know the chords for this song? I can't seem to get it right?

  • @PsychedelicPrimate E too G then to E then G then too A then D etc, check on google type " syd barrett terrapin chords "

  • When I was about 14 yrs. I "insisted" on seeing The Pink in concert. My MOTHER "insisted" my FATHER attend/chaperone the event. Understandably, and to his credit, my pop spent most of his time out by the beer kioskes leaving me and my friend to enjoy. However, he did watch the show just out of ear damage range (his words). On the drive home (myself driving my date and dad back while on acid) he pipes up to say "That guitarist was one of the least flamboyant but most skilled artists I have seen"

  • Just always remember one thing, without Syd Barrett Pink Floyd would have never existed!

  • Both these guys are fab Dave and Sydd, isn't Dave Gilmour working with him on his first two albums? Madcaps Laughs and Barrett?

  • @ThePaulbridgeman gilmour played with floyd off and on while syds erratic behaviour was getting worse and his mind was slowly floating away into its own reality, gilmour was long time friends with syd back in cambridge, gilmour taught syd mostly everything, once syd was permanently kicked out of floyd, gilmour jumped in, and then syd started his solo career for about 4 years, and gilmour, waters, klose, aswell as mason helped him produce these albums.

  • @LysergicBliss67 That is so cool I knew about Roger Waters but not the others. I wasn't putting either up or down I just feel they all obviously work happily together and that says all we need to know. Still a shame that Syd missed out on the real big time.

  • just what i was going to say

  • thank you

  • rip syd barrett

    today's 5 years without you crazy diamond

    wish you were here

  • I think its important not to discount the fact that he was just happier painting. Syd was an artist not a musician. His music was art to him. I think he was a sensitive soul and the muso's lifestyle didn't really suit him. People keep talking like he died when he left Floyd.To me he started living and doing things his way instead of what was expected. It could have been worse. If he had stayed in music he might have overdosed or fried his brains completely.

  • barret was a legend no doubt about it

  • I became a Pink Floyd fan like many after the Syd Barret years. This is the first time I ever knowingly heard him solo. Wikipedia has a very interesting article on his controversial behavior. But this song is exceptional in composition, guitar harmony, and voice. His loss is disturbing, but look at what he left.

  • peut-être ma chanson preférée, mais c'est pas sur :))

  • He even plays like he's messed up in the head

  • prophet from a different world

  • lindo...

  • LudiKZ, "...my hairs on end" simply refers to the same sensation as when a person gets goosebumps over something. Animals (including us) hairs stand up when they are excited (think of a dogs' neck hair when they think they hear something). My favorite Syd line is "With eskimo chain, I've tattoed my brains all the way. Won't you miss me, wouldn't you miss me att all?" Eskimo chain is a pattern much like Celtic knot artwork.If that's what's all over your brain, then you've got yourself good shit.

  • what does it mean "my hairs on end about you", or does it even mean something?

  • @LudiKZ ...It's Syd Barrett. It probably doesn't mean ANYTHING.

    Try Acid to see the answer?

  • I think this song is particulary beautiful. Five minutes is too short.

  • Halas not many people can understand I can see ! If Syd hadn't been there, there would never have existed a Pink Floyd ! He was simply "the poet" , lost in the void among galaxies . A true meteor . RIP in peace good friend !

  • Cant stop playin it on and on..!!

  • Wish you were here syd!

  • i think they should play this in kindergarden class

  • :)

  • :)

  • more cats

  • Thumbs up if u prefer syd over david !!

  • @jemikojemiko you arn't gonna get many tags dude. lol syd is good but he couldnt keep his shit together enough. plus without gilmore you wouldnt have many of your pink floyd favorites...

  • @jemikojemiko both are amaizing i cant compare them

  • @jemikojemiko I agree with you, you thumbs up whore:D

  • @jemikojemiko David Gilmour is a fantastic replacement though.

  • @jemikojemiko

    you can only say that in theoretical/ philosophical kind of way.two of them cannot be compared.each one is essential and crucial in the same way.Pink Floyd is like a living organism.Syd is left and David right hand.

  • @jemikojemiko Syd was an Idol!

  • @jemikojemiko with all due respect to david, i did thumb up your comment

  • @jemikojemiko Who don't, man? But, unfortunately, he died, and i think Gilmour is a great substitute.

  • @jemikojemiko who is david?

  • @plot13lesnes He was adopted as guitarist/vocalist when the time began for syd to move on.

  • @bernardbuchanan Thanks for that bernard. As a teenager in the late sixties and taking lots of acid we would spend many happy spacey nights with Pink Floyd as our backing track. Looking and listening back now I realise that all the stuff that really tugs at my heart strings has Syd playing on it. Some of his solo songs are just beautiful and I think you would be hard pressed to find such talent today.

  • @jemikojemiko If you want a guitarist Dave does that. If you want a symbol it's different.

  • @jemikojemiko

    I think Syd had much better song lyrics and better sounding songs, but David was better on guitar

  • @madcaplaugh79 yes. that is completely true.

  • @jemikojemiko Syd was crazy and out of control. He had crazy fucking lyrics (good thing) and helped create the greatest band of all time, but I prefer Gilmour over Sid any day. Gilmour saved Pink Floyd and is one of the best guitarist of all time with an amazing voice and great respect for his music.

  • @jemikojemiko oh please...

  • @jemikojemiko The Problem was just, they had to throw Syd in the garbage can and replace him by someone.

  • MARAVILLOSA ♥♥♥

  • Such a beautiful song... one of the songs that made me fall in love with Syd Barrett. ♥

  • I'd do acid with him any day. Real shame what had to happen. He was incredible.

  • @heymoon27 I totally agree with you. Cheers!

  • sounds like hes picking with a playing card. great!

  • well oh baby my hairs on end about you

  • The star above you, crystal blue.

  • It is haunting. I have been listening to Syd for years and this is the one that sticks the most.

  • the sunlight `s good for us

  • So beautiful, it captures the gentle waves of the ocean flowing to the shore :)

  • l always found this song to be beautiful and haunting

  • @hippychicka and playfully lost

  • Respond to this video... and playfully lost

  • i think you should give me a lot of thumbs up cuz of this pee jim rules!

  • Truly beautiful.

  • @666frankiller sombres obscurite... étoiles noires émettent savois il la lumière.

  • I am SO stoned!

  • this is so fucking awesome ,he is and will be one of the greatest musicians ever

  • I wouldn't see you and I love too, I fly above you yes I do...

    cuz we're the fishes...

    & Things we've never seen will seem familiar...

    rip syd barrett

    rip jerry garcia

  • syd<3

  • ESTA INCREIBLEMENTE HERMOSA LA CANCION, IGUAL QUE SYD! :)

  • @nickendean3 respect.

  • @nickendean3 i think you should look at what you wrote down and see who is retarded

  • Comme quoi , la schizophrénie, ça a aussi du bon. Thank you Mr.Barrett

  • Pour quelqu'un qui soi-disant n'a pas toute sa tête c'est très réussi !

  • the sunlights good for us

  • the sunlights good for us

  • RIP Roger "Syd" Barrett

  • I love pink floyd, but i don't like how they used Syds image, to begin the first album was Syd Barret and the pink floyd, he wrote most if not all of the album, he arrange koncert concepts. Pink Floyd bekame famous and prettty much got rid of syd, The best albums pink floyd made was somehow or overall related to syd, the first one made them famous the next ones without syd were good but nothing happened, '73 Dark side of the moon, '75 wish you were here, '79 the wall. In my Point of view. ROGER!

  • @izkierdizta you're dead on, although atom heart mother is one of my favorites, Roger was the mastermind from darkside through the wall which was the era that brought them from a good band to stardome. The Gilmour followers are going to believe he MADE the band no matter what you say and he was a big part and the most talented performer but you can find other great guitarists/vocalists but if youd taken waters out floyd wouldve never come out with the level of epic albums during that era.

  • @snuau True, the way i see it, is '60 pink floy was syds, '70 to '80 waters/gilmour.

  • @izkierdizta Syds not alone there same thing happened with Peter Green in fleetwood mac...they found mega stardom without peter....The manic street preachers also had Ritchy Edwards but hes missing pressumed dead....theres probabaly many more.....

  • @nidgybaby

    check out the tvtropes article labeled "The Pete Best", the fifth beatle.

  • this goes to my love jon :)

  • david is the best ,he teach play guitar a syd jajj

  • Maybe Syd just ran out of perfection.

  • I love him

  • I started to learn the guitar yesterday... I'm a huge fan of Pink Floyd however I infinitely prefer the David Gilmour era.

    I've practiced for hours since yesterday and this is the first song I've barely managed to pull off.

    Huge respect for Syd. Shine on you crazy diamond!

  • @tteu123 he was a mad master of combining tracks in head. gilmour is great in his own respect. syd's "madness" is spoken so clearly in his final music. and that is why some amongst us see his work as more than 60's ditties. gilmour has trouble pulling this one off, and he's tried.....

  • how insane can someone be who writes such a song?i more and more get the impression that he lsd´d himself away willingly from floyd, but was far from being "gone" -- i mean listen to that, this is calm, warm and truly beautiful!!!

  • @MoveOverCasanova calm madness is the worst off all.