4 Rare Instrumental Syd Barrett Tracks Last Session (1974)

[Ayan102]

wish he created some more material like boogie 2

[LowRider1500]

this is one of the best things i heard about barret

[themillieblog]

I still love him from 6:36 to 7:20.

[kreaknindjan]

Who is the asian?

[JasonTryp]

@kreaknindjan I think she was photographer Mick Rock's lady or assistant.

[Juanfifarek]

@JasonTryp I will ask Mick myself. I never wondered that or really bothered. It does look like her though as in the madcap Days she wore and Barrett wore alot of make up. so who knows. i will find this out for us Jason.Cheers

[cretsina]

@kreaknindjan Iggy the Eskimo

[Juanfifarek]

@kreaknindjan The asian is actually an eskimo girl Barrett was dating. I know Mick Rock and he told me the whole story. She was just there for the photo session and was always walking around naked, bleeding all over flat because she had no period pads.Her name is Iggy, she is also on the Madcap album photos. Any other questions?

[JasonTryp]

@Juanfifarek I don't think it's Iggy the Eskimo. The photo session with the Asian girl above was taken about 2 years after the photo session of the Madcap laughs album. Syd had broken up with Iggy and I'm sure from pics that Iggy had different facial features than the Asian girl above. So...sorry, I don't think it's Iggy.

[NirvanaWarhols]

@JasonTryp It is Iggy The Half-Eskimo. The picture is from a photo session taken in 1969 for the Madcap Laughs!

[TheKevtrevable]

@Juanfifarek she isn't eskimo, she's english east indian

[MagiKpeople]

Where...where did you get these!?

[countvonjustin]

@MagiKpeople they've been circulating in roio/bootleg circles for a few years now. there are quite a few tracks like this, but mainly even less structured "jams"

[Badday1normal]

Some parts dont remember the Barrett guitar style... very strange 2:15 to 2:40

[humiranmaridzom]

vivat BINSON

[Herd51]

anyone have an idea for the tabs of boogie #1?

[TORTUGADEAGUADULCE]

EL GRAN POETA SYD EN 1:43

[TORTUGADEAGUADULCE]

EL GRAN POETA SYD EN 4:43

[TORTUGADEAGUADULCE]

SSS QUE CHINGONES SE VEN LOS OJOS DE BARRETT EN EL MINUTO 4:02

SON COMO AGUJEROS NEGROS EN EL CIELO

[juniorssc1]

5:52 and that photo ??? is that guy syd barrett?

[JasonTryp]

@juniorssc1 Yeah, it's supposed to be a street photo that someone took of him when he was playing with his short lived group STARS in Cambridge in 1972. He had grown a beard. The photo is fuzzy but it's supposed to be him.

[DoctorPencilK]

4:14 - 4:20 I love that particular moment

[dannyhood66]

Sounds like one foot is stuck in the 60s still at best..And i highly respect this man..Don't know if the right people were around him in 74..Maybe he's just jamming warming up? That one riff oh GOD!..!aH

[dannyhood66]

Sounds like one foot is stuck in the 60s still at best..And i highly respect this man..Don't know if the right people were around him in 74..Maybe he's just jamming warming up?

[thedarkglobe]

Thank you!

[amtlpaul]

I don't believe that everything Syd did was genius. Basically, this shows that he had no songs and was playing blues riffs. Not unpleasant to listen to though it becomes a bit tediously repetitive. Tantalizingly, a couple of the tracks start off with interesting musical ideas that then trail off back into rather conventional blues progressions.

[thatsthewayitgoes09]

@amtlpaul Has it occured to some that Syd SOMETIMES wanted to have fun and not be 'the genius from Floyd'. Blues was where his heart laid and you can tell from the relaxed inventiness of the music.

Just a chill out session.

[amtlpaul]

@thatsthewayitgoes09

Well yes, I don't think he took it all that seriously. He didn't have anything prepared, it seems. So yes, he just played whatever came to mind, which was mostly blues. It's just not something I would listen to more than once, because aside from some promising wah-wah touches here and there I find it really basic and repetitive. I think by that time he wasn't really interested in being 'Syd the genius' at all, he wanted to move on, and who can blame him?

[klockwerk1]

I don't understand the whole Syd Barrett mystique. It's all so dreadfully normal. The only thing Syd ever pioneered was how to blow your mind literally.

[80sOGRE]

@klockwerk1 alot of fans have made more out of him than is fact. the floyd singles and piper are very special thou. he clearly had a unique and highly valueble expression to contribute but it got cut short. the solo stuff has glimmers and the odd interesting song among a pile of forgetable efforts. I think the mystique can be sumed up as " what if ?" what if he hadn't of lost the plot and continued to grow in musicianship? what wonderful stuff he would have produced.

[amtlpaul]

@80sOGRE - Well, he has been overrated by some, but I don't agree that he lost the plot right after 'Piper'. I think his solo albums actually have some of his best songs, although by "Barrett" the well was already drying up. The problem is that many of the performances sound sloppy because his singing and playing were erratic.

[80sOGRE]

@amtlpaul I hope i didn't give you the wrong impression. in my journey of discovering music ( im 38 now ) several individuals took command of my attention and Syd was one of them. I love Syd. if i ever get a chance to make a musical impression on my unborn children when they come to that age, I will play Barrett and Floyd and hopefully they will make the similar connection. I was 23 and stoned the first time i heard Syd's Floyd. Syd will always occupy a special place in my musical heart.

[skovie23232]

Syd will always be the best face of his genre of music, of all time

Syd forever

[triptoheaveandho]

i could listen to this stuff forever. love ya  Syd...

[triptoheaveandho]

yep still sounds like syd... blkess his pointed little head

[AB89C]

around 3;40 it sounds a little like Hendrix's "belly buttom window" with the rocking wah pedal.

Thanks for posting!! cool stuff

[DaveS12382]

very interesting stuff. Syd still had chops and is playing some basic blues stuff with some of his own trademark echo/slide guitar stylings. Far cry from the stories of showing up at the studio with a guitar with no strings or just layering guitar part over guitar till it sounded a chaotic mess. Sounds like he was actually making an effort to do something here but wasn't really all that prepared and perhaps had regressed a bit or was out of practice. KeltyKs comment sums it up well.

[Nic01224]

I know this is classed as a myth and I know I might get shouted at for this but I'm sure you can here Barrett on Astronime Domine on Ummagumma. Like faint at the beggining unless its just Gilmour micking, then after a few minutes they start again into the verse. Anyone else here it?

[DoctorPencilK]

Are these real Syd songs?

[Stig1138]

Yeah, they're real songs that Syd played. He went back into the studio in 1974, and recorded a few instrumental tracks with overdubs, but never really got anywhere with them. There's a few more of the recordings lurking around on YouTube.

[cacacaz]

@DoctorPencilK

yeah you can find em on "you got it now"

[animalmother4]

this sounds like the first tune is in a different key, anyone know the tuning?

[cboria148]

sounds like bo diddley was the major influence

I believe that he even was quoted saying bo was

[sydmarissa]

Thank you very much for this upload. I have never heard this and im suprised becuase i've been obsessed with syd and thought i had completely downloaded all of his work.

thanks :D

[keltyk]

Basic blues with effects pedals and analog echo machine. Jamming and doodling- Warming up but not qute getting it together- Maybe thrown out of studio by impatient bosses. Also hear Ashra Tempel 'schwingungen' l.p. -1970: floaty guitarist Manuel Gottsching takes this type of sound to different level. Other krautrock bands compare too- though not bluesy-more unique. Early work by Faust is freaky on a par with where Barratt was going with this stuff

[JasonTryp]

Great analysis. I always thought if Syd would have hooked up with some German rock musicians they would have been more sympathetic to his guitar experiments and erratic execution. I guess in 1974 the guys in the studio were expecting, what? another "Arnold Layne" I don't think so.

[keltyk]

Thanks Jason. His influence on Krautrock via Floyd was big. Arguably what he does here was old news by then- But Kraut chaned direction of mainstream- e.g. Disco- (Donna Summer's 'I feel love' is disco-fied Tangerine Dream, but key moment in pop). Early Kraftwerk and Can owe much to Syd's Floyd- When hip-hop adopts Kraftwerk sound (Afrika Bambataa) history is made- Good on you Syd!

[fujivoo]

lot's of "insane" musicians, artists can still do their thing such as Thelonius Monk, Vincent Van Gogh, Skip Spence, etc....just because they have mental issues doesn't mean they lose their capacity to do what they used to do before they went off...unless they have severe debilitating mental problems

[countvonjustin]

he's surprisingly good on the 6 string for being "insane".  bullshit.

[susieQ117]

Liked the last instrumental best of all.

[pigfuck9000]

This is worlds different than anything alse I've heard by him. Boggie #2 sounds kind of like 70's metal. What Syd needed was some other musicians who were as out there as he was to play with.

[cheeezdooodle]

Never heard this before- very nice layered psychedelic sound.

What is this off of?

thanks :)

[fujivoo]

i don't agree, "Ummagumma" is one of my five fav Floyd albums...for whatever reason, Syd was just noodling around

don't get me wrong, i love Syd...but he's just noodling here...

[dannyhood66]

Thank you, exactly..

[fujivoo]

glad you agree.....just listened to "UmmaGumma the other day..one of the first Floyd albums i purchased ages ago..

[stalkek]

@fujivoo But Ummagumma to me much of it is little other than noodlings, & what's worse noodlings with very little charm. Granchester Meadows & Several Species of .. . r very god but I've v little time for much else there

[EndlessNot1]

@stalkek i guess the noodle is in the ears of the beholder

[stalkek]

@EndlessNot1 Fair nuff, music's there to be enjoyed after all. Might give Ummagumma nother listen to give those noodles another go.

[EndlessNot1]

@stalkek i like rice noodles also!!

[stalkek]

WHen you compare some of these admittedly little more than doodlings to stuff that made the Floyd Ummagumma album...Syd's stuff here much more promising.

[BeRkStAh]

spoken word would be a waste. He was a genius the likes of which we'll probably never see again. What Michael Jackson was to dance Syd Barrett was to lyrics. (and guitar).

[visicapiscus]

i think there r millions of unheard "wastes" such as syd sitting around in their unheard of living rooms creating music just like this and just as genius. they r no more or less rare and underappreciated. we need to say a prayer for them and seek them out, WHERE R U? right fucking here!!!

[BeRkStAh]

not so much a comment but has anyone ever heard double o bo or flutter by butterfly? i've heard pretty much everything else including in the beechwoods but ive never even heard an inkling about those two songs. And it sucks hard.

[ghackett91]

The second track is hella groovy!

[InternetToughGuyXL]

Why couldn't they have just leave hin do his thing, whatever this is and just release it? They got him in the studio but then complained the music was nonsense. Thus the last nail was put in Syd's sense of failure.

For instance, there could've been an album of spoken word with this as background.

[elaterium]

"his friendship with mick rock was strong enough for barrett to sign 500 copies of rock's book,released in the late 90's/early 00's,of all his barrett pictures.

Not quite, he signed his last name only on cardboard inserts which were then included with the deluxe version of Psychedelic Renegades, he didn't actually sign the books.

[kiss904]

jason can you send me these tunes? i really would like them... so much better than the ones off opal.

[kavuthedark2005]

4:43 whos that?

[JasonTryp]

He is Mick Rock who did the last inverview withthe (rock-era) Barrett in 1971 and some of the photos above are from that interview. He remained friendly with Barrett.

[07504201963]

his friendship with mick rock was strong enough for barrett to sign 500 copies of rock's book,released in the late 90's/early 00's,of all his barrett pictures. probably the nearest he came to acknowledging his legacy in the last 30 or so years,at least commercially.

[DragonTheArtist]

Anyone know where I can get this as mp3?

Thanx

[iowafilmdude22]

This is great! thanks for showing me this

[DragonTheArtist]

This is the smoking gun that proves Syd is a master guitarist, right up there with, Townshend, Hendrix, May, Frampton, etc. To hell with all those latter Floyd fanboy assholes who bend over backwards attempting to discredit Syd. Hell hath no fury, like an artist scorned.......;-)

[skovie23232]

@DragonTheArtist  I agree, I dont get how some floyd fans look down upon syd, if they were true fans, they would understand that all of Pink Floyd music is amazing, can you dig?

[snookiebarrett]

Is it just me or does this sound like the Jimmy Page solo on "Dazed And Confused" plus a bit of Brian May on "Brighton Rock" (Queen Live Killers LP) ??? Or am I just a little horse??? Oh really.

[christophersidwell]

Considering that he was obviously in such a state and very much left to his own devices I don't think that this is too bad at all and there are a few really interesting bits. Where were his friends when he needed them ? I'd love to hear the bits of the session that I've yet to hear - can anyone help?

[myshkin]

Actually, particularly some of the stuff after the second minute sounds really promising- and pretty upbeat. The tyranny of supposedly having to come up with 'songs' and such definite structures might have put him off seeing the recordings thru. A slightly later time, and he could have recorded like modern electronica artists & probably produced excellent stuff. Specially since this coincides with the infamous Floyd WYWH encounter, I'm surprised by how interesting this really is.

[JasonTryp]

Good assessment. This was almost a year before the WYWH encounter. He was still slim. I guess after he got really depressed and started drinking and eating a lot and put on an enormous amount of weight in a short period of time.

[ScarBarrett]

Never heard this before, excellentttttttttt!

[LordSatanOBoogie]

Syd Barrett is God

[JasonTryp]

Syd Barrett was a man with flaws. God? Hardly. Just look at his life after his mid-20's. Anyway, he wrote good lyrics and was a psychedelic star but all too briefly.

[maisquisuije]

yes it' s a god of music

[meskalitoLen]

thanks,...Barrett

[onthelongveiw]

any way to download this?

[sydbarrett224]

nice thanks

[mrmtfuji]

thanks for sharing this....not heard before...excellent!

[JasonTryp]

Your very welcome!

[psychedelictrouser66]

where can i find this recording or any rare barrett?

[JasonTryp]

I found this by going to google, clicking on images and entering SYD BARRETT 1974. One of the images is of a rare CD entitled YOU GOT IT NOW! That's where this is off of.

[fullhey]

this is the best

[merch1892]

some guitar player the syd fella

[cnytgvn]

august 14 1974

thanks

[JasonTryp]

Thanks for the info. What else do you know? Just curious...

[christophersidwell]

The first 4 minutes or so I'd not heard before - more please!

[kev382869]

Fascinating stuff. Where did you get this audio from?

[colamoonpig]

Excellent !

5/5

Hans :o)

[JasonTryp]

Thank you!