Syd Barrett: "She Took A Long Cold Look At Me" Take 4

[TORTUGADEAGUADULCE]

SYD BARRETT!!! INCREIBLE GENIO!"

[ELASESINO2OO8]

The crazy genius I Miss You Syd Barrett

[normanite]

Perhaps his most soulful singing...and not even put on the original album.

The last line at 1:58 is so amazingly beautiful:

"and looking up high into the sky, I breath as the water streams over me..."

[Nic01224]

The 3rd false sounded great, Syd Barrett why oh why did Madcap Laughs get released the way it did? Its been well documented that from Waters, I suspect not so much Gilmour, the final release was "revenge" bearing in mind they had some very very good takes, still sat in vaults somewhere.

[MissJensk1]

@Nic01224 A lot of people seem to think Gilmour was the producer of this album, but in fact my brother Malcolm Jones was the original producer , Gilmour was only brought in later to finish it. It was thanks to Malcolm that the album was ever recorded at all.

[Nic01224]

@MissJensk1 Yeah I know Gilmour wasn't the origional producer. What I read however was that they ommited a lot of Barrett's better work like Opel in favour of bad mixes like the page turning on She took a long cool look at me. The origional producer is quoted in one of the Barrett biographies as being furious at the finished product, due to Gilmour and Waters.

[MissJensk1]

@Nic01224 You might be interested to read Malcolm's book "The Making Of The Madcap Laughs" which gives a full account, you can download it from the BrainDamage website.

[sigmundfloyder]

Syd's voice in the last part of the song is truly incredible. It has so many qualities and charm and emotion in it. Syd 's the best.

[slimcriss]

He reminds me of Tom Yorke from 1:19 to 1:50. Nice signing

[the5percent]

@slimcriss maybe Tom Yorke reminds of Syd...

[7777srd]

that painting of Syd, where's that available?

[psychonautpsychosis]

"She took a LOOOONG"

Haha. :P

[MadCircle01]

haha the second "looong" cracks me up! syd is awesome.

[DaveS12382]

nice vocal in this. he's in fine form here playing guitar as well. The 3 false starts are endearing.

[myheroSydBarrett]

This is the version I like best :)

[moondancer162]

@myheroSydBarrett

me too!

[66MadcapLaughs]

Very nice!!!!! Syd's AWSOME!!!! I love that man SOOOOO much!!!!! I love the pics that you draw.

[jguttm]

That's really cool! Many thanks for posting this BeechwoodSilasLang.

Long live RKB.