Of course you weren't "overcome with passion" you were lucky enough to have been born with a good brain in your damn head.. Syd wasn't.. he was a genius at 1 thing but horrible at everything else. Poor guy. I sympathize with people who have mental problems from the things I've seen.
I think when they asked these guys to do interviews for this documentary they told them specifically they wanted to hear about how crazy he was so I think they did a lot of emphasizing this idea that he was really out of his mind. I feel so bad for Syd how they've painted his legacy as beyond all hope.
@brainiacgames and there would be no Pink Floyd without Syd. He invented their whole style - Waters & Gilmour just ran with it. Go listen to the Wall or something.
@midnightryder7 I'm guessing the basis of your speculation regarding how much more famous PF would have been if syd remained is not tied to syd's creativity but rather your assumption that fame equals fulfillment for an artist or group of artists. would your experience/enjoyment of their music diminish if they were "considered" a one-hit wonder type band? to me art is about types of expression. not competetive fame seeking/conforming to a business model..ie. sel millions of units n big venues.
what's really sad is that if you compare his early songs to the later ones you can see a dramatical shift of mood. from the upbeat "bike" to "dark globe"... he always sang about what he felt. i wonder if any of his bandmates noticed.
lot of genius are mental ill you know but it is not he was like insane,people who met him said he was lovely person,and he lived normal life,shopping,joking around,talked with people,
I think Syd held up well considering the things he was seeing and the way he understood things. Suicide rate is high for these individuals, but he remained and lived a long life :)
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Okay, why do people call Barrett a 'genius'? His songs are wanky and lame, and Floyd was just music for dumb druggies until he left the band. Then Waters & Gilmour took over creative control and became one of the bigger bands of all time. It's really lame how people call losers with drug addictions 'genius' for banging discordantly on a guitar and rambling.
They never gave up on him. When Syd died he was worth over 12 million pounds. Pink Floyd gave him the money he was due. And Syd was lucid enough later in life to make music but simply chose not to. He painted instead. I read an interview with his sister and she said something along the lines that her brother knew what the world wanted and refused to give it to them. He was done with music a long time ago.
@jaleach123 i think that is real,not the bullshit stories,the men who said that he refused in one morning to take him out of his house to the studio was not his friend,and he used a couple of lies in his speech.stupid people stupid world
@Fozzy757 It has content by EMI that has blocked it in your Country..bastards, come on that must have been the best part cause it went from them jamming around to touring with Syd screwing it up.
@Fozzy757 EMI, haven't they been a thorn in the side since the beginning though? Even the Pistols had a song about how much the label sucked and they're still controlling what we can and can't hear/see! Bastards.
Lets all be clear he didn't have a mental ILLNESS. He was not sick in the sense that he had physical deformations of the brain or in the sense that he had a diagnosed disorder, he went insane. He lost touch with reality.
@oshtwtf I'm not so sure about him being clinically schizophrenic but he definitely showed symptoms of it. He wasn't schizophrenic as a child and young teen but it would make sense. Such as Dark Side of the Moon has themes of Mental Illness. I haven't seen definite proof that he clinically had schizophrenia. One can show symptoms of a mental illness disease, for that matter, without actually having it. What I would say happened was a drug induced state of insanity and isolation
@MythbustersBeatles Many time schizophrenia does not rare it's ugly head in children or young teens....also he could have been carrying it until he reached his early 20's when signs start presenting themselves....also the drugs can help induce the signs. Schizophrenia one illness they know very little about..keep this in mind. ;)
How did they did this to his Friend ? no help , no trying , no noting ? just out of the band a called Gilmour. They should have made the posible and imposible to help and sabe him. I im a big fan RIck , roger and Gilmour. Im having second toughs now...
@pliskinn0089 They did try in a number of ways; financially, covering his spot in the band w/o expelling him, taking him to a psychologist, producing and supporting solo works. Even in later years, Gilmour was still checking in on Syd's royalties getting to him. These steps have been documented in more than one source, for a start look at the Saucerful of Secrets book. At some point, though, it would appear they realized their help was futile and it was time to move on. We all have limits.
i think it's really sad how people refer to syd as having had a "drug-induced breakdown". it wasn't the drugs that made him that way, it was a disease. as a general rule, people who are prone to develop mental illnesses often turn to drugs to alleviate social awkwardness or personal distress and it in no way indicates that the drugs cause the illness. he was going to go "crazy" whether he had dropped acid or not and just because people didn't understand his behavior didnt mean he was nuts either
They didn't give up on him. Just because he's a genius doesn't mean he's not mentally ill, which he was. He received royalties from the band for the rest of his life, and was taken care of. That's a measure of how much they cared about him.
All of this talk is childish. He obviously had a severe breakdown of some kind. He was not "himself." Certainly these people {Roger met him at 9} know him a heck of alot better than amateur message board analysts. He was unable to grasp the context of his life and their situation as a band to a degree where he could be productive. It is impossible to carry on as a band when one of your members stands expressionless on stage or plays nonsensically. He was unreliable too. They didn't "abandon" him
They should have changed they're name since Syd named them,created they're sound,and filled they're wallets.It's like if you had an invention and someone stole your idea and ran with it.I've heard Hendrix and Morrison sound as high as Syd.They never would have had a unique sound or been successful without Syd.They should have at least been man enough to talk to him about split.I;m sure they played all his songs at the gig they didn't pick him up for.
He was touched and then it was over. Everyone thought he was nuts, but he just passed them. He climbed over and quit straddling the fence. Did he go crazy? What's crazy anyway? Abnormal? Hardly.
@caledwards Thanks for mentioning that. I was thinking the same thing. He was way ahead of his time.
He might have been a bit awkward in those times, but I also think he saw the direction in which the music was going and he didn't want his to be exploited in the way music is nowadays. Interestingly enough, when Floyd continued after Syd, they didn't go into commercialization and did things their own way.
So pretty much, Floyd after Syd is inspired by Syd in so many ways.
@eileenmalone no, it is intentionally funny--he knew he was quickly slipping into madness-been there, came back--wasn't (and am not) a Syd genius which is why I made it back.
@intothetopcorrupt ya dude lsd is a drug that will change people forever if it is not used right or delt with in the right manor. It will change your personality complete to only love certain things thats what happened to syd to much lsd his mind could not handle it
@CapsFan315Agreed LSD is some freaky shit, you come out the other side a different person, I've only done it once but it was a heavy dose. If you have the brains to realise what the experience might mean, you could very easily start to doubt reality and drive yourself a bit nutty! Especially if you have done it as much as Syd Barrett!
Barrett truly believed in what he did, he didn't played the saint and didn't wanted to make a profit out of it like many artist were doing at that time. Barrett had a whole other vision on things and because of his behavior they just blamed it all on the acid use. No wonder Syd went back to his family. He lost all trust and faith in friends and in music.
Band Managers............didnt Pink Floyd have a manager? why wasnt he watching Syd? its the managers role, not to babysit, but to at least make sure extreme behaviour doesnt affect the bands progress. and he let Syd get extreme!
@MoveOverCasanova yes many times and so has countless other people you know or admire, it enlightens you and makes you feel great about the world, barrett just took far too much plus he already had mental problems before he ever dropped any acid, now here's the real question have you ever done it cuz your talkin out your ass dude
but none of that "people i admire" glorifies that like you do in retrospect --- and how do you know wheter you are mentally fit, and when it is "too much"?? fact is, it can blow a mind irreversibly like no other kind of drug,--- and if you ain´t got the "spirit", you won´t find it in drugs anyway!! drugs are just the spice, not the meat!
It would be more effective to actually give examples of how he's insane. Bizarre behavior and general dissociation are feelings that a lot of geniuses feel. I wish they would have just said something or tried to help him. if he had the capacity to write songs and reflect on himself in that way, a bit of guidance could have helped. It looked like they gave up immediately before trying.
Well around the middle they get talking about how the band and managers tried to get him through therapy, talked to him, and by the sounds of it - did everything they could...
When someone loses it, it must be their choice to come back, and it's probably not always possible.
I mean really, we know maybe a couple hours of information on the whole Syd Barrett thing - we don't know entirely what happened, or how it was handled.
no they even helped write his albums. His second release the band prettty much wrote the album and preformed the material syd got to the point where in studio he wouldnt even want to record the songs and the band members had to fight with him for him just to cooperate a little for his* own album.
@intothetopcorrupt: I don't think the band gave up on him. I think they simply accepted at some point that they had lost their friend and band member to mental illness. I have lost a family member to mental illness so I know what I am talking about first hand. I think it's unfair to even suggest the band could have saved him. Diseases attack body parts, the brain being one of the possible targets.
@csladyhawke basically in my mind.. clearly syd could have gone on fronting the floyd, but them being a band interested in commercial success wern't interested in risking their careers on him. but yeah i agree they did loose him to mental illness.
@csladyhawke i think you have to read between the lines a little bit in order to understand what took place. You can say all day long, until you're blue in the face, that they had no choice but to kick Syd out, but that's not entirely true. In the late sixties Syd momentum and direction had shifted, and the band in their own words pretty much say that they did not like the direction he was going. i love the floyd, but let's face facts, kicking out syd was a business decision.
@glitchesandglitter Let me ask u this..as smart as Syd was..and if floyd let him stay..who is to say how much more famous floyd could have gotten..see what I'm trying to say?...i base this of Syds high IQ..what do u think?
@Midnightryder7 who's to say really. syd was certainly a genius. for one if that had happened, i think instrumentally his solo tracks would have been much better. the tracks to me didn't seem as polished as the tracks on piper let's say.
@csladyhawke t could me seems he was insane or so,but no,lot of people who met him said he was normal guy living normal life when he left PF,he wasnt mad,people talked with him etc
@intothetopcorrupt ya dude lsd is a drug that will change people forever if it is not used right or delt with in the right manor. It will change your personality complety to only love certain things thats what happended to syd to much lsd his mind could not handle it
@intothetopcorrupt i'm sure they tried to help but you can't save a person like syd because (i put my money on it) he didn't want to be saved (he probably didn't even think there was something wrong with him) ... and some of the stories the band have told definitely reflect a true psycho not a misunderstood genius also in addition he was taking so much acid they couldn't depend on him he was an unreliable junky so what do you do once you've tried to help someone and have not succeeded??
@intothetopcorrupt for crying out loud, they were children!! teenagers and early 20's during the most turbulent, troublesome, conscious time of the era . . . Don't you see the guilt and shame in the boys voices and eyes in the beginning of part two????
@intothetopcorrupt I believe they did tried to help him. Just because things turned out the way they did it doesn't mean that no one tried to help Syd - it means that they simply couldn't help him anymore. I'm sure it must have been very complicated to cope with Syd at the time of his mental breakdown...
@intothetopcorrupt how about when he visited them in '75 during the recording of "shine on you crazy diamond" he was alot heavier, he cut off all the hair on his body and he was jumping up and down while brushing his teeth
@intothetopcorrupt how about when he visited them in '75 during the recording of "shine on you crazy diamond" he was alot heavier, he cut off all the hair on his body and he was jumping up and down while brushing his teeth. as legend goes
@intothetopcorrupt they did help him. roger waters and david produced his first solo album "the madcap laughs" and david and nick produced his second one "barret" so they did helped him and david his true friend was always there and when he stopped seeing him he made sure he got the money for the early pink floyd work
@intothetopcorrupt sometimes life catches up to you. drugs/ sans drugs. some of those among us lose their way. at that time mental illness was somehow shameful; something to be pushed under the rug.
Sooo sad i know people who had and have the problems sid had... it is sad.. and even with the simplest person they have the deepest and most complicated feelings and no any one can figure them out.. it is really quite interesting and sad
Imagine how frustrating it would have been?? being human and reacting that way to someone who has had a mental breakdown is normal and honest for him to say.
you can obviously tell he ended up this way from constantly taking to much acid
even if he didn't do acid at all throughout the years he did the same sort of thing would of happened...LSD exasperates this stuff with mental problems
this man is obviously a genius locked in the far back of his mind
Syd Barrett was like Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. Brian was the founder and main songwriter for The Beach Boys but went off the deep end and got where he could not go on tour.
That's a really good comparison. Brian Wilson went nuts because he was emotionally unstable. Syd Barrett had organic schizophrenia combined with acid which ruined him. They were both ruined by LSD but for different mental disabilities.
i like how jerry shirley said it seemed like syd was using or faking his craziness. thats something thats always interested me its like he tried to scare people or he found it funny. he was such a genius
psychedelic artists as surrealist artists walked the thin line between sanity and insanity. unfortunately syd blurred the divison between stage and real life, and succumbed to mental disease. however even when he wasn't with pink floyd, his influence was present with them.
I find Syd Barrett very inspirational character. I like painting and drawing very much and Syd himself, his music and his story give me so many ideas - too many to create.
Of course you weren't "overcome with passion" you were lucky enough to have been born with a good brain in your damn head.. Syd wasn't.. he was a genius at 1 thing but horrible at everything else. Poor guy. I sympathize with people who have mental problems from the things I've seen.
moguy200979 2 days ago
Does anyone have the part 2 of this series? (The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story - Part 2/5) If so, please u/l
Thanks
tntring100 4 days ago
I think when they asked these guys to do interviews for this documentary they told them specifically they wanted to hear about how crazy he was so I think they did a lot of emphasizing this idea that he was really out of his mind. I feel so bad for Syd how they've painted his legacy as beyond all hope.
BreezesofConey 6 days ago
@brainiacgames and there would be no Pink Floyd without Syd. He invented their whole style - Waters & Gilmour just ran with it. Go listen to the Wall or something.
heklngjekl 1 week ago
@brainiacgames Ya like Van Gogh, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, William S. Burroughs, Arthur Rimbaud? Man you are an idiot.
heklngjekl 1 week ago
syd's songs remind me of the animation 'lightglobal meltdown'
calabiyou 2 weeks ago
part 2 anyone?
GemLabs2011 1 month ago
@GemLabs2011 yeah really, I can't seem to find one either.
BreezesofConey 6 days ago
if fame n fortune do come my way I wont complain though...at least not til I piss it away on onion rings n absinthe.
shrvomatic1 2 months ago
@midnightryder7 I'm guessing the basis of your speculation regarding how much more famous PF would have been if syd remained is not tied to syd's creativity but rather your assumption that fame equals fulfillment for an artist or group of artists. would your experience/enjoyment of their music diminish if they were "considered" a one-hit wonder type band? to me art is about types of expression. not competetive fame seeking/conforming to a business model..ie. sel millions of units n big venues.
shrvomatic1 2 months ago
they loved it...hahahaahahha
nahkmong 3 months ago
what's really sad is that if you compare his early songs to the later ones you can see a dramatical shift of mood. from the upbeat "bike" to "dark globe"... he always sang about what he felt. i wonder if any of his bandmates noticed.
p1ter 4 months ago
song at 6:04 pleaseee!!
rockst4rFTW 5 months ago
@rockst4rFTW Syd Barrett- Here i go. You can find it on the Madcap laughs album :)
adooradoor4you 4 months ago
lot of genius are mental ill you know but it is not he was like insane,people who met him said he was lovely person,and he lived normal life,shopping,joking around,talked with people,
bibi5027 5 months ago
@bibi5027 I wouldn't have called him a genius at all.
MickeyLove01 5 months ago in playlist Barrett
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well i do!
that your opinion man...
rakefetgal8383 4 months ago
lot of genius are mental ill you know but it is not he was like insane,people who met him said he was lovely person
bibi5027 5 months ago
where is part 2/5??
CrazyBear65 5 months ago 4
I think Syd held up well considering the things he was seeing and the way he understood things. Suicide rate is high for these individuals, but he remained and lived a long life :)
Anthrax717 6 months ago
Isn't there supposed to be a Part 2 to this as well?
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Okay, why do people call Barrett a 'genius'? His songs are wanky and lame, and Floyd was just music for dumb druggies until he left the band. Then Waters & Gilmour took over creative control and became one of the bigger bands of all time. It's really lame how people call losers with drug addictions 'genius' for banging discordantly on a guitar and rambling.
brainiacgames 7 months ago
hamsteradorable i was just goin to say that i lost a few freinds to acid anyone that i knew that abused it ended up fried
dictator54 7 months ago
Syd suffered from a drug induced Psychosis
hamsteradorable 7 months ago
@hamsteradorable Bullshit! Drug Induced Psychosis is short term.
scumgod13 7 months ago in playlist Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett 2
Kind of a pisser that Part 2/5 is "blocked" or something from YouTube.....
195511SM 7 months ago
syd's idea was to employ saxophonists and roger thinks that's weird? ?? has he heard his own album, the dark side of the moon?
glitchesandglitter 8 months ago
It's fuckin annoying to have a bandmate who's all fucked up onstage...I'd have slapped the shit outta syd if I was in their band back then...
SlayingMinion 8 months ago
They never gave up on him. When Syd died he was worth over 12 million pounds. Pink Floyd gave him the money he was due. And Syd was lucid enough later in life to make music but simply chose not to. He painted instead. I read an interview with his sister and she said something along the lines that her brother knew what the world wanted and refused to give it to them. He was done with music a long time ago.
jaleach123 9 months ago 4
@jaleach123 i think that is real,not the bullshit stories,the men who said that he refused in one morning to take him out of his house to the studio was not his friend,and he used a couple of lies in his speech.stupid people stupid world
yynnoopp 8 months ago
were's p.2
Fozzy757 9 months ago
@Fozzy757 It has content by EMI that has blocked it in your Country..bastards, come on that must have been the best part cause it went from them jamming around to touring with Syd screwing it up.
scumgod13 9 months ago in playlist pink floyd story
@scumgod13 UUUGGGHHH! Lame!
Fozzy757 9 months ago
@Fozzy757 EMI, haven't they been a thorn in the side since the beginning though? Even the Pistols had a song about how much the label sucked and they're still controlling what we can and can't hear/see! Bastards.
scumgod13 9 months ago
@scumgod13 The way around it is to get the browser to connect through a foreign based proxy server.
CrankCase08 8 months ago
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Good tip! Tor for instance. Thanks.
goldragons 8 months ago
Lets all be clear he didn't have a mental ILLNESS. He was not sick in the sense that he had physical deformations of the brain or in the sense that he had a diagnosed disorder, he went insane. He lost touch with reality.
MythbustersBeatles 10 months ago
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Uhh, no. He was a paranoid schizophrenic. People are genetically predisposed to have a mental illness. Drugs just inflated his symptoms.
oshtwtf 10 months ago
@oshtwtf I'm not so sure about him being clinically schizophrenic but he definitely showed symptoms of it. He wasn't schizophrenic as a child and young teen but it would make sense. Such as Dark Side of the Moon has themes of Mental Illness. I haven't seen definite proof that he clinically had schizophrenia. One can show symptoms of a mental illness disease, for that matter, without actually having it. What I would say happened was a drug induced state of insanity and isolation
MythbustersBeatles 10 months ago
@MythbustersBeatles Many time schizophrenia does not rare it's ugly head in children or young teens....also he could have been carrying it until he reached his early 20's when signs start presenting themselves....also the drugs can help induce the signs. Schizophrenia one illness they know very little about..keep this in mind. ;)
VedderState 9 months ago
Its as if Syd was a natural tripper, born tuned into the best state of mind. The drugs seemed to bring him out of his natural glory.
JDMacaB 10 months ago
and what song is at 8:45???
sublimepuravidamae 10 months ago
what song is at 5:42
sublimepuravidamae 10 months ago
No wonder the ending of bike gives me nightmares. Itth
HareKrisna555 1 year ago
vegetable man is such a brillant song
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago 3
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MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
Nick looks decidedly uneasy in this interview, especially when describing "not picking Syd up one day"...
godfishgod 1 year ago
How did they did this to his Friend ? no help , no trying , no noting ? just out of the band a called Gilmour. They should have made the posible and imposible to help and sabe him. I im a big fan RIck , roger and Gilmour. Im having second toughs now...
pliskinn0089 1 year ago
@pliskinn0089 They did try in a number of ways; financially, covering his spot in the band w/o expelling him, taking him to a psychologist, producing and supporting solo works. Even in later years, Gilmour was still checking in on Syd's royalties getting to him. These steps have been documented in more than one source, for a start look at the Saucerful of Secrets book. At some point, though, it would appear they realized their help was futile and it was time to move on. We all have limits.
suhail3920 1 year ago 12
I would check the book. thanksn for the advice.
pliskinn0089 1 year ago
i think it's really sad how people refer to syd as having had a "drug-induced breakdown". it wasn't the drugs that made him that way, it was a disease. as a general rule, people who are prone to develop mental illnesses often turn to drugs to alleviate social awkwardness or personal distress and it in no way indicates that the drugs cause the illness. he was going to go "crazy" whether he had dropped acid or not and just because people didn't understand his behavior didnt mean he was nuts either
haproductions01 1 year ago
gilmour onli understud syd's problem..rest all wer jackasses
66402755 1 year ago
@66402755 ummmmmmmmmm no
Jeffodious 1 year ago
They didn't give up on him. Just because he's a genius doesn't mean he's not mentally ill, which he was. He received royalties from the band for the rest of his life, and was taken care of. That's a measure of how much they cared about him.
dougww1ectebow 1 year ago 27
@dougww1ectebow and a measure of their love for him...
BrunoSRO 2 months ago
hahahahah 10:37-10:40
trilobite3339 1 year ago
All of this talk is childish. He obviously had a severe breakdown of some kind. He was not "himself." Certainly these people {Roger met him at 9} know him a heck of alot better than amateur message board analysts. He was unable to grasp the context of his life and their situation as a band to a degree where he could be productive. It is impossible to carry on as a band when one of your members stands expressionless on stage or plays nonsensically. He was unreliable too. They didn't "abandon" him
kentucy9999 1 year ago
Shine on Syd!
teddy1066 1 year ago 2
They should have changed they're name since Syd named them,created they're sound,and filled they're wallets.It's like if you had an invention and someone stole your idea and ran with it.I've heard Hendrix and Morrison sound as high as Syd.They never would have had a unique sound or been successful without Syd.They should have at least been man enough to talk to him about split.I;m sure they played all his songs at the gig they didn't pick him up for.
merlindonavan1 1 year ago
That guy's hair doo at 6:45 deserves a medal like!!
philylennon 1 year ago
what's the song called at 5:30?
robslater90 1 year ago
@robslater90 Here I Go-Syd Barrett
AbbyCadabby92 1 year ago
@AbbyCadabby92 Thank you =D
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robslater90 1 year ago
@snrub92 get him help then!
robslater90 1 year ago
He was touched and then it was over. Everyone thought he was nuts, but he just passed them. He climbed over and quit straddling the fence. Did he go crazy? What's crazy anyway? Abnormal? Hardly.
AtmaRising 1 year ago
does anyone realize that Floyd used a sax player and "girl" singers on Dark Side???
hmmm
caledwards 1 year ago 4
@caledwards Thanks for mentioning that. I was thinking the same thing. He was way ahead of his time.
He might have been a bit awkward in those times, but I also think he saw the direction in which the music was going and he didn't want his to be exploited in the way music is nowadays. Interestingly enough, when Floyd continued after Syd, they didn't go into commercialization and did things their own way.
So pretty much, Floyd after Syd is inspired by Syd in so many ways.
midiman16 1 year ago
Nick Mason's kind of a jackass
jwild611 1 year ago
Nick Mason is a DICK cause ALL he does, is make sarcastic jokes about him!!!!!!
66MadcapLaughs 1 year ago 2
two girl saxophonist is just some wierd idea? if he thought of it probally would have kicked ass
hookwyrm2 1 year ago
were the other band members jealous of Syd?
Scoob505 1 year ago 2
@Scoob505 YES THEY WERE/ARE
66MadcapLaughs 1 year ago
@Scoob505 no he was a drug addict who was loosing the spirit that made him so beautiful in the first place.
bobsdadsbird 1 year ago
@bobsdadsbird Yeah. I hate to say it but I that's a bit of my perception as well. That was well worded guy.
tubeworm00 1 year ago
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are you sure this is syds problem?
DirtRoadWarrior 1 year ago
this is unintentionally funny - "vegetable man"?!?!
eileenmalone 1 year ago
@eileenmalone no, it is intentionally funny--he knew he was quickly slipping into madness-been there, came back--wasn't (and am not) a Syd genius which is why I made it back.
DirtRoadWarrior 1 year ago
I think that the last words of jugband blues song are one of the most deep verses of all syd barret´s repertory
zzzzzzooioriotrt 1 year ago 2
IS IT ME OR DOES IT SEEM LIKE EVERYONE IS MAD except SYD.
patsyd80 1 year ago 3
the one that planted the seed is the only one that didnt proffit with the fruits,thats what generely apens to"GOOD"persons
n1n2n3n4100 1 year ago
It's only dangerous if you are a fucking moron and trip 5 times a month like some people very much did
joinerman418 1 year ago
poor syd
:((
richyc1983 1 year ago
"should I roll with laughter or try to kill him?"
TALOL.
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visionfirst1970 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt ya dude lsd is a drug that will change people forever if it is not used right or delt with in the right manor. It will change your personality complete to only love certain things thats what happened to syd to much lsd his mind could not handle it
CapsFan315 1 year ago
@CapsFan315Agreed LSD is some freaky shit, you come out the other side a different person, I've only done it once but it was a heavy dose. If you have the brains to realise what the experience might mean, you could very easily start to doubt reality and drive yourself a bit nutty! Especially if you have done it as much as Syd Barrett!
philylennon 1 year ago
yeah it was the problem of the others. he just reached an other level.
mojo606 1 year ago
Barrett truly believed in what he did, he didn't played the saint and didn't wanted to make a profit out of it like many artist were doing at that time. Barrett had a whole other vision on things and because of his behavior they just blamed it all on the acid use. No wonder Syd went back to his family. He lost all trust and faith in friends and in music.
scraleteagle70 1 year ago
What's the name of the song at 5:29?
AStopMotionChannel 1 year ago
@AStopMotionChannel It's called Here I Go. It was from Syd's first solo album, The Madcap Laughs.
60sfreak9313 1 year ago
Genius Bonham and Jonesy are next to him in that picture must of been a sick party!
eatingplans 1 year ago
Band Managers............didnt Pink Floyd have a manager? why wasnt he watching Syd? its the managers role, not to babysit, but to at least make sure extreme behaviour doesnt affect the bands progress. and he let Syd get extreme!
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C0NTR4B455 1 year ago
Mandrax = Quaaludes the same shit Freddie Prinze was doing just before he offed himself.
sk9utube 1 year ago
keep replaying from 10:38
fucking funny as!
ZeppelinFloydRoses 1 year ago
I wish there were BOOTLEGS available of SYD and DAVE inthe band, video or audio
harveydents 2 years ago 5
I love this doc but it is so fucking sad
BlueMoon329 2 years ago 2
God bless David Gilmour for really being the steady hand right throughout the Floyds career.
AnthonyP73 2 years ago 2
pure horror -- incredible in what irresponsible way
LSD was used, glorified and not restricted.
it is the very most mindblowing of all drugs,
it is like putting TNT into your mouth and light it!
and those kids must really have taken tons of it, god lord!
MoveOverCasanova 2 years ago
@MoveOverCasanova
That man would have gon crazy without acid
Himmelskost 2 years ago
@Himmelskost
yes, that is true
MoveOverCasanova 2 years ago
It's pretty far out isn't it? Imagine all the kids that eat MDMA today instead heaping heaps of acid. It's a miracle society survived.. :)
TAXavier 2 years ago
@MoveOverCasanova lol your nuts
bojanks15 1 year ago
@bojanks15
you obviously don´t watched this documentary! don´t you know how dangerous it can be? did you ever try it at all??
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova yes many times and so has countless other people you know or admire, it enlightens you and makes you feel great about the world, barrett just took far too much plus he already had mental problems before he ever dropped any acid, now here's the real question have you ever done it cuz your talkin out your ass dude
bojanks15 1 year ago
@bojanks15
but none of that "people i admire" glorifies that like you do in retrospect --- and how do you know wheter you are mentally fit, and when it is "too much"?? fact is, it can blow a mind irreversibly like no other kind of drug,--- and if you ain´t got the "spirit", you won´t find it in drugs anyway!! drugs are just the spice, not the meat!
your statement is very immature to me
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova Think, too, of what LSD did to Peter Green at the height of his career leading Fleetwood Mac . . .
EasyAce 1 year ago
the real sad thing to syds ODing is
how it shows that people in our world can only be socialiced as long as they are willing or able to
play the game. "Everybody loved syd"-everybody says,
and from one minute to another he was alone as a
tree. and also left alone!
it is natural, but it is very sad i find
MoveOverCasanova 2 years ago 3
It would be more effective to actually give examples of how he's insane. Bizarre behavior and general dissociation are feelings that a lot of geniuses feel. I wish they would have just said something or tried to help him. if he had the capacity to write songs and reflect on himself in that way, a bit of guidance could have helped. It looked like they gave up immediately before trying.
intothetopcorrupt 2 years ago 48
@intothetopcorrupt
Well around the middle they get talking about how the band and managers tried to get him through therapy, talked to him, and by the sounds of it - did everything they could...
When someone loses it, it must be their choice to come back, and it's probably not always possible.
I mean really, we know maybe a couple hours of information on the whole Syd Barrett thing - we don't know entirely what happened, or how it was handled.
I do believe Barretts' friends tried to help.
JointKiwi 1 year ago
no they even helped write his albums. His second release the band prettty much wrote the album and preformed the material syd got to the point where in studio he wouldnt even want to record the songs and the band members had to fight with him for him just to cooperate a little for his* own album.
Cedrictheheadric 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt: I don't think the band gave up on him. I think they simply accepted at some point that they had lost their friend and band member to mental illness. I have lost a family member to mental illness so I know what I am talking about first hand. I think it's unfair to even suggest the band could have saved him. Diseases attack body parts, the brain being one of the possible targets.
csladyhawke 1 year ago 30
it is so nice to see someone wrote what i was thinking. they never gave up on thier friend. but they knew at this point he was beyound thier help.
94donnacone 1 year ago
@csladyhawke basically in my mind.. clearly syd could have gone on fronting the floyd, but them being a band interested in commercial success wern't interested in risking their careers on him. but yeah i agree they did loose him to mental illness.
glitchesandglitter 1 year ago
@csladyhawke I'll second that. Nobody knows what it's like to deal with someone lost in their mind unless you've done it first hand.
annikee59 1 year ago
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krstcmjns 10 months ago
@csladyhawke i think you have to read between the lines a little bit in order to understand what took place. You can say all day long, until you're blue in the face, that they had no choice but to kick Syd out, but that's not entirely true. In the late sixties Syd momentum and direction had shifted, and the band in their own words pretty much say that they did not like the direction he was going. i love the floyd, but let's face facts, kicking out syd was a business decision.
glitchesandglitter 9 months ago
@glitchesandglitter Let me ask u this..as smart as Syd was..and if floyd let him stay..who is to say how much more famous floyd could have gotten..see what I'm trying to say?...i base this of Syds high IQ..what do u think?
Midnightryder7 8 months ago
@Midnightryder7 who's to say really. syd was certainly a genius. for one if that had happened, i think instrumentally his solo tracks would have been much better. the tracks to me didn't seem as polished as the tracks on piper let's say.
glitchesandglitter 8 months ago
@csladyhawke t could me seems he was insane or so,but no,lot of people who met him said he was normal guy living normal life when he left PF,he wasnt mad,people talked with him etc
bibi5027 5 months ago
@intothetopcorrupt i wonder if you have ever taken halluciongenigs, or have a genius IQ... let alone your "knowledge" of physchiarity????
boazandjiacinth 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt ya dude lsd is a drug that will change people forever if it is not used right or delt with in the right manor. It will change your personality complety to only love certain things thats what happended to syd to much lsd his mind could not handle it
CapsFan315 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt i'm sure they tried to help but you can't save a person like syd because (i put my money on it) he didn't want to be saved (he probably didn't even think there was something wrong with him) ... and some of the stories the band have told definitely reflect a true psycho not a misunderstood genius also in addition he was taking so much acid they couldn't depend on him he was an unreliable junky so what do you do once you've tried to help someone and have not succeeded??
HolyCraq123456789 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt you're an idiot
DarkShroom 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt for crying out loud, they were children!! teenagers and early 20's during the most turbulent, troublesome, conscious time of the era . . . Don't you see the guilt and shame in the boys voices and eyes in the beginning of part two????
DirtRoadWarrior 1 year ago 3
@intothetopcorrupt I believe they did tried to help him. Just because things turned out the way they did it doesn't mean that no one tried to help Syd - it means that they simply couldn't help him anymore. I'm sure it must have been very complicated to cope with Syd at the time of his mental breakdown...
morrigangoule 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt how about when he visited them in '75 during the recording of "shine on you crazy diamond" he was alot heavier, he cut off all the hair on his body and he was jumping up and down while brushing his teeth
frusciante319 1 year ago
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@intothetopcorrupt how about when he visited them in '75 during the recording of "shine on you crazy diamond" he was alot heavier, he cut off all the hair on his body and he was jumping up and down while brushing his teeth. as legend goes
frusciante319 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt they did help him. roger waters and david produced his first solo album "the madcap laughs" and david and nick produced his second one "barret" so they did helped him and david his true friend was always there and when he stopped seeing him he made sure he got the money for the early pink floyd work
punano4 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt easier said than done.
bbperv 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt sometimes life catches up to you. drugs/ sans drugs. some of those among us lose their way.
pectinmania 1 year ago
@intothetopcorrupt sometimes life catches up to you. drugs/ sans drugs. some of those among us lose their way. at that time mental illness was somehow shameful; something to be pushed under the rug.
pectinmania 1 year ago
whoa bad hair
EMPower08 2 years ago
FHOOP FHOOP FHOOP
GuruzGT 2 years ago
Whats up with Duggie Fields hair... he cant think that was trendy at the time...
cozzee 2 years ago
Sooo sad i know people who had and have the problems sid had... it is sad.. and even with the simplest person they have the deepest and most complicated feelings and no any one can figure them out.. it is really quite interesting and sad
dsfho 2 years ago
Do i make you RANDY baby? Do i? I shagged her! i shagged her rotten!
ummagumma00 2 years ago
Nick Mason just sounds like a dickhead, Syd was meant to be a mate but he wasn't compassionate when he had a mental breakdown? What a cock.
Bucketheadhead 2 years ago
agreed.
twjames18 2 years ago
he is telling you what he was thinking.....not nice, but honest
coreyagraph 2 years ago 2
Imagine how frustrating it would have been?? being human and reacting that way to someone who has had a mental breakdown is normal and honest for him to say.
clayphish 2 years ago
reminds me of john frusciante in his dark years, look up john frusciante interveiw 1994
Gabe872 2 years ago 3
@Gabe872 john frusciante loved syd barrett... he was his idol
TheFlyingsky 2 years ago 2
cognitive dissonance
stevnricke 2 years ago 3
if he would of stayed sane how good would he of been
mrsydbarret 2 years ago 2
are you sure this is syds problem?
killer273657 2 years ago 35
@killer273657:He brought it on himself.
INDLIS 1 year ago
you can obviously tell he ended up this way from constantly taking to much acid
even if he didn't do acid at all throughout the years he did the same sort of thing would of happened...LSD exasperates this stuff with mental problems
this man is obviously a genius locked in the far back of his mind
l235n3p5 2 years ago 7
Being a genius sucks
TAXavier 2 years ago
how'd you work that one out?
skint0n0minted 1 year ago
@skint0n0minted Ever read a book? They're pretty crazy mahn! I don't think anyone that's ever been labeled a genious was happy in life.
TAXavier 1 year ago
no ive never read a book, im deaf, dumb and blind as well, bt im a wiz on the pinball machine
skint0n0minted 1 year ago
@skint0n0minted LMFAO
TAXavier 1 year ago
Syd Barrett was like Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. Brian was the founder and main songwriter for The Beach Boys but went off the deep end and got where he could not go on tour.
dongtingwong 2 years ago
That's a really good comparison. Brian Wilson went nuts because he was emotionally unstable. Syd Barrett had organic schizophrenia combined with acid which ruined him. They were both ruined by LSD but for different mental disabilities.
subsamadhi 2 years ago 2
except Brian Wilson kept on writing and continued to be a major factor in the beach boys studio based sound - Syd had to leave.
JohnDavidHeptinstall 2 years ago
i like how jerry shirley said it seemed like syd was using or faking his craziness. thats something thats always interested me its like he tried to scare people or he found it funny. he was such a genius
ilovemetall94 2 years ago 5
psychedelic artists as surrealist artists walked the thin line between sanity and insanity. unfortunately syd blurred the divison between stage and real life, and succumbed to mental disease. however even when he wasn't with pink floyd, his influence was present with them.
pietrogutta 2 years ago 6
I find Syd Barrett very inspirational character. I like painting and drawing very much and Syd himself, his music and his story give me so many ideas - too many to create.
RIP Syd, you're greatly missed.
Thanks for putting this up in youtube.
Venya9 2 years ago 7
is it just me or at 3:49-3:51 the frames move?
562PinkFloyd 2 years ago 2
yeah there shifting.i hopeLOL
liamsdad33 2 years ago
I noticed that too!
MisterKidEgo 2 years ago