Tribute to Syd Barrett

[StronglyFancied]

We all miss him :`¬(

R.I.P Legend....

[lavarocky]

wont you miss me

[MKFaizi]

I have a sixteen year old son-guitarist who thinks it was a masterpiece. I thought it was a sell out. Generation gap. For the life of me -- and I have tried -- I can see no connection to commercialism with art. I am a nurse and I have a big problem with the commercialism of medicine.

[MKFaizi]

I have read everything about Syd Barrett. Yes, he said that he was not what people thought he was. Who is? Not me. I will always be puzzled by his "mental illness." I have never been able to fully discern whether he was "mad" or whether he was a pain in the arse.

[hazeleste]

Lovely. God bless.

[MKFaizi]

It is my hope that he had a good life after rock and roll. I can well understand walking away from the business of anything. I would love to do just that. I only feel somewhat sad when it is said that PF is legend. I think the legend died when Syd got left back. I bought Dark Side of the Moon when it first came out. I thought it was terribly commercial. I can stomach it somewhat better now but I prefer hearing Syd Barrett solo to PF. Strictly commercial. I prefer art.

[busstopratbag]

Though Pink Floyd is very commercial... it is art.

[MKFaizi]

I appreciate your remark. I am not about to argue with you. I can say with some certainty that Syd was in it for art. The others were in it for making it big. I am fifty four years old. I was twenty-one when Dark Side came out. Such a disappointment.

[busstopratbag]

I have a feeling it got to that point. but it never really seemed like that. of course albums like the Final Cut and such had much more emotion.

[MKFaizi]

Seemed like that to me. I did listen to Floyd to the point of Atom Heart Mother. I thought Dark Side was a sell out. I could not get past that. But I can stomach it somewhat now -- unless I compare the crap to Syd. God, all of it it is clangling commercialism.

[MKFaizi]

In a Norman Rockwell sort of way. Rockwell was an astounding represationalist and illustrator and a sentimentalist and I can appreciate his work and effort. But his work lacks soul.

[hazeleste]

I agree, Syd was definitely in it for the art. And for that I admire him deeply. I thought the later Floyd was still doing art, but it was rather censored, perfectionist and just not as raw or vulnerably human as Syd's songs. I still love Floyd though, before and after.

[MKFaizi]

David Gilmour is an excellent guitarist and Roger Waters was somewhat of a visionary but it was always all about Syd. Waters could not have produced as he did without the inspiration of Syd. As an old person, I have appreciation for Floyd but I still consider them to be sell outs. I prefer listening to Syd solo. I think that the four have a lot of guilt about Syd. I think they should. I think Nick Mason acknowledges this more than the others.

[tonyntess]

You know, somewhere I read an article where Syd stated he wasn't what people thought he was anyway. A Rolling Stone interview. There is no question in my mind that Syd still remembered who he was, where he had been, what he had been....even after his break from reality. I look at his photo, a little black and white cut out, every day on my computer before I power forward on my job with the Dept. of Justice. Anyway, the video scores a 10. Syd/Roger would have enjoyed it.

[cassywassy24]

It's Syd Barrett on his first solo album (The madcap Laughs) singing Dark Globe. Fuck! im so sad he's gone forever. people talked of him as if he was dead when he went crazy and now he really is dead. Shine on Syd without any pain or agony and in peace.

[finnmccool]

who is singing here?