i don't think it's very easy to describe how highly intelligent this stranger,this legend, this martyr really was, and the inablitity for everyone else in the band and the people around them could comprehend his feelings and ideas. and i also agree with the people who say that he wasn't mental, he was being who he was meant to be
Even though people might not like Syds music, they might be intrigued to learn about him when they find out how much he influenced so many of Floyds lyrics.
He was gifted with the ability to see past the veil that shrouds the perceptions we experience and draw our truths from. He was not the type of person who could comprehend greed and corruption as a way to promote humanity and was tormented by it to the point that he decided to unwittingly percolate his gray matter with Lysergic until it didn't matter anymore. I'll bet it was a lot of fun.
Quand on est pas capable de comprendre ce qu'il y a derrière son regard (problème d'empathie ?) je ne comprends pas comment on peut interpréter cela comme de l'innocence, de la folie ou de la naîveté !
@atheistkyle1989 I put the question mark to ask whoever watches this video if they like Syd Barrett. And if so to come join the chat room discussing him : )
This is my favourite song... and I'm really in love with Barret. His words have the power of hypnotize me. Especially this song, I would like to have it on my funeral. He was really "neptunian", whatever it means
I love Barrett so much because he realy walked like he was talking. He did not hypocritical about his drug use as many artists did. Barrett had his own vision on things and most people did not understand him back then. Most people painted him as a poor helpless acid addict and declared him insane or shizofrenic. They just blamed all his problems to drug use.
I have to admit, i don't really like the piper at the gates of dawn. I just think that david gave pink floyd the progressive, phychedelic rock they have today.But, i have to respect him.
@darkmachete He took up that name when he was young after an old local Cambridge jazz bassist, whose name was Sid Barrett. Actually, some regulars at the Jazz club where the old bassist played sort of gave him that name after finding out their last names were the same.
This is the most commonly aired theory but the nickname "Syd" was bestowed on him around 1959, when Roger turned up in a flat cap instead of his Scout beret for a field day at Abington Scout site. Some of our more senior and pretentious members thought this was very working-class and promptly nicknamed him "Syd" as this was felt to be a lower-class name
It was soo nice those first two lsd years,then the 'dream'turned sour for so many people (me included),and we all had to selfmedicate to shut those doors a little bit.
He was a beautiful artist ,but let's not over react.
i,ll check it out ty, by the way my 4 yr old daughter likes the syd barrett song "here i go" i showed her a youtube video of it with sum nice pics of syd flashing past and she said "daddy is that you" lolol
And I never knew the moon could be so big. And I never knew the moon could be so blue. And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes, and brought me here instead dressed in red.
my friends call this music pot music and hippy music also and it's really stupid. and annoying..this music really calms me down when i'm stressed. even the crazy ones.
Cuntreek you've aptly named yourself . I certainly agree it fits you perfectly, but then I have to doubt whether you screw anybody else's wife or girlfriend as you claim in your profile. You just don't have much cool factor. But, agreed ... as you say in your profile, I'm sure you're hated. Could you add fartsniffing as another of your favorite pastimes? That will fit you well and may I also suggest self mutilation for you?
One of my favourites of his is 'Bob Dylan Blues' from the 'Wouldn't you miss me?' compilation, where you can here the original inspiration for the chords for 'Wish You Were Here'
Man!!!! Some of these comments are so bloody demented....WTF are people doing looking up Syd Barrett if they don't know about him?
Some brainless nincompoop wants to know why RIP was added to Roger (Syd's real name was ROGER) without knowing anything about Floyd. Get the F**K out of these posts if you don't know or don't want to know anything - Plz do not make idiots out of yourselves....think before you open your shit holes.
You know what's so sad? I can't talk about him and his music and brilliance with anyone I know. Most haven't even heard of him. He's such an inspiration to me and my music and I'm so passionate about him and I have all these thoughts on him that I want to share. But I can't. It's very lonely. I'm also sad that so many people don't give a chance to listen to his beautiful artistic visions. Most people just shun it and move on to what's "in" at the moment. So much beauty ignored.,,
Yeah, I know what you mean. I tried sharing his music with a few people, but always they call it "hippy music," or say he is nuts, or call it ugly even. I really don't see this in his music at all. It's just charm, innocence, humor, wit...whatever.
Some people even have issues with his voice. I think is great. More people should sing using their natural voice.
Yeah that's how people take it too when I try to talk about him or even put one of his songs. To one of them I was playing "Love You" and they asked me who it was and I said it was Syd and the whole thing about pink floyd and him happening what happened to him and they were like: "Oh I can see why he went mad." cause the song was playful and all. I think he was just a child at heart and this is what made him so beautiful and his songs so playful. He brings smiles. Not worries.
@ShizokuDojo Great Observation my friend.People should be themselves forget about peer pressure and try to rearrange their tangled messed up clone type personalities. Just maybe another crazy diamond could be discovered in the ruff.What is wrong with being an individual?
my mum went to ibiza with this guy in the late 60's. she said he was fucked up real bad. she has photos of his all sunburnt and shit. she has some film of him there as well, but he is just sitting their staring into space. i'd never herd of him. seem like a fucken clown to me.
hey man, i couldnt give two knobs of goat shit about this loser. but apparently a few people in cyberland think he is some kind of genius. so fuck you.
i didnt come here for an argument. i was just tellin a story that my mum told me and showed me photos of that i thought people mite find sorta interesting. i cant help it if i think his music is shit. so fuck you. i guess know one really cares.
a lot of people talk about dark side of the moon, animals and wish you were here as being the best floyd records... for me the best are: piper, the wall and division bell.
Does anyone have any recordings of the five man Floyd playing "Set the controls for the heart of the sun"? I heard Syd plays some great guitar on it and there are recordings out there somewhere. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Why categorize people according to diagnoses written up by pseudo-scientists dieing for recognition in a field simply not meant for them? Sure, people have afflictions of the mind, but was Syd one of them? I don't know and neither does anyone else who has not sat down and talked with the man at length.
I relate to Syd though his music which I attribute to his unique person. His work with Floyd as well as his solo ventures have inspired me as a musician and as a human being.
also, he did take drugs, and it's well documented, but that doesn't make him bad either. at the time, drugs were relatively new and people didn't know the risks (hell, they werent even illegal back then)
we still dont completely understand the risks and benefits of drugs (research has only just begun in the past century and some of that research is not reputable). Also it should be noted that you cant tell by looking at somebody whether they have schizophrenia or some other mental illness(i dont know if you meant to imply that or not). Its possible to hide these things (some people go there entire life without anybody including them knowing of the illness until an incident occurs).
everyone seems to be debating whether he had mental illness or not, i say he did, and does it make him bad? does it make him a stupid mindless phsycho? no, he was an intelligent musician and a good guy too (and very handsome). besides you couldn't even tell he had mental illness upon first site of him or hearing his music for the first time.
infact i even heard 1 in 5 people have a mental illness (like depression or OCD to name a few). so it's more common than you think.
this is what Syd said to Mick Rock in an interview: " I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway." so please stop the shit talking about him.
Syd Barrett was never diagnosed as schizophrenic. He had a severe breakdown and could possibly have recovered with support. As any clear thinking Floyd fan knows, he was dumped by Roger Waters who was in Syd's shadow. For all of you who make light of mental illness I hope that you are lucky enough never to experience it first hand.
Great pic of syd at 0:40, you know it is amazing how people can STILL after all theese years do drugs...man look at syd he is a poster boy of what drugs can do. Thankfully I never touched drugs or etoh (and if people drink i dont judge) but man I always say drugs are like eating a piece of your own feces, meaning WHY WOULD YOU WANT THAT SHIT IN YOUR BODY! Maybe im a prude.
Syd was schizophrenic, probably the disorganized or "hebephrenic" type and LSD had nothing to do with his breakdown. Yes doing drugs is bad mmkay but it's time to stop chalking up Syd up as an acid casualty. The world is littered with rock stars who were poster children for "don't let this happen to you" but Syd wasn't one of them.
it's sad that drugs will be forever now linked with the art world. i'm quite fond to of experimental art and hate how drugs have become linked with anything "weird." i like what captain beefheart said, when he was claiming that he could see more interesting images when he closed his eyes than without the use of lsd. we forget how creative and surreal our imagination can be without the aid of drugs.
you are a prude. And stfu if youve never tried drugs. You cannot comment on how it effects anyone. How do you presume it was drugs and drugs alone that tipped Syd over the edge. How about this? If it weren't for LSD none of the great music of the 60s-70s would have been possible. Name someone worthy (besides Zappa) from that era who didn't use drugs to expand their horizons.
Someone mentioned the other day that when she worked in a residential mental health unit (late 70s) one of the staff was learning to play the guitar and going through basic cords. One of the very withdrawn residents picked up the guitar and proceeded to play it brilliantly. He then put it down could never be persuaded to pick it up again. She said his name was Roger but had been Syd when he was in a band called Pink Floyd.
Apparently he was in a poor state, not communicating and dishevelled.
alot of people have very minor synesthesia they just don't realise it's too subtle for them :P i think beethoven or mozart had synesthesia. no lsd around then
This sounds just like what a bad trip feels like lol! If you've never been on that side of the pool you'd never get it. It's very funny and kind of scary at the same time.
Does anyone know that Syd had synesthesia? His sister said that about him, it's the ability to see sounds and hear colors. And he had that BEFORE he took acid.
No, he didn't have schizophrenia or any other known mental illness. He was never diagnosed. His realtives describe him as rather "strange" than "ill".
So you're a shrink now, are you? Just because he wasn't diagnosed doesn't mean he didn't have it. Roger Waters was one of the people who thought he was schizophrenic.
No, I'm not a psychiatrist, but Roger Waters certainly is))
Here's a quote from Syd's sister Rosemary's interview to Sunday Times: "...he neither suffered from mental illness nor received treatment for it".
And: "...he agreed to some sessions with a psychiatrist at Fulbourn psychiatric hospital, Cambridge, but neither medication nor therapy was considered appropriate."
Syd was a genius and I don't think the poor bastard was "crazy" like schizo at all. Just born out of his time. How many people do we know in the 21st century who are just like Syd? Loads. Go into and British town on a Saturday night and you'll find them and the answer: Frustration.
From what I read he tended to get bored with things easily. I don't think he took music THAT seriously. Maybe bi-polar, but not crazy. He was a very young man, who probably just changed his mind about what he wanted to do and who he wanted to be once he faced the pressures of the industry. Lennon was 27 when the Beatles recorded Sgt. Pepper's, and Syd just 21 when the Floyd did Piper. A young one in a fast changing music scene.
If I had even the slightest inkling that the band I had founded would go on to produce 'jobbies' like Dark Side of The Moon, I would have run away pronto monto too!!
Just because he was obviously taking the piss out of his boring bandmates and decided to pack it in to go back to paint: suddenly he is mentally ill??
he was mentally ill, psychosis pretty much, he wasn't fully there at all when the band went to jam, hence the "Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky." from shine on you crazy diamond, syd barrett was lost, inside his mind. LSD - problem child, wonder drug.
is funny for a while,but inevetable it all + pressures of stardom gets too much. It happened to me too, I was lucky enough too handle the opiates & downers,but I too turned my back on society.Thanks to methadone I survived and eventually joined society (more or less),And have the privilege too look back
And 80's was a furtile period for my friend. Too smart, he is. I guess Syd living in obscurity without making music adds to the mystique and is powerfully mysterious. Maybe that's a lack of research on my part. No, it ain't.
My God, I'm glad someone is curious.He's big, musclewise, and in his 50's now. If you're musical and know much about N.S. music you probabally know him. I don't know if he's famous, or obscure, probabally the later. A real character. The press refers to him as Halifax's hidden gem...as well as other things. Can't tell if it's making fun of him or not sometimes,I forgot if I wrote this as a reply.
Are you him? You know I love ya man...Miss the smoke Rolling days. I know you say it's not talent. Impressive nonetheless. If you are, or not, I would love to see some more footage. There was some on You Tube and it was removed. I favorited it all.I just wrote a 500 word post of interesting stories and forgot to post it. UHHHH. The guy just writes amazing songs. Maybe over 7000, maybe more, 10000. So DIY, that it makes original DIY punk look like Brittany Spears.Fuck. This isn't a reply again,
Don't get me wrong I don't mean to paint Syd fans with the stoner brush. I just remember having my vinyl collection raided by hippies and the only records they abused were the Syd ones.
The Seattle thing, Sub-Pop,.... and stoners everywhere. There's alot of them in my country. I wish he would have been able to continue writing songs as therapy,etc. I know a Schizophrenic guy that sounds exactely like Syd (not all the time). It's uncanny. He's written probally two songs a day his whole life. He lives in Nova Scotia.
Reply? Sorry people if ya don't like dis.He's so underground that I can't find any footage. But his bands in the 90's were big in the indie scene. This was his wackey period. There r 2 replies. And sorry this isn't about Syd. But, it kind of is? Arn't musicians that cannot be commodified great. I am happy that my friend made music his whole life. Except 2 lost yrs he says. I wish Syd book on Mod. Art was published. It would have readers I know.
I think he absorbed and assimilated his environment like a sponge in whatever medium necessary and the result was a powerful originality that captured the imagination.......of the commercial world that took away the sponteneity and innocence.
Unable to continue, but making a huge impact, his creative spirit continued in the likes of PF, David Bowie, Marc Bolan. Evident in psychedelic rock, acid house....etc
But apart from the obvious musical references, where/what else has he initiated? If anybody could cite anything in terms of his art or his writings then I would be most grateful :-)
Well, I know for a fact that he was almost finished writing a book on the history of Art that looked at it from a rather unique perspective one normally doesn't see in most stuffy college texts. Sadly his sister Rosemary has refused to have the book published. She removed the manuscript after his death ans so far NONE of use have been able to persuade her to publish it!
A huge influence on the underground, indie, college radio, post-punk, artists that appreciate outsider music, music that has revolutionized music...for better or worse, haha,....bands like REM and all the post-punk stuff loved Syd. That was my generation. I discovered him as a teen in the 80's.
He was the mind of Pink Floyd his style of music rubbed off on every one else. After that the other musicians altered it into something slightly different in the 70s. Syd was a good song writer and he was a good guitarist. His true legacy was creating Pink Floyd. Thats my opinion.
The LSD killed his spirit. Or whatever you want to call the piece of him that left after his breakdown. As far as I'm concerned, the LSD beat the Cancer to it.
he didnt actually came to insanity because of lsd, but because of the mushrooms.
ive learned in my biology class, when you take too much mushroom teas, your cerebral cells work too fast, until they break apart and you lose many of your usual brain functions
Heh this conversation just made me laugh at something I heard this morning? I love my country but geesh sometimes the things that come out of our 'whitehouse' are downright embarrassing.. They are harping again on marijuana being much more potent these days? and the whitehouse feels this makes marijuana addictive and should be labeled as such.
Perhaps these guys need to start smoking because they really are clueless..
yeah, really......I did six 4-way hits of sunshine in 1971, August 23, to be exact, I remember the date because I was suppossed to go see Deep Purple that night and they cancelled. Anyhow, it took me about two weeks to straighten out. For the next three or four YEARS I would start tripping whenever I smoked a fucking joint....it was like being on a non-stop roller coaster
hmm, ok..lsd may have colleteral effects on people with mind problems
so tell me, how can you be sure you don't have a mind problem as well? most of them arent diagnosted, no one is really sure if does or doesnt have one of these problems
if u really wnt to believe he died because of alcohol, fine.
but you should try to see truth. syd took a lot of acid trips, and because of that his neurocells broke apart.. its a biological matter, if you take too much acid this can happen. i love lsd, however, i must say everything must be taken with caution, not like syd did.
Well, I think Syd Barrett was a genius, but he let himself die... It is such a shame that the world lost such an incredible person as him... I wonder what he could've done if he hadn't taken so much LSD...I'm actually talking like I know him, but you don't need to know much about him to know that he was an amazing person.
Syd is amazing.
MikeEder 1 month ago
i don't think it's very easy to describe how highly intelligent this stranger,this legend, this martyr really was, and the inablitity for everyone else in the band and the people around them could comprehend his feelings and ideas. and i also agree with the people who say that he wasn't mental, he was being who he was meant to be
darkrow435 1 month ago
He was such an interesting chap :) I like his music. Also his hair. Also 0:17 ;)
shmadsta 4 months ago
Even though people might not like Syds music, they might be intrigued to learn about him when they find out how much he influenced so many of Floyds lyrics.
123Helsa 8 months ago
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Because its not his real name... thats what I heard nyways... leme kno if thats right r wrong
BeeNiChoitir 9 months ago
@atheistkyle1989
Because its not his real name
BeeNiChoitir 9 months ago
He was gifted with the ability to see past the veil that shrouds the perceptions we experience and draw our truths from. He was not the type of person who could comprehend greed and corruption as a way to promote humanity and was tormented by it to the point that he decided to unwittingly percolate his gray matter with Lysergic until it didn't matter anymore. I'll bet it was a lot of fun.
MrJaybee61 9 months ago
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SuperRockH 10 months ago
Syd Barrett = Best hair in the music business ever!!
FLoYdInPink 11 months ago 2
damn, that guy was good looking
gabriellelouise 11 months ago 2
Quand on est pas capable de comprendre ce qu'il y a derrière son regard (problème d'empathie ?) je ne comprends pas comment on peut interpréter cela comme de l'innocence, de la folie ou de la naîveté !
63virgini 1 year ago
@atheistkyle1989 I put the question mark to ask whoever watches this video if they like Syd Barrett. And if so to come join the chat room discussing him : )
madcap66laughs 1 year ago
i tought syd was still alive??
joseissick12 1 year ago
This is my favourite song... and I'm really in love with Barret. His words have the power of hypnotize me. Especially this song, I would like to have it on my funeral. He was really "neptunian", whatever it means
effraja 1 year ago
I love Barrett so much because he realy walked like he was talking. He did not hypocritical about his drug use as many artists did. Barrett had his own vision on things and most people did not understand him back then. Most people painted him as a poor helpless acid addict and declared him insane or shizofrenic. They just blamed all his problems to drug use.
MrScarleteagle 1 year ago
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There are musicians and there are GENIUS!
Sbavni 1 year ago
I have to admit, i don't really like the piper at the gates of dawn. I just think that david gave pink floyd the progressive, phychedelic rock they have today.But, i have to respect him.
supercj8899 1 year ago
im trapped in syd barretts music
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darkmachete 1 year ago
@darkmachete Syd's real name is Roger Keith Barrett. Syd was his nickname.
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darkmachete 1 year ago
@darkmachete He took up that name when he was young after an old local Cambridge jazz bassist, whose name was Sid Barrett. Actually, some regulars at the Jazz club where the old bassist played sort of gave him that name after finding out their last names were the same.
madcap66laughs 1 year ago
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This is the most commonly aired theory but the nickname "Syd" was bestowed on him around 1959, when Roger turned up in a flat cap instead of his Scout beret for a field day at Abington Scout site. Some of our more senior and pretentious members thought this was very working-class and promptly nicknamed him "Syd" as this was felt to be a lower-class name
seliv2 1 year ago
@darkmachete i really hope your being sarcastic.
blessiththechily 1 year ago
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darkmachete 1 year ago
@darkmachete yes but syd barret's birth name was roger, syd was just a nickname
boogerbear8766 1 year ago
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darkmachete 1 year ago
Watch the new video about Pink Floyd:
[Youtube] /watch?v=umPJZMs_2XE
ritacosgame 1 year ago
Excellent Vocals
Guitarlots 1 year ago
Dont know Pink floyd ?
heyzues333 1 year ago
inner-space man GOD BLESS SYD!
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It was soo nice those first two lsd years,then the 'dream'turned sour for so many people (me included),and we all had to selfmedicate to shut those doors a little bit.
He was a beautiful artist ,but let's not over react.
Stars actualy CAN frighten. ☼
PAULLONDEN 1 year ago
to say the very least, he was both an interesting and attractive man in all aspects.
zodiacflower 2 years ago 4
i love his music just bought the piper at the gates of dawn LP yesterday great album really want to get the madcap laughs though
skovie23232 2 years ago 2
shit you found the lp origonal or a reprint?
vw22bmw 2 years ago
Its an origional. The record is green and on the back of the album cover it says copyright 1967. it was 45$
skovie23232 2 years ago
i,ll check it out ty, by the way my 4 yr old daughter likes the syd barrett song "here i go" i showed her a youtube video of it with sum nice pics of syd flashing past and she said "daddy is that you" lolol
theonefourseven 2 years ago 3
ç_ç Syd...
punk1rock2 2 years ago 4
im so confused wat is this video for? not to be an idiot i just rly have no clue wat is going on with this mnan
pukeonmyshoe2130 2 years ago 2
It's a video to promote a Syd Barrett chat room. The link is in the description : )
madcap66laughs 2 years ago
syd i will see you some day .
LowRider1500 2 years ago 18
whats this song called!!!!
dem1991boy5 2 years ago
Astronomy Domine : )
madcap66laughs 2 years ago
And I never knew the moon could be so big. And I never knew the moon could be so blue. And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes, and brought me here instead dressed in red.
RIP Vegetable Man :(
pathammond 2 years ago 4
my friends call this music pot music and hippy music also and it's really stupid. and annoying..this music really calms me down when i'm stressed. even the crazy ones.
MhmNiice 2 years ago 3
He meant Syd...Roger Keith Barrett was his real name.I love Syd...
olgachefugge 2 years ago 6
Beg my pardon madcap66laughs, but did you mean R.I.P Syd? Unless I missed something Roger is alive
m00nEater 2 years ago
Cuntreek you've aptly named yourself . I certainly agree it fits you perfectly, but then I have to doubt whether you screw anybody else's wife or girlfriend as you claim in your profile. You just don't have much cool factor. But, agreed ... as you say in your profile, I'm sure you're hated. Could you add fartsniffing as another of your favorite pastimes? That will fit you well and may I also suggest self mutilation for you?
jeanjeudi1111 2 years ago
Great comment, couldnot have said it better myself.....lol
DirkjeA 2 years ago
shut up cuntreek!
Nobody asked your opinion!
LordSabbat666 2 years ago
He was a poet, an artist and a visionary. He started the psychedelic scene in England.
He was aware of his iconic status that grew bigger with every passing year.
He also new of his limitations.. hence his need to withdraw from public life.
droogless 2 years ago 5
studio version (at least a snippet of..) "Astronomy Domine" in clip
Long Live Syd
lifetime Floyd fan since '67
GUIDOBRAT 2 years ago
One of my favourites of his is 'Bob Dylan Blues' from the 'Wouldn't you miss me?' compilation, where you can here the original inspiration for the chords for 'Wish You Were Here'
MrLuciferSam 2 years ago
Man!!!! Some of these comments are so bloody demented....WTF are people doing looking up Syd Barrett if they don't know about him?
Some brainless nincompoop wants to know why RIP was added to Roger (Syd's real name was ROGER) without knowing anything about Floyd. Get the F**K out of these posts if you don't know or don't want to know anything - Plz do not make idiots out of yourselves....think before you open your shit holes.
kancha29 2 years ago
You know what's so sad? I can't talk about him and his music and brilliance with anyone I know. Most haven't even heard of him. He's such an inspiration to me and my music and I'm so passionate about him and I have all these thoughts on him that I want to share. But I can't. It's very lonely. I'm also sad that so many people don't give a chance to listen to his beautiful artistic visions. Most people just shun it and move on to what's "in" at the moment. So much beauty ignored.,,
franciscovalmusic 2 years ago 3
Yeah, I know what you mean. I tried sharing his music with a few people, but always they call it "hippy music," or say he is nuts, or call it ugly even. I really don't see this in his music at all. It's just charm, innocence, humor, wit...whatever.
Some people even have issues with his voice. I think is great. More people should sing using their natural voice.
ShizokuDojo 2 years ago 32
Yeah that's how people take it too when I try to talk about him or even put one of his songs. To one of them I was playing "Love You" and they asked me who it was and I said it was Syd and the whole thing about pink floyd and him happening what happened to him and they were like: "Oh I can see why he went mad." cause the song was playful and all. I think he was just a child at heart and this is what made him so beautiful and his songs so playful. He brings smiles. Not worries.
franciscovalmusic 2 years ago 10
Maybe you should try some "easier" Pink Floyd songs first, like "Wish you were here" or "Money" perhaps that is more to their likings?
DirkjeA 2 years ago
@ShizokuDojo Great Observation my friend.People should be themselves forget about peer pressure and try to rearrange their tangled messed up clone type personalities. Just maybe another crazy diamond could be discovered in the ruff.What is wrong with being an individual?
reekashade 2 months ago
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my mum went to ibiza with this guy in the late 60's. she said he was fucked up real bad. she has photos of his all sunburnt and shit. she has some film of him there as well, but he is just sitting their staring into space. i'd never herd of him. seem like a fucken clown to me.
cuntreek 2 years ago
You're the clown, particularly if what you wrote is true.
Cthulhussama 2 years ago
Yeah yeah, keep on dreaming and come to tell another story to us.
Envy is green.
TheIsabel7 2 years ago
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hey man, i couldnt give two knobs of goat shit about this loser. but apparently a few people in cyberland think he is some kind of genius. so fuck you.
cuntreek 2 years ago
Probably you don't, but then there's many more people who wouldn't for you.
He was already famous before Internet. You can take your two knobs of goats and swallow them. Syd doesn't need them.
Have a good day.
TheIsabel7 2 years ago 2
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i didnt come here for an argument. i was just tellin a story that my mum told me and showed me photos of that i thought people mite find sorta interesting. i cant help it if i think his music is shit. so fuck you. i guess know one really cares.
cuntreek 2 years ago
If you can call argument to repeating "fuck you" to everyone who doesn't agree with you nor believe your stories.
If you don't like his music don't see the point in wondering a place where people do. It's kind of a nonsense.
TheIsabel7 2 years ago
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well you must like nonesense. coz that is what this dudes music is.
cuntreek 2 years ago
Acording to you, unfortunately (for you) there's many people who think different.
Be happy with the things you like as I am with mine.
TheIsabel7 2 years ago 5
caming in italy eu welcome
abcmatrix 2 years ago
Why did you put R.I.P roger? hes not even dead
chainsawbeaver 2 years ago
Roger Keith Barrett is Syd's real name. So he's talking about Syd, not Waters.
hummelhuxley 2 years ago
"remember a day" est pour moi le plus beau morceau du floyd periode syd barett!!!
MrSuedehead72 2 years ago
rick wrote that
whofan2753 2 years ago
Oui, d'accord.
JusteunMusicien 2 years ago
a lot of people talk about dark side of the moon, animals and wish you were here as being the best floyd records... for me the best are: piper, the wall and division bell.
ghonzalo 2 years ago
I own 6 pink floyd records. Piper at the Gates of Dawn was probably my favorite.
2ndpinkberlin 2 years ago 4
Oh man, you left out the most original song opening in rock . (the guitar dropping semi-tones in the first measure).
But thanks for posting this. Floyd's bread and butter ong until DSOTM.
RIP SYD
Adominae 2 years ago
~~ goes to play with little gnomes in their homes
zincink 2 years ago
Does anyone have any recordings of the five man Floyd playing "Set the controls for the heart of the sun"? I heard Syd plays some great guitar on it and there are recordings out there somewhere. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Sydplayson 2 years ago
there's some of his playing in the saucerful of secrets version... i don't know about other version though, that would be sweet.
ghonzalo 2 years ago
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herbleus 2 years ago
I want to hug him.
LoveSenseDimension 2 years ago 5
he's a stud yum guys nowadays can't top that off
orzabal1983islove 2 years ago 6
FUCK SID IS MY MAIN MAN
milathewho 2 years ago 2
fuck yeah...|
ACID ACID ACID....
eliaskollado 2 years ago
Why categorize people according to diagnoses written up by pseudo-scientists dieing for recognition in a field simply not meant for them? Sure, people have afflictions of the mind, but was Syd one of them? I don't know and neither does anyone else who has not sat down and talked with the man at length.
I relate to Syd though his music which I attribute to his unique person. His work with Floyd as well as his solo ventures have inspired me as a musician and as a human being.
ShizokuDojo 2 years ago 6
also, he did take drugs, and it's well documented, but that doesn't make him bad either. at the time, drugs were relatively new and people didn't know the risks (hell, they werent even illegal back then)
pkpwnagez 2 years ago
we still dont completely understand the risks and benefits of drugs (research has only just begun in the past century and some of that research is not reputable). Also it should be noted that you cant tell by looking at somebody whether they have schizophrenia or some other mental illness(i dont know if you meant to imply that or not). Its possible to hide these things (some people go there entire life without anybody including them knowing of the illness until an incident occurs).
mrf150150150 2 years ago
everyone seems to be debating whether he had mental illness or not, i say he did, and does it make him bad? does it make him a stupid mindless phsycho? no, he was an intelligent musician and a good guy too (and very handsome). besides you couldn't even tell he had mental illness upon first site of him or hearing his music for the first time.
infact i even heard 1 in 5 people have a mental illness (like depression or OCD to name a few). so it's more common than you think.
pkpwnagez 2 years ago 2
Inspirational - been looking at the Syd Barrrett Ultimate fan page, longing for him to come back
BellsRiley89 2 years ago
Beautifully remastered ASTRONOMY DOMINE on your video here. How can I find it?
Thanks for these great videos!
GharedGhared 2 years ago
in Syd, we may be looking at the effects of ergotism; i don't know of any medical reviews he may have had when he was with floyd, if any.
this may be the result of a sloppy chemist as much as it was of psychedelic use in general.
then he was also involved in visual arts, so there could be some other environmental ingredient that added to the effect.
although, he was a genius and will always be at his core.
geekorthodox9 2 years ago
Nice analysis genius.
tubebeer 2 years ago
this is what Syd said to Mick Rock in an interview: " I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway." so please stop the shit talking about him.
scraleteagle70 2 years ago 4
Lol...yes, no argument there. Syd was a hottie.
madcap66laughs 3 years ago
Good point Hanzey666.The early floyd were one of the most ground breaking and pivotal band of all time. And ntztz no offence but, do your homework.
77doriella 3 years ago
Syd Barrett was never diagnosed as schizophrenic. He had a severe breakdown and could possibly have recovered with support. As any clear thinking Floyd fan knows, he was dumped by Roger Waters who was in Syd's shadow. For all of you who make light of mental illness I hope that you are lucky enough never to experience it first hand.
77doriella 3 years ago 8
that's not completely true
ntztz 3 years ago
The brilliance in Opel that was discarded from the official release (and who was the producer?) should give you pause, ntztz.
waspull 3 years ago
Funny Though, how all things changes; from Music to Drugsrelated Discusions up here. I think the least Sid wanted to do.
Hanzey666 3 years ago
Great pic of syd at 0:40, you know it is amazing how people can STILL after all theese years do drugs...man look at syd he is a poster boy of what drugs can do. Thankfully I never touched drugs or etoh (and if people drink i dont judge) but man I always say drugs are like eating a piece of your own feces, meaning WHY WOULD YOU WANT THAT SHIT IN YOUR BODY! Maybe im a prude.
harveydents 3 years ago
Syd was schizophrenic, probably the disorganized or "hebephrenic" type and LSD had nothing to do with his breakdown. Yes doing drugs is bad mmkay but it's time to stop chalking up Syd up as an acid casualty. The world is littered with rock stars who were poster children for "don't let this happen to you" but Syd wasn't one of them.
delusions101 3 years ago
it's sad that drugs will be forever now linked with the art world. i'm quite fond to of experimental art and hate how drugs have become linked with anything "weird." i like what captain beefheart said, when he was claiming that he could see more interesting images when he closed his eyes than without the use of lsd. we forget how creative and surreal our imagination can be without the aid of drugs.
glitchesandglitter 3 years ago 2
Maybe you don't know that alcohol is drugs too, harddrugs even.
thomasjeeh 3 years ago
Huh?
jeeyaz 3 years ago
you are a prude. And stfu if youve never tried drugs. You cannot comment on how it effects anyone. How do you presume it was drugs and drugs alone that tipped Syd over the edge. How about this? If it weren't for LSD none of the great music of the 60s-70s would have been possible. Name someone worthy (besides Zappa) from that era who didn't use drugs to expand their horizons.
VulturesAwait 3 years ago
he looks like shit at 26 seconds
smurfieboo 3 years ago
Someone mentioned the other day that when she worked in a residential mental health unit (late 70s) one of the staff was learning to play the guitar and going through basic cords. One of the very withdrawn residents picked up the guitar and proceeded to play it brilliantly. He then put it down could never be persuaded to pick it up again. She said his name was Roger but had been Syd when he was in a band called Pink Floyd.
Apparently he was in a poor state, not communicating and dishevelled.
martinb2444 3 years ago 2
r u making this up?
Jono12494 3 years ago
No Jono, I have too much of a life to go playing the plonker :)
martinb2444 3 years ago
well he did voluntarily spend time in a mental institution on more than one occasion in the 70s and 80s so i believe it and its an interesting story
pinkfloydrule27 3 years ago
According to Syd's sister, this "mental institution" was more accurately described as a "home for lost souls."
waspull 3 years ago 5
alot of people have very minor synesthesia they just don't realise it's too subtle for them :P i think beethoven or mozart had synesthesia. no lsd around then
debakle001 3 years ago
Actually, there was LSD back then, but Mozart was tripping at the Dead concert.
sjk72 3 years ago
Albert hoffman synthesised LSD in the 1938
debakle001 3 years ago
era un genio musical..solo que nacion muchos años adelantado!!
3553681 3 years ago
Does there exist any footage from the legendary Pat Boone Show 1967?
PeterVanRock 3 years ago 2
This sounds just like what a bad trip feels like lol! If you've never been on that side of the pool you'd never get it. It's very funny and kind of scary at the same time.
Neiko410 3 years ago
Does anyone know that Syd had synesthesia? His sister said that about him, it's the ability to see sounds and hear colors. And he had that BEFORE he took acid.
pnocarol 3 years ago 3
yea i read that somewhere hendrix had it too
valleyofdeath 3 years ago
Some people say he might had aspergers syndrom, but its never been proven.
Toratoradora 3 years ago
Some say he was schizophrenic.
SinfulStuart 3 years ago
No, he didn't have schizophrenia or any other known mental illness. He was never diagnosed. His realtives describe him as rather "strange" than "ill".
ohjohny 3 years ago
So you're a shrink now, are you? Just because he wasn't diagnosed doesn't mean he didn't have it. Roger Waters was one of the people who thought he was schizophrenic.
SinfulStuart 3 years ago
No, I'm not a psychiatrist, but Roger Waters certainly is))
Here's a quote from Syd's sister Rosemary's interview to Sunday Times: "...he neither suffered from mental illness nor received treatment for it".
And: "...he agreed to some sessions with a psychiatrist at Fulbourn psychiatric hospital, Cambridge, but neither medication nor therapy was considered appropriate."
ohjohny 3 years ago 3
This has been flagged as spam show
His sister is full of shit.
SinfulStuart 3 years ago
Syd was a genius and I don't think the poor bastard was "crazy" like schizo at all. Just born out of his time. How many people do we know in the 21st century who are just like Syd? Loads. Go into and British town on a Saturday night and you'll find them and the answer: Frustration.
wizzifloyd 3 years ago 3
From what I read he tended to get bored with things easily. I don't think he took music THAT seriously. Maybe bi-polar, but not crazy. He was a very young man, who probably just changed his mind about what he wanted to do and who he wanted to be once he faced the pressures of the industry. Lennon was 27 when the Beatles recorded Sgt. Pepper's, and Syd just 21 when the Floyd did Piper. A young one in a fast changing music scene.
Pomeray8 3 years ago 2
If I had even the slightest inkling that the band I had founded would go on to produce 'jobbies' like Dark Side of The Moon, I would have run away pronto monto too!!
Just because he was obviously taking the piss out of his boring bandmates and decided to pack it in to go back to paint: suddenly he is mentally ill??
No.
sleakitweasel 3 years ago
No. Get your facts right, bonzo. You fantasize.
wizzifloyd 3 years ago
Yes...he was. it doesnt mean he wasn´t great after all. :-)
saulo07 3 years ago 2
he was mentally ill, psychosis pretty much, he wasn't fully there at all when the band went to jam, hence the "Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky." from shine on you crazy diamond, syd barrett was lost, inside his mind. LSD - problem child, wonder drug.
bmjoy13 3 years ago
I have that, but I have it only on extreamly rare occasions, and I mean so rare that I barly have it, but it is there
BLACKSYNTH 3 years ago
Barrett's sounds were such a soundtrack for
the late 60's early 70's,soo beautifull.
I can understand why he, B.Jones,Hendrix,etc
took refuge into downers ,the LSD experience
is funny for a while,but inevetable it all + pressures of stardom gets too much. It happened to me too, I was lucky enough too handle the opiates & downers,but I too turned my back on society.Thanks to methadone I survived and eventually joined society (more or less),And have the privilege too look back
on it all./
PAULLONDEN 3 years ago 2
Syd Barrett is amazing!
RIP Syd
ledzeppelinzoso92 3 years ago 3
Fuck, I hate posting. Syd would have been similar to Brian Wilson in alot of ways if he contiued to write. This isn't my domain.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
And 80's was a furtile period for my friend. Too smart, he is. I guess Syd living in obscurity without making music adds to the mystique and is powerfully mysterious. Maybe that's a lack of research on my part. No, it ain't.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
My God, I'm glad someone is curious.He's big, musclewise, and in his 50's now. If you're musical and know much about N.S. music you probabally know him. I don't know if he's famous, or obscure, probabally the later. A real character. The press refers to him as Halifax's hidden gem...as well as other things. Can't tell if it's making fun of him or not sometimes,I forgot if I wrote this as a reply.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
Are you him? You know I love ya man...Miss the smoke Rolling days. I know you say it's not talent. Impressive nonetheless. If you are, or not, I would love to see some more footage. There was some on You Tube and it was removed. I favorited it all.I just wrote a 500 word post of interesting stories and forgot to post it. UHHHH. The guy just writes amazing songs. Maybe over 7000, maybe more, 10000. So DIY, that it makes original DIY punk look like Brittany Spears.Fuck. This isn't a reply again,
deepeeeh 3 years ago
Don't get me wrong I don't mean to paint Syd fans with the stoner brush. I just remember having my vinyl collection raided by hippies and the only records they abused were the Syd ones.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
The Seattle thing, Sub-Pop,.... and stoners everywhere. There's alot of them in my country. I wish he would have been able to continue writing songs as therapy,etc. I know a Schizophrenic guy that sounds exactely like Syd (not all the time). It's uncanny. He's written probally two songs a day his whole life. He lives in Nova Scotia.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
Can you post anything of his, this Nova Scotia guy? And what does he look like?
Raine2824 3 years ago
Reply? Sorry people if ya don't like dis.He's so underground that I can't find any footage. But his bands in the 90's were big in the indie scene. This was his wackey period. There r 2 replies. And sorry this isn't about Syd. But, it kind of is? Arn't musicians that cannot be commodified great. I am happy that my friend made music his whole life. Except 2 lost yrs he says. I wish Syd book on Mod. Art was published. It would have readers I know.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
dos bandas.
una con barrett.
una sin barrett.
Ambos bandones.
la inocencia y libertad del primer disco.
El año tambien.
Lo de mas logros de una remada de barco sin capitan.
todos asumieron el cargo. waters la hizo muy bien. pero de hecho al interior debe de haber sido raro.
muy importante referente muscial con barrett, sin barrett. distintas etapas
kikosanchezmonzon 3 years ago
Without Syd Barret there would be no Pink Floyd.
neonman211 3 years ago 4
Pink Floyd is the only bad thing about Syd Barrett. Other than The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
What about Syd the Talent? What were his strengths? What was his true legacy?
norathenoodler 3 years ago
I think he absorbed and assimilated his environment like a sponge in whatever medium necessary and the result was a powerful originality that captured the imagination.......of the commercial world that took away the sponteneity and innocence.
Unable to continue, but making a huge impact, his creative spirit continued in the likes of PF, David Bowie, Marc Bolan. Evident in psychedelic rock, acid house....etc
Am I going down the right lines?
norathenoodler 3 years ago
But apart from the obvious musical references, where/what else has he initiated? If anybody could cite anything in terms of his art or his writings then I would be most grateful :-)
norathenoodler 3 years ago
Well, I know for a fact that he was almost finished writing a book on the history of Art that looked at it from a rather unique perspective one normally doesn't see in most stuffy college texts. Sadly his sister Rosemary has refused to have the book published. She removed the manuscript after his death ans so far NONE of use have been able to persuade her to publish it!
Babyhowdy233 3 years ago
A huge influence on the underground, indie, college radio, post-punk, artists that appreciate outsider music, music that has revolutionized music...for better or worse, haha,....bands like REM and all the post-punk stuff loved Syd. That was my generation. I discovered him as a teen in the 80's.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
He was the mind of Pink Floyd his style of music rubbed off on every one else. After that the other musicians altered it into something slightly different in the 70s. Syd was a good song writer and he was a good guitarist. His true legacy was creating Pink Floyd. Thats my opinion.
neonman211 3 years ago
The LSD killed his spirit. Or whatever you want to call the piece of him that left after his breakdown. As far as I'm concerned, the LSD beat the Cancer to it.
Imcounting06 3 years ago
PANCREATIC Cancer...sorry
charredsoul 3 years ago
he died of procreatic cancer... not LSD ...sure the LSD played a factor in his leaving the band and his Mental Stability, but not his death.
charredsoul 3 years ago
he's mad as beautiful
magamal 3 years ago
Miss you, Roger. Rest in Peace.
BOTFA111 3 years ago
"brokendollzxxx"
You cant die becouse of "too mutch" LSD?
he did drink 70cl of whiskey every single morning perhaps thats why?.. peace!
benjmeistah 3 years ago
he didnt actually came to insanity because of lsd, but because of the mushrooms.
ive learned in my biology class, when you take too much mushroom teas, your cerebral cells work too fast, until they break apart and you lose many of your usual brain functions
gabrieljardine 3 years ago
that ain 't right my friend
the schoolteacher is trying to make you stay off the natural teachers
klaas123456789123456 3 years ago
Heh this conversation just made me laugh at something I heard this morning? I love my country but geesh sometimes the things that come out of our 'whitehouse' are downright embarrassing.. They are harping again on marijuana being much more potent these days? and the whitehouse feels this makes marijuana addictive and should be labeled as such.
Perhaps these guys need to start smoking because they really are clueless..
popgoiuuod 3 years ago
hahaha... L.S.D safer than Mushrooms??? that's a first.... this guy doesnt know what he's talking about, and neither does his teacher...
kickyourass777 3 years ago
yeah, really......I did six 4-way hits of sunshine in 1971, August 23, to be exact, I remember the date because I was suppossed to go see Deep Purple that night and they cancelled. Anyhow, it took me about two weeks to straighten out. For the next three or four YEARS I would start tripping whenever I smoked a fucking joint....it was like being on a non-stop roller coaster
ZavnorZ 3 years ago
He went insane because he had a predisposition to schizophrenia and took too much acid which set it off
Ebbs369 3 years ago
hmm, ok..lsd may have colleteral effects on people with mind problems
so tell me, how can you be sure you don't have a mind problem as well? most of them arent diagnosted, no one is really sure if does or doesnt have one of these problems
gabrieljardine 3 years ago
if u really wnt to believe he died because of alcohol, fine.
but you should try to see truth. syd took a lot of acid trips, and because of that his neurocells broke apart.. its a biological matter, if you take too much acid this can happen. i love lsd, however, i must say everything must be taken with caution, not like syd did.
gabrieljardine 3 years ago
Oh, ok!! I get it now xD!
Thanks!=)
Well, I think Syd Barrett was a genius, but he let himself die... It is such a shame that the world lost such an incredible person as him... I wonder what he could've done if he hadn't taken so much LSD...I'm actually talking like I know him, but you don't need to know much about him to know that he was an amazing person.
That's what I think!
=)
brokendollzxxx 3 years ago
I don't get it
brokendollzxxx 3 years ago
Check out the "more info" section : )
madcap66laughs 3 years ago
Syd barret, the crazy diamond!!
cleavitoria 3 years ago
syd is the man. the real magic of pink floyd
patosavory77 3 years ago
Syd Barrett is the man he has the sickest music
compxbox 3 years ago 3
what do you mean sickest music?
rabby10 3 years ago
oh these are such lovely, adorable photos :)
I love you Syd.
lafantastiquelizzy 3 years ago
wish you were here
kubrickfan3 3 years ago
Syd :)
If only he were here... :(
thebluesky92 3 years ago