Syd Barrett Interview Part 1

The interviewers questions freak me out, and i'm sober! I can only imagine how Syd felt in his own mind during this. his mind is so fragile .

hahahahahahahhhaahahahahaha i cant stop laughing

maybe in whomever is viewing the artwork, there is an assumption that the edge of the paper is the end or the boundaries of the work, when really, upon closer inspection, it is only the beginning; the starting point....or something like that...thats just my interpretation when I initially read the quote

I knew this guy in high school that deal LSD and ate all his profits. He would walk up and you could almost hear his brains fizz. His eyes were like, "black holes in the sky."  It wasn't humorous, it was tragic.

he seemed quite coherent until, after the "mh", he turned the switch off and "now im retiring to my own mind, dont bother me anymore".

Very sorry to hear about your brother, Kavinel.
Here's the story of my class salutatorian:
He was a sharp S.O.B.! could solve the most complex mathematical problems that almost nobody could figure out! Went to college majored in mathematics graduated 2nd in his class in 1994.
Well, he got strung out on drugs a few years after graduation, most notably LSD.
He took so much he's now pretty much a vegetable!!
Like Syd Barrett, it was a shame to see such talent go to hell like that!

LSD seems to amplify your perception of the world into hyper-surrealistic version of reality. some people can handle it, some people cant.

Paper cuts...?

Or the fact that the dimensions of a sheet of paper may be limiting as far as what you want to create in it?

For that we'd have to dive into our own stream of consciousness; our own reservoir and our own limitations.

I'd assume as an interviewer, it would be wise not to get judgemental in order to get the most pertinent information possible from the interviewee.
To be able to have a solid opinion on Syd or anyone else in his condition, you'd have to look into their life. The thing is, all of that is personal. So it's off limits for the media and the public.

It must be annoying though, having evolved from this world renouned persona and years later, still having this insistently thrown back at you.

don't forget this '67 and he was "semi with it" then. But he went south after that. I've done my share of acid, good stuff from the early seventies...not the s..t out there now
and I feel it did some good, some bad to myself. I'm not a veg and at 50 yrs old I'm still producing art in paint and bass guitar (Lemmy, Chris Squier, etc). Rodger will still be an idol of mine and we should all love what he brought to us!!!!!!! RIP SYD Bart