Syd Barrett interview audio

Rare Syd Barrett interview August 1967 London

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[dmorse523]

This is the dead on truth of what happened indeed. He was able to find his creative freedom in painting after all.

As a matter of fact, he was so scarred by the demand for repetition of the same in pop music, he burned all of his paintings after he finished them, thus protecting them completely from scrutiny and popular demand. Truly amazing and also so sad the paranoia and psychological trauma he had to endure because of his early musical success and the never ending pressure to keep feeding "

[KingKook]

As a former art school student, I understand EXACTLY what he is saying, that schools are motivated to produce "commercial" artists who will bring recognition back to the school. This is the cycle of mediocrity that pervades so much "art" today. Syd was interested in genuine, profound originality and a connection with more timeless, sublime forces. I get it, I relate to it. I live it. He just isn't speaking in "common" language to make it intelligible to people who are only interested in Floyd.

[ihatemondays971]

He seems completely sane here. He is making sense and eveything he's saying is completely right! I'm a fashion student and can completely relate to what he's saying about he system of creating art.

RIP Syd

[tandlaguilera420]

@dmorse523 What's sad is that he did it to himself! He should have listened to the rest of the members of Pink Floyd and laid off the LSD.

[LaVonBain]

His voice soothes me both when he talks and when he sings.

I love him. ♥

[tamburlaine79]

@KingKook A moron, once again, you attest to be, with more self righteous pap. You are just fearful of undermining, that's all. Which is coming from my side. Will you stop with the thesaurus as well. It's off kilter. You don't know how to use words appropriately. Cop on a small bit. You really don't know what you're talking about. Stop using words. The world is better off without you dimwitted imput.

[KingKook]

@tamburlaine79 Your seemingly well reasoned, moderated comment is no more than an insipid, vacuous, reactionary retort - a standard, programmed response of one of our culture's "fuzzy robots." You haven't bothered to consider the implications of your own words, much less mine. Good luck with your predictable, tedious, tragic life...

[vanessadiplomadogmai]

syd you are beutiful and a wonderful person

[tamburlaine79]

@KingKook Student, being the operative word here, therefore benign and amateurish in itself, without sounding dismissive of what you're articulating, I would say you might not really know what he's saying from a few soundbytes of video. Bias plays hugely here, fair enough. But your espousing of his talent is relative, subjective. And a blinding generalisation of what "Floyd" fans can garner from his output, past and present. I'm not calling you to get down from your exalted pedestal, but...

[bibi5027]

@Tyme2Die no i didnt know,hence he was never officialy diagnosticated with any illness,you need read his sister interview,he spent any times with docs,and they said yes he was unususal but not mentally ill,,...