David Gilmour - 'Here I Go' (Syd Barrett) (Live & Acoustic, December 9, 2008)

David Gilmour Interview and Session on the Radcliffe and Maconie Programme, FM Broadcast 9th December 2008, performing Syd Barrett's 'Here I Go', taken from Syd Barrett's first solo album 'the Madcap Laughs'.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Syd
• Barrett
• David
• Gilmour
• Acoustic
• Rare
• Live
• Madcap
• Laughs
• Pink
• Floyd
• 2008

[madcapblue1]

fucking great tribute to the great madcap!

[danielvlee]

Thanks, David, from all the Syd Barrett fans out there like myself. Great song!

[the47monkeys]

wow!



[boonexy]

@marchofgodzilla yes, read some history. They encouraged him to get back into it. They were friends since childhood. Syd would have taken the whole thing down... no dark side... no wish you were here. In the last days syd tried to sabotage gigs and shoots, he suggested in the end that the way forward was to hire two female saxophonists and something else equally ridiculous.

[chev6art]

@marchofgodzilla This stuff is not hard to research. They didn't kick him out of the band. If they had set out to do that, Syd would've been gone in the summer of '67. They tried to accomodate him any way they knew how. But it was obvious to them and the fans that Syd was ill and often incapable of performing. Nobody wanted Syd to go; they knew what they had, even back then. But maybe Syd perceived the whole thing different. In his last years he breathed threats at Roger Waters. So sad.

[marchofgodzilla]

@chev6art Man no offense to you but getting his solo career helped out by the guys who kicked him out of pink floyd would have been like twisting the knife further.

[chev6art]

@marchofgodzilla Doubtful. He was known to have been mentally unstable even by his dad. LSD pushed him over the edge some time in 1967, but therapy was tried in the form of getting his solo career off the ground, by none other than his own former comrades in Floyd. As time went by he grew increasingly difficult to work with. What was left over was a vacant recluse who spent the last 35 years of his life in self-imposed isolation, leaving the rest of us with an enormous sense of loss

[marchofgodzilla]

I think syd had a mental condition but not so bad it couldnt be treated. If the other members of pink floyd had of taken him somewhere to be diagnosed early he might have been able to have stayed with pink floyd.

[viciousbloodbath]

Someone who completely lost their mind would have never written a song like this.

[scrim29]

this is sweet like the titty!

[ste8636]

Awesome to hear David do this song!