The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story - Part 1/5

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The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story - Part 1/5


The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story is a documentary released on DVD on 24 March 2003, produced by Otmoor Productions in 2001 as part of the BBC's Omnibus series and originally called Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond (in the US, a slightly modified version aired as the last episode of VH1's Legends series in January, 2002). Directed by John Edginton, the film includes interviews with all the Pink Floyd members - Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright - plus the "fifth Pink Floyd", Bob Klose, who left the band in 1965. The film includes rare early television appearances of Pink Floyd and home movies.

In 2006 a new "definitive edition DVD" was produced in the UK and Europe in which the full unedited interviews conducted by the director with Pink Floyd are now made available, alongside the original documentary.

The focus of the film is Syd Barrett, the lead guitarist of the early Pink Floyd, who created their unique psychedelic sound and all the band's early songs, including the singles "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" and much of their first album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Syd Barrett's name passed into rock folklore when he quit Pink Floyd in 1968 and, after two extraordinary but erratic solo albums, disappeared from music altogether amid rumours of a drug-induced breakdown.

The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story has contributions from Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley (who played on Syd Barrett's two solo albums The Madcap Laughs and Barrett as well as Syd's final London concert on 6 June 1970 with David Gilmour, when Barrett abruptly left the stage after playing only four numbers), bassist Jack Monck who played at Syd's last ever public concert in 1972 at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, producer Joe Boyd who produced Arnold Layne, photographer Mick Rock who photographed Barrett for The Madcap Laughs cover, and artist Duggie Fields who shared an apartment in London's Earls Court with Barrett in 1968 and witnessed his changing mental state at close hand.

According to his sister, Barrett actually watched the documentary when it was broadcast on the BBC. He apparently found it "too loud", although he did enjoy seeing Mike Leonard, who he referred to as his "teacher". He also enjoyed hearing "See Emily Play" again.

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[lilymacsification]

@jamesa4050 So true. It's just another example of how the media and large parts of society are uncomfortable talking honestly about mental illness. A lot of people close to him and mental health professionals now think that Syd had schizophrenia, which people usually have a genetic predisposition for. I don't believe that Syd's LSD/drug use was the cause of his mental illness but it would probably have exacerbated his symptoms.

[sleestack808]

"needed me to leave" lol. OUCH!

[huntr7777]

@larr393 Well the operative word here is may have had it. And as for your comment about experience, I've never done LSD but I have known friends who have done it, and I was able to see what Syd went through. So to put it another way, bugger off. Have a nice day.

[larr393]

she had also stated that he may have had aspergers. so I'm, supporting what lilymacsification, going to point out that it was plainly stated that L.S.D probably "exacerbated his symptoms". please don't speak without experience when it comes to drugs. do as you will with other topics, but, it makes your "evidence" less valid if you have never experienced such things.

[CharoEscuro]

@nirvanafan91ify Pow R. Toc H.

[nirvanafan91ify]

Whats the first song?

[Timothezzy]

LSD is just a crazy drug, made by the CIA you know. But a proper dose allows you to see, at the cost of your sanity.

[huntr7777]

@lilymacsification 100% WRONG! His sister-in-law has said that LSD was what caused his mental breakdown. She went onto say what an evil drug it is to turn somebody like Syd into what he became at the end of 1967. Don't think it was anything mental because it was the drugs, simple as that. Look at it as a cautionary tale.

[sleestack808]

@sieuminh mine too

[Flipper79able]

@lilymacsification I can tell you from both personal experience and what I've read that LSD can trigger early onsets of schizophrenia. I had a friend as a teenager that I used to take acid with....around 19 he was taken out of school and ended up in a hospital because his parents said he was acting violent and having delusions. He took quite a bit of acid but his parents also said they had a family history of schizophrenia. I've read this can happen sometimes with those two things.

[sieuminh]

@sleestack808 yeah but how much balls does it take someone to say that! he has my respect

[DanikaJadeee]

Must be the most attractive band ever, haha.