RIP Syd Barrett
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RIP Crazy guy apparantly.a mate has lent me his biography which I've yet to read,as it goes. How did he meet his end?
Don't know yet - it's on the 'tickertape' thing at the top of the BBC website news page.
Truly a musical genius...
J.A.K wrote: complications from diabetes.
Same as Matthew Ashman from BowWowWow.
Er, although technically, they didn't quite have the same impact on world music.
Boatraceface wrote: RIP Crazy guy apparantly.a mate has lent me his biography which I've yet to read,as it goes. How did he meet his end?
That biography is hilarious. Apparently, it wasn't the vast amounts of industrial-strength acid that messed up his poor addled bonce.
It was Guinness.
The most over-rated group since the Beatles. But its always sad when some who is adored by 1 person or 1 million dies.
Philip Collins wrote: But Matthew Ashman was also in the finest line up of Adam's Ants...
And again ... although technically, they didn't quite have the same impact on world music.
Doctor? wrote: Floyd sucked without Syd. Now the world does too :(
Can't see the difference myself.
He'd not been out of his front door for years, had he?
Another lightweight who couldn't take his drugs, as Bobby Gillespie once said *.
* About someone else.
Syd was one of my heroes! I love his music with The Floyd and i'm a great fan of his three solo albums.I've just read the news .Really bad news, even if we didn't expect something more from him. RIP. How can we die of diabete today ????
Johnny Come Lately wrote: Can't see the difference myself.
Cut-out-and-keep guide to Pink Floyd:
Floyd with Barratt - 3min songs.
Floyd without Barratt - 15min songs. Er, about Barratt.
All my fave Floyd tracks are Syd era ones, except for On The Run, and that's just cos that's synthgeek porn
A sad occasion, but to be fair I thought he might've passed years ago. That's how reclusive he'd been since around '75 or so (when he crashed the Wish You Were Here sessions). 
A musical genius who burnt out too soon RIP
(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:
Boatraceface wrote: RIP Crazy guy apparantly.a mate has lent me his biography which I've yet to read,as it goes. How did he meet his end?
That biography is hilarious. Apparently, it wasn't the vast amounts of industrial-strength acid that messed up his poor addled bonce.
It was Guinness.
Don't say that!
I drink Guinness if the place serves it,always! 
Got a stack of reading,not sure if or when I'll get round to it,and when my mate will want it back is something aswell..But he says the same about the book,though he left out the Guinness part!
RIP. Just heard of Pink Floyd's songs in my rock and roll class on Friday. Heard Flaming, and the one song with the intro of an astronaut making a transmission and the sound of a wind-up toy at the end. Don't know if it is Flaming or a different song. God, I just went over Syd Barrett a few days back.
Matthew Ashman was my my all-time guitar hero.Bow Wow Wow were a fanastic band,as were the Cheifs of Relief.
[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: RIP. Just heard of Pink Floyd's songs in my rock and roll class on Friday. Heard Flaming, and the one song with the intro of an astronaut making a transmission and the sound of a wind-up toy at the end. Don't know if it is Flaming or a different song. God, I just went over Syd Barrett a few days back.
Flaming is on Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the only album with Syd before his collapse into insanity (there are some songs of his on the second album, but after that he was no longer with the band.
That is eerie about you covering Syd right before his death...hopefully you don't discuss NO anytime soon 
Also, if you have any questions about rock music, for your tests or anything like that I'd be more than happy to help. I got backlogs of information stored away for just such an occasion
Anyone playing Darkside Of the Moon with the Wizard of OZ in tribute?
Miss the man, as I loved his music. Hate to hear the news. The Wall was one of my favorite movies/video, so amazing to put emotion into music and sight.
JHC
When I was thirteen, I spent far too much time sat in a wooden block floored room on the sea. Generally if memory can be trusted it was howling a gale outside while myself and my best friend fought his two dogs into a lockable room so we could record. Throw a couple of terrible damp and dull sounding microphones in front of wooden guitars, a fantastically outoftune piano and various stupid and awful sounding percusssion stuff and evenings went south. In between the aforementioned attempts at recording we listened to records. Dusty, pockmarked, wine soaked, tattered, hissing, tornpaper sleeved records. Ridiculous prog rock records, the white noise, a heros grand folly (which at the time seemed pure "avantgarde" wonder) space tones for DJs, the beatles, who I had never knowingly heard, Captain Beefheart, who I had, the betaband, who made wood sound interesting after the MC5 and Stooges had made it boring, the who, who I loudly proclaimed far superior to the damn beatles (wrong indeed) and on and tiredly on. We mainly listened to three records though. piper at the gates of dawn, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. At first it was maybe just the fact that he looked cool as. Best guitar ever (circular mirrored tele was all I wanted for years and years), great barnet, fine strides and shirt combos every time. More importantly it was the echoes and the tape machines, and the fact he sounded like himself and no one else and had the honesty to put it all on tape. For yr own sakes, never write him off as just an acid casualty, a sixties relic, a hippy wastrel or "that bloke from the floyd". The Pink Floyd were fuckin awful the minute he left...and the remaining members all know it. The look of fear everytime his name comes up because he was the only artist to ever grace one of their records..... However I truly feel for the fact that their friend departed, for that and the fact they endevoured to support him with what he was owed is a grand thing. Screw gushes, be damned embarrassment and stifle self consciousness: Roger "Syd" Barrett was one of my heroes, the bloke who made me want to cover guitars in echoes, someone who made records which I still love and listen to (tokyo soundtracked by PATGOD is a wonder) and someone who I am truly glad walked away when it got too much and hopefully found some peace and happiness after being in a silly rawkanroll band. Cue the inevitable pokes, jabs, barbs and snide asides. Quiet down, a hero passed away, give a minute one begs of you. godspeed sir x
"I'm full of dust and old guitars"= best quote ever for a million old reasons.
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[magenta]shedmonite61[/magenta] wrote: RIP. Just heard of Pink Floyd's songs in my rock and roll class on Friday. Heard Flaming, and the one song with the intro of an astronaut making a transmission and the sound of a wind-up toy at the end. Don't know if it is Flaming or a different song. God, I just went over Syd Barrett a few days back.
The 'astronaut transmission' song sounds like Astronomy Domine from Piper at the Gates of Dawn. They played a truly superb version of it on an arty farty programme back in '67 and were interviewed by a music professor who complained "Why does it all have to be so loud" in a thick German accent...has to be seen to be believed. One of the top 3 'bands on tv' moments imho...
Former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon released a statement saying: "Lost him again... for bang on 20 years Syd led me to better places."
"From my agape 17-year-old first listen to Bike to, just the other day, Jugband Blues.
"Languished in his noise... dreamt in his night... stared at his eyes for answers..."
RIP
SHEDi xxx
LE Roberts wrote: Story said he had been living with his mom. Was she still alive at the time of Syd's death?
No. She died a few years back. It was his sister looking after him.
RIP Syd. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a classic I always still play. I had a vivid dream 2 weeks ago that he was dead and woke up wondering if he was out of curiousity. I then did a google search on him and realized he was alive and saw photos of him and wondered why I had such a dream.
No. She died a few years back. It was his sister looking after him.
Thanks Chris. Any word on when/where a service is being held? Never been a "huge" Floyd fan, but more intrigued with their history. What a career...
LE Roberts wrote:
No. She died a few years back. It was his sister looking after him.
Thanks Chris. Any word on when/where a service is being held? Never been a "huge" Floyd fan, but more intrigued with their history. What a career...
yes ,indeed! as u say :"what a career".And even if i much prefer their earliest albums( from The Piper to The WAll)than the last ones,i'll always consider the band as one of the best rock bands of the sixties and the seventies. With or Without Barrett.
I'm still a Barrett Huge fan ,listening very often to his solo albums and sometimes playing his songs.He was great. History will remind him for sure.
His private life,on the other hand, can be seen as a kind of a disaster.
LE Roberts wrote:
No. She died a few years back. It was his sister looking after him.
Thanks Chris. Any word on when/where a service is being held? Never been a "huge" Floyd fan, but more intrigued with their history. What a career...
The service is going to be (or was - not sure if it's already happened) a private family only one i.e. none of the Floyd to attend.
