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Syd Barrett dies aged 60
The Guardian, U.K. ^
| 7/11/06
| ByDesign
Posted on 07/11/2006 7:07:40 AM PDT by ByDesign
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Shine, you crazy diamond...
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:07:41 AM PDT
by
ByDesign
To: ByDesign
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:09:10 AM PDT
by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
To: ByDesign
Syd's been gone for a very long time.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:09:18 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
To: ByDesign
He's comfortably numb.......
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:10:11 AM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: ByDesign
He's now on the Dark side of the Moon..........
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:10:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
To: tfecw
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:11:55 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ByDesign
The lunatic is on the grass...
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:12:23 AM PDT
by
evets
(huh?)
To: Red Badger
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:12:46 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ByDesign
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:13:21 AM PDT
by
somniferum
(Annoy a liberal.. Work hard and be happy.)
To: dfwgator
Green cheese, I suppose........
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:13:52 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
To: ByDesign
A few years ago I saw an interesting documentary about how much of Pink Floyd's material is really about their former lead singer. He left the band in order to continue his experiments with drugs. He was young, handsome, famous -- and threw it all away to waste his life with drugs. Yet another victim of the drug culture.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:14:57 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: ByDesign
My wife has a couple of his solo albums. Opel and Barret I think.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:15:41 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.- Aeschylus)
To: ByDesign
A distant ship... smoke on the ho-ri-zon.”
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:17:21 AM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: ByDesign
Have you heard Pink Floyds music from the Syd days?!?! horrible horrible incoherent abstract crap.... David Gilmour made Pink Floyd what it is today... If Syd did not go psycho and leave and Gilmour never replaced him, Pink Floyd would have never made music past the 60's.
To: tfecw
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:18:17 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: vladimir998
"He left the band in order to continue his experiments with drugs"
If by left to experiment with drugs you mean kicked out of band cause he was too crazy to play guitar and sing then you're right.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:20:01 AM PDT
by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
To: dfwgator
Listening to that song makes me wonder what we might have heard from Pink Floyd had Syd not had his problems.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a great album.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:20:08 AM PDT
by
SaveTheChief
("This one goes to eleven.")
To: ByDesign
Time to play "Wish You Were Here".A lot of Floyds music was about Syd and his struggle with schizophrenia.The drugs certainly didn't help.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:20:43 AM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: vladimir998
From what I've read, he was going insane anyway, LSD (his drug of choice) just sped up the process.
I was glad to read, the members of Pink Floyd made sure he was VERY well taken care of. There was an article a couple years back who got pictures of him riding his bike in the small town he lived in, he was living alone, painting, writing, and completely shunned the press and the fans. They said he was writing a history of art...
He was a strange, enigmatic man, who inspired and intrigued. RIP Syd, there will never be another.
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:21:59 AM PDT
by
ByDesign
To: dfwgator
The Dark Side of the Moon was play on words. Lunatic, being a reference to a person being insane, and a moon reference and the Dark or sinister side of insanity..........
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posted on
07/11/2006 7:22:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
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