[ByDesign]

Shine, you crazy diamond...

[tfecw]

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

[cripplecreek]

Syd's been gone for a very long time.

[caver]

He's comfortably numb.......

[Red Badger]

He's now on the Dark side of the Moon..........

[evets]

The lunatic is on the grass...

[somniferum]

RIP Syd

[vladimir998]

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.

[Dead Corpse]

My wife has a couple of his solo albums. Opel and Barret I think.

[johnny7]

A distant ship... smoke on the ho-ri-zon.”

[Element187]

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.

[Thombo2]

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.

[dead]

Syd Barrett was the walrus.

[relictele]

Oh God. Now Q & Mojo and the other music mags will bang on for months about him. There were plenty of drug casualties from that era and all this claptrap about wasted talent and interruption of his preordained career arc has gotten very tiresome. I have always been suspicious of an otherwise-intrusive press that never seemed to get around to printing pictures of Barrett in his fat/bald/old days.

Full disclosure - have never been a Pink Floyd fan. As a musician I respect what they have achieved, some of their tunes/production techniques, etc. Waters & Gilmour definitely have talent. Except in rare instances I want music to be a positive, uplifting experience (even a 'sad' song) and I never got anything from Floyd except hopelessness, negativity and of course drug references. Being happily drug-free all my life I'm afraid I can't relate.

As for Syd Barrett, he made his choices and was physically/mentally unprepared for the drugs or their aftermath. All around him did their best to coddle this 'genius' but even they had to pack it in when they realized he was a casualty. They do their best to be patient, but these poor guys are asked about Barrett in every single interview! Enough!

'Interstellar Overdrive'? More like 'Earthbound stuck-in-neutral half-arsed noodling in a desperate attempt to conceal a lack of ability on the guitar.'

[blu]

Home, home again
I like to be there when I can...

[blu]

Home, home again
I like to be there when I can...

[lunarbicep]

R.I.P. Syd Barrett

[Florida_Freeper]

Remember when you were young. You shun like the sun.

Now there's a look in your eye. Like black holes in the sky.

Shine on You crazy Diamond!

[Jhensy]

So long Syd!

[Mikey_1962]

June 5th 1975

During the "Wish You Were Here" recording sessions, Syd Barrett just happens to wander into Abbey Road studio while Pink Floyd are mixing "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," a song written about Barrett.

At first, none of Syd's former bandmates recognizes the fat, bald lunatic who is compulsively brushing his teeth.

[sully777]

Backmasked message on The Wall's Empty Spaces:

"Congratulations! You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Charlesfort."

Forward taped:
Roger...Caroline's on the phone