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.
Uhh...Roger Waters had quite a bit to do with what made Pink Floyd great.
Careful with that axe, Eugene.........
Hey,hey...Lucifer Sam is a cool song!
The Syd era Floyd never really grabbed me, either, but in the context of the history of the band, and the era it came out, it's very interesting how it set up the rest of their career, and the talent was there, it just was'nt blues based like the Gilmour influence. I agree, David is a genius and should be given most of the credit for their fame in the later years, but he picked up where Syd left off - and they had already made a lot of headway with Syd's contribution.
Like him or hate him, he was one of the big names in music in the 60's, and I just want to mark his passing with a little respect - we have plenty of time to argue his merit, or lack of, later on.
"horrible horrible incoherent abstract crap"
I agree!
That's true - "See Emily Play" comes to mind - but without him, there would have been no Pink Floyd. RIP Syd.
Huh? What songs are you referencing? Waters and Gilmour are brilliant in their own right, to be sure. If you are brilliant and apply yourself and strive to become better and persevere, you can achieve great things, and they did.
What Barrett had was not "brilliance", but "genius". That comes neither from toil nor application, but from God. He could come up with a better song in 10 minutes off the top of his more-than-slightly-askew head than Wright or Waters (or Gilmour) could concoct in a month, and they knew it. When he went away, the rest were forced to learn the craft, and what they went on to achieve is remarkable - but in no way diminishes Syd's legacy.