Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett dies

MP3.com ^ | July 11, 2006 | Jim Welte

[gawatchman]

This happened over a week ago, but is news to me, and I felt it is worth posting. RIP Syd.

[beyond the sea]

Great and brilliant guy......... he took more LSD than me. What a guy.

RIP

[SpaceBar]

Arnold Layne had a strange.... hobby

[beyond the sea]

Syd......... "wish you were here".

[xcamel]

news a bit stale, eh?

[al baby]

One of my first albums that I stole from my sister

[Borges]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=barrett

[divine_moment_of_facts]

you might be interested in this link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=any;o=score;s=syd%20barrett

[Ben Mugged]

Syd is "Learning to Fly". Clear sailing and fair winds Sid.

[dfwgator]

Even though Pink Floyd reached their greatest successes without Syd, you have to ask the question if without Syd in those early days if PF would have been in a position to be able to have their later success. Of course Syd's life provided fodder for many of Floyd's greatest songs, but more importantly, Syd was just so out there in the first place, and that is what got Floyd noticed.

[gawatchman]

Yes, I did not see where it had already been posted.

[beyond the sea]

excellent--- 1973........ a very good year.

[SteveMcKing]

I really respected his private life after the band. It shows that we're all special "somebodies"- even the most obscure and forgotten "nobodies".

Similarly, I don't think his anonymity was particularly sad, rather it was beautiful. People act like the man died just because he wasn't some Hollywood phony who did Rolling Stone interviews. He had a life, a nice quiet life for himself.

[al baby]

I was 13 years old

[beyond the sea]

Yes sir!

[DBrow]

Barrett had material on "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", but I don't think he had anything on any of the other albums- from Saucerful of Secrets on. Which is too bad, PATGOD was pretty good.

PF did refer to him and dedicated many songs to him, but I don't recall that he had actual input.

I have "The Madcap Laughs" (1975) and found the music to be catatonicly dull and flat.

OTOH, Barrett was a big fan of kid's literature- "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is Chapter 7 of The Wind in the Willows, sort of like Alice in Wonderland and E E Milne's influence on Jefferson Airplane.

[beyond the sea]

I was 26 and had graduated from college, taken some time in the Army Security Agency....... and had come home then to do "a little experimenting" the next couple of years.

Good days.

;-)

[Hoosier-Daddy]

He's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Happy to help my fellow conservative Floyd fans out there ;)

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Saucerful of Secrets was a great album, IMHO.