[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?

[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.

[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.

[MadLibDisease]

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

RIP Syd

[Washi]

My favorite band of all time. Welcome to the Machine, Syd.

[TheRealDBear]

"You were caught on the crossfire
Of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! "