Pink Floyd founder, psychedelic visionary, and the original acid victim.
The shaper of the early Pink Floyd psychedelic sound is dead. Syd Barrett, who suffered from diabetes and had been out of music for a number of years, died last Friday at the age of 60.…
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26 - mike marble
Woe unto the world The madcap laughs nomore.Such a tragic figure.Those who knew him well should be ashamed to leave him alone in his madness.THe worst is being alone,no one visiting him in his last years except greedy photographers or selfish journalist!Where were hims friends his bandmates?TRuely sad!Say a prayer for THe madcap.
27 - Eric Olsen
very interesting points JR, you could well be right
28 - Perry/Chicago
The death of Syd struck a chord with me and my mid-month podcast at The Best Radio You Have Never Heard is a tribute to the great rock visionary.
"Here To Do My Parts" is a tribute to Syd Barrett. Even though of course there is some Pink Floyd music in the show, it is more of a tribute to Syd's vision. I like to think of it as traveling music for Syd's iPod as he makes the trek to the Gates of Dawn, or perhaps some gardening music for the great beyond as, in his recent past, gardening was one of Syd's few hobbies.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.
Perry/Chicago
29 - nima
The madcap laughs no more
Say a prayer for the madcap
30 - Hop
#26 -- July 13, 2006 @ 02:24AM -- mike marble
"Woe unto the world The madcap laughs nomore.Such a tragic figure.Those who knew him well should be ashamed to leave him alone in his madness.THe worst is being alone,no one visiting him in his last years except greedy photographers or selfish journalist!Where were hims friends his bandmates?TRuely sad!Say a prayer for THe madcap."
well mike marble, syd refused to see anyone from his pink floyd days, he was a recluse at his last thirty five years, and his fellow bandmates did not feel it was right to upset him, because it would have upset him to see them.
its not like they ever stopped loving him