Shine On, Syd! RIP: Syd Barrett

[The Reverend Floater]

RIP, Crazy Diamond: http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Musi...oyd/index.html

[skifishbum]

"You are the angel of death
And I am the dead mans son
He was buried like a mole in a foxhole
And everyone still on the run
But who is the master of foxhounds
And who says the hunt has begun
And who calls the tune in the courtroom
And who beats the funeral drum.

RIP another great one

[cmsummit]

the "original acid casualty", unique in all his freakishly, disturbing ways.

RIP Syd.

[Tap]

rest in peace. you made pink floyd soooo much better by leaving.

it's the truth. you know it.

[Tippster]

[cj001f]

[DrRy]

Tragic news. RIP Syd.

[mrryde]

rest in peace. you made pink floyd soooo much better by leaving.

it's the truth. you know it.

sad but true eulogy

[bdog]

rest in peace. you made pink floyd soooo much better by leaving.

it's the truth. you know it.

Not really. It's a tribute to Gilmore and Waters that the band contiued and did well after Barrett's departure ... but his influence on Pink Floyd and early British pschedelic music burns on. RIP

[DaveTV]

"You are the angel of death
And I am the dead mans son
He was buried like a mole in a foxhole
And everyone still on the run
But who is the master of foxhounds
And who says the hunt has begun
And who calls the tune in the courtroom
And who beats the funeral drum.

RIP another great one

Syd had nothing to do with that song..

[snowsprite]

I have a feeling we would have gotten along royally!

Sprite
*******************************
I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house.
I don't know why. I call him Gerald.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, ev'rything if you want things.

I've got a clan of gingerbread men.
Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men.
Take a couple if you wish. They're on the dish.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, ev'rything if you want things.

I know a room of musical tunes.
Some rhyme, some ching. Most of them are clockwork.
Let's go into the other room and make them work.

[skifishbum]

Syd had nothing to do with that song..

"Of course he was very important and the band would never have fucking started without him because he was writing all the material. It could not have happened without him, but on the other hand it could not have gone on with him" - Rodger Waters

I tend to belive everything PF did was some way influenced by Syd.

[Steven S. Dallas]

So weird; on my way home today I saw a bumper sticker that said "Floyd" and I spent the rest of the ride thinking about Pink Floyd- not a fan (far from it, really), so maybe doubly weird.

RIP you crazy d00d.

[bdog]

I tend to belive everything PF did was some way influenced by Syd.

No Shit! Well said by you and RW.

[Buster Highmen]

Mad props to the helical triptophan taste strip whose influence was galactic.

[iskibc]

Bummer. One too many trips possibly? Influential to the band's later works indeed.

[TurxSki]

Oh well. Poor bugger.
I guess you heard that his "friends" (allegedly) used to lock him inside a cupboard (wardrobe) while he was tripping. Wonder if he was crazy then, or that's what caused it...
"'Arnold...Lane...had a strange...hobby. Collecting clothes...Moonshine, washing line...(?)'"

I'd like to hear William Shatner *singing* some of Syd's songs

[Buster Highmen]

One too many trips possibly?

Popular folklore, but very unlikely.

[skifishbum]

More of Roger on Syd
"Shine On is not really about Syd. He's just a symbol for all the extremes of absence some people have to indulge in because it's the only way they can cope with how fuckin sad it is - modern life, to withdraw completely"

[Tippster]

The Album I posted earlier was an homage to Syd.

[uglymoney]

Poor Syd. I took a strong liking to Piper at the Gates of Dawn and remember playing it to death my first year in college. Astronomy Domine was a favorite of mine after returning home alone after a long night out. I'm listening to it again right now, and still like it. Sad news indeed.

RIP crazy diamond and as they said, set the controls for the heart of the sun. Tell J. Garcia hello if you see him, he'll be chillin' over in the heroin section and will probably look to you like a wriggling bearded buffalo man riding a circus mirror on his guitar.

[Clack]

Syd, handle your shit. You're not an orange. Seriously, we just lost track which cubes we already dosed and got a bunch on our hands. No I don't think the cat needs any more.

Whether or not acid makes people crazy, or just brings out the latent crazy guy inside some people, it's a trajedy. A high school friend of mine thinks an alien lives inside him. Lost his shit sophmore year in Boulder after a week long trip and started drinking his piss out of wine bottles and sending packages of shit to people with bows and cards. Now he's basically locked away in his parents house on the hill watching netflix. He was probably predisposed, but long and heavy acid trips didn't help his sanity.

[buckethead]

Originally posted by bdog
Not really. It's a tribute to Gilmore and Waters that the band contiued and did well after Barrett's departure ... but his influence on Pink Floyd and early British pschedelic music burns on. RIP

Agreed! As a prog-rocker in high school i definitely felt more comfortable with the post-syd floyd...but found the earlier music to be more in tune with the weirder and noisier post-punk i got into in college and beyond...bands like sonic youth, the fall, gang of four, early echo and the bunnymen...

originally posted by Walter Sobchak
At a show I saw earlier this year Robyn Hitchcock ended his cover of "Gigilo Aunt" with the tribute, "There's the living and the dead, and then there's Syd Barrett." Now there's just the living and the dead. RIP -- what a nutter.

...yea, and definitely robyn. the older soft boys (robyn's previous band) sound and content (esp "can of bees", which has a nicely damaged vibe) owes much to syd. (i've seen robyn cover "vegetable man" (soft boys reunion), "astonomy domine"(on solo piano, and with some of the original coming out of a tinny little recorder), "chapter 24" (also on piano, he outro'd that one as "a song i wish i'd written...and someday i will"), "baby lemonade" and likely others)

i'd venture that whether they were aware of it or not, many of the great no-wave and post punk guitar sounds were likely influenced by syd. like iggy pop and lou reed, syd - if he'd stayed around, he might have been recognized as a kind of grandfather of punk rock (at least the weirder stuff around the margins).

i guess it's time to stop hanging onto any thoughts of a brian-wilson like functional+creative rebirth. too bad.

RIP, syd...

[Benny Profane]

Sorry, I just heard Iggy say he was primarily influenced by Chicago Blues. Wanted the Stooges to be a new version of the mayhem-like sound he witnessed in blues bars. Never mentioned Pink Floyd.

Funny how all the "tribute" music I heard on the radio today was post Syd. They wouldn't dare play the early stuff.

[buckethead]

Originally posted by Penny Profane
Sorry, I just heard Iggy say he was primarily influenced by Chicago Blues. Wanted the Stooges to be a new version of the mayhem-like sound he witnessed in blues bars. Never mentioned Pink Floyd.

No, my point was that i imagine Syd might have become seen as a proto-punk artist to later generations much the same way Iggy and Lou were - had he remained active.