Syd Barrett dies

[DroppinScience]

Oh man! :(

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/11/britain.floyd/index.html

[QueenAdrock]

My lifelong dream of seeing Pink Floyd live is now shattered. :(

RIP.

[The Notorious LOL]

he hasnt been in Pink Floyd since Saucerful of Secrets or Piper At The Gates of Dawn.

[venusvenus123]

My lifelong dream of seeing Pink Floyd live is now shattered. :(

RIP.
like he was ever going to play with them again :rolleyes:

anyway, yes that's a bit :eek: ...and young to die :(

[YoungRemy]

My lifelong dream of seeing Pink Floyd live is now shattered. :(

RIP.


Syd hadnt played with Floyd since 1968...

the last official tour in 1994 was with Gilmour, no Waters...

The Live 8 show last year was considered the true reunion, with Roger, Dave, Richard, and Nick together again...

so dont give up hope!

p.s. Pulse is being released on DVD soon

[CrankItUp!]

Just hold your own Pink Floyd cosmic concert in his memory. (y)

[B4BY 4NN]

:(

[YoungRemy]

everybody pop in "Wish You Were Here" and play "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" in honor of Syd.... then proceed to have an acid flashback...

[g-mile7]

sad days...I was suprised this enws wasnt posted sooner on the board.

[b-grrrlie]

Piper At The Gates of Dawn.
The only decent record Pink Floyd ever released.

[abcdefz]

The only decent record Pink Floyd ever released.


:rolleyes:

[abcdefz]

One of the dudes from the Commodores died, too.

God -- who's next? Dr. John? Charlie Watts? Sonny Rollins?

[Documad]

:rolleyes:
(y)

I was surprised that he was still alive (as of three days ago).

Pink Floyd = Roger Waters.

[abcdefz]

Pink Floyd = Roger Waters.




I really think it's a case of "the sum was greater than its parts," myself.

[YoungRemy]

yea, i also find it surprising that so many people are sad to hear the news of Syd's death... maybe they think he is Roger Waters...

[Documad]

I really think it's a case of "the sum was greater than its parts," myself.
Well, I won't listen to Roger Waters without the band, but I don't care for the band at all with out Roger Waters either. Partly, it's because I initially got hooked on the songs about Roger's problems.


yea, i also find it surprising that so many people are sad to hear the news of Syd's death... maybe they think he is Roger Waters...
I suspect that you're right about the public at large, and about the friend who told me the news. I think the people on this board probably know better though.

[YoungRemy]

well said Huh? he is now getting the respect he was due instead of being the crazy guy who founded Floyd...




the band is just fantastic, that is really what I think....

Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

[saz]

No everyone is aware who he is, well the real big fans of Pink Floyd, he is the founder of Pink Floyd and there might not have been Pink Floyd without him, sure people see Roger Waters as the better writer of the group, though I don't know how you can really judge what makes the "better" writer, not to mention he was the inspiration for Pink Floyd's greatest work, writing comes from the heart and the feeling you get from it is what really matters, and the reason why so many people are obsessed with him aren't because of the fact of his music but his mental state, but it doesn't matter, it's just to show respect for a wonderful man.
Rest in Peace, Roger Barrett.

the floyd would never have existed without syd and most floyd fans acknowledge syd as the "better" writer, ie his solo material, as do waters and gilmour, who always have and always will call him a genius.

so many people are obsessed with him because of his music, his really mysterious persona and that he chose to live a normal, yet quiet and reclusive life of a painter/writer/gardner, instead of a rock star.

[Auton]

syd barrett was impossibly overrated. yeah, he wrote cute, quirky little songs but i never considered him a genius in the slightest. i was always glad he only had one full album with pink floyd. admittedly, astronomy domine and jugband were masterpieces though. i just never really felt he was all that special.

[Drederick Tatum]

he hasn't really done anything since the early 70s. Pink Floyd are alright and his contribution was notable, but I won't be losing any sleep.

the myth was greater than the man.

[yeahwho]

Sad.......none the less for me. He represented an era of wildness many musician today are scared shitless of. This album from the snippet below was playing on the radio tonight as I drove home from Bellingham,

In 1967, Pink Floyd won a contract with EMI and began recording its debut LP, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," at London's Abbey Road Studios. The release took its name from a chapter title in Mr. Barrett's favorite children's book, "The Wind in the Willows."

With its hallucinogenic "space-rock" sound effects, "Piper" was meant to compete with the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, which was being recorded down the hall. Mr. Barrett played a large creative role in the engineering of the Pink Floyd album.

"creative" meaning eating acid and shit. 1967 was pharout

[b-grrrlie]

sad days...I was suprised this enws wasnt posted sooner on the board.
Because his family didn't let the news out earlier...

And I really really really don't like Roger Water's Pink Floyd, just pompous crap. I listened to Dark Side of the Moon a lot at the library when it came out (never even wanted to buy it myself), but can't listen to it anymore (hmmm, why did I forget this then on that other thread). Everything ever since.... (n)

[g-mile7]

Because his family didn't let the news out earlier...

And I really really really don't like Roger Water's Pink Floyd, just pompous crap. I listened to Dark Side of the Moon a lot at the library when it came out (never even wanted to buy it myself), but can't listen to it anymore (hmmm, why did I forget this then on that other thread). Everything ever since.... (n)


Well I met on here, on this particular board, I read about his death on excite.com at 8am about and didnt see anyone post a thread about it till serval hours later....I didnt do it since Im not a big Pink Floyd fan but I know about their music......know people who have "sampled some more shit from their Pink Floyd collection" so I've heard their goodness to an extent.

[abcdefz]

Well, I won't listen to Roger Waters without the band, but I don't care for the band at all with out Roger Waters either.



Exactly what I mean.

[abcdefz]

Boy. When Roy Wood (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:6d77gjwrj6iw~T1) dies, I'm gonna take it pretty hard. :(

[Documad]

I know a ton of Pink Floyd fans and none of them think Syd Barrett was the best writer. Now, those friends are under 50 so they didn't encounter Barrett's work until they had exhausted the 1970s catalog of their teenagerhood. :rolleyes:

Then again, if all the man did was inspire Wish You Were Here, then he's important to me. :p

On a slightly different note, it never ceases to amaze me that so many young music snobs of today put down Floyd yet like music that either sounds quite like them or is heavily inspired by them.

[Burnout18]

wasnt this guy absolutly nuts?

[kaiser soze]

wow!

how'd I miss this?!?

he was the "punk rock" of Pink Floyd

[Documad]

No, he was not nuts, those are just foolish rumours. His mental state was blown way out of proportion, even if he was who cares he deserves some respect...
They are often-repeated rumors. Every story I heard about Syd's problems came from an interview with another band member.

[saz]

^ he had the breakdown in '67 and had related problems throughout the 70s and early 80s, however since then he really improved. his family consistency reported on his improving health, contentment and happiness and recently his sister rosemary stated that he was "fine and very well" (http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/lifestyle/arts_music/news/2005/06/16/6582daf9-adfc-4d8d-878c-858700bf0b02.lpf)


syd barrett was impossibly overrated. yeah, he wrote cute, quirky little songs but i never considered him a genius in the slightest. i was always glad he only had one full album with pink floyd. admittedly, astronomy domine and jugband were masterpieces though. i just never really felt he was all that special.

a great deal of attention and focus is always placed on his work with the floyd and his 'whimsical' or 'quirky' songs, yet his solo material is usually overlooked, which is perplexing, because his finest material is his solo stuff. it's not really fair to call someone overrated who devised 'dominoes': gilmour loves to tell the story. they finished the track and syd's lead guitar part just wouldn't fit. gilmour was producing it and he was clueless about what to do, ditto the rest of the band (jerry shirley, rick wright). syd asked dave to play the track backwards and he'd play his lead part over it. dave was confused yet complied. then, when syd was finished, he asked dave to then play the track forwards and then his lead guitar part backwards. everyone's jaws literally dropped as it fit perfectly and that's what went on the album.

I know a ton of Pink Floyd fans and none of them think Syd Barrett was the best writer. Now, those friends are under 50 so they didn't encounter Barrett's work until they had exhausted the 1970s catalog of their teenagerhood. :rolleyes:

Then again, if all the man did was inspire Wish You Were Here, then he's important to me. :p

On a slightly different note, it never ceases to amaze me that so many young music snobs of today put down Floyd yet like music that either sounds quite like them or is heavily inspired by them.

the majority of floyd fans i know prefer the gilmour era for sure, yet still concede that syd was the superior songwriter. again, dave and roger both acknowledge his genius. for sure, i prefer barrett, however i'm a huge floyd fan. i love everything up to animals and waters really did prove himself to be a great songwriter and lyricist, who has excellent ideas and concepts. i can't emphasize enough how highly i rate pompeii ('echoes' was mindblowing), meddle, darkside and atom heart mother.