syd barret

[steve56]

just read hes died aged 60.

[Steve R]

That's a coincidence.

Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's original guitarist and founder-member, has also died.

[Pervert]

Wish You Were Here was pretty much a tribute to him, including Shine on You crazy Diamond. He apparently showed up in the studio when they were recording that, and it took them ages to recognise him.

[colonel]

What an artist in the short time that he functioned as one....very leftfield but a person who changed music history.

A few years ago, many years after Syd entered his psychotic induced seclusion, I think it was Roger Waters who went to see him. Syd was playing some old blues tracks. Roger had a look through his record box- a box he had apparently never looked through before.

In it he found albums by the bluesman Pink Anderson....and by an obscure blues artist very few have heard of- one Floyd Council.

Syd had , of course, named the band- but always told the others it was just a name that had popped into his head.

[steve56]

when i 1st heard the name i thought they got it from eddie floyd who had a hit about the same time as them called knock on wood!colonel wrote:

> What an artist in the short time that he functioned as
> one....very leftfield but a person who changed music history.
>
> A few years ago, many years after Syd entered his psychotic
> induced seclusion, I think it was Roger Waters who went to see
> him. Syd was playing some old blues tracks. Roger had a look
> through his record box- a box he had apparently never looked
> through before.
>
> In it he found albums by the bluesman Pink Anderson....and by
> an obscure blues artist very few have heard of- one Floyd
> Council.
>
> Syd had , of course, named the band- but always told the others
> it was just a name that had popped into his head.

[Arginald Valleywater]

A true founding father of British rock, RIP and Shine On...............

[Jonone]

Here's to effervescing elephants !

[algarve addick]

can't see what all the fuss was about, to tell y'all the truth.
that early Floyd stuff - Bike/Arnold Layne/Emily is SOOO dated.
he might've been a swell bloke, but musically the Floyd blossomed after he fell off the edge of the world, methinks!

[Pervert]

It's not the career, it's the influence he had---and continues to have.