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just read hes died aged 60.

That's a coincidence.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Here's to effervescing elephants !

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!

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