christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
R.I.P. Syd
Syd Barrett is dead
- Thread starter nightowl
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It'll be all over the Cambridge Evening News tonight, what with him living back there with his mum since before 1980. I'm going there this evening, will pick up a copy for a different perspective ...
northernhord
Active Member
butterfly child
Well-Known Member
Kid_Eternity said:
The Division Bell really is shit though.
Nothing on the BBC site yet.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
butterfly child said:
I don't think it's that bad, it aint classic floyd but it's far and beyond better than the shit other bands of their age put out.
Syd Barrett was locally rumoured to have been seen at both Strawberry Fair and the Cambridge Folk Festival in relatively recent years. My brother knows the street he lived in, but has never seen him himself I don't think. But Syd seems to have been almost a total recluse.
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
William of Walworth said:
It'll be all over the Cambridge Evening News tonight, what with him living back there with his mum since before 1980. I'm going there this evening, will pick up a copy for a different perspective ...
Will they name a park bench after him? They do that in Romford after a local dignatory dies
Love that
butterfly child
Well-Known Member
Kid_Eternity said:
Hmmm.. undecided. Mind you, I heard the new Who single last week - man, that really was shit.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Bless his cotton socks
Syd was the only only musician I've ever been obsessed with and probably ever will be.
The man was an artist not a rock star wannabe like Waters and Mason were desperate to become.
He was pushed way beyond his limits by the demands of the greedy side of the band. He suffered numerous breakdowns and yet waters and mason didn't really give a fuck. The tory Mason still talks about Syd with a certain arrogance that he wasn't pulling his weight.
The man was a genius....for a short while.
I'm saddened to hear he will never do a Brian Wilson and return to playing publicly and do a bit of a comeback (even though I know it was never possible).
I can't believe people are saying PF is better after Syd. The post Syd Floyd were mainly good but still their music felt like it was being painted-by-numbers whereas Syds music was free, intuitive and ingenious.
A desperately sad story.
Syd was the only only musician I've ever been obsessed with and probably ever will be.
The man was an artist not a rock star wannabe like Waters and Mason were desperate to become.
He was pushed way beyond his limits by the demands of the greedy side of the band. He suffered numerous breakdowns and yet waters and mason didn't really give a fuck. The tory Mason still talks about Syd with a certain arrogance that he wasn't pulling his weight.
The man was a genius....for a short while.
I'm saddened to hear he will never do a Brian Wilson and return to playing publicly and do a bit of a comeback (even though I know it was never possible).
I can't believe people are saying PF is better after Syd. The post Syd Floyd were mainly good but still their music felt like it was being painted-by-numbers whereas Syds music was free, intuitive and ingenious.
A desperately sad story.
northernhord
Active Member
Rip Syd
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
nightowl said:from cancer apparently
Cancer??
The Guardian piece (posted earlier in the thread) claimed 'complications related to diabetes' -- not mutually exclusive, but I'd have thought they'd mention cancer all the same
Either way, very sad news
.... there's another thread on Music ....
When I woke up today
and you weren't there to play
then I wanted to be with you
when you showed me your eyes
whispered love at the skies
then I wanted to stay with you
inside me I feel alone and unreal
and the way you kiss will always be
a very special thing to me...
When I lay still at night seeing
stars high and light
then I wanted to be with you
when the rooftops shone dark
all alone (I) saw a spark
spark of love just to stay with you
inside me I feel alone and unreal
and the way you kiss will always be
a very special thing to me...
If I mention your name
turn around on a chain
then the sky opens for you
when we grew very tall
when I saw you so small
then I wanted to stay with you
inside me I feel alone and unreal
and the way you kiss will always be
a very special thing to me...
and you weren't there to play
then I wanted to be with you
when you showed me your eyes
whispered love at the skies
then I wanted to stay with you
inside me I feel alone and unreal
and the way you kiss will always be
a very special thing to me...
When I lay still at night seeing
stars high and light
then I wanted to be with you
when the rooftops shone dark
all alone (I) saw a spark
spark of love just to stay with you
inside me I feel alone and unreal
and the way you kiss will always be
a very special thing to me...
If I mention your name
turn around on a chain
then the sky opens for you
when we grew very tall
when I saw you so small
then I wanted to stay with you
inside me I feel alone and unreal
and the way you kiss will always be
a very special thing to me...
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
I don't think he was on that one.Belushi said:
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
William of Walworth said:Cancer??
The Guardian piece (posted earlier in the thread) claimed 'complications related to diabetes' -- not mutually exclusive, but I'd have thought they'd mention cancer all the same
Either way, very sad news
I've just seen what appears to be a fairly recent photo of him and he was very overwieght, so we can presume the Guardian might be correct.
