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Posted: July 11 2006 at 21:45

RIP Syd

WWOSD?
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Posted: July 11 2006 at 22:56

A word of sadness from Liam, Peru.

Long live Syd!!

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Posted: July 11 2006 at 23:20

Hi, i'm Cheese's sister, (He let me write something here)

Sad to hear 'bout Syd's death :(

He was symbol of creative genius and will be sadly missed in the music industry and in the hearts of all his fans. His music contains beauty and simplicity and in his lullaby-like tunes, eg. See Emily Play a sense of the innocence he still looked at the world with.

Syd Barret, a true artist.

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Posted: July 11 2006 at 23:33

I know this may sound cheesy, but without Syd, I don't even think I would be here right now. Pink Floyd was the first band I was really into, and besides a compilation, Saucerful was my first realy Prog album. RIP Syd, another legend lost this year. So many Prog greats have passed as of late: Mr. Dean, Rick van der Linden, Bob Moog, Pierre Moerlen, and now Syd, among others.

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 00:22

RIP Syd, wish you were here ...

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 00:35

lump in the throat like you wouldn't believe

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 00:40

Shie on You Crazy Diamond...R.I.P Syd

I can't wait to share this new wonder...The people will all see its light!

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 00:41

You're the man, Syd. You are the piper at the gates of dawn. Without you, those other guys would never get close to where they are now. You endured madness and being ejected from the band that you loved so much. You will always be the spirit of what Pink Floyd is. You are and will be dearly missed.

R.I.P. Syd Barrett 1946-2006

"How I wish, how I wish you were here, we're just two lost souls swimmin' in a fish bowl, year after year. Runnin'...over the same old ground, what have we found....the same old tears...I wish you were here."
Shine on, Syd.

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 02:52

RIP Syd

I guess the drugs got to him in the end

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 03:30

To repeat from another thread - it's a tribute to Syd on it's own the number of threads started in his memory...

Syd may have only been with Floyd for one album (technically), but without Syd Barrett, it's arguable there would have been no Pink Floyd, and that is unthinkable.

Personally, I was not too keen on his later solo material, but the man has my undying thanks for bringing together Waters, Wright & Mason... and letting Gilmour, his roadie, take over when it became necessary. He may not have left a large canon of music, but his legacy was and is the very existence of Pink Floyd.

I'll not dwell on his descent into illness, but 60 years old is too young - Rest In Peace, Syd; may the madcap continue to laugh!

Edited by Jim Garten - July 12 2006 at 03:31

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 06:26

Shine on Syd ! At Peace at last...

"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 07:48

I guess diamonds are NOT forever

So long Syd

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 08:21

Australian wrote:

I guess the drugs got to him in the end

Really? And what do you base that guess on?

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 09:19

Australian wrote:

I guess the drugs got to him in the end

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 12:42

Teaflax wrote:

Australian wrote:

I guess the drugs got to him in the end

Really? And what do you base that guess on?

Media-distributed myths of how LSD users grow horns, set fires, and jump out windows LOL

I'm rather disappointed that Syd has become the primary example of an 'Acid Casualty' --- it's tragic really, because;

1. He was born with schizophrenia/synaesthesia and his earliest works were already showing his secret breakdown
2. People focus on the drugs and not on his own personal natural creative force that came from the heart
3. Nobody blames the Mad Hatters for spiking his drinks with LSD all the time without him consenting to it; they act as if he willingly subjected himself to the 1mg LSD experience repeatedly

Today as a tribute to Syd I'm going to watch his first acid trip.
You can find a little under 11 minutes of it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BUliMqPcrW8&search=syd%20barrett%20acid%20trip

Syd was the closest thing to a true Astral Man this earth has ever seen.
He's flying with Leary and Thompson now.

I miss him already Cry

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 13:33

Also, I thought I'd quote Gilmour... this song was obviously about Syd, many years after the fact. Gilmour clearly feels guilty for taking Syd's place. In the first stanza he is talking about Syd, and the second one refers to Roger.

Poles Apart

Did you know... It was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was going to be so right for me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes

Hey you... did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes.

The rain fell slow, down on the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know...

I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes

Edited by DeepPhreeze - July 12 2006 at 13:34

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 13:36

DeepPhreeze wrote:

Teaflax wrote:

Australian wrote:

I guess the drugs got to him in the end

Really? And what do you base that guess on?

Media-distributed myths of how LSD users grow horns, set fires, and jump out windows LOL

LSD is the most misunderstood substance in the universe, and he really didn't fall because of it-it was because of things packed away in his psyche he didn't know of.

Don't forget Ken Kesey!

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Posted: July 12 2006 at 13:45

LSD is the most misunderstood substance in the universe

Sad, isn't it? I mean that the human race would lock itself out of something so beautiful?

I think people are generally too ignorant to know that they can 'know' themselves. They think 'knowing' themselves just means knowing what they like or how they act... but never how they work or what makes them tick.

:( I'm sure Syd's happy now...

Heh, Flaming just came on. Now I don't feel so bad about him dying :)

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