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Location: NJ | Syd Barrett's dead.
60 years old. |
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Location: Illinois | Who he?
My condolences to the family. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | RIP, Syd. Hope the next run is kinder. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | "Who He?"...no, not "Who"...Pink Floyd He.
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Location: Scotland | I'm very surprised he made it to 60. |
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Location: closely held secret | I was surprised he survived the 60's. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Well, let's not forget his contribution to one of the greatest bands of all time. Strange how that all occurred with Waters and Gilmore. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I was surprised he survived the 60's. . ."
He didn't. (Not mentally, anyway.)
I never much cared for the Barrett-era Floyd stuff, but the guy did leave behind a bit of a legacy . . . |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Syd, peace.. shine on... |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Tim Chapman:
"Who He?"...no, not "Who"...Pink Floyd He.
Syd |
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Location: NJ | Try this link:
Syd Barrett |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by TommyK:
What? :confused: Syd Barret was one of the original Pink Floyd members.
Here\'s a decent historical recounting. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Isn't this whole thread like about "How much does that boat cost?" |
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| I saw The Floyd with Syd in about 67 or 68 (they were supporting Hendrix and The Nice) - to be honest he was a crap singer and a really , really crap guitar player. And acid didn't improve his p[laying although I think he thought it did.
Still, it's a sad way to have spent the last 40 years. But if he'd stayed in the band they would have faded in a year or two. Gilmour was the best thing that ever happened to them.
Peter Green was a sadder case. |
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Location: SoCal | Schroeder, Will you write my eulogy when I kick the bucket? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Asyd. |
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| "Schroeder, Will you write my eulogy when I kick the bucket?"
It would be an honour noah - you've done so many kindnesses for people on this board alone. I can't imagine you are any less of a person away from here. But if you'd like the gloves off approach, I can do that as well.
What pisses me off about 90% of dead rock stars is that the press/internet/brain-dead "fans" would have you believe that we just lost a musician of the rank of Mozart and a lyricist of the rank of Schiller or Shakespeare. A guy who wrote a couple of hit singles 30-odd years ago and took so many drugs his latent manic depression kicked in and sent him round the bend died. It's sad. Dimebag Darrell was sadder because he was murdered. But still - consider the doctors and nurses who are killed every year working for Medecin Sans Frontiers, The Red Cross, The Red Crescent. The cops who die in the line of duty. The sailors, riggers, construction workers who are killed doing nothing more than going to work every day.
Rock stars (ask anybody on this board who has met/worked for/with them) are usually takers not givers to either the society they live in or the people they meet.
The heavyweight press over here ( like The New York Times/Washington Post) have devoted pages and pages today to Syd Barrett. For F&*%'s sake.
That's all. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | You are so invited to any gathering I attend!
I'm posting this one to the wall! |
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Location: Colorado | Good one Noah. Put me on the list, too. |
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Location: Northeast Ohio | Wow, that was probably the BEST post i've read to date. We share the same point of view on that issue. Thanks schroeder.
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Waskel:
Originally posted by TommyK:
What? :confused: Syd Barret was one of the original Pink Floyd members.
Here\'s a decent historical recounting.
All kidding aside, Howard McNear had a stroke mid-season and when he was well enough, came back to the show and continued to act. They, initially, propped him up against the barber chair to do his part, then for a long time all his scenes were done sitting down in the chair or on a street bench. Couldn't stand up, but got up the gumption to go to work every morning and do his lines. Now THERE'S a 'survivor.' |
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Location: south east Michigan | Well said Schroeder!!!!
It drives me nuts when some well intending school or social group invites in some guest speaker billed as a "survivor" of all types of addictions and other self abuse. BULL!!! That just sends the message that you can make that decent into some sort of addiction hell and in time, come out the other side clean and healthy. BULL again!!!
I never understood the Clapton - Lennon/heroin, Townshend/booze-pills type of thing. Damn...they got the world by the short hairs and don't have the smarts to avoid putting their head into a wall. Stupid...just plain stupid. |
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Location: Illinois | Here here Slipkid. If you're trying to get kids off the stuff, that makes sense. If you're trying to keep them off the stuff they need to hold up Ozzie 'what day is it?' Osbourn as an example. Let them listen to that 'toast for brains' try to be interviewed, or that guitar burn-out that used to be with the Eagles, whose name I don't care to remember. Better yet, how's about someone like any of the 'Supremes' who died in poverty, choking on their own vomit?
Whatever happened to that poster my PE/Health coach had in the locker room "Smoking is Glamourous" over the head of some woman toking on a Lucky Strike with sunken in eyes, wrinkles you could hide a truck in, hair that might just as well be barbed wire and hands that looked like they belonged to and OLD longshoreman? Quite effective. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Tommy, you mean like these: Anti Smoking Posters ? |
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Location: Illinois | That's a good one, but this is the one I'm thinking of:
PS, I agree with Churchill. |
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Location: NJ | Hey,Moe!!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Tommy, I remember that poster! Didn't seem to have much effect on my generation. In the small town where I went to high school, girls knew that I would never date a girl that smoked. One young lady I dated a couple times tried to hide it from me, but I found out when I surprised her with a kiss. That's when I first learned to appreciate the expression, "like licking an ashtray." I don't think we had another date. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by schroeder:
Peter Green was a sadder case. Difference being, Peter Green is still playing, isn't he?
I saw him in London about 5 - 6 years ago. Lost most of his marbles, but still playing. |
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Location: Finland, Europe | http://www.mikseri.net/artists/valkoinen.51277.php
"Vaeltaja" is tribute to Syd...
Jukcat (Uolevi T.) bluesman from the Finnish forrest |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
In the small town where I went to high school, girls knew that I would never date a girl that smoked.... and Phillip Morris nominated him man of the year four years running in the mid '60's |
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| Never liked the early Pink Floyd either but much like Yes and so many other bands that were creating music in the late 60's they all were following that psychedelic genra..... I wonder what direction Sid would have taken the band in the 70's..... I hate to say it but it may not have been as inspiring and legendary as the direction Pink Floyd took with Waters & Gilmour..... At any rate I give Sid his credit and I feel no terrific sympathy for him.. Anyone who chooses to inflict the alcohol or drugs upon themselves and have the addictive personality and inibility to control their limits well then people like this need to have friends or family to help. apparently Sid did not.
Sid did inspire a bunch of good music from the rest of the band through the years though. And unfortunatly the press and the gossip we all share and partake in concerns people of a certain stature..... entertainers of all types are the favorite newspaper selling topics of gossip there are..... and in this society they always will be... And if Pink Floyd did not continue on to become one of the most record selling, arena packing bands of all time he may not have had anything more than a mention in the local paper from where he as born or lived when he died. As it was I think he did not recieve all that much attention.
By the way did Sid do any of the work on Meddle???? I always liked that acoustic song that has the lyrics...... "fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd.......smiiiiillllliiiiing....." I think it must be called Fearless.... anyway I always think of this line when playing on stage.
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| Well then I guess that settles that. thanks |
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