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I've spent countless hours filling my head with enough information
on Syd Barrett that it would make his old boyhood friend, Roger Waters
sick. I've visited every website possible related to Syd Barrett, read
articles, and even started this file over half a dozen unsuccessful
times. But here it is, my very own personal thoughts on him, the one and
only, Syd Barrett.
OK, here's what I know about Syd: Uhm, he was in Pink Floyd and I
guess he was friends with the guys in Pink Floyd and he wrote some really
fucked up shit that sounds nothing like the celestial majesty that came
with later Floyd releases like WISH YOU WERE HERE or DARK SIDE OF THE
MOON or THE WALL. Instead Barrett worked on the insipid PIPER AT THE
GATES OF DAWN, its desultory style mostly the result of his chronic LSD
abuse. Unlike the other guys in the band, Barrett was really into drug
use and it shows, his stuff is FUCKED UP and it sounds all crazy. It's
too chaotic and silly and just sounds like a bunch of fairy tales and
it's not anything like the stunningingly complex and in-depth things that
later Roger Waters would accomplish.
Eventually the guys in Pink Floyd decided they'd like to be a real
band, so they kicked him out. He went on to do two solo albums; THE
MADCAP LAUGHS and BARRETT. Both of these albums would SUCK! if it weren't
for the fact that his replacement in Pink Floyd, Dave Gilmoure, produced
them with the help of Roger Waters and uh the other guy. You KNOW that
they did all the work and all Syd did was babble some shit about the
faeires and elves in Elfland.
so, ok, you gotta understand, SYD BARRETT took a lot of drugs,
right? He took acid in his coffee and acid in his tea and acid in his
food and fed acid to his cats and he dunked his head in buckets of liquid
acid and try to go on stage and when he was on stage he'd be taking acid!
He took acid 15 times a day for a year straight! And he wasn't the most
sane guy to begin with, so you know, the acid FUCKED HIM UP. He went
crazy and started being totally useless to the band, so they kicked him
out, because they wanted to make MUSIC and not some fancy schmancy faery
tales about the elven queen and her minions in hell.
Syd went crazy as hell. It's that simple. He went totally nuts.
Now he lives in Cambridge and rides a bike and it's a very nice bike, and
he doesn't know anything that's going on at all. OK, even though I sort
of hate Syd Barrett, I like one song called OCTOPUS (also known as CLOWNS
AND JUGGLERS) and here are some of the lyrics:
"Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
you have no word
trip, trip to a dream dragon
hide your wings in a ghost tower
sails cackling at every plate we break
cracked by scattered needles
the little minute gong
coughs and clears his throat
madam you see before you stand
hey ho, never be still
the old original favorite grand
grasshoppers green Herbarian band
and the tune they play is "In Us Confide"
so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
you have no word
Please leave us here
close our eyes to the octopus ride!
Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
meant even less to me than I thought
with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
hey ho, huff the Talbot
"Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo
it's true in their tree they cried
Please leave us here
close our eyes to the octopus ride!
The madcap laughed at the man on the border
hey ho, huff the Talbot
the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
they'll never put me in their bag
the seas will reach and always seep
so high you go, so low you creep
the wind it blows in tropical heat
the drones they throng on mossy seats
the squeaking door will always squeak
two up, two down we'll never meet
so merrily trip forgo my side
Please leave us here
close our eyes to the octopus ride!"
It describes my life, just switch the just switch the Talbots and
woods. It is very moving and I connect with it very well.
With Syd Barrett's unique, musical ways, and his fucked up drug
brain, he brought a whole level of stupidity to Pink Floyd that the band
spent several years trying to escape. If you want to hear some wicked
good guitar though, check out "Interstellar Overdrive" on PIPER AT THE
GATES OF DAWN. Wonderful fuzz box distortion, I promise. From "sucking
down more acid than chemical waste" and realizing "life is pointless and
despair is my only friend," Barrett has taught us that "its a blessing to
get fucked up beyond belief and destroy your mind" and that it is okay
to be a "dreamer".
It's also ok to love one another, I guess.
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