These documentaries about Syd Barrett keep getting constantly repeated, the same story rehashed but in different forms just for the sake of profit, but I'm not fooled by this, seen the same story 10 years ago...Cheers...😵
@@spittingvenom9148 David bowie and Jimmy Paige was influenced by him...i prefer to listen to those 2 legends. However I see what you're saying he wasnt even in the game long enough to deem him as that but I truly believe if he just stuck through he wouldve been.
The drummer in my band is schizotypal, a chronic cannabis user, and is generally seen as a mad poet. We love him and he's talented AF but like Syd, got too high and never fully came down. I help take care of him for every day stuff, we all do. A loveable man like Syd who got too close to the sun in the music industry and burned out. They are beautiful people inside.
Roger "floyd" Waters, he IS Pink Floyd & he won't let you forget it... He's a Virgo control freak, Dave should have written most of the songs, Roger wouldn't allow him to 😈
@@thegameshowguy123 Dave couldn't write all those songs, that's why he needed an army of outside writers and musicians to write the 2 Floyd albums once Roger left.
Jenner’s comments about Madcap and Barrett are so small and narrow. Of course they aren’t what they could have been. Of course, they were produced by a damaged and reduced Syd. If you could open up your brain, little man, you might recognize that several of those pieces - Octopus, Dominoes, Dark Globe, Late Night - rough as they are, reveal even more genius than Piper.
Exactly, very good songs on these two solo albums and most of them better than what's on Piper. They are more serious, sensitive, and personal; the lyrics are incredible on most songs - I'd have to emphasize No Man's Land as well as No Good Trying, She Took a Long Cold Look, Feel. I have to be honest, some songs on Barrett really showcase Syd's declining mental readiness, the lyrics that is. On Madcap Laughs, it's the performance that leaves a lot to be desired, but the lyrics are not only incredible for most of the songs but also fairly approachable and relatable. On a lot of songs on Macap Laughs, Syd Barrett appears to talk directly to a human being with whom he had a relationship and this makes it so relatable. Rob Chapman nicely put that Barrett seems to be in a "mourning" mode on Madcap Laughs, he seems to be handling a serious emotional loss. This goes for "Barrett" too, but only to a certain extent. The Barrett album is, in a way, a lot more hermetic, probably due to Syd's gradual estrangement. Songs such as "Word Song" (not published on "Barrett" but recorded in the same period), "Rats", "It is Obvious", "Baby Lemonade" to me seem very disturbing, distant, somewhat cold, Syd appearing not only lonely, but estranged, as if imprisoned in his own world. We do have "Dominoes" I'd say Barrett's most emotional song, the most powerful one that he wrote, which makes "Barrett" the album even more disturbing and tragic. "Milky Way" is another very emotional song on "Barrett" sessions.
Stuff done by him in the early seventies shows he was not mad and all that stuff He had more talent than all the other floyd members who treated him like s%-it
Wide parts are taken from the interviews Mr. John Edginton did, with the key statements being cut together, plus some other easily accessible interview material. Nothing new here at all. In the US and UK people believe doing a row of interviews instead of real research is a documentation.
Peter Kroll so real research is ofcourse something many people would be interested in....like myself for example. I don’t like black white stuff either....but I’d like to get more comfortable with his story. So far I think he tried to embrace that religion he was refused entry in to on his own and his band mates weren’t right for HIM. He said in an interview the were students of architecture and “boring”. This broadcast is the first I heard he was very stubborn which turns on some lights. And the man could not have been without some ego. This is my 3rd day of “research”. Ha ha....I like to be a little obsessed with a thing and not many things grab me. So.....what I mean to say....can you direct me to some stuff you have found that strikes a chord with you regarding Barrett? Thanks
Apart from his creativity and writing, which were great, Syd still holds the record for being the only member of Pink Floyd who could actually sing. Richard, Dave, Roger, none of them could carry a tune, not like Syd. He had a phenomenal voice.
It is obvious..oh may I say oh baby...that it is found on a different plain..... I can creep in to cupboards..sleep in the hall....... Syd had such a Cambridge unique way of writing and seeing things..defo one of England's best song writers n poets... his solo stuff is so so so underrated...production wise it is what it is....I tend to like the rawness .Syd didn't need to do more.... the guy made paintings then did another painting over the top .again and again..that's a guy who is not motivated by money....had the music business remained a open artistic place.not so motivated by money n fame . .maybe he might have stuck around..I dought it tho...Syd was a searcher...a artist ..a one off
The healthy Syd Barrett was very creative. He was a talented, gifted young man. The first record with Pink Floyd The Piper... is a good record. Unfortunately he had the wrong friends. He took LSD several times a week. That's too much. No brain can handle that... Syd wrote 52 songs. On his 2 solo records Syd was on the verge of schizophrenia... Drug addiction is a mental illness!!! He was lethargic... He didn't live in the here and now... He had problems thinking and speaking..... He could no longer play the right scale... He wanted to climb walls.... He wanted to start a cult... He wanted to hit his sister Rosemary on the head with his guitar 🎸... He wanted to become a doctor and get married.... At 22, Syd was a sick person.. Psychiatry wasn't advanced enough at the time... He stopped therapy.. 🎞️🎥 His whole life should be made into a film.. I don't know if he ever found redemption or peace for his soul ???? He failed as a painter and musician.
That’s what I’ve heard through the schizophrenia world, as my son has schizophrenia. The acid was probably the trigger. My son’s was marijuana. Schizophrenia does cause a person to lose so much. I don’t think he was officially diagnosed, but his isolating reclusiveness is classic schizophrenia.
If he really had a predisposition for schizophrenia anymore than you and I have, he would get really crazy right from his first intense trips that probably happened in 1965 and 1966 because he started using LSD in 65; keep in mind that LSD was legal during those initial years and the doses were HEROIC. No one knew about the dosing and micrograms and whatnot and they had lots of LSD and were young. So if he had a predisposition he would get a psychosis in those early years of his LSD use. PLUS his heavy cannabis use which started probably earlier in 64 or even earlier. So the underlying schizophrenia doesn't really work.
There is no reversing the affects of LSD. Once it leaches the life from your nervous system, it takes years and years to see any rebound from the damage. Take care of yourselves.
Well, if you have predisposition conditions like Syd, and then becoming friends with the chemists, using it for weeks on end, abuse is abuse. However, responsible use just simply doesn't end this way, though they didn't know that at the time. I'm not sure to where you get this notion of leaching the body or the nervous system, if you mean 'trapped in spinal fluid', which simply isn't true, 'cid' leaves your body within 12-14 hours, but you can have small flashbacks which last maybe 5 seconds, which is more to do so with the mind and frequency of use, along with other drugs such as doing it in short rapid succession, 6 months break in between trips at a minimum. Each to their own though...
@@adg4861 no, not each to there own when you are putting a poison in your body. It's good to caution people to care for themselves in a more positive fashion. LSD is most certainly the filthiest in the group of psychotropic drugs. If for whatever reason someone had to, microdosing mushrooms is the safest way and far more gentle on the nervous system.
@@adg4861 and "this notion of leaching the nervous system" is an absolute fact. You need to do some research, listen to lectures from doctors and others in the know and stop peddling the idea acid is ok. It's trash.
@@adg4861 I'm not sure why you think there is such a thing as 'responsible drug use'. It's like 'socially acceptable drinking': it's acceptable until it isn't.
I'm certain now Neil Young wrote "Naked Rider" (Hawks and Doves?) for Syd. This first hit me on an analytic level - old homestead, although the moon isn't full, he still feels the pull, and the similar, er, vectors of their given names.... And then, "it" hit me. The muse itself glyphed. Pretty deep stuff, all 'round.
How awful of you to say….totally disagree! I love Syd but he bares some responsibility for his own demise. Why should everyone suffer because of his choices. The band tried to do a lot for Syd before they “let him go”
@@rapsody9546 lol 🤣 I'm glad.i upset a DG fan a man who withheld SYDs finest song Bob Dylan blues along with in the beechwoods vegetable man and scream thy last scream. He sabotaged SYDs success and you are a brainwashed DSOTM type . I can see that's a great album but had SB worked with Kevin Ayers and not DG and if those songs had been kept on saucerful then there would have been no doubt it was still SYDs band . Instead all we got were weaker songs for the 2 DG controlled solo albums . It's a pity he didn't break free from his Treacherous colleagues who booted him out made sure his frankly better songs were sabotaged and even made sure set the controls for the heart of the sun and and let there be more light of which there is undoubtedly live evidence from early performances of those songs that SB was not even credited on those songs . Ive known friends of SB in the know mate
Syd hated commercialism. Syd really was a painter first and when he started getting noticed. He hated it!! He didn't like to even be seen.Syd was definitely a LSD head and schizophrenic. His head must've driving himself crazy as documented. Shame that he went into total seclusion. After he was finished recording he never brought up his musical career again.
15:26 "We kind of hoped that he would give us lots more great songs."
I guess he did, in a way… but as the inspiration.
Well he did in the form of Madcap Laughs as well as Barrett album.
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Syd's story is tragicaly beautiful, his life & songs will always touch people's hearts & imagination. 😢
These documentaries about Syd Barrett keep getting constantly repeated, the same story rehashed but in different forms just for the sake of profit, but I'm not fooled by this, seen the same story 10 years ago...Cheers...😵
So which one is pink? SYD BARRETT
Shine on Syd.
Syd is still the psychedelic prophet.
Jeff Stewart if you ever read the wind in the willows you’ll see that Syd was not that, but truly he was the piper at the gates of dawn...
Yes, he's a profhet, with a profit, $$$ - LOL 🙃
Prophet of what?
@@spittingvenom9148 David bowie and Jimmy Paige was influenced by him...i prefer to listen to those 2 legends. However I see what you're saying he wasnt even in the game long enough to deem him as that but I truly believe if he just stuck through he wouldve been.
ya robert Hunter and jerry Garcia .
A legend surrounded by free loaders
“I don’t care if the sun don’t shine / I don’t care if nothing is mine...”
I’m glad that we were all able to experience him
The drummer in my band is schizotypal, a chronic cannabis user, and is generally seen as a mad poet. We love him and he's talented AF but like Syd, got too high and never fully came down. I help take care of him for every day stuff, we all do. A loveable man like Syd who got too close to the sun in the music industry and burned out. They are beautiful people inside.
but not responsible adults . ..
@@peterbetts858 Definitely not. They don't handle reality well.
Syd was Pink, Roger is Floyd!
Roger "floyd" Waters, he IS Pink Floyd & he won't let you forget it...
He's a Virgo control freak, Dave should have written most of the songs, Roger wouldn't allow him to 😈
No.
@@thegameshowguy123 Dave couldn't write all those songs, that's why he needed an army of outside writers and musicians to write the 2 Floyd albums once Roger left.
'Syd' wasn't Barrett's first name, y'know. His real first name was Roger. So in a way you're right, 'Roger' is Floyd.
@@neilpeartspurplenose8739 Dave came up with the beautiful melodies. Roger was primarily a lyricist. And you are a f***ing idiot.
Syd Barrett: The Ultimate Artist
I like Syds Madcapp Laughs, I enjoy his songs, I feel like he was very ahead of his time.
Dud Barret haunts me for some reason.Don’t know why.
Michael, I agree with you, his story haunts me too.
There is a video of Syd and Flloyd in America on America Bandstand..Syd looks terrible. It's so disturbing. Poor guy.
Acid is no joke.
Tragic story....
great interviews.
Jenner’s comments about Madcap and Barrett are so small and narrow. Of course they aren’t what they could have been. Of course, they were produced by a damaged and reduced Syd. If you could open up your brain, little man, you might recognize that several of those pieces - Octopus, Dominoes, Dark Globe, Late Night - rough as they are, reveal even more genius than Piper.
Exactly, very good songs on these two solo albums and most of them better than what's on Piper. They are more serious, sensitive, and personal; the lyrics are incredible on most songs - I'd have to emphasize No Man's Land as well as No Good Trying, She Took a Long Cold Look, Feel.
I have to be honest, some songs on Barrett really showcase Syd's declining mental readiness, the lyrics that is. On Madcap Laughs, it's the performance that leaves a lot to be desired, but the lyrics are not only incredible for most of the songs but also fairly approachable and relatable. On a lot of songs on Macap Laughs, Syd Barrett appears to talk directly to a human being with whom he had a relationship and this makes it so relatable. Rob Chapman nicely put that Barrett seems to be in a "mourning" mode on Madcap Laughs, he seems to be handling a serious emotional loss. This goes for "Barrett" too, but only to a certain extent.
The Barrett album is, in a way, a lot more hermetic, probably due to Syd's gradual estrangement. Songs such as "Word Song" (not published on "Barrett" but recorded in the same period), "Rats", "It is Obvious", "Baby Lemonade" to me seem very disturbing, distant, somewhat cold, Syd appearing not only lonely, but estranged, as if imprisoned in his own world. We do have "Dominoes" I'd say Barrett's most emotional song, the most powerful one that he wrote, which makes "Barrett" the album even more disturbing and tragic. "Milky Way" is another very emotional song on "Barrett" sessions.
Stuff done by him in the early seventies shows he was not mad and all that stuff
He had more talent than all the other floyd members who treated him like s%-it
100%
Well said madcap is my favourite album of all time hands down masterpiece nothing compares
@@kikidee3204 I prefer "Barrett", but they're both great.
Alex
Boy I don’t know about that.
How is there not a Syd Barrett biopic yet?
God, don't let Hollywood loose on the life of Syd Barrett. I dread to think what they'd produce. And anyway, who could possibly portray Syd?
Wide parts are taken from the interviews Mr. John Edginton did, with the key statements being cut together, plus some other easily accessible interview material. Nothing new here at all.
In the US and UK people believe doing a row of interviews instead of real research is a documentation.
Peter Kroll so real research is ofcourse something many people would be interested in....like myself for example. I don’t like black white stuff either....but I’d like to get more comfortable with his story. So far I think he tried to embrace that religion he was refused entry in to on his own and his band mates weren’t right for HIM. He said in an interview the were students of architecture and “boring”. This broadcast is the first I heard he was very stubborn which turns on some lights. And the man could not have been without some ego. This is my 3rd day of “research”. Ha ha....I like to be a little obsessed with a thing and not many things grab me. So.....what I mean to say....can you direct me to some stuff you have found that strikes a chord with you regarding Barrett? Thanks
Post-Barrett Floyd sounds to me _exactly_ what "boring architecture students" would do ;)
My thoughts exactly blackmore4
The USA and the UK also consider propaganda "News", so no surprise there.
especially on the www because , regardless of the quality of the content they still get money for clics .
Apart from his creativity and writing, which were great, Syd still holds the record for being the only member of Pink Floyd who could actually sing. Richard, Dave, Roger, none of them could carry a tune, not like Syd. He had a phenomenal voice.
I think Dave gilmour can sing.
@@allisonchainz82 nothing Iike Syd could.
@@davidprice7162 Don't talk soft.
David Gilmour is a good singer as well as Richard Wright; it's Roger Waters who doesn't really sing well but then again it doesn't really matter.
It is obvious..oh may I say oh baby...that it is found on a different plain..... I can creep in to cupboards..sleep in the hall....... Syd had such a Cambridge unique way of writing and seeing things..defo one of England's best song writers n poets... his solo stuff is so so so underrated...production wise it is what it is....I tend to like the rawness .Syd didn't need to do more.... the guy made paintings then did another painting over the top .again and again..that's a guy who is not motivated by money....had the music business remained a open artistic place.not so motivated by money n fame . .maybe he might have stuck around..I dought it tho...Syd was a searcher...a artist ..a one off
The healthy Syd Barrett was very creative. He was a talented, gifted young man. The first record with Pink Floyd The Piper... is a good record. Unfortunately he had the wrong friends. He took LSD several times a week. That's too much. No brain can handle that... Syd wrote 52 songs. On his 2 solo records Syd was on the verge of schizophrenia... Drug addiction is a mental illness!!! He was lethargic... He didn't live in the here and now... He had problems thinking and speaking..... He could no longer play the right scale... He wanted to climb walls.... He wanted to start a cult... He wanted to hit his sister Rosemary on the head with his guitar 🎸... He wanted to become a doctor and get married.... At 22, Syd was a sick person.. Psychiatry wasn't advanced enough at the time... He stopped therapy.. 🎞️🎥 His whole life should be made into a film.. I don't know if he ever found redemption or peace for his soul ???? He failed as a painter and musician.
He was schizophrenic, the drugs exasperated his mental illness
That’s what I’ve heard through the schizophrenia world, as my son has schizophrenia. The acid was probably the trigger. My son’s was marijuana. Schizophrenia does cause a person to lose so much. I don’t think he was officially diagnosed, but his isolating reclusiveness is classic schizophrenia.
If he really had a predisposition for schizophrenia anymore than you and I have, he would get really crazy right from his first intense trips that probably happened in 1965 and 1966 because he started using LSD in 65; keep in mind that LSD was legal during those initial years and the doses were HEROIC. No one knew about the dosing and micrograms and whatnot and they had lots of LSD and were young. So if he had a predisposition he would get a psychosis in those early years of his LSD use. PLUS his heavy cannabis use which started probably earlier in 64 or even earlier.
So the underlying schizophrenia doesn't really work.
Nice information on this person. Love this and all their reflective memories of him.
There is no reversing the affects of LSD. Once it leaches the life from your nervous system, it takes years and years to see any rebound from the damage. Take care of yourselves.
Well, if you have predisposition conditions like Syd, and then becoming friends with the chemists, using it for weeks on end, abuse is abuse. However, responsible use just simply doesn't end this way, though they didn't know that at the time. I'm not sure to where you get this notion of leaching the body or the nervous system, if you mean 'trapped in spinal fluid', which simply isn't true, 'cid' leaves your body within 12-14 hours, but you can have small flashbacks which last maybe 5 seconds, which is more to do so with the mind and frequency of use, along with other drugs such as doing it in short rapid succession, 6 months break in between trips at a minimum. Each to their own though...
@@adg4861 no, not each to there own when you are putting a poison in your body. It's good to caution people to care for themselves in a more positive fashion. LSD is most certainly the filthiest in the group of psychotropic drugs. If for whatever reason someone had to, microdosing mushrooms is the safest way and far more gentle on the nervous system.
@@adg4861 and "this notion of leaching the nervous system" is an absolute fact. You need to do some research, listen to lectures from doctors and others in the know and stop peddling the idea acid is ok. It's trash.
Oh brother!
@@adg4861 I'm not sure why you think there is such a thing as 'responsible drug use'. It's like 'socially acceptable drinking': it's acceptable until it isn't.
Syd got an obituary - in The Sun??? I didn't know that. Strange, very strange. So who was the Syd Barrett disciple, hiding away in Murdoch's empire?
Here in New York, USA there were obituaries in several papers ❤
Syd was politely bored in this interview.
Lo Bueno Dura poko
Is this BBC Radio One? Thank you so much for sharing the world. Great Radio Documentary.
It was on BBC Radio 4, in 2011. You’re very welcome! :)
@@aphroditemf can I use the audio for my short video about Syd Barrett?
@@AladdinSoul Go ahead dude!
Gee, David comes out squeaky clean after this sanitised narrative.
I want to hear from Roger
MidWest Psychedelia! 1967...Great tune for 1st day of Spring!
What's the Point here of Roger missing??? Am i in a wrong Film? Excuse meeeee.....!?
Hence, Are You Experienced ?
I'm certain now Neil Young wrote "Naked Rider" (Hawks and Doves?) for Syd. This first hit me on an analytic level - old homestead, although the moon isn't full, he still feels the pull, and the similar, er, vectors of their given names.... And then, "it" hit me. The muse itself glyphed. Pretty deep stuff, all 'round.
W from nekro reptiles Aliens etc...NnunKy """
We're all unique..
No David the reason Syd stares in an unfriendly manner at the see Emily play session is because he thought your a cxxx!
How awful of you to say….totally disagree! I love Syd but he bares some responsibility for his own demise. Why should everyone suffer because of his choices. The band tried to do a lot for Syd before they “let him go”
@@rapsody9546 lol 🤣 I'm glad.i upset a DG fan a man who withheld SYDs finest song Bob Dylan blues along with in the beechwoods vegetable man and scream thy last scream. He sabotaged SYDs success and you are a brainwashed DSOTM type . I can see that's a great album but had SB worked with Kevin Ayers and not DG and if those songs had been kept on saucerful then there would have been no doubt it was still SYDs band . Instead all we got were weaker songs for the 2 DG controlled solo albums . It's a pity he didn't break free from his Treacherous colleagues who booted him out made sure his frankly better songs were sabotaged and even made sure set the controls for the heart of the sun and and let there be more light of which there is undoubtedly live evidence from early performances of those songs that SB was not even credited on those songs . Ive known friends of SB in the know mate
True
Syd hated commercialism. Syd really was a painter first and when he started getting noticed. He hated it!! He didn't like to even be seen.Syd was definitely a LSD head and schizophrenic. His head must've driving himself crazy as documented. Shame that he went into total seclusion. After he was finished recording he never brought up his musical career again.
When you're overwhelmed by your own mind, seclusion is the only way to have any kind of peace.
Just add 420 to this song.....
come on you legend
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