Syd Barrett: The Haunting Legacy Of Pink Floyd’s Fallen Genius (Full Documentary) | Amplified
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Syd Barrett - Under Review features rare live and studio performances from this hugely influential and legendary musician, interspersed with the independent review and criticism from a panel of esteemed experts.
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When I was a teenager, I bought The Piper at the Gates of Dawn out of curiosity to hear this first album from the makers of The Dark Side of the Moon, an album that changed my views on what music could be. I was instantly mesmerized by how different it was. It had this enchanting elegance wrapped in psychedelic experimentation. I became obsessed with the album and the story of Syd Barrett. Piper continues to be one of my favorite albums, and I am eternally grateful for Syd’s contributions to our world.
Nothing Syd recorded was disturbing. Very thoughtful and full of childlike wonder and more soo magical
Uhh, have you heard of Jugband Blues? Disturbing yes because it's a reflection of his declining mental health but still a masterpiece despite Syd's fragile mindset at time.
Always puts me in a good mood, so beautiful!!
“The Madcap Laughs” is a great album, I also find it disturbing. He was still at the peak of his powers but was definitely fading away and describing it brilliantly. Syd was an artist.
Too much of a good thing...it does happen.💔 Everything in moderation kids. Proceed with caution ⚠️.
You can actually hear his mind falling apart on that album. Same with Jugband Blues and Bike. Its the sound of a man going insane.
@@jessicajujubean5004 I know. So sad. God bless his precious soul. He's good now though. Made whole again. 💜
Madcap and the one with insects were his solo efforts a few years after he left Floyd. Piper was when he was his peak.
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I prefer “The Madcap Laughs”, though I love “Piper” too.
Syd had a way with words,he played with words no one would have come up with, An Effervescing Elephant, simple yet beautiful. Very childlike,innocent yet it touches your heart.Syd you are missed.
His father was a wordsmith!
@@Sandwich13455you say that his father was a wordsmith !?? ...we know about his mother , but nothing about his father.... Can you please elaborate !??
I always found the Barrett era as punk adjacent. Brilliant really
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Me too.
I ❤ Syd Barrett
You Didn't Even Talk About
Syd Barretts Best Solo Song
Late Night From The
MadCap Laughs .
I Been Listening To Syd Barrett Since I Was 18 During The Early 1990s .
I Dig Floyd 😎
I wrote this for him!
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I have a melody maker from may or april 1967, when Jimi Hendrix was just coming up, Arnold Layne was in the charts as well as purple haze ,as a 19 year old it's pure madness looking at that man
Thank you for releasing this!
Without the false starts and flubs, the album wouldn't be the same. By including all that, it feels more of a time capsule than an album.
This made my year. THANK YOU LOVE ! ❤️ 💕
ive been curious about him since the 90's when i first started listening to Pink Floyd. I only knew about TheWall and The Dark Side Of The Moon. Im just now getting around to learn more about him. Heck, i didnt even know they were from England. Very very talented guy.
My point of my previous comment, sorry I didn't point out initially, was that 1967 psychedelic tended to be levels ahead trippyness wise compared with the more folkedelic sounds of 1966. However, the Beatles with Tomorrow Never Knows on their Revolver album did prove to be as psychedelic as any of their '67 works if not more trippy in some cases. It went hand in hand I guess. The 1966-68 time frame of psychedelia, music wise namely, is truly an irreplaceable era that has truly withstood the hands of time above and beyond anything we have this day and age especially, hands down, in my opinion.
Of course we now know that Revolver was a better album the the hyped Sergeant Pepper.
Very good doc indeed... but when it talks about Jugband Blues as the example of Syd's awareness of his own condition... there's another song that explains his awareness even more than JB, and it's Vegetable Man. The lyrics of VM are just the description of his inner confusion, written in a moment of amazing clarity, so honest to the point of sounding a bit scary, knowing what's behind them.... No doubt he was an extraordinary artist.
I would love your take on my poem I wrote for Syd Barrett
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And vegetable man
In reference to the term used in this documentary: Mandrake (Mandragara officinarum), an hallucinogen with a fantastic history, has long been known and feared for its toxicity. It has a complex history as a magic hypnotic in the folklore of Europe. It was bound up with the "Doctrine of Signitures" a theory holding that the appearance of an object indicates its special properties.
The drug Syd used was Mandrax (often in combination with alcohol) which, despite the similarities of the name, bears no relationship to the nightshade family herb mandrake, as far as I know.
Wikipedia mentions that at one time when Mandrax was a popular recreational drug, it was sometimes nicknamed 'mandrake' as well as simply 'mandies' by users - thus the confusion, perhaps.
Interestingly, in his painstakingly researched biography of Syd, 'A Very Irregular Head', Rob Chapman mounts a strong argument that it was that combination of large quantities of Mandrax and alcohol that was likely to have done the most neurological harm rather than the acid, if indeed Syd's brain was damaged. He was never diagnosed with any specific mental illness or neurological condition, despite spending some time in a psychiatric hospital.
@@papercup2517 There is correlative evidence between the use of hallucinogenic plants used as folk medicine ( Henbane, Belladonna, Amanit muscaria, Dhatura, Virola calophylla etcetera) and the experimental art of that era. It suggests there may have been being intentionality by the artists of that generation to break into new modes of visual and musical representation through the use of such plants and/or their derividives.
@@italogiardina8183 That's quite possible. But there's no evidence, AFAIK, that Syd used Mandrake or any of the other herbal drugs you mention.
Some of what people have assumed indicated a drug-induced mental breakdown, like 'odd' behaviour during performances, may have been Syd pursuing his ideas about art that he began to develop at art school, and which many other artists in various fields were also pursuing around that time.
The impression I got from Rob Chapman's book was that Syd was far more interested in exploring and expressing these artistic ideas than in becoming a commercial musical success, and found he hated the artificiality of celebrity and the pressures success brought, like intensive touring, whereas the rest of the PF were very motivated to push their musical careers as far as they could.
Thus the divergence of two realities - a conceptual art-based one and a pop music career-based one.
My best guess is that a combination of Syd trying to continue pushing conceptual boundaries together with heavy drug and alcohol consumption gradually made it more and more difficult for him to relate to mainstream consensus reality, until he had no alternative but to withdraw back to his family/ home town of Cambridge for refuge, to continue to pursue his private interests, primarily through painting.
@@papercup2517 Performance art, dubbed as 'happenings' conceptually was the rage at that time, and so had been the use of folk medicines. So the claim is general, rather than about a person, or band. It is impossible to be certain, but as you say "it's quite possible", in any possible world, which was explored ad Infinitum.
@@italogiardina8183 Indeed, I remember such happenings well, taking place (mostly, though not exclusively) in this physical world, and organised or participated in a few myself. The old 'herbal tobacco' (ie cannabis sativa, resin or leaves) was much used at that time and inspired quite a lot of creativity, while possibly limiting it in other ways, due to the lethargy it sometimes induced. I don't know about the other herbs you mention specifically, but people were interested in and always experimenting with or discussing such psycho-active substances and their possibilities, artistic or otherwise. :-)
A lesson for future generations. The debate at 11.02 is how one is meant to debate. We've all become too sensitive about critique.
Sorry to all you "The Pink Floyd" purists and Syd Barrett die hard fans, give me Dave Gilmour and "Pink Floyd" any day of the week, any time, all the time.
Again my apologies, but the Syd Barrett early albums come across as nursery rhymeish and childish dare i say and lack the ooomph and sophisticated polish that came with Gilmour.
I think Dave Gilmour was more than sufficient replacement for the mercurial, genius that was Syd Barrett.
Dave Gilmour brought a steady sophistication to the Pink Floyd sound and his contribution simply cannot be underestimated.
I understand that Syd was a founding member of the band and shouldered the song writing responsibilities, but let's be honest, the lyrics were innocent yet hugely childish.
DSOTM, The Wall, WYWH...c'mon.
Anyway, thank u Syd for your initial contribution to the juggernaut that is "PINK FLOYD" 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for sharing with us!
When experiencing the joys & miseries of illegal highs in the very early 80s , it was a wonderful surprise when See Emily Play cascaded out of a chums’ stereo because I’d not heard the tune since it’s time in the charts & out of teenage sisters’ radio when I was 3 or 4 when obviously not knowing or caring whom had created such music. It didn’t get played on bbc radio 1 or on iLR in the 70s. 🐢❤️😁And Golden Hair was covered by ‘ shoegaze’ artists Slowdive in the early 90s and is wonderful . I haven’t heard Syds’ original yet.
What a change it became after his leaving and how things developed.
We want a Zyde Barrett movie!
Syd fell down the rabbit hole and I love early Pink Floyd .
Pink Floyd's music was brilliant. Just wish they would have kept in touch with Syd through the years, acknowledged his genius more and worked to help Syd come to terms with whatever haunted him rather than giving him free reign to fall down the rabbit hole
Amazing.
If you want to hear his mental state on record , listen to his 2 records a madcap laughs and the other record, he is having to continually re-reord over and his singing if off completey, plus they said David Gilmour that they had to sit him on a chair and hold him up so he could sing and record thats pretty bad.
Quote by MALCOLM JONES ~
"It was a case of following him, not playing with him.
They [Jerry Shirley and Willie Wilson] were seeing and then playing so they were always a note behind...
my favorite Syd solo song is " no good trying" . Everytime I hear It , my imagination create shoegaze instrumental background
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It was great when he turned up for the recording for whis you were here, 🎶👍😂
I think Gary Oldman could have portrayed Syd when he (Gary) was younger.
Then he would have been Sid and Syd.
Yeah I agree
Really makes you think what if he wasn't pressured to do all these things
It's quite a good documentary but it's about twenty years old. It pre-dates Roger's death in 2006.
I recall back in the early 70s Waters, Wright, Mason and to a lesser degree Gilmore really did not like talking about Roger Barrett [we know as Syd]. He was taboo. The cynic in me thinks they might have later decided to 'make hay' over the public's obsession with Barrett.
Roger"s death?
@@markwelsh4459 Yes. He means Roger Waters RIP
@@markwelsh4459 I'm funny!
@@markwelsh4459 2 Rogers in the original band.
The biggest musical loss in popular music in the 2nd half of the Twentieth century. Syd was in full capacity for only ONE album, which is still PF’s most interesting. I put him on par with anyone, Beatles & Hendrix included, talent-wise. It’s extremely rare to hear someone that unique, powerful & moving. This guy could b psychedelic (in all good ways) playing only an acoustic guitar. In that sense, he was Lennon-like.
If art is about telling a story, he was an astonishingly effective story teller.
Astronomy Domine, the Gnome, Scream Thy Last Scream, Lucifer Sam r just stunning & unlike anything b4 or after.
He was THE mad scientist of music, but in a very touching, innocent & brilliant way.
I remember when he was young.
Now ive emceed for the fun of it octopus. Hes very linguistic numerous authors edward leir limirckish storyteller love it i loved to emcee it to people. For fun Hip-Hop.hes rapping on octopus to me and many other records he wrote. R.i.p madcap your music still to this day your inspiration always finds it way into every record i make syd is important love this documentary i have religously watched every floyd documentary. There my all time faveorite band in phsychadelic rock next to frumious bandersnatch the blues magood as well as the chocoloate watch band.
Syd barrett I think was given more credit than he actually deserved, only being in the band for 2 years isnt really enough time to give him genius status and I think his involvement with pink floyd has been over romanticised, however it is quite sad that he was overwhelmed by his addictions and mental issues that put an end to what could have been a spectacular career with one of the greatest bands ever. I guess this was fate and it wasnt meant to be for syd. RIP Syd 🙏
15:17 I could imagine people seeing them do that and be like “look at those idiots high out of their minds on acid”
there’s a RUclips video of Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd right at the start they’re focusing on Roger Waters and he’s absolutely fried.
Dylan was his Father (mr. Dylan is the King) .. and Hendrix (maybe) too ..
I'm screaming you met me this way, your nice to me like ice....sums it all up now doesn't it.madcap is my favourite album of all time.golden hair is a masterpiece it didn't have all the over produced crap that Floyd ended up doing, but if you listen to slow dives version I can imagine if they had thrown a lot of money at his songs they would of stood.if you consider bike,and scarecrow what was they expecting from syd??? He was a genius
I remember reading about ( before I ever heard ) Syd's solo post Floyd stuff, and how terrible it was, there's a few pieces I rather tend to like; Gigolo Aunt, Effervescing Elephant , and a handful of other tracks
Syd Barret was innovative, but so were many many other music artists, and he is greatly over-rated. Not least compared to his band mates, who went on to create truly incredible and enduring music. His songs are kind of puerile and amateurish. It seems that saying Syd Barret was wonderful has become a kind of hip insider brag.
Portnoy's complaint may have been inspired by Arnold Lane 🙂😲😂
The young guy with the blonde hair who is saying he only took LSD a couple of times obviously hasn't done his history hate it when you get people like him apart from that enjoyed this been into Pink Floyd for over 40 years
R.I.P syd shine on you crazy diamond 💎🙏🙏
Barrett died at home in Cambridge on July 7, 2006 from pancreatic cancer. May you shine on in the cosmos your crazy diamond.
Shine on
It's sad how little bit of interviews we have of syd. We have so many bozos drooling about how much of a "tragic madman genius" he is, but not much Syd speaking for himself
He had a few audio interviews. i listened to one of them. He was under the influence of LSD in that interview.
@@hakancevikel7368 where can we see those? 👀
@@jennifermustdie3570 a few audio interviews of him are available in youtube.
@@hakancevikel7368 tell us where to find them.
Your right. It’s irritating to her these Sid experts talk like they knew his inter most thoughts. Just a well loved music man lost to the ages.
Syd was one of a kind. I will always love his songs, his rhymes, the way he would play with the English language... "Ice-cream 'scuse me, I seen you looking good the other evening".
Happy birthday birthday, Syd, shine on.
He disagrees… two of a kind… ;)
@@PinkFloydCollectors Well said! I forgot about that song! 😊👍
Look at the sky look at thee river, isntit good? ,: -0
n which ones pink? ,:-0
arnol layne... had a strang..... hobby. Collectin clothes... Moonshene, washng line... ,: -00000000
His family says he was never diagnosed with schizophrenia or any mental illness his whole life. He looks more like he’s on a hypnotic sedative (mandrax aka quaaludes) daily through the second half of 67. Mix in some acid and it can explain pretty much everything here and in accounts of him given in interviews with those that were around him.
The curious bit is how he stayed kinda reliant on family to just live for the rest of his life. It sounds almost more like a brain injury than schizophrenia.
I've loved syd barrett since I was a youth.lots of my friends love him too.He is so 'himself ' no-one else is like him.The stripped back nature of the solo lps and 'opel' is so 'English ' they define a nebulous feeling,hard to describe.
always makes me think of older brothers, cousins etc lounging around on a dry English lawn in Summer, when it never rained and was always sunny FACT
@@bigtwit799 fact, huh? now that's not original at all
Some of what these talking heads say is accurate, but for them to collectively pan the album “Barrett” as universally accepted opinion that it’s patchy or a misfire or failure is totally BONKERS! -it is not fact; That is their measley collective opinion and means nothing.
In my opinion “Barrett” is a stone masterpiece, just like “The Madcap Laughs”. Syd was waaay ahead of his time & completely eclipsed his former band’s entire future output with those two LP’s.
Malcolm Dome & Nigel Williamson touch on his influence on future music but even more so than they say. Barrett invented Lo-Fi, Goth (directly influencing Robert Smith & The Cure), Shoegaze/Neo Psychedelic-Stone Roses, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Indie Rock (Sebadoh -Barlow is a huge Barrett fan), Space Rock (Spacemen 3), Krautrock (Neu, Kraftwerk, Can: all huge Barrett fans), Punk (The Damned wanted Syd to produce their record! The Jesus & Mary Chain: huge Barrett fans-they covered Vegetable Man), Art Rock (early Genesis), Bowie was hugely influenced by Syd. R.E.M. & Robyn Hitchcock & The Soft Boys owe a huge debt to Barrett. I could go on and on, but enough said. If you know, you know.
hear hear.. and if Syd had really WaNtEd to, he'd have remained the front man. It just all seemed so silly to him to compromise art for money, down to the most facetious studio moments for the albums he created sans much help from Rogers and the rest minus David. They just didn't wanna turn into Zappa or Beefheart or like 13th Floor Elevators for that matter. They wanted to produce Beatley work.
You have to be a creative to truly understand Syd. These are squares that cannot create art. So they can only dissect it and judge it based on the parameters they define.
I completely agree with you
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I do know and your words are appreciated 🎉
Yo, hold on. Now hold on to your love for whatever it may be. Syd was fantastic. But, to call Barrett 'better' than anything Pink Floyd did is absurd. First off, ina limited capacity, the solo albums were made by Pink Floyd. Secondly, Meddle was made at the same time. Syd couldn't write songs like Echoes. I think they were hampered by his style, musically. They play better without him. Sadly enough, they also recognized this. His experimental side was cool, but the structure of what came later makes it so much more listenable.
SYD is an emblematic English musician. His songs are rooted in the beautiful and fantastic English Rhymes. I love all: the Rhymes, Syd's songs and Pink Floyd.
The Rhymes require naiveness and also wit, which Syd had, and once Syd left the group it evolved into much more sophistication in both lyrics and music.. The group has ALWAYS been great and their music has fitted its time. Syd has always been present in Pink Floyd, he left his indelible imprint, he really never left, he's been shining.
Pink Floyd without Syd was fine for a small while and they sold well but I dunno about him 'shining' on later non syd albums -thats a disservice i feel to Syd's legacy, the guy who replaced him, of course i know his name but I'm tired right now. His playing pales in comparison to Syds playing. Hendrix spoke on that saying how Syd was his peer in guitar experimentalism which is true.
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Absolutely.. it’s so subtle and sublime most miss it ..
He was an ancient bard just on a short visit this time..
Glad you noticed.
Does anyone realize WHY Syd was fascinated with rhyming, numbers, and had no grip on reality because he was experiencing the early stages of Schizophrenia? God Bless him. He suffered so badly. Imagine not even knowing who you are?
Syd was super cool. Me thinks he may have gotten a wee bit too close to the sun though. I can definitely see how that could happen back in 1967 as LSD was considered the wonder drug which would expand your mind to an expansive level which would allow you to reach nirvana. Great Time to be alive. Soooo different from today and I’m glad that I was around then. Syd forever.
There should be a feature film about Syd. Such a strange yet very interesting person.
There was The WALL which was partly about Syd.
@@70AD-user45 it's mostly about Roger Waters. The scene where he sits in his chair staring at the TV with a lit smoke in his hand that is all ash and where he shaves all his hair off was inspired by Syd.
Agreed. Timothee Chalamet would make a pretty decent Syd.
@@70AD-user45 i probably watched that movie about 500 times lol. Every day after high school I’d go over to Dave’s and religiously that movie would go in. This was back when movies had to go in something.
@@baron0877 hell no
I am a child of the 60's I knew people who took a lot of LSD most no long term effect , but a couple it fried their mind . You never know how one might react to a drug as powerful as LSD , for me it gave me a awareness that I did not have before .
I couldn’t help but sing along with “Terrapin” out loud and ignore whatever the commenters were saying over the top. It’s a classic. I’d forgotten how much I prefer that song…Rock on, Dolly Rocker!!!
Have you heard the live version? So good man.
One of the most effective songs that gave me comfort during my sanity fall, though I never descended much, just mild psychosis.
I still think "Interstellar Overdrive" is the greatest Pink Floyd song ever. They never did anything since that could top it
I thought atom heart mother was rather good.
I’ve seen ever documentary I can find on Syd Barrett because I was awestruck by him as a child.
This enigmatic figure from a band that was misunderstood at the time.
Syd revolutionized music to a new degree and over-rid the status quo for what the recording process was.
The band didn't seem too misunderstood, being the main band at UFO and very popular, at least no more than other progressive musicians through time. Capt Beefheart ..now there's one misunderstood musician, even so, many recording in the 60's were being very experimental, such as the highly popular and mainstream Beach Boys. Wilson's drug use purportedly aided his more artistic and weird choices on Pet Sounds which is viewed as their best album by many.
These so-called music critics yammering on about what Syd must have been thinking is absolutely maddening.
I believe that Syd thought that Floyd was only going to last a couple of years. All his other projects did. He wasn't ready to be committed to a long term commitment. He hated rules and responsibilities. I think a lot of it was an act. He was a prankster as well as a serious person. Yeah. He was a complex. Person.
@@leslumieres1237 How so chief? Guess you're just a hatin troll
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@@TheStevo427563 good title for a song “Guess you’re just a hatin troll”
Too much of this is interviews with younger people who weren't around at the time and don't know what they're talking about.
Syd did it right: he participated when it suited him, dropped some amazing things, blew minds and dipped out. If Syd was up there singing Comfortably Numb, it wouldn’t be the same (if in this alt timeline it’s Gilmour who was the inspiration).
Syd created a legend and the only thing I disagree with is his continued destruction of his later artworks instead of just giving them to his sister to store for posterity. At least we have his music.
Edit: My point being that people love nothing more than a mystery. He gave enough of himself to charm and intrigue, recognized that he had a problem with fame and the music industry, and got away with it all.
I agree and disagree, yeah he was a star for a short time and it was a good move by him to leave when he did. However, the fame he got cost him his mental health. So I wouldn't necessarily say he "got away with it"
@@animalinstinctssociety - I agree, of course, but I’m not sure Syd wouldn’t have been just as mental without the fame. It seems like taking lots of acid was part of the youth scene they were in and I suspect that if he were merely a fan of Floyd then, he’d have gotten just as fried by it all. Of course you make an excellent point and I, like you too probably, would never make that trade.
What I meant by “got away with it” wasn’t so much about the toll it all took on him but the ways in which he was able to chart his later life in a way that worked for him and could do so because of the royalties on the music he published with PF, so that he never ended up in some asylum or on the streets and could do his best to live in the anonymity he came to want.
@@b.w.22 Do people really get 'fried' by acid or is that a lie told by the establishment that doesn't want people to have deep psychological and mystical healing and insights but demands of everybody to remain stupid voters, taxpayers, corporate and canonfodder?
The research by psychiatrists showed overwhelming benefits of acid trips, until it was suddenly made illegal on instigation of Nixon who called it the worst enemy of the state because he feared that people after using LSD would not be manipulatable anymore by the sick establishment, and that was of course correct. Psychedelic tripping makes the user realize their Godly nature and after that no politician or priest will still be able to scare you anymore because you simply see through their games right away. And THAT is what Nixon was afraid of. When it was made illegal in the USA the rest of the western world immediately copied that policy. Why? Just a standard secret directive by the CIA will do the trick. The west is and was really sucking up to the US in secret, behind the voters back.
@@DutchmanAmsterdam - Leaving aside the public policy side of things with an acknowledgement that Nixon and the police-power of a DEA created by executive order is something uncool and an inappropriate sort of secret Federal police force, I will say that in my experience hallucinogens aren’t for everyone. I think everyone should experience them at least once, but I also know people personally who did too much or did them too young and it changed them.
Which is all to say that it depends on the person, where they are in their lives, their strength of character, their predisposition to real mental-health conditions such as schizophrenia, etc., or even physical characteristics such as enzymatic factor to break down those molecules to be able to stop tripping. These sorts of things are strong medicine, as it were, that is unrelated to the legal regime they exist in. I’ll agree that they are undoubtedly less dangerous than portrayed and are important tools in self-discovery, dealing with grief (see the studies on microdosing of terminal patients at Johns Hopkins), or just to have fun. But they aren’t completely harmless and can change people, so a degree of caution and moderation, as with most things, is required. The term “bad trip” wasn’t coined by Nixon, right?
@@b.w.22 That fucking sentence "I know people negative negative"
1 you provide no evidence of anything
2 You provide no science
3 You provide no personal accounts
4 you do not define the methodology of the ingestation
5 The Term "Bad Trip" was introduced with the illegality of the substance
6 Do you know its thousands of % better as an anti inflammatory than anything else , E.G Dying of covid , your whole respiratory system is inflamed, drop a trip , survive FFS
7 The Psychiatry and Psychology department in the USA declared in 1969, That "All Autistic people should have LSD readily available to them to take whenever they want, Because its allows them to become Social and connected (anti inflammatory deactivates the Amygdala , which is causing the FEAR)
8 No one has ever become Schizophrenic on LSD or had it reveled earlier , EVER ! it was another scare tactic, " this might happen" , But it never has
So please take your complete ignorance of LSD and bury it and never speak about LSD again,
Unless you choose to read thousands of experiments and accounts and take it yourself in high doses
There are Autistic people all over the world that NEED the drug to be legal
I need it every single time I walk out the door
Because I lose my inherent FEAR
Which means I can talk to people, love people, like people , connect to people
Lose my monotone voice and no one can tell I'm different
Syd Barret was Autistic and he simply realized that he didn't like people ,
That he needed LSD , but the world was freaking out , persuaded By lie after lie after lie
So no LSD was available anymore
So fucked of home to ignore everyone like all Autistic people do
Just think of LSD as the same as BREXIT
Love his works. He was notable amongst more than a few creatives in 67, 68.
His songs are not well-organised, contain full of background noises, yet are very genuine. Love his own style of music.
It’s all magickal mystery man!
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I think Syd was a talented and unique musician who was just deeply misunderstood. The world is a better, more beautiful place because of what he shared with all of us. I understand his fear and distance. May he RIP
Amazing documentary, refreshing to see people actually discussing his music in depth rather than gossiping about his drug use. Thank you very much for publishing it.
I have doubts that drugs are responsible, although they probably didn't help his mindset. I think he broke under the immense pressure from EMI and the forthcoming tour of America. He was fine up until they signed the contract.
I agree. There are millions of people with serious mental health problems who have never touched drugs.
I strongly disagree. I had an otherwise normal friend with a family history of schizophrenia who only started exhibiting symptoms of the illness after a few years of heavy LSD use. It is well documented that hallucinogens in particular can be catalysts in the development of schizophrenia in susceptible individuals.
Some accounts by those around him say he was using far more LSD than many knew - and started much earlier than many had assumed. David Gilmour himself placed the start of the trouble to late May '67 as PF was in studio recording "See Emily Play" - just a couple of weeks before was the famous TV interview with Syd & Roger by Hans Keller (why must it all be so loud ??) - where Syd was obviously very lucid and well spoken - but just 2 weeks later Gilmour had been invited to stop by the studio - and said he was “shocked by the changes in his (Barrett's) personality - and that he did not appear to recognize me" - years later Gilmour would say; "I'll go on record as saying, that was when he changed" .
I think it’s both: I think when Syd began to attain what he thought he wanted, international fame inside the 60’s-70’s music industry, he realized he didn’t want it. I’m pretty sure that acid impacted his mind and personality and that it exacerbated underlying issues with his mental health. But he also made the right choice for himself, actively or subconsciously, to disengage from Pink Floyd and maybe didn’t know exactly how to disappoint his friends who so heavily relied on his creativity.
I’ve also known people who I’d call acid casualties and I’d need to have met him to decide if he was that. But “acting heavy” was part of his deal and people’s deal generally back then, though it seems there’s a pretty big difference between “Piper” and his wonderful and charming but definitely odd solo work. But he also made the really smart personal choice to retreat from London to his home to live the life of an eccentric but not a madman: Syd didn’t roam the streets of Cambridge with an apocalyptic sign yelling at people like the dude in Aqualung, right?
Ah, he’s such an interesting guy who can really appeal to we that have had our own mental struggles. I’d think the drugs of the day had their impact on him, but in so many ways he did things exactly right for himself without the endless compromises that shatter the illusion of integrity, as it were.
@@billyz5088 Dave also said ,in the same interview, he was constantly surrounded by shady people. Maybe someone slipped him a large dose, similar to what happened with Peter Green? 🤷
One time my neighbors were drunk and arguing loudly in their driveway. I put a speaker in my window facing out and blasted "Bike" loudly at them until they went in the house.
Incidentally, that song sounds loud at any volume. Its louder than most metal songs
I fucking love this story!
Please check out my poem I wrote for Syd Barrett!
Let me know what you think please!!!
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I still love both Barrett albums equally, they both touch me for different reasons.
Everything he touched was incredible
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Syd Barrett owned that BBC crumb with the "actually I like soft music very much, but you see if we're playing a hall and we want people to dance..." What a great answer. Roger's answer was eloquent as well.
I would like to pull that dude from time and drop him in the middle of a Death Metal concert!
Thank you. That guy seemed like the most prototypical example of the out-of-touch old codger the BBC *would* have on their programming. Frankly just embarrassing. Even more so that his guests were perfectly eloquent to his objections to the “loudness” of music. Even classical music was loud, you old fool. Wagner commissioned the construction of massive instruments to capitalize on the huge music halls. I don’t know why I’m so upset by that old man.
Yeah well it wasn't always going 2 work coming over by taking cues from AMM ,:-0
Not that I dislike early pink floyd, I can't get enough, just trying to have different perspectives instead of hating or loving something just whatever ,:-0
Just because he doesn't like loud music doesn't make him a crumb it makes him true to himself, amplifiers were quite new back then and it was probably really loud
Across the stream with wooden shoes, with bells to tell the king the news, a thousand misty riders climb up, higher once upon a time.
Quote by SYD BARRETT (About The Madcap Laughs ) ~ "I liked what came out, only it was released for too long after it was done.
I wanted it to be a whole thing that people would listen to all the way through with everything related and balanced, the tempos and moods offsetting each other, and I hope that's what it sounds like."
Kind of funny how the 1966 version of Interstellar Overdrive was much longer and more psychedelic in its own right than the album version in 1967. However the version on Piper may be half the length of the original, but damn they both take you on a trip beyond trips and are both truly forces to be reckoned with...if you can even make it through the entire duration of the songs versions to begin with without blowing a mental fuse no matter what state of mind you may be in at the time....
n thee fact that they got all this from wind n the willows, great book ,:-0
Total genius RIP Syd
There is no difference between Syd's solo work and his very earliest writings like "Effervescing Elephant" written pre-Floyd. Syd had a unique childlike style in his compositions. The Floyd recordings were very produced pop songs of 1967, but a lot of the Piper tracks are no different if you take away the production. Syd obviously wanted out of pop music and to paint and write about art. There was always some underlying issues and the death of his father was, no doubt, devastating for a boy about to turn 16.
I always thought he stuck Effervescing Elephant at the end of the album to contrast from the (brilliant) horror of Wolfpack and the (transcendent) longing of Wined and Dined. After Piper, imo his whimsy was tempered with a genuine blues.
@@jasonmoskowitz246 The song is young Syd and not different than Bike. The Madcap Laughs was too much Mandrax.
@@matt0laughed Well, Bolan copped the Syd look now didn't he and the girlfriend.
C Emily play : -)
Didn't even know he lost his father that young. No wonder he played with drugs the way he did & no wonder those drugs brung whatever mental issues that were lying underneath to the forefront.
Vegetable Man/Scream thy last Scream would have been the greatest, weirdest double A side of all time.
I 100% agree, 2 stunning songs!!!
Baby Lemonade ⭐️
Syd was way ahead of his time
like so many others of this decade lost in the drugs but not forgotten
He went there and back again! Quiet a journey!
Here is a poem I wrote for Syd Barrett
Let me know what you think!
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Living in Cambridge I felt their music was def influenced by the city. I used to see Sydney occasionally , I love all their work and Syd has a special place in my heart 💗
True. Thats very documented in a biography of Syd.
I am a huge Syd Barrett fan, and it really bums me out that he just fell out like he did. I remember I saw a video of a trip he was on mushrooms or acid not sure, it was on sale, and I complained about it to the store because it was horribly exploitative to me.
Was that like a VHS tape that was being sold then?
I went to the chalk pits. I will never be the same ❤
@@tigerlillyfeelfree1695Where the film was made of him tripping?
Yes. In Cambridge. It was an amazing experience ❤
It's a riot how divided people are! But then again genius is often only recognized by another genius! If you can't enjoy something, just go back to the mainstream and copy everyone else!
the reasons behind his "decline" or "withdrawal" (whatever you want to label it) cannot be boiled down to one thing, or one factor. like most things, it was complex with multiple factors at play, some even i contrast with each other. it was not merely the LSD, it was not merely his artistic frustrations. it was an overwhelming combination of multiple factors.
for example, the Artist in this 21 year old, sensitive guy was certainly interested in continuing his explorations and pushing boundaries. But with that said, there is no doubt that he SIMULTANEOUSLY wanted to be commercially successful and producing pop hits. that is the part that i think most Syd fans overlook. This is perhaps due to it not complementing the romantic narrative that his lone motivation was to be the explorer rather than the hit maker. to suggest that he simply did not want fame and money as his bandmates did is simply untrue.
my reasons for believing that he himself was conflicted in this way is simple. Syd says in multiple interviews that he does indeed want to be a pop star. even as late as '71 he is telling people he doesn't think the pop scene has moved too far beyond him. he was definitely not entirely against this idea. BUT... just like many artists in their early 20s, he is a contradiction within himself.
imagine being the lone creative force behind one of the underground's most popular bands, you have every stakeholder surrounding you hoping and counting on you to continue to lay golden eggs to prove your worth, but over the other shoulder you have the flies of the underground whispering that you are a sell-out for even bothering to try! (FUN FACT: there was actually a proto-punk band called "the Flies" who's members hurled insults at the Floyd during live shows in late '67/early '68, implying Syd and the gang were sell-outs and no longer true to the underground).
i take Piper as evidence that Syd wanted to have it both ways, there's whimsical pop tunes aimed at commercial success as well as far out exploration aplenty.
but the stress of that balance in addition to heavy, heavy use of mandrax/lsd (and various other substances) compiled to overwhelm the poor guy in short time.
the people that suggest that he did NOT have anything wrong mentally are simply denying the obvious. as a huge Syd fan who has read every book and spent an embarrassing amount of time pondering Syd's story, I am certain he damaged his brain via drug use to such an extent that it was the primary factor for his withdrawal. there is plenty of evidence that he was paranoid and stressed for much of his time. his body language changed, his eyes changed. his behavior was DRAMATICALLY different within 1 year's time. he admits during interviews having difficulty speaking clearly at times but was extremely articulate before the summer of '67. his visual art and his lyrics reveal that he is aware that he is in trouble.
"with eskimo chain
i tattooed my brain all the way
won't you miss me?
wouldn't you miss me at all?"
I would love to hear your take on this poem I wrote for Syd Barrett
I wrote it during a period is psychosis. His music and a few others has always been a huge comfort for me.
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The guy in the film who suggests that LSD might not have been one of the most important factors in Syd's breakdown because some say he took it less than 10 times has no clue. People have gone nuts on one dose. Yes certain people are predisposed to take it badly but never underestimate.LSD.
Who the fuck is the guy with blonde hair? His grandson ?
He seemed knowledgeable about Syd and early Floyd but I’m old and thought he looked like a fetus. I have to remind myself that age we were actually educated and intelligent. Just hadn’t had hope squeezed out of us.
In an alternate reality, 'Barrett' is the Pink Floyd LP released in leu of Ummagumma. David Gilmore and Richard Wright produced, and play bass and keyboards respectively. In my humble opinion, I prefer the post Fink Floyd work on Madcap, Barrett and Opel. Also, 'Wined and Dined' is the sweetest, most gentle pop song that has ever existed!
Without Syd, there would be no Pink Floyd. Think about that.
True. Similarly, without Brian Jones, there would´ve been no Rolling Stones.
Without a hole, there would be no u.
Barrett's writing sounds almost comical. Like Eric Idle wrote it or something.
Sorry, I don't think Syd Barrett was a musical genius of any type, he was just a young kid, then young man that never had a chance to grow up, grow with his music, grow with the group.
I'm certain that if Syd Barrett had stayed anywhere near the band for just one gig longer it would have been a disastrous choice for the others, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright & Nick Mason.
Syd Barrett lost his ability to grow, learn and turn his somewhat, and I'm sorry to say this, turn his somewhat childish and Impish lyrics into a more refined smash hit machine that could endure the test of time to all ages, from teenage girls to 30, 40, 50 & 60 somethings and grow, change and move around with the ever changing music scene(s) in North America, Great Britain, the rest of Europe and beyond, which I fully believe Syd Barrett would have done, like any other great person of words, or lyricist, he would have grown exponentially to superstar status, along with the rest of the band and made the whole machine even bigger and an even more solid Pink Floyd than anyone could have ever imagined, I believe that.
But who knows, my beliefs may be misplaced, completely wrong and David Gilmour was the only thing, the only constant throughout the history of the band, including Syd Barrett having to be put off the bus, so to speak that made them into what they were, are and hopefully the remaining members, including one who put himself off the bus, Roger Waters, can bring the magic one more time, no wait, a bunch more times.)
The film seems to suggest there was some mystery about Syd’s mental illness. There is no mystery. If a young person who is predisposed to schizophrenia takes psychedelic drugs it dramatically increases onset of the illness as well the severity.
For me, Syd is the Salvadore Dali of Rock music - the incorporstion of surrealism in acousrtic arts! How. Important he was can easily bexseen in the factt that the Floyd needed more then 3.yeard to find their style after Syd had left. "Ato, heart mother" - and more -"Meddle" from 1070/ 1971 were the first albums, that showed new, non-Barrett-sides of the band.
It’s a bummer that so many people are dismissing Syds songwriting. I find it absolutely brilliant. And so did many legendary songwriters like Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney, David Bowie and many more. It’s annoying cause you can tell some people just clicked on this documentary to hate on him and dismiss his gift. I love all Pink Floyd but Syds stuff will always be my favorite.
I absolutely love him
Here is a poem I wrote for him
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Syd was a genius. His live stuff blows my mind especially. I consider it a blessing that we got what we did from his all too brief career as a musician.
Barrett is one of my favourite albums. Well said. Wined and Dined is my girlfriends favourite, and she isn’t really a Floyd fan
Who is dismissing his songwriting? Everyone from Elton John to Iggy Pop and all stops in between are fans of his music. I've yet to hear anyone 'dismiss' his songwriting, his music or his influence. I don't see anyone hating on him or dismissing him, the only complaints I see here are coming from you, complaining about nothing.
@@AnthonyMonaghan well fortunately there has been more positive comments to drown out the negative ones in this comment section since I commented that
He's dead now Syd; I can't remember what year he died but he was only 62 when he went. I still love Arnold Layne and See Emily Play and all Pink Floyd's work up to 1970 when they became a super group. And Louie Louie is not a 'bog standard' R&B song, it's an R&B Classic. Shine on you crazy diamonds.
He was 60 he Died in 2006, 4 days after a cancer diagnosis....
Long live Syd 🎸🎶🎵
Yep, I absolutely agree.
LONG LIVE SYD BARRET !!!!!
And long live great Pink Floyd !!!!!
Eye love syd ,:-0
n taking lots of lsd to their album ,:-0
This recycled documentary is not new, unfortunately.
Happy Birthday anyway, Syd!
Got my hopes up for nothing, yeah they really care those critics, once it's all done and dusted just forget it, what about love for this music? ,:-0
loved syd. amazing character and an amazing songwriter/musician. once upona time ( when I lived stateside, before moving to Ecuador ) I owned every pink floyd album ( up to the wall ) and both of syd's albumns. sold all of my vinyl before moving to ecuador. so glad i can still find all pink floyd's music here on youtube ( as well as all of my other favorite artists who's albums I had to sell before moving )
*Syd was a Great Genius!* 🧠
Terappin syds dropping bars his bouncing limericks and statements god man beautiful stuff
His 1st name was actually Roger. Even though I wasn't a fan of his music, I am a big fan of Pink Floyd.
I hav watched many videos about and with add Barrett and I am still waiting find out what the genius talk is all about ....
A peculiar genius.
Such a gentle genius he was!
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Pink Floyd would have been remembered as the cult band like the velvet underground, had they broken up upon Syd’s departure.
There will never be another musical genius like Sid.
He was not genius, just stop it and his name is syd not sid
John Frusciante and we almost lost him too
@@reginageorge8080Not even comparable to Syd. Dumb comment
Wow just clicked on this. Glad to see Syd getting Recognition!!
I find the interview sequence with Roger, Syd and Hans or Franz, very interesting.
Roger comes across like a pompous ass while Hans or Franz bristles. Syd steps in and smooths things over, like a true diplomat. I heard he had a lot of charisma before his illness.