The whole head shaving thing to me was shedding the image of "Syd Barrett rockstar." I also don't find it odd he quit music. Many creative people lose interest in one thing when they have other outlets. In his case it was art.
You know what? I bet Barrett was not crazy at all. How is it possible he later showed up at Abbey Roas studio exactly at the time they were recording Wish You Were Here? With completely shaved head and with toothbrush in his mouth? Come on..! I mean what if it was a joke? Some Abbey Road employee eventually made a phone call to Syd saying : "Hi Syd, you have to come see, your former band is making an album about you and your madness!" So he shaved his head, took a toothbrush and went to Abbey Road as Mad Syd claiming he wants to play his part. Hahah.
I'm not going to say he wasn't crazy - but I would be willing to say that a real artist will appear crazy when they are seeing their vision - so to speak. I mean, if you really lose yourself in your art - you would appear to be deranged in some way - when people no longer care how they appear - and then they are judged - that can be very damaging - I've known some "out there artists" - the normal public doesn't know what to do with them - even people that THINK they are "out there" - then they run into one of those Pure Beacon of Light and Energy type of artists - their judgements can be damning - when all that is going on is that someone really really likes the "Other Place" that making art can bring you to.
***** I agree with you completely but id say its the cracked aspect of syd that could pull such an emotionally unsettling stunt. its totally sick twisted brilliant humor
VitalemRecords I don't believe he was crazy, the schizophrenic "label" was perpetuated by Waters, although he was never clinically diagnosed as such. It was profitable for PF, and to Barrett to some degree, although perhaps not entirely knowingly, to perpetuate the "crazy" myth. I agree with you that he was a free spirit, didn't quite fit the mold of the hierarchical musical BUSINESS. He pretty much shunned "executive" appearances, the avenues used to create profit and make the suits happy. Syd said no thanks to that.
Great stuff! Syd was more than telepathic, he had synesthesia, and could "see" sound in colors, i.e. "Green is the color"! He was Bowie's "Major Tom", and "Man who fell to Earth", & "Ziggy" which represented The Velvet Underground with Syd at the helm! I'm proud to have seen his Floyd perform live, MANY times in 66, and 67. I owe much of my musical inspiration to him, and likewise shied away from the limelight! In my opinion he quit, while he was at the top, to pursue his real artistic interests. He was the most sought after interview in the rock world, from the early 1970s, until his death! Miss you, old friend!
Wow! Seeing Floyd with Syd must've been a mind blast 66 was the time to see the creative flowering.Incredible I never met aanyone who saw the original Floyd.My sister saw Hendrix her ex-husband saw him 4 times
That’s so cool! Syd is one of my favorite musicians/songwriters just absolutely original and brilliant. What happened to the PA sound system in 67? I believe wholeheartedly Syd was being undermined by Roger Waters and Norman I wanna be in everybody’s band Smith. Syd got bored, put in a position of being denied Artistic freedom and signed a really bad contract became stressed out and didn’t want to be a trained pop monkey like so many others. Did Syd play great live at the shows you saw?
I'm so glad I'm no alone in thinking that Syd didn't totally lose the plot after his few years with PF. On the other hand, if he really did overindulge in acid in the amounts claimed by some, I can totally see how he would have been temporarily 'fried' to an extend, just based off my own experiences of overindulging in shrooms. There is, indeed, a fine line between crazy and genius
The songs on this are really brilliant. I especially like the second and third songs; they sound very "airy" and calm, a lot like that French band called Air. Makes you wonder what else Syd could have done...
Well, I respect your opinion but I would strongly disagree. The guitar is a beautiful musical instrument, one among a family of many. And Syd was a very talented guitarist and vocalist. But that's just like... my opinion man. =)
The woman shown at 0:26 is Evelyn Rose (Iggy The Inuit). This photo was taken outside Syd's flat at Wetherby Mansions, Earls Court, London by Mick Rock during a photography session for The Madcap Laughs album. The woman shown at 4:02 is Sheila Rock who was then Mick Rock's wife. They have since divorced. This photo was taken in Syd's back-garden a few years later.
WHen you compare some of these admittedly little more than doodlings to stuff that made the Floyd Ummagumma album...Syd's stuff here much more promising.
Great analysis. I always thought if Syd would have hooked up with some German rock musicians they would have been more sympathetic to his guitar experiments and erratic execution. I guess in 1974 the guys in the studio were expecting, what? another "Arnold Layne" I don't think so.
Sounds like one foot is stuck in the 60s still at best..And i highly respect this man..Don't know if the right people were around him in 74..Maybe he's just jamming warming up? That one riff oh GOD!..!aH
"He's got uncontrollable things in him that he can't deal with and people think it's a marvelous, wonderful, romantic thing. It's just a sad, sad thing, a very nice and talented person who's just disintegrated"
I found this by going to google, clicking on images and entering SYD BARRETT 1974. One of the images is of a rare CD entitled YOU GOT IT NOW! That's where this is off of.
He is Mick Rock who did the last inverview withthe (rock-era) Barrett in 1971 and some of the photos above are from that interview. He remained friendly with Barrett.
Thanks Jason. His influence on Krautrock via Floyd was big. Arguably what he does here was old news by then- But Kraut chaned direction of mainstream- e.g. Disco- (Donna Summer's 'I feel love' is disco-fied Tangerine Dream, but key moment in pop). Early Kraftwerk and Can owe much to Syd's Floyd- When hip-hop adopts Kraftwerk sound (Afrika Bambataa) history is made- Good on you Syd!
Good assessment. This was almost a year before the WYWH encounter. He was still slim. I guess after he got really depressed and started drinking and eating a lot and put on an enormous amount of weight in a short period of time.
Bernard White met him in September 1974 and he was still thin; Syd shouted at White: please, go away! Because White wanted to talk with him. Nearly a year later, Syd was overweight because he was continually eating and drinking guiness
PERHAPS I COULD ADD ARRANGEMENTS AND DEDICATE IT TO MR BARRETT AND CALL IT: "REQUIEM OF THE VANISHING MAN"....ALL RHIS HAS THE MAKINGS OF A NICE SONG(S) I CAN EVEN HEAR SYD SINGING... DRUMS... BONGOS... SNIPPETS OF GOLDEN SUNLIGHT..IRRIDESCENCE RAINBOWS...
@juniorssc1 Yeah, it's supposed to be a street photo that someone took of him when he was playing with his short lived group STARS in Cambridge in 1972. He had grown a beard. The photo is fuzzy but it's supposed to be him.
guys, listen, get the book called barrett, kinda alota $$$ and dark globe and you will know his earned stature as a mad genius, my favorite kind :) there are soooooo many great sites on f.b you will learn everything you ever was curious about him :D
Got em both and "Very irregular head" on the way.. Been reading ALL I can since 10th grade- '91-92. I love the facts finally coming to fruition and hope soon we'll know all of it. He was, is and will be someone who shaped my life And brought me almost a "safe place" during times I needed it. Now I'm finding several musicians I go see a lot, are fans. Last one I was at after his set Slim and I were singing Dark Globe and Octopus 🙂
there's a box of tapes he gave some guy at the chelsea cloisters when he moved out of there, and it hasn't been seen since....there's a lot of unheard barrett stuff out there, gathering dust.
Sounds like one foot is stuck in the 60s still at best..And i highly respect this man..Don't know if the right people were around him in 74..Maybe he's just jamming warming up?
Compare this with Syd's playing from just 2 years ago. I think his playing on the Boogie Band recording is even better than with Floyd. play.spotify.com/album/5xK04rygCZ3H1akIhdLmAT
Yes - I agree - and the drums - the sounds are so compelling - I feel like someone should scour for recordings of his - I mean - he was so ahead of his time - he had so many detractors - pearls before swine I say
Considering that he was obviously in such a state and very much left to his own devices I don't think that this is too bad at all and there are a few really interesting bits. Where were his friends when he needed them ? I'd love to hear the bits of the session that I've yet to hear - can anyone help?
I know this is classed as a myth and I know I might get shouted at for this but I'm sure you can here Barrett on Astronime Domine on Ummagumma. Like faint at the beggining unless its just Gilmour micking, then after a few minutes they start again into the verse. Anyone else here it?
@DragonTheArtist I agree, I dont get how some floyd fans look down upon syd, if they were true fans, they would understand that all of Pink Floyd music is amazing, can you dig?
@JasonTryp I will ask Mick myself. I never wondered that or really bothered. It does look like her though as in the madcap Days she wore and Barrett wore alot of make up. so who knows. i will find this out for us Jason.Cheers
@amtlpaul I hope i didn't give you the wrong impression. in my journey of discovering music ( im 38 now ) several individuals took command of my attention and Syd was one of them. I love Syd. if i ever get a chance to make a musical impression on my unborn children when they come to that age, I will play Barrett and Floyd and hopefully they will make the similar connection. I was 23 and stoned the first time i heard Syd's Floyd. Syd will always occupy a special place in my musical heart.
@kreaknindjan The asian is actually an eskimo girl Barrett was dating. I know Mick Rock and he told me the whole story. She was just there for the photo session and was always walking around naked, bleeding all over flat because she had no period pads.Her name is Iggy, she is also on the Madcap album photos. Any other questions?
@Juanfifarek I don't think it's Iggy the Eskimo. The photo session with the Asian girl above was taken about 2 years after the photo session of the Madcap laughs album. Syd had broken up with Iggy and I'm sure from pics that Iggy had different facial features than the Asian girl above. So...sorry, I don't think it's Iggy.
Basic blues with effects pedals and analog echo machine. Jamming and doodling- Warming up but not qute getting it together- Maybe thrown out of studio by impatient bosses. Also hear Ashra Tempel 'schwingungen' l.p. -1970: floaty guitarist Manuel Gottsching takes this type of sound to different level. Other krautrock bands compare too- though not bluesy-more unique. Early work by Faust is freaky on a par with where Barratt was going with this stuff
I'm convinced he was faking his illness. He didn't want the spotlight nor the fame. He just wanted to paint. He was a genius. He knew he'd get royalties. When he died he was worth $5m.
Syd Barrett was a man with flaws. God? Hardly. Just look at his life after his mid-20's. Anyway, he wrote good lyrics and was a psychedelic star but all too briefly.
With all the people that knew Syd saying he went crazy at a certain point, there has to be some truth in that, yes a massive intake of LSD, pot, tobacco, alcohol and ludes, it's easily believable that a bad trip, reaction, overdose, caused permanent brain damage, happens to people all the time, Syd just happened to be famous. I've done 8 trips of acid and can say if it were a bad trip it would mess my mind up, seeing or talking to people that don't exist, can't remember your real self or your trippy self, especially if say a loved one that is dead is now envisioned and only you see or hear that, who wouldn't go nuts, what's real or not? Just saying that's a possibility, but in the end at least we have a piece of what could have been, just too bad he couldn't or wouldn't progress with that, but definitely still being talked about 50 years from his glory days and 13 years from his passing, RIP Syd.
Judging by what you typed I can instantly tell you never even did 1/8th of a half decent blotter let alone 8 units . No self respecting druggie would had described things the way you did ... it all just spells " wannabe " - " fake " .
@thatsthewayitgoes09 Well yes, I don't think he took it all that seriously. He didn't have anything prepared, it seems. So yes, he just played whatever came to mind, which was mostly blues. It's just not something I would listen to more than once, because aside from some promising wah-wah touches here and there I find it really basic and repetitive. I think by that time he wasn't really interested in being 'Syd the genius' at all, he wanted to move on, and who can blame him?
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i could listen to this stuff forever. love ya Syd...
The whole head shaving thing to me was shedding the image of "Syd Barrett rockstar." I also don't find it odd he quit music. Many creative people lose interest in one thing when they have other outlets. In his case it was art.
Well said. Now will you marry me?
Jason Torres Hahaha...
He was the first Anti Rock Star, where as Mick Jagger Loved the Limelight he hated it.He was the first, before Kurt Cobain and others.
+Kathy O'Neil Painting, you meant? music is art too.
Thank you!!! Syd forever and a day idk what life would be w/ out him??
that Bo Diddley beat !
RIP SYD and thanks for your great work🙏
Awesome👍👍👍👍
You know what? I bet Barrett was not crazy at all.
How is it possible he later showed up at Abbey Roas studio exactly at the time they were recording Wish You Were Here? With completely shaved head and with toothbrush in his mouth? Come on..! I mean what if it was a joke? Some Abbey Road employee eventually made a phone call to Syd saying : "Hi Syd, you have to come see, your former band is making an album about you and your madness!" So he shaved his head, took a toothbrush and went to Abbey Road as Mad Syd claiming he wants to play his part. Hahah.
His sister did say that the Abbey Road visit was meant as a joke.
Is there any book written by his sister? I´ve found only an quick interview...
I'm not going to say he wasn't crazy - but I would be willing to say that a real artist will appear crazy when they are seeing their vision - so to speak. I mean, if you really lose yourself in your art - you would appear to be deranged in some way - when people no longer care how they appear - and then they are judged - that can be very damaging - I've known some "out there artists" - the normal public doesn't know what to do with them - even people that THINK they are "out there" - then they run into one of those Pure Beacon of Light and Energy type of artists - their judgements can be damning - when all that is going on is that someone really really likes the "Other Place" that making art can bring you to.
***** I agree with you completely but id say its the cracked aspect of syd that could pull such an emotionally unsettling stunt. its totally sick twisted brilliant humor
VitalemRecords I don't believe he was crazy, the schizophrenic "label" was perpetuated by Waters, although he was never clinically diagnosed as such. It was profitable for PF, and to Barrett to some degree, although perhaps not entirely knowingly, to perpetuate the "crazy" myth. I agree with you that he was a free spirit, didn't quite fit the mold of the hierarchical musical BUSINESS. He pretty much shunned "executive" appearances, the avenues used to create profit and make the suits happy. Syd said no thanks to that.
Great stuff! Syd was more than telepathic, he had synesthesia, and could "see" sound in colors, i.e. "Green is the color"! He was Bowie's "Major Tom", and "Man who fell to Earth", & "Ziggy" which represented The Velvet Underground with Syd at the helm! I'm proud to have seen his Floyd perform live, MANY times in 66, and 67. I owe much of my musical inspiration to him, and likewise shied away from the limelight! In my opinion he quit, while he was at the top, to pursue his real artistic interests. He was the most sought after interview in the rock world, from the early 1970s, until his death! Miss you, old friend!
Wow! Seeing Floyd with Syd must've been a mind blast 66 was the time to see the creative flowering.Incredible I never met aanyone who saw the original Floyd.My sister saw Hendrix her ex-husband saw him 4 times
no way your so lucky to have seen the great syd!
ItIsObvious where did you see them live!
dammmmmn you’re so lucky
That’s so cool! Syd is one of my favorite musicians/songwriters just absolutely original and brilliant. What happened to the PA sound system in 67? I believe wholeheartedly Syd was being undermined by Roger Waters and Norman I wanna be in everybody’s band Smith. Syd got bored, put in a position of being denied Artistic freedom and signed a really bad contract became stressed out and didn’t want to be a trained pop monkey like so many others. Did Syd play great live at the shows you saw?
Wonderful. An open door into a new realm. Thank you
"who do you love",track...right there!!
Great melody maker - follows me from childhood to the silverAge!!
I'm so glad I'm no alone in thinking that Syd didn't totally lose the plot after his few years with PF. On the other hand, if he really did overindulge in acid in the amounts claimed by some, I can totally see how he would have been temporarily 'fried' to an extend, just based off my own experiences of overindulging in shrooms. There is, indeed, a fine line between crazy and genius
Love the whole thing.
The songs on this are really brilliant. I especially like the second and third songs; they sound very "airy" and calm, a lot like that French band called Air. Makes you wonder what else Syd could have done...
blabla2235 nothing brilliant about a guy playing a guitar....sorry! Huge syd fan btw!
Well, I respect your opinion but I would strongly disagree. The guitar is a beautiful musical instrument, one among a family of many. And Syd was a very talented guitarist and vocalist. But that's just like... my opinion man. =)
The woman shown at 0:26 is Evelyn Rose (Iggy The Inuit). This photo was taken outside Syd's flat at Wetherby Mansions, Earls Court, London by Mick Rock during a photography session for The Madcap Laughs album. The woman shown at 4:02 is Sheila Rock who was then Mick Rock's wife. They have since divorced. This photo was taken in Syd's back-garden a few years later.
the guitar sound is very nice
This is great! thanks for showing me this
Thanks Celine..,
Syd will always be the best face of his genre of music, of all time
Syd forever
The first 4 minutes or so I'd not heard before - more please!
WHen you compare some of these admittedly little more than doodlings to stuff that made the Floyd Ummagumma album...Syd's stuff here much more promising.
Yeah, if you would rather Floyd sound more like the Monkeys.
Totally agree syd hand magic hands
Magic ear for sound combination IMO@@carmenescobar2938
IMO like comparing lager to a vintage champagne
Not knocking lager BTW
Thank you!
thanks
Well put!
Great analysis. I always thought if Syd would have hooked up with some German rock musicians they would have been more sympathetic to his guitar experiments and erratic execution. I guess in 1974 the guys in the studio were expecting, what? another "Arnold Layne" I don't think so.
Sounds like one foot is stuck in the 60s still at best..And i highly respect this man..Don't know if the right people were around him in 74..Maybe he's just jamming warming up? That one riff oh GOD!..!aH
Never heard this before, excellentttttttttt!
Maravilhoso instrumental!
sim concordo tbm tenho umas raridades do syd , tudo arquivado em hd, so q eu perdi... oO
"He's got uncontrollable things in him that he can't deal with and people think it's a marvelous, wonderful, romantic thing. It's just a sad, sad thing, a very nice and talented person who's just disintegrated"
I love this music so much but I can't help but feel a little sad and gloomy :,( :,(
nice thanks
This kicks ass
Thank you, exactly..
yes it' s a god of music
I found this by going to google, clicking on images and entering SYD BARRETT 1974. One of the images is of a rare CD entitled YOU GOT IT NOW! That's where this is off of.
"Have" you got it now?
Your very welcome!
this is one of the best things i heard about barret
Excellent !
5/5
Hans :o)
He is Mick Rock who did the last inverview withthe (rock-era) Barrett in 1971 and some of the photos above are from that interview. He remained friendly with Barrett.
Thanks Jason. His influence on Krautrock via Floyd was big. Arguably what he does here was old news by then- But Kraut chaned direction of mainstream- e.g. Disco- (Donna Summer's 'I feel love' is disco-fied Tangerine Dream, but key moment in pop). Early Kraftwerk and Can owe much to Syd's Floyd- When hip-hop adopts Kraftwerk sound (Afrika Bambataa) history is made- Good on you Syd!
Good assessment. This was almost a year before the WYWH encounter. He was still slim. I guess after he got really depressed and started drinking and eating a lot and put on an enormous amount of weight in a short period of time.
Bernard White met him in September 1974 and he was still thin; Syd shouted at White: please, go away! Because White wanted to talk with him. Nearly a year later, Syd was overweight because he was continually eating and drinking guiness
PERHAPS I COULD ADD ARRANGEMENTS AND DEDICATE IT TO MR BARRETT AND CALL IT: "REQUIEM OF THE VANISHING MAN"....ALL RHIS HAS THE MAKINGS OF A NICE SONG(S) I CAN EVEN HEAR SYD SINGING... DRUMS... BONGOS... SNIPPETS OF GOLDEN SUNLIGHT..IRRIDESCENCE RAINBOWS...
eu autentifico esse som , sim é original
This stuff insn't that bad!! If only he got into it more deeply....
Blues in the key of "nearly E"
@JasonTryp It is Iggy The Half-Eskimo. The picture is from a photo session taken in 1969 for the Madcap Laughs!
Opening bit has a nice rocking Bo Diddley beat. A bit of development and this music might have led to something nice...
@juniorssc1 Yeah, it's supposed to be a street photo that someone took of him when he was playing with his short lived group STARS in Cambridge in 1972. He had grown a beard. The photo is fuzzy but it's supposed to be him.
guys, listen, get the book called barrett, kinda alota $$$ and dark globe and you will know his earned stature as a mad genius, my favorite kind :) there are soooooo many great sites on f.b you will learn everything you ever was curious about him :D
Got em both and "Very irregular head" on the way.. Been reading ALL I can since 10th grade- '91-92. I love the facts finally coming to fruition and hope soon we'll know all of it. He was, is and will be someone who shaped my life And brought me almost a "safe place" during times I needed it. Now I'm finding several musicians I go see a lot, are fans. Last one I was at after his set Slim and I were singing Dark Globe and Octopus 🙂
wish he created some more material like boogie 2
there's a box of tapes he gave some guy at the chelsea cloisters when he moved out of there, and it hasn't been seen since....there's a lot of unheard barrett stuff out there, gathering dust.
victor was right How did you get this information? That is seriously interesting.
Never heard this before- very nice layered psychedelic sound.
What is this off of?
thanks :)
@DoctorPencilK
yeah you can find em on "you got it now"
I wonder how Syd and Marc Bolan would have got on? They both liked the old boogie woogie.
sounds like bo diddley was the major influence
I believe that he even was quoted saying bo was
yep still sounds like syd... blkess his pointed little head
I wonder what year and month the photograph of Sid, which was shown at 6:12?👀 There he has a beard and long hair.☺
Early 1972 with the short lived band Stars.
@EndlessNot1 Fair nuff, music's there to be enjoyed after all. Might give Ummagumma nother listen to give those noodles another go.
1:30-4:49 sounds a bit like the improvisation in 'Interstellar Overdrive'.
Oh! This is It! Not inclueded in BoX Set.
Ban shock treatment/ECT
Sounds like one foot is stuck in the 60s still at best..And i highly respect this man..Don't know if the right people were around him in 74..Maybe he's just jamming warming up?
4:50
On appelle ça des "chutes de studio" passablement inexploitables !! ;-(
Thanks for the info. What else do you know? Just curious...
Compare this with Syd's playing from just 2 years ago. I think his playing on the Boogie Band recording is even better than with Floyd. play.spotify.com/album/5xK04rygCZ3H1akIhdLmAT
Yes - I agree - and the drums - the sounds are so compelling - I feel like someone should scour for recordings of his - I mean - he was so ahead of his time - he had so many detractors - pearls before swine I say
Where do you get these? If there's an album what is it called or just where can I buy these?
Syd's 'third album' emerged on a bootleg LP called "You've Got It Now!"
@@BedroomScenesMovie Abbey Road recordings on August 12 1974
Considering that he was obviously in such a state and very much left to his own devices I don't think that this is too bad at all and there are a few really interesting bits. Where were his friends when he needed them ? I'd love to hear the bits of the session that I've yet to hear - can anyone help?
Syd
Acid Daze !!
Typical Syd.. little pieces of brilliance sandwiched between slices of nonsense.
+CapAnson12345 huge Syd fan but not hearing a lot of brilliance here
sirvidia I think 1:30 is brilliant
I know this is classed as a myth and I know I might get shouted at for this but I'm sure you can here Barrett on Astronime Domine on Ummagumma. Like faint at the beggining unless its just Gilmour micking, then after a few minutes they start again into the verse. Anyone else here it?
@DragonTheArtist I agree, I dont get how some floyd fans look down upon syd, if they were true fans, they would understand that all of Pink Floyd music is amazing, can you dig?
@JasonTryp I will ask Mick myself. I never wondered that or really bothered. It does look like her though as in the madcap Days she wore and Barrett wore alot of make up. so who knows. i will find this out for us Jason.Cheers
this sounds like the first tune is in a different key, anyone know the tuning?
1:31
@amtlpaul I hope i didn't give you the wrong impression. in my journey of discovering music ( im 38 now ) several individuals took command of my attention and Syd was one of them. I love Syd. if i ever get a chance to make a musical impression on my unborn children when they come to that age, I will play Barrett and Floyd and hopefully they will make the similar connection. I was 23 and stoned the first time i heard Syd's Floyd. Syd will always occupy a special place in my musical heart.
boogie #1 is... ahhhhh (with a little joint) -.-
@kreaknindjan I think she was photographer Mick Rock's lady or assistant.
i think girlfriend
Two Asian ladies are shown. Iggy is shown at the :26 second mark. Sheila Rock at the 4:02 mark.
@kreaknindjan The asian is actually an eskimo girl Barrett was dating. I know Mick Rock and he told me the whole story. She was just there for the photo session and was always walking around naked, bleeding all over flat because she had no period pads.Her name is Iggy, she is also on the Madcap album photos. Any other questions?
@stalkek i like rice noodles also!!
@stalkek i guess the noodle is in the ears of the beholder
Some parts dont remember the Barrett guitar style... very strange 2:15 to 2:40
@Juanfifarek I don't think it's Iggy the Eskimo. The photo session with the Asian girl above was taken about 2 years after the photo session of the Madcap laughs album. Syd had broken up with Iggy and I'm sure from pics that Iggy had different facial features than the Asian girl above. So...sorry, I don't think it's Iggy.
Syd Bear it. Discipleship
Basic blues with effects pedals and analog echo machine. Jamming and doodling- Warming up but not qute getting it together- Maybe thrown out of studio by impatient bosses. Also hear Ashra Tempel 'schwingungen' l.p. -1970: floaty guitarist Manuel Gottsching takes this type of sound to different level. Other krautrock bands compare too- though not bluesy-more unique. Early work by Faust is freaky on a par with where Barratt was going with this stuff
@2:53
I'm convinced he was faking his illness. He didn't want the spotlight nor the fame. He just wanted to paint. He was a genius. He knew he'd get royalties. When he died he was worth $5m.
4:43 whos that?
The woman in question is Mick Rock's wife, not Iggy.
Started and ended the same
Where is the download????
In your heart
5:52 and that photo ??? is that guy syd barrett?
Syd Barrett was a man with flaws. God? Hardly. Just look at his life after his mid-20's. Anyway, he wrote good lyrics and was a psychedelic star but all too briefly.
This guy was only 28 in 1974...he crumbled too young
@kreaknindjan Iggy the Eskimo
With all the people that knew Syd saying he went crazy at a certain point, there has to be some truth in that, yes a massive intake of LSD, pot, tobacco, alcohol and ludes, it's easily believable that a bad trip, reaction, overdose, caused permanent brain damage, happens to people all the time, Syd just happened to be famous. I've done 8 trips of acid and can say if it were a bad trip it would mess my mind up, seeing or talking to people that don't exist, can't remember your real self or your trippy self, especially if say a loved one that is dead is now envisioned and only you see or hear that, who wouldn't go nuts, what's real or not? Just saying that's a possibility, but in the end at least we have a piece of what could have been, just too bad he couldn't or wouldn't progress with that, but definitely still being talked about 50 years from his glory days and 13 years from his passing, RIP Syd.
Judging by what you typed I can instantly tell you never even did 1/8th of a half decent blotter let alone 8 units .
No self respecting druggie would had described things the way you did ... it all just spells " wannabe " - " fake " .
vivat BINSON
The first is double o bo
At 4:20 and what not, that isn't Iggy.
@thatsthewayitgoes09
Well yes, I don't think he took it all that seriously. He didn't have anything prepared, it seems. So yes, he just played whatever came to mind, which was mostly blues. It's just not something I would listen to more than once, because aside from some promising wah-wah touches here and there I find it really basic and repetitive. I think by that time he wasn't really interested in being 'Syd the genius' at all, he wanted to move on, and who can blame him?