It's a shame people couldn't respect the man's wishes to be left alone, from what I'm aware he was hounded at his home for decades by obsessive "fans" wanting autographs, interviews etc , Be thankful for what he gave you when he was active as a musician.
Thank you. I'm the author of 'Dark Globe and was pleased to see your use of quotes, and also for proper credit. I feel validated that my message got through. Thanks again!
You're very welcome. And thank you! The book is full of amazing quotes that i truly love. I'm Bay Violette from FB that runs this channel - the painter 😊
@@Suchapill Thank you! There are many more photos of him after leaving the industry(mick rock rolling stones and at steve marriot's house 1971) (1972 playing with the last minute put together boogie band - he has a beard) (2 photos from 1975), one from 82 and then several in the 90s and 2000s. There's lots out there!
@@Suchapill No information on him having a relationship, if he did he was incredibly private about it or his family kept it a secret. It's more likely he did not
Syd wanted to do what Syd wanted never sold out he wanted a quiet life back as Roger Keith Barrett I think he saw through the music industry rip Roger Keith Barrett
I always thought that was Rogers thoughts on all the editing (using razors and tape) they did to put Syds solo album material (Rog was helping David to record at around the same time) into a format so that the other musicians could overdub their parts. There was a lot of talk about the completely randomized time signatures 3beats here, 2beats there, 7.5beats after that…. could easily turn into a lot of splicing to make it fit a normal signature a band could actually play to.
I have always loved Syd Barrett's music and find your description "otherworldly genius" very curious as a psychologist. I mean what metric/rubric do we measure genius? I have noted that his music was reflective of the most progressive of the day taken with his blend of experimentation. His lyrics indicate that he was progressively growing more and more "otherworldly" as he seemed to be desparately 'white-knuckling' to remain anchored, testing his grounding to others' world/reality. Many attribute this slipping away to psychogenic drugs but research notes that those can be a catalyst to genetically predisposed psychotic disorders. People with Schizophrenia tend to use art work that often become mandela-like circles of intricate designs. I also have noted that their artwork generally takes on a regressive quality seemingly looking for the place where they slipped away. Some have described him that way. At any rate, his eyes to on that '1000 yard stare' indicative of schophrenia and an internal mental battle. My apologies for the psychologic analysis.
The picture at 5:37 is at the 14 hour Technicolor Event. How come this is the only real pic besides maybe 1 or 2 others that exist? Plus it was filmed the Cameraman shooting film of Syd at that point. Would love to know why no film exists of the Floyd and many others that night of the huge underground show. I know there is some footage but Who was filming this show? BBC? Who was the Cameraman? This and the Games for May events show should have been filmed also.I bet it was. It was the Floyd’s New Quad sound setup and a really big show for the Floyd. It was Theatrical with new sounds and vision from the Pink Floyd before PATGOD.I would think Roger Waters has access to it if it exists and or the Owners of Black hill Entertainment Corporation possibly. It would be so nice if someone had new lost or found footage of live 67 PF.
Plenty play the kookie out there role but most are just savvy businessmen in loud clothes feigning some intergalactic disconnect for a photo shoot, a real genius isn't a pretty sight, he doesn't court company, or wash, he's a bollock hanging out of pants bleary eyed opening a front door in the mid-afternoon, god rest ya
Musicians don't need to be measured, but if someone asked, I offer my opinion that the two most influencial musical thinkers to emerge from the sixties were Don Van Vliet and Syd Barrett.
At4:15, Syd's giggle him and girl, both laughing quietly. Looks like the feeling you get when acid begins to take effect. I've seen that clip before. I could be wrong. It looks like an acid high coming on. Laughing stacks
Its a shame he didnt take up art full time, he looked very good, reminded me of Van Gogh, although I know bugger all about art. I think dotty artists are more accepted for longer, than dotty rock stars.
As a young man he was so incredibly sexy not only because of his good looks but because he seemed so inaccessible and deeply connected to some other world. Maybe it’s an unconscious primal instinct to be sexually drawn to unique characters to keep our species diverse.
Syd saw a documentary and the Pink Floyd awards ceremony on TV saw that they named him, and his sister witnessed that, his sister says that syd remembered everything but he did not have that euphoria or anything he knew about his past , the same thing happened to my cousin Lalo who woke up after 40 years of the LSCD AND WHEN HE WAKE UP ALREADY HIS MOM MY AUNT AND HIS FATHER ESTEVAN WERE NO LONGER ALIVE , a trip in the lscd can last year and years but when to wake up it's sad and heartbreaking.
The healthy Syd Barrett was very creative. He was a talented, gifted young man. Unfortunately, he started taking drugs very early on. He had the wrong friends. The first record with Pink Floyd The Piper.... is a good record. Things went uphill with Pink Floyd. Things went downhill with Syd!!! He took LSD several times a week. That's too much, no brain can handle it!!!! He became lethargic..... He was mentally absent... He didn't live in the here and now... He was no longer productive... He could no longer play the right scales... He wanted to climb walls... He wanted to start a cult... He wanted to become a doctor and get married... He wanted to hit his sister Rosemary on the head with his guitar 🎸... Drug addiction is a mental illness... He broke off therapy... He lived in an inner and outer prison...... 🎞️🎥 His whole life should be made into a film. He wrote 52 songs.. I don't know if he ever found redemption or peace for his soul ??? A real tragedy for Syd and his family.
Syds guitar at the start...there's Radiohead, Bowie (Scary Monsters), Bolan, Blur, Pete Doherty, etc etc etc right there! Yea okay, I know for the purists, Gilmore is better technically....but he doesn't have the same innovation.
no..they didn't run out of time on the 'barrett' lp...the sessions were recorded at a steady pace between february 26th to july 23rd 1970-'gigolo aunt' being recorded fairly early on,and the guitar on it is all syd.
Yes, reminds me of the cover of the 'You Can All Join In' compilation album cover. Spent many an idle 40 minutes listening to the tracks and trying to work out the bands. Couldn't get beyond 4 or 5 groups there either. I've got a nice little identification chart now off the net for that, which I didn't have back in the day.
This is from the Syd Barrett first trip directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon who is a legend in London and passed last year unfortunately. It was released in 1967 but was filmed in 1966/1967.
Syd was the original Britney, wrongfully ostracized and woefully misunderstood. His art was engineered without him after he was unceremoniously booted from his creation by the eningeer himself George "Roger" Waters. Syd wasn't industry driven. Waters was and convinced the other band mates to follow suit and make pop music. Syd was robbed of his art and career like Britney was. Floyd is a billion dollar machine inspired by the creative genius that was Roger Barrett without proper recognition and he is thus left undignified.
Totally agree - and boy did they milk Syd’s misfortune for all they were worth. Nothing like twisting a story to sell product. Take the infamous WYWH studio visit - how Syd supposedly just turned up at Abbey Road Studios when they were recording SOYCD, yet Dave Gilmour was getting married that evening and Syd happened to be at the reception - at Abbey Road Studios. The famous pic of him, bald and plump was allegedly taken at the wedding reception, not in the studio. Then there is another one taken weeks later where he’s sat on a chair in Abbey Road, his hair and eyebrows growing back in. Yet this wouldn’t fit the narrative of the ‘lost genius’ they put out there. My own belief is that Syd did too much acid and it fvcked with his thought processes (it didn’t ‘fry his brain’), to the point of overthinking. He was confused, depressed, burnt out from the touring (200+ gigs in 1967!) and the pressures of being the frontman, lead guitarist and principal songwriter. To me, his going back to Cambridge was just an attempt to get away from the pressure, the confusion and possibly, the embarrassment/regret of being booted from his own band. I hope that GRW regrets his own departure from the Floyd and in a karmic way, justice was served as ‘his own’ band ended up being owned by the guy he replaced Syd with.
@@yanikem6655 So glad to hear from someone on the same page as us. Taking all those things you explained as far as pressure and stress from that year added with being on the autism spectrum fully explains why he acted in the way that he did. They used him and stifled him generating the beginning of punk rock. Long live Syd.
@@yanikem6655 very well said. The stress of his past was clearly something he dealt with alone and it was evident in that the day he passed happens to be July 7th, coinciding with the infamous Crazy Diamond/Gilmour Wedding Day. I feel that day symbolized the absolute severance of Syd from Floyd and is a day that he felt great pain from. They shamefully caricaturized syds mental health, mapping out his pain for everyone to see in all of their albums really.
To be fair all the Floyd members sang and write songs in this style. You can hear this in Childhoods Dream and as late as Mother and even beyond to their solo stuff. Love Floyd such a different band to all the rest. Very quaint and polite
At 53 l see the selfish nature of the pink Floyd after syds departure, l listen to pipers now, the one and only for me, DSOTM, WYWH, are shadows of the man who started it all, sad but true,
@@ratslaydownflat2540 wow he actually looks really well on that picture. Was he better for a while or something because he looks really well on that picture.
The word genius is automatically attached to Sid every time his name is mentioned. I have no musical talent whatsoever but I really but don’t see the genius part in most of his music with Floyd it’s just not good and his “music” after is a mish mash incoherent crap. Yes I do love his weird thought process and gone to soon way of life but the punk pop psychedelic songs from early Floyd are almost unlistenable. I know I’m asking for it but it’s my opinion.
It's a shame people couldn't respect the man's wishes to be left alone, from what I'm aware he was hounded at his home for decades by obsessive "fans" wanting autographs, interviews etc , Be thankful for what he gave you when he was active as a musician.
Sid/Rodger got what he deserved from his fans nobody set out to be malicious to the guy.
@@TrggrWarning Check out the wee specky twat hounding him at his door and you may change your mind.
Syd had the same air of mystery as the Yeti
If course people are gonna turn up outside his home
Bless you . Its true.
For sure. Syd brought me so much joy. I’d never forgive myself for taking some away from him.
Thank you. I'm the author of 'Dark Globe and was pleased to see your use of quotes, and also for proper credit. I feel validated that my message got through. Thanks again!
You're very welcome. And thank you! The book is full of amazing quotes that i truly love. I'm Bay Violette from FB that runs this channel - the painter 😊
@@ratslaydownflat2540
Fantastic videos. Are there others? Did Syd have girlfriends in his years after being a musician?
@@Suchapill Thank you! There are many more photos of him after leaving the industry(mick rock rolling stones and at steve marriot's house 1971) (1972 playing with the last minute put together boogie band - he has a beard) (2 photos from 1975), one from 82 and then several in the 90s and 2000s. There's lots out there!
@@Suchapill No information on him having a relationship, if he did he was incredibly private about it or his family kept it a secret. It's more likely he did not
@@ratslaydownflat2540
Fantastic! Thanks and continuous success with your channel.
Syd looks so healthy in the thumb nail pic :) it gives me hope he had an enjoyable life post Floyd.
Aye, he looks like the guy that cooked the food at that party and everyone is loving it and want to take a picture with him.
Syd wanted to do what Syd wanted never sold out he wanted a quiet life back as Roger Keith Barrett I think he saw through the music industry rip Roger Keith Barrett
I agree 100%
Great musician who had his say and went on to others things and places that he preferred - no one at fault, just life. Who knows -
Yes.
…drugs and messing his brain up were at fault. Whoever gave him the overdose…
Dyd was a tragedy waitin' to happen, but his music was good.
This is a lovely curation of visual Syd Barrett. I'd not seen some of photos, and am glad you shared it. Good job.
Thank you very much 🙂 I'm glad you enjoyed it!
thanks guys. i had bands they were great free spirit. live on sid never gone but always srong!!!!
You raise the blade, you make the change, you rearrange me 'till I'm sane. May you rest in eternal peace Syd Barrett.
I always thought that was Rogers thoughts on all the editing (using razors and tape) they did to put Syds solo album material (Rog was helping David to record at around the same time) into a format so that the other musicians could overdub their parts. There was a lot of talk about the completely randomized time signatures 3beats here, 2beats there, 7.5beats after that…. could easily turn into a lot of splicing to make it fit a normal signature a band could actually play to.
This is really well made. You captured Syd's spirit, the reasons why we love and are fascinated with him in 7 mins. That's quite impressive!
Thank you!
Great job, in seven minutes you have captured so much of Syd's otherworldly genius. A perfect primer for those yet to discover him.
I have always loved Syd Barrett's music and find your description "otherworldly genius" very curious as a psychologist. I mean what metric/rubric do we measure genius? I have noted that his music was reflective of the most progressive of the day taken with his blend of experimentation. His lyrics indicate that he was progressively growing more and more "otherworldly" as he seemed to be desparately 'white-knuckling' to remain anchored, testing his grounding to others' world/reality. Many attribute this slipping away to psychogenic drugs but research notes that those can be a catalyst to genetically predisposed psychotic disorders. People with Schizophrenia tend to use art work that often become mandela-like circles of intricate designs. I also have noted that their artwork generally takes on a regressive quality seemingly looking for the place where they slipped away. Some have described him that way. At any rate, his eyes to on that '1000 yard stare' indicative of schophrenia and an internal mental battle. My apologies for the psychologic analysis.
0:00: Golden Hair.
1:21: Gigolo Aunt.
👍
Syd Barrett the best Pink Floyd . love you !!!!
Love the footage of him and Iggy amongst the trees.. A truly fascinating human being
The picture at 5:37 is at the 14 hour Technicolor Event. How come this is the only real pic besides maybe 1 or 2 others that exist? Plus it was filmed the Cameraman shooting film of Syd at that point. Would love to know why no film exists of the Floyd and many others that night of the huge underground show. I know there is some footage but Who was filming this show? BBC? Who was the Cameraman? This and the Games for May events show should have been filmed also.I bet it was. It was the Floyd’s New Quad sound setup and a really big show for the Floyd. It was Theatrical with new sounds and vision from the Pink Floyd before PATGOD.I would think Roger Waters has access to it if it exists and or the Owners of Black hill Entertainment Corporation possibly. It would be so nice if someone had new lost or found footage of live 67 PF.
Great video compilation of Syd, great work!
Thanks a lot!
Awesome video!
Thank you!
Plenty play the kookie out there role but most are just savvy businessmen in loud clothes feigning some intergalactic disconnect for a photo shoot, a real genius isn't a pretty sight, he doesn't court company, or wash, he's a bollock hanging out of pants bleary eyed opening a front door in the mid-afternoon, god rest ya
Very cool.
Thank you for putting that together.
You're very welcome 😊 glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful! Made in and with the essence and spirit of it's subject.
Musicians don't need to be measured, but if someone asked, I offer my opinion that the two most influencial musical thinkers to emerge from the sixties were Don Van Vliet and Syd Barrett.
VERY rainy day out.
Just what to do? I'm confined to my vehicle, getting cozy.
Barrett LP songs, the perfect soundtrack.
Syd to the rescue!
Absolutely beautiful!
Love this, Billy ❤
(PS @ratslaydownflat2540 this is Glenna🎉)
I love this video! Thank you!!!! I love Syd!!! You´re a star!
Gorgeous video! Good touch using the forward guitar take of GA.
Thank you!
Great video! Thank you! I especially admired Syd's legs 5:23 😍🤣
At4:15, Syd's giggle him and girl, both laughing quietly. Looks like the feeling you get when acid begins to take effect. I've seen that clip before. I could be wrong. It looks like an acid high coming on.
Laughing stacks
'Syd' Barrett just went back to being Roger Keith Barrett.
Nice job, some Syd stuff I've never seen before 😊
Gigalo Aunt...brilliant ! ...What the hell is that?!
A remarkable human being.
Gigolo Aunt definitely has a Donovan vibe to it… or should I say Donovan's musical stylings were inspired by Syd Barrett.
Nice tribute. 💥
Its a shame he didnt take up art full time, he looked very good, reminded me of Van Gogh, although I know bugger all about art.
I think dotty artists are more accepted for longer, than dotty rock stars.
Steven if you know what you like then you know all you need to know about art.
Some of Syd's ,sorry Rogers,art works a tremendous by any standards
Super memory😢
oh my GOODNESS i LOVED it. thank you very muchhh. where are these videos from??
that was ace
As a young man he was so incredibly sexy not only because of his good looks but because he seemed so inaccessible and deeply connected to some other world. Maybe it’s an unconscious primal instinct to be sexually drawn to unique characters to keep our species diverse.
Syd🌹❤️
understanding....
rip ... genius ....
When will we ever learn
i'm drawing parallels here with Richey Manic
Syd saw a documentary and the Pink Floyd awards ceremony on TV saw that they named him, and his sister witnessed that, his sister says that syd remembered everything but he did not have that euphoria or anything he knew about his past , the same thing happened to my cousin Lalo who woke up after 40 years of the LSCD AND WHEN HE WAKE UP ALREADY HIS MOM MY AUNT AND HIS FATHER ESTEVAN WERE NO LONGER ALIVE , a trip in the lscd can last year and years but when to wake up it's sad and heartbreaking.
The healthy Syd Barrett was very creative. He was a talented, gifted young man. Unfortunately, he started taking drugs very early on. He had the wrong friends. The first record with Pink Floyd The Piper.... is a good record. Things went uphill with Pink Floyd. Things went downhill with Syd!!! He took LSD several times a week. That's too much, no brain can handle it!!!! He became lethargic..... He was mentally absent... He didn't live in the here and now... He was no longer productive... He could no longer play the right scales... He wanted to climb walls... He wanted to start a cult... He wanted to become a doctor and get married... He wanted to hit his sister Rosemary on the head with his guitar 🎸... Drug addiction is a mental illness... He broke off therapy... He lived in an inner and outer prison...... 🎞️🎥 His whole life should be made into a film. He wrote 52 songs.. I don't know if he ever found redemption or peace for his soul ??? A real tragedy for Syd and his family.
Great video except I would make one correction: "Syd" Barrett died in the 70s, Roger Keith Barrett died in 2006.
Syds guitar at the start...there's Radiohead, Bowie (Scary Monsters), Bolan, Blur, Pete Doherty, etc etc etc right there!
Yea okay, I know for the purists, Gilmore is better technically....but he doesn't have the same innovation.
Who's that guy at 5:22? Tom Constanten?
Is that a Gilmore solo on gigalo song in the middle I know he was adding things at the end because they ran out of time
no..they didn't run out of time on the 'barrett' lp...the sessions were recorded at a steady pace between february 26th to july 23rd 1970-'gigolo aunt' being recorded fairly early on,and the guitar on it is all syd.
5:57 Please name as many faces as you can.
Yes, reminds me of the cover of the 'You Can All Join In' compilation album cover. Spent many an idle 40 minutes listening to the tracks and trying to work out the bands. Couldn't get beyond 4 or 5 groups there either. I've got a nice little identification chart now off the net for that, which I didn't have back in the day.
Does anyone know when the video at the beginning was filmed ?
This is from the Syd Barrett first trip directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon who is a legend in London and passed last year unfortunately. It was released in 1967 but was filmed in 1966/1967.
@@ratslaydownflat2540 thanks mate ..
@@ratslaydownflat2540 More like 65/66.
It is hard to be a real artist...I am sure that his life was difficult.
Syd was the original Britney, wrongfully ostracized and woefully misunderstood. His art was engineered without him after he was unceremoniously booted from his creation by the eningeer himself George "Roger" Waters. Syd wasn't industry driven. Waters was and convinced the other band mates to follow suit and make pop music. Syd was robbed of his art and career like Britney was. Floyd is a billion dollar machine inspired by the creative genius that was Roger Barrett without proper recognition and he is thus left undignified.
Totally agree - and boy did they milk Syd’s misfortune for all they were worth. Nothing like twisting a story to sell product. Take the infamous WYWH studio visit - how Syd supposedly just turned up at Abbey Road Studios when they were recording SOYCD, yet Dave Gilmour was getting married that evening and Syd happened to be at the reception - at Abbey Road Studios. The famous pic of him, bald and plump was allegedly taken at the wedding reception, not in the studio. Then there is another one taken weeks later where he’s sat on a chair in Abbey Road, his hair and eyebrows growing back in. Yet this wouldn’t fit the narrative of the ‘lost genius’ they put out there. My own belief is that Syd did too much acid and it fvcked with his thought processes (it didn’t ‘fry his brain’), to the point of overthinking. He was confused, depressed, burnt out from the touring (200+ gigs in 1967!) and the pressures of being the frontman, lead guitarist and principal songwriter. To me, his going back to Cambridge was just an attempt to get away from the pressure, the confusion and possibly, the embarrassment/regret of being booted from his own band. I hope that GRW regrets his own departure from the Floyd and in a karmic way, justice was served as ‘his own’ band ended up being owned by the guy he replaced Syd with.
@@yanikem6655 So glad to hear from someone on the same page as us. Taking all those things you explained as far as pressure and stress from that year added with being on the autism spectrum fully explains why he acted in the way that he did. They used him and stifled him generating the beginning of punk rock. Long live Syd.
@@yanikem6655 very well said. The stress of his past was clearly something he dealt with alone and it was evident in that the day he passed happens to be July 7th, coinciding with the infamous Crazy Diamond/Gilmour Wedding Day. I feel that day symbolized the absolute severance of Syd from Floyd and is a day that he felt great pain from. They shamefully caricaturized syds mental health, mapping out his pain for everyone to see in all of their albums really.
@@BrianBarrettWilson One last practical joke
@@ratslaydownflat2540 yeah make that day known as the day Roger "Syd" Barrett passed rather than the day WYWH and SOYCD happened.
Rats in a phedophilering. And Im shure dying
Bam, spastic, tactile engine
Heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
I'll have them, fried bloke
Broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle
Sploshette moxy, very smelly
Cable, gable, splinter, channel
Top the seam he's taken off
To be fair all the Floyd members sang and write songs in this style. You can hear this in Childhoods Dream and as late as Mother and even beyond to their solo stuff. Love Floyd such a different band to all the rest. Very quaint and polite
At 53 l see the selfish nature of the pink Floyd after syds departure, l listen to pipers now, the one and only for me, DSOTM, WYWH, are shadows of the man who started it all, sad but true,
DSOTM is the greatest album of all time followed by WTWH.
I know just what you mean
Super set ion to My dreamy one of the original One picture of my love and I love her so so very happy and healthy for you and my dreamy girl
Barrett was never pop, I agree with Gilmour and/or Waters and/or the four of them who called him "crazy diamond"
It was the most commercial the band ever got.
Leave him, just leave him. He is dead.
What the heck does that even mean. Pretend that the past doesn't exist 😂 like why
What year is the photo at 5:30 from?
1981
@@ratslaydownflat2540 no its not its around 1970 ish..
@@Dontshootthemessenger-l6h This is confirmed by his family to be in 1981 and is listed as such in multiple books
@@Dontshootthemessenger-l6h It’s in 1981.
@@ratslaydownflat2540 wow he actually looks really well on that picture. Was he better for a while or something because he looks really well on that picture.
Schizophrenic and street drugs don't mix
Drugs and reality don't mix.
The word genius is automatically attached to Sid every time his name is mentioned. I have no musical talent whatsoever but I really but don’t see the genius part in most of his music with Floyd it’s just not good and his “music” after is a mish mash incoherent crap. Yes I do love his weird thought process and gone to soon way of life but the punk pop psychedelic songs from early Floyd are almost unlistenable. I know I’m asking for it but it’s my opinion.
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