Early Floyd was best! In fact,there was a nice melodic JAM from the COMMITTEE LP that reminded me of a long lost Floyd song that I heard on the radio 32 years ago. It was about 5 minutes long,upbeat,had a baroque-like keyboard melody and a trippy guitar solo with few lyrics. Does anyone know what this song's title might be?
Too bad Pink Floyd’s PA system wasn’t working properly and was basically non existent for a lot of Pink Floyd shows when Syd’s downfall happened 🤔Nick Mason is definitely on speed or something wow. My favorite version is still with Syd live on look of the week in May of 67
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.
I'm an 80s child and grew up with that era of music and mostly the wall and Floyd last the 1980s. Didn't occur to me to look to their early work and I dont know why. Can you imagine how fortunate I am to be able to hear this at the age of 51 all for the first time? What a wonderful treat and its new and fresh to me.
Remarkable to see Syd so lucid and clear considering this is very close to the time where he started to suffer pretty heavily from schizophrenia, and show it. Syd was my hero growing up. Bless him.
It's interesting how their take on rock shows at that time actually developed into the concert scene that we all associate with the late 60s and 70s when people just sat and listened to the music---and were probably all stoned.
Syd, when he raises his hands....He's like a Wizard or a Magician... He wrote such an ethereal and enchanting song. I always sail across the solar system, passing the great gas giants, every time I listen to this.
