Syd Barrett did not have latent chizophrenia... He simply took too many drugs!!! Unfortunately he had the wrong friends and hung out with junkies... It's a sad story... A real emotional ordeal for the whole Barrett family... Syd was a talented, gifted young man... Founded Pink Floyd in 1965... Got a record deal in 1967 and made Pink Floyd famous!!! In April 1968 he was kicked out.... Sad story!!!!! The other three amateur musicians no longer wanted to be architecture students and wanted to become full-blooded musicians!!! Syd Barrett could no longer play a proper scale... He had his blackouts... Unfortunately Pink Floyd is not a buddy band... In my eyes 👁️ they just used Syd!!! He stayed in the group for as long as it seemed sensible... That's how the three architects are... Roger Waters said let's carry on without Syd... He didn't pick him up... Rick Wright said to Syd: I'll just get some cigarettes and had a live performance with the band... Pink Floyd you have to have real friends... A sad, painful experience for Syd... He threw himself into it completely... It's sad that he never had therapy... A psychiatrist could have helped... Psychiatry wasn't that advanced back then... But it was in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s... Strange that no one from the Barrett family or the band could motivate him to do it...
I like to think you can tell a lot about an artist by the way they portray eyes in their work. Seeing Syd's art, I can see that the eyes he draws are very arresting and captivating, often they draw your attention before anything else. I think this is interesting given his own eyes were similar in that sense- it's the first thing most people notice about him.
Syd aka Roger was an artiste and like many before and after decided to dedicate his last years to visual art...so many like Syd...Cobain Mellencamp Slick and Captain Beefheart to name a few
