Syd Barrett - Peel Session 1970 

And Gong, not new, Davead (sp?) Alen

and David Bowie, and even Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), and Wire, and I'd guess Peter Gabriel. Also John Frusciante, Soft Boys, Damned, endless bands, even Pearl Jam (check their cover of Interstellar Overdrive) - also Tame Impala

Agreed. Pipers, saucepan, Arnold Lane, see emily play are the music that still interest me today.

That's it! From whimsy to power-psychedelic-pop in the swoosh of 5 chords. Syd was a genteel lore machine with a magnetic field as wide as the sixties. 🤩😛

Very true.

You said it right man!

Aye. Nick Drake and The Black Dog spring to mind too.

..And on tonight's program we have a new session from The Fall

One of his faves was Captain Beefheart.

He also had a taste in young children.....

For sure !!!

Them chord changes are really interesting he came a long way from piper

It would be but it wasn't; it was Syd double tracked.

@@Paolo8772 the last song, two of a kind, is Barrett and Gilmour

barely bear Nice of Dave

Gilmour really did go above and beyond to help Syd thru Pink Floyd and post Floyd, Rick Wright also helped, Roger Waters helped a little on Madcap but bailed and Gilmour/Wright persisted with helping Syd until he retired (Exactly what real friends do for each other) Shine on Syd....

@ nobody showed up in 74 at abbey road, so he walked it home to Cambridge.

@@Sandwich13455 Yeah pretty sure thr Floyd where making a little album called Dark side of the Moon at that point also doing things like Pompeii and general gigging.. By 74 Syd was a non entity until a few years later when he walked in on them doing wish you were here, and that was the last contact they had with him, Gotta take your hat off to Gilmour and Wright for doing both Syd's albums while in the middle of their own stuff, Roger didn't want to do the Barrett album coz he's a prick..

@ what year was his gigs with starz?

Roger Waters and David Gilmour produced Syds The Madcap laughs album and David Gilmour and Richard Wright produced his second solo album and played on it. They did support him, they encouraged him just to keep on singing. You can hear them on the first solo album encouraging him to keep going after false starts .

@@andalltheangelssay212 Problem is, after they got bigger, they never checked up on Syd, never called him or anything. They just let him be alone which I think is really shitty. They also did a terrible job mixing some of the tracks on Madcap and using worse takes on Barrett. Wined and Dined from Opel is waaaaay better. Just Syd and his acoustic, better vocals, thats how most of madcap was. Syd and an acoustic.

Well, people literally tried to help him out, the two albums, etc. He was just not all there. Wouldn't tour, wouldn't seemingly want to do anything much really.

@@Valientlink The released version of Wined and Dined is absolutely fantastic, I don't know how you could thing otherwise. Dave's solo and lead guitar is very tastefully done and the full organ, bass and acoustic guitar arrangement is also very nicely done. They did check up on him, Dave literally made sure he got the royalty money even though he signed a contract releasing him from the band, accompanied him here (he plays bass and organ) and on his only solo concert where he abruptly left the stage after a few songs, produced parts of Madcap and Barrett. They looked after him as much as they could, but after a while, you have to just let go

@@Syfoll I'm not saying it's bad but Syd's vocals are a lot weaker, it's got that stoned Mandrax type of sound. Opel is just Syd and his guitar which is how I like it best, which is why I prefer Madcap as an album overall the most.

Tru dah

Through the early mid seventies, the subject was taboo but when the fascination of the public grew the rest of the band seemed happy to go on about him for reasons anyone can speculate.

Syd avoided the Tavistock doctors. The Floyd sold out and they sold Syd out. The Beatles were also a Tavistock creation. The rabbit hole runs deep and Syd avoided being the pied piper of the acid movement. He knew the masses were going to be led into a pit. He's a true artist. Not to say he didn't go overboard with mandrax and acid but he was nothing close to a casualty.

Yes glad you senses that. They used him like a carnival attraction .Which is why I consider post Barrett Floyd to be elevator music.

Syd Barrett hat 52 Songs geschrieben. Syd und Pink Floyd haben gut zusammengepasst. Die erste Platte The Piper..... ist eine gute Platte. Leider hatte er die falschen Freunde gehabt. Er hat mehrmals in der Woche LSD genommen. Das hält kein Gehirn aus,das ist zuviel !! Man hat Syd rausgeschmissen. Leider hat er nichts daraus gelernt und hat weiterhin Drogen genommen. Syd wurde letargisch. Er lebte nicht im hier und jetzt. Er konnte nicht mehr den richtigen Tonleiter spielen. Er wollte die Wände hochklettern. Er wollte eine Sekte gründen. Er wollte seine Gitarre 🎸 auf den Kopf seiner Schwester Rosmary schlagen. Mit 22 Jahren war Syd ein kranker Mensch. Es gibt keine Bewusstseinserweiterung durch Drogen. Genau das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Dein Bewusstsein wird immer kleiner enger und gestörter. Drogensucht ist eine geistige Erkrankung!!! Er ist als Maler und Musiker gescheitert. Die Psychiatrie war damals noch nicht soweit. Mich interessiert wie Syd mit seiner Krankheit gelebt hat??? Das Krankheitsbild ändert sich von Mitte 20 Jahren oder Mitte 40 oder 50 Jahren. 🎞️🎥 Man sollte sein ganzes Leben verfilmen. Syd lebte leider in einem inneren und äußeren Gefängnis. Ich weiß nicht ob er jemals Erlösung oder Frieden für seine Seele gefunden hat ???

@@jm-tl6odcan you elaborate on the significance of Tavistock and what exactly this means?

Jeff Stewart ah man that’s tough. Your dog can’t be replaced but Some day another one will be there for you. they all have their own personalities and most of them grow on us and we get very attached. Nothing quite like the first one....but close!

Jeff Stewart lost my guineapig last Monday.Sorry bout your dog.It hurts man

~ Jaskasses zip up and down side roads like they're on a race track; some people are disgusting.

Oh I’m sorry. Blessings to Woof Spirit Angel x

so sorry i know that hurts hope you feel better soon

spot on observation

whose not to say he was was ghost writing secretly. He was visiting the band in the studio all through out 68-72(3)ish.

Yeaaaaa, sure. It wasn't the fact that he was unable to function properly

I don't think he tuned his guitar to certain key, he just detuned it to the point where non of the strings were in tune with each other, how could the band play along with that?

Did I say that?

@@cucluu3579 Very carefully

Don't forget 'In The Beechwoods' as another track missed from the Saucerful Of Secrets stable...

he was too cool they didnt get him and he didnt do it for fame not into the ego rock star thing so he left as he felt uninspired to lip synch on top of the pops etc

The best song syd ever wrote was see emily play in 1967 loved it then and still do think norman smith did an exellent job producing this

You don’t understand bipolar individuals ... Syd could be fine one day and a mess the next ... it’s not uncommon for music to focus the mind

He did not want to play with Pink Floyd, he still wanted to create this beautiful music. He left the business on his own terms.

I agree. When I was young I bought into the story that he went "crazy". Now I'm older I can see what went on. He switched from acid to Mandrax. Then he played on his drugged out vibe, look at the photos of him from this period and you can see he's putting on eye make-up and acting out on stage, look at Iggy Pop, Ian Curtis, Kurt Cobain, all a similar image. The rest of the band were so conservative and middle class they freaked out, the lead guy was too rock and roll for them. Then for years after this they used his story as a basis for most of their work. Imagine if the Beatles had acted like this with John Lennon, "sorry but John's gone mad, I am the Walrus is a product of a deranged mind, he's got to go!" The Plastic Ono Bands "Why" single was just as "mad" as the Syd Barret solo stuff, Lennon was using Heroin, Yokos screaming away, yet I dont think anyone at the time labelled John as a nutter.

@@e.m.b2834 Syd was a heavy drug user and drug users are often diagnosed as Bipolar, one day fine (no drugs), a mess the next (mandrax). If you turn up to psychiatric evaluation whilst in the madness of addiction there's no way a clear assesment can be made.

@@dunk8157 He was Punk and should have moved to Manhattan. He would have been hot shit at CBGB. He did not want to be a star.

Envious Fred I feel depressed because I feel so sorry for Syd

thumbs up for strange thoughts!

You’re in the right place Fred

Me too! And strange dreams, and bit of paranoia.

Yup

❤️

do t forget Donovan,Lennon y Nick Drake. also Dale Brown

Really, ... Hendrix and then Syd. Hmmm. Not even close.

Gavril Hlutev Not to mention Peter Hammill🙄

Keith Levene from Public Image Limited has got to be up there too for sure.

Syd Zappa,even Hendrix...pretty terrible.....Nick drake, Levine,two actually very very good guitarists, both technique and originality -wise. ...anyone can play like Hendrix...for me he was a better songwriter than guitarist.....not getting the Joy Division connection at all?

Said it most of my Music life. Tnx

some pnks bands like sex pistols

Except, it's not.

@@RadioMartyT1B Who's playing with him here?

Except it really is...​@@RadioMartyT1B

"pour réparer"Roger,et David ont aidé SYD pour ces 2 albums, c'est ma moindre des choses tout de même..

The sound and vision of LSD is the universe bro. Not man.

Johnny Pissoff recorded?

WAS IT RECORDED????

@@glazinghost5951 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WQgnlUEyQXw.html

no... the only reason Sid's music got released at all is because David Gilmour worked it over... i defer to his bandmates as to what his condition was...

@@cliffwebb1621 this is live jackass

Jorji Costava He also used some of those same lines in other songs (like Octopus). He was a brilliant musician. The people who spiked his food & drink should rot in hell.

Anyone notice Roger Waters used some of the lyrics or ideas from Baby Lemonade. For wish you were here??

@@kathybreakwell847 Ah hah! You're right… the cold steel rail. I noticed unconciously, but your comment helped to bring it to my conscious mind, such as it is.

@@Kowasi Yes EXACTLY right.. I often wonder if Dark Globe 🌎 inspired Dark Side of the Moon 🌙...

There were a few other ideas he might have Got from Syd's Baby Lemonade such as 'make your name like a ghost' with ' heroes for ghost'.. Also: 'send a cage through the post' with 'a lead role in a cage'... Could be coincident - but.... I'll leave it at that.. Lol

Are you stupid? He was mad. I love his music and his voice but Syd wasn't well mentally. He trapped his girlfriend in the bathroom for 3 days, he would plug out his guitar on stage and just sit there and made Have You Got It Yet. Get out of here

@@Syfoll You're a fucking idiot. Did you witness the bathroom incident with your own eyes? If not then it's nothing more than a stupid rumour, don't believe everything you hear. Unplugged his guitar on stage? Oh no! How maddddd! Wrote a song called Have You Got It Yet? Ohhh my, where is the psychiatrist, this person has lost it. When in actual fact he was probably just having a laugh and those dumb asses didn't get it (just like you). These songs are proof he was not only together but smarter than you or I. Nobody has been able to imitate his style successfully, he was a genius.

@@struttingbirdlofi couldn't agree more

You're correct. Pretty much all of his contributions to Saucerful LP released and unreleased, and almost half of madcap laughs are really taking the piss on his alleged friends and former bandmates for the treatment of his removal from the band. The man was a genius and an artist in the purist of senses. No more insane than your typical artist of his caliber. Sadly he was surrounded by dogs and pigs and architecture students that didn't want to make art, they wanted money and fame etc. Shame he didn't get to associate with the Fripp's and Eno's that were inspired by him.

@@hovazane4091 well said

His English is excellent . And he never sings out of tune,

me too. so much.

agree entirely with your sentiments except this session was recorded two years after he left pink floyd Not three as you stated

@@damiensuil2183 oh, sorry.

Stop idealising Syd. He was brilliant of course but what did he achieved compared to the Floyds?

Zyteks 5 .... yes I agree

Yes I agree

Berkan Sevindik He was the sound of UK psychedelia. What a beautiful career he had in front of him. It wasn’t to be tho’. I love his voice most of all I think he is underrated + deserves more recognition.

Culture Clash Music & Video Syd is remembered don’t worry about that

I’ve heard recordings from 74 with Syd tho

@@sotis1756 where

no,this is not his last session..this radio session was recorded feb 24th 1970-two days before he began the 'barrett'album sessions which lasted until july of that year.. on feb 16th 1971 he returned to play another radio session-this time for bob harris and his 'sounds of the seventies' show recording the tracks 'baby lemonade','love song',and 'dominoes'

He had been kicked out of Pink Floyd by this time due to his mental health problems and use of LSD. I have to agree that he doesn't sound mad or drugged in these recordings. However, I understand that some mental illnesses can have their effects felt in waves, and can get progressively worse in some cases, as they did do in Syd's case. Sadly, Syd had left public life by 1972. Things must have got much worse for him by then. From Wikipedia "In 1972, Barrett left the music industry, retired from public life and strictly guarded his privacy until his death. He continued painting and dedicated himself to gardening. Pink Floyd recorded several tributes and homages to him, including the 1975 song suite "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and the 1979 rock opera The Wall. In 1988, EMI released an album of unreleased tracks and outtakes, Opel, with Barrett's approval. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2006. "

I'm sure he did actually suffer from a really bad down mental breakdown but after that he was still himself (not a carcass or an animal like many tend to think). Very possibly used that to his advantage to leave his old life as Syd and spent the rest of his days as an artist in peace.

That's how I feel about my late aunt.

@@dannyd0g Not to forget Wish you were here. The whole album is a tribute to Syd.

I don't believe he was crazy or anything like the sort. Pink Floyd was only supposed to be short lived. The others didn't feel that way. To him it was the same thing they were doing before Floyd. They were formed from an art project.

The Barreatles

Yes, its a shame nature is interfered with, to result in this end, but its ok.

Glass can be half full or empty or was the glass there ?only Roger knew...giggling . He never saw them ‘fing’ ...

Ummmm Tamara where áre you from ?

Bowie copied him. He was a huge fan

Bowie and Eno took so much from him

...realise his visions.

and was like a guy who took too much acid.

I heard Syd had Synesthesia, the ability to see shapes/colors through sound. It really explains a lot if you think about his music AND the fact that he was an actually talented painter already before he picked up a guitar and then consider him tripping. Makes you wonder if he was “painting” with his playing.

hands down

I don't think Syd was ever "Sane" in the normalcy sense as Roger Water has said himself during his Jimmy Fallon interview that Syd had mental illness issues (Schizophrenia) before he even started taking drugs.

Heavy diabetics which affects mental state too. And injected insulin works as psychoactive drug also.

He was never diagnose with any mental illness just cancer and maybe depression but that's it

margus kiis noted

I read in an interview with sister Rosemary she thought he may have Asperger's....? Makes sense to me.

But maybe they're not mad , ... and we are.

Yes, genus comes out of madness.

Deal with the devil

Thank you for providing these lyrics ~ magical wordsmith from the dimension of the fae and and all things whimsy.

it's grey

Exactly. I’ll be 50 in 2 months and have never heard this recording. I’ve heard his solo albums but this is even better than them. I’d love to know who is with him on this. It sounds like him and just one other bloke.

@@douglasfernandez7737 David Gilmour

This is a rare treat this happy new year everyone or rather hippy new year love syd and dave together brilliant stuff x

@@douglasfernandez7737 syd barrett,david gilmour,and jerry shirley

johnny rock Wow...That's Pretty Vain Of You....Totaly

@johnny 🤦‍♂️God help us all…

jeff caliendo and his vocals are double tracked. they must have done overdubs or something??

david gilmore on guitar and backing vocals