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- From: dart@fugue.cc.purdue.edu (Dartanyan)
- Subject: Re: Brain Damage from LSD (Pink Floyd's Drummer)
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:38:09 GMT
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- In article <28DEC199206055860@utarlg.uta.edu> R writes:
- >Adding grist to the rumor mill, I have heard from various sources that
- >Syd is indeed an acid casualty, and having recently acquired the cd
- >" Barrett ", Capitol, 1990, I have to say that I firmly believe it to be
- >true. You just have to listen to the cd closely to confirm it. It's so
- >completely nonsensical. The lyrics are obviously the product of a VERY
- >permamently psychodelicized individual. Furthermore, it sounds just like
- >the products PF put out while he was a member. I am mildly amused to find that
- >David Gilmour (who replaced Syd as guitarist/vocalist) and Nick Wright co-
- >produced and played on this cd. I can only surmise that the guys still keep in
- >touch with Syd, for whatever reason, so he's obviously not a complete basket-
- >case. However that may be, one good listen to this cd is all it takes to
- >realize that old Syd is not really ever going to recover.
- >I just had to put it on since I was thinking about it.
- >
- Have you considered the possibility that he merely wrote the lyrics
- to the album while _on_ acid?
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- Have you ever heard/communicated/talked to Syd in a normal situation?
- From what I heard, he had some definite psychological problems, probably a
- chamical imbalance, but that imbalance had Nothing to do with LSD being one
- of the chamicals, except perhaps for about 24 or so hours a week.
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- Of course he did acid, but from all i have read about the band, no
- more than any of the rest of PF's members.
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- Or maybe, just maybe, his personality is such that he LIKES writing
- weird shit.... I have heard (and I may be wrong but..) They Might be Giants
- actually has an anti-drug stance. They write weird shit.
-
- One listen to the CD is all it takes to realize that old Syd is never
- going torecover, eh. Yeah.
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- Sean
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- Sometimes you can feel the fish
- And then it slips away
- Things aren't always what they seem
- In North Hawaii
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