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- From: hemlock@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bleeding Rivets)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Brain Damage from LSD (Pink Floyd's Drummer)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 21:30:33 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- In article <1992Dec24.063150.21665@lasernet.co.za> brianl@lasernet.co.za (Brian Little) writes:
- [quoted material deleted]
- >
- >Syd Barrat, Origioinal guitarist for Pink floyd is the person in question
- >here, he is in fact staying with his mother. Not very functional. drinks
- >tea. during rehearsals for the animals LP in 1977 or so he pitched up at
- >the studios and announced that he was ready to rejoin Pink Floyd. they
- >wrote the song "Shine on crazy diamond" for him. Some of his last
- >appearances were on top of the pops doing See EMily Play, By the third week
- >he was still wearing the same outfit now very creased etc and played one
- >chord throughout the song. No doubt the beginning of the end.
- >
- >Another interesting casualty is Peter Green, guitarist of the original
- >blues FLEETWOOD MAC, He now grows his nails.
- >Gos is alive and well and lives in a sugar cube.
- >>-- pjm@cshl.org
-
- Syd Barrett did come out with a couple of solo albums after his mental
- episode[s]. I like them although I don't listen to them much; they sound
- a lot like his stuff with Pink Floyd (See Emily Play and so on) but curiously
- overlaid with a leaden heaviness reminiscient of a Thorazine stupor.
-
- I think Roger Waters is competent but Syd was the genius; Roger Waters
- has this "I'm alienated" shtick but Syd Barret was alien. Get "Relics"
- to check out some of his contributions to Pink Floyd.
-
-
-
- --
- "The possessed's mad speech is the higher wisdom of the world, since it is
- human...Why have we not yet acquired this insight in relation to the world
- of the free will? Because outwardly we are the masters of madness, because
- the insane are violated by us, and we hinder them from living according to
- their ethical laws...Now we must endeavor to overcome the dead point in our
- relationship to insanity." --Wieland Herzfelde, 1914
-