Syd Barrett Interview Part 2

[@xwsftassell]

Syd had such a beautiful speaking voice.

[@tigerlami]

and singer , so natural

[@jimiguitar100]

people don't forget to turn the volume down after this video

[@tubbiezofficial8975]

Thank you

[@ramiabdalla2661]

loooool

[@sherdelune]

Hans, is that you?

[@gabiocampos]

Thanks man

[@jessewhite2879]

i learned the hard way unfortunataly lmao

[@sasybee]

yes, his voice is marvellous, so calm, so soft, so warm. Closing my eyes, I can see his ones, like black holes in the sky, thru his voice and thru the knowledge we all have got about him. He's still shining.

[@matthewervvin]

The background traffic answered most of the questions.

[@j0nnyism]

Traffic noise was different back then it was harder and noisier

[@curiousmind0072]

I would have loved to have met Syd. He sounds so gentle, polite and kind etc.

[@Martinique325]

He is the most beautiful man in history of rock and roll. He is an Adonis and looks like an angel.

[@nimim.markomikkila1673]

"...Would you like to tell me?" "In words?... Wow..."

[@XxYwise]

"I've done this a couple of times... not in interviews..." Syd should have gotten up and left right then. Poor guy...

[@ziggyzappada4554]

I agree!

[@Tervehtijä]

Totally :D

[@Garlicbreadbat]

I don't know why, I could listen to him speak all day. He was a gorgeous person. That's what I get from him....

[@Long-HairedLuigi]

When the interviewer actually asks Syd to tell him his honest impression of him, I couldn't help anxiously hoping that Syd would answer, "A jerk"! When Syd finally replies, "In words?" He sounds like he's REALLY holding himself back there... Poor guy, trying so hard to stay polite...

[@brianorakpohit]

I think Syd's question in response may well have been motivated by a preference to express his opinion of the man in an art form, be it a painting or a song.

[@FAST41]

I totally agree- maybe Syd might’ve been on a trip but honestly the interviewer was asking dumb nonsensical questions which had nothing to do about his music. It would seem the interviewer needed a shrink.

[@lexington1-2-52]

Yeah! Poor Syd, he seems like a really polite guy. And as Syd also says, it is the interviewer that have the powerin this conversation since he is recording it. Everything Syd says could actually be used in some way out of Syd´s control. I understand why he hesitates to say what he feels(that the interviewer is a prat! :-) )

[@TheChugg11]

This interview sounds as if they were both on acid- I've had conversations like that, where you have these long silences and then a stream of consciousness followed by giggling to yourself about the word 'wombat', before finally saying something that no one understands because you'd forgotten that they can't hear your thoughts! ...or is it just me?!

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

I couldn't have put it better...exactly.

[@blackie75]

sounds awkward to me, like the interviewer being overly familiar with someone they just met, and trying to talk to Syd as though he's his peer, or intellectual/artisti equal. the whole thing was just awful, i'd have told him to fuck off

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

I've had conversations like that, i have them all the time. Except i don't do drugs. It comes naturally.

[@PotatoPardner]

I love how Syd asked the interviewer "In words?"

[@tuodekab]

+Eloy Garcia yeah like "no i want you to telepathically channel your ideas about the matter directly to my prefrontal cortex...or i guess, otherwise you could just try to use your voice and tell me with words"

[@pzlinminizle]

It sounds like he's sketching in this interview, he may have thought about communicating his thoughts on the interviewer through a portrait.

[@maria12mx]

Oh my God !!!... his voice is marvellous... Syd, I love you.. Shine on you !

[@MusicTobiasB]

The interviewer in the first part attributes to Barrett "weird qualities" resulting from drug use. Yet he seems to be the one who's off on a trip. Syd seems grounded. Such questions likely would send anyone into speechlessness. So, it seems the interviewer is projecting his view of himself onto Barrett.

[@kappaforester5107]

I totally agree. Projecting his own idea of barrett.. Stupid ego this guy has..

[@swanlee597]

Syd is dealing with his mental breakdown at this point it is probably scarey and stressful for Syd and the interviewer is playing on this like Syd is high which he is not. Syd has serious permanent drug induced brain damage at this point and is probably freaking out under his skin at his questions and approach. Syd is trying his best to hold it together and give the appearance that he is ok while in Syd's head he is scared to death that he has done something that he will never recover from.

[@ziggyzappada4554]

kappa forester Egotistical wannabe!!

[@theupsetterer5126]

Mark Davenport and the DA have drawn the same conclusion, a rabbit from a hat... What are the psychiatric criteria that support such a diagnosis? Criteria or LSD hysteria?

[@BeatAddict808]

+MusicTobiasB I agree, this interviewer is asking misguided, loaded questions. The fact the "interviewer/interrogator" ever even says the word "me" is a failed interview. He is there to ask good questions, not make this guy feel weird and uncomfortable. I immediately think this interviewer is a creep. See Eye Ay? "I can see it in your eyes...do you have anything to tell me?" What psychopath asks someone that? Nice MK-Ultra tactics there.

[@CathedralOfGhosts]

The interviewer seems very phony to me... he's speaking just like Syd intentionally, just to get on his level or something. I hope more interviews surface over the years, as I read once there's a ton of interviews with Syd while he was still in PF that were never published.

[@rogue-like4life]

It's a tactic to instill fear into the interviewee while leading him to the "correct" response. Mk ultra at it's slimiest, and I recognize it because it happened to me numerous times when I was impressing them with my musical skills. My testimony is too long and crazy to post here, but it's posted elsewhere since it'll get flagged here immediately.

[@isachiappe682]

To me this doesn't sound like a interview but rather a therapy session, or something of that nature, the questions are just too deep...

[@emmaniccals444]

What the interviewer thinks: "Im goin to try to be a Syd but a bettar Syd and speak with hypnotism" What Syd thinks: "What the fuck is this guy talking about?" *smiles nicely*

[@BenCulture]

It's amazing how much we all agree about the interviewer! Crazier than Syd and much less interesting! I'm going to go watch Syd and Roger deal with Hans Keller again, so I can see Syd when he was entirely sane and so beautiful!

[@Long-HairedLuigi]

I was just getting ready to post something along the same lines that you just did. I personally am very touched to see how many of Syd's fans are responding to these videos in this way; not as a "ghoulish cult following that apparently relishes his mental deterioration" as Rolling Stone Magazine once called us when reviewing the Crazy Diamond box set, but as a group of understanding and compassionate people who genuinely care about Syd and wish these freaks and sponges would all just leave him alone.

[@BenCulture]

CaptainGoofysstash Fortunately, _Rolling Stone_ magazine stopped mattering decades before Syd's death. Personally, I agree with Adam Ant: Live Aid in 1985 was a beautiful thing, but it was the death of rock music as a relevant social force. If rock wasn't already "establishment" prior to Live Aid, that's certaintly what did it. All those pretentious journalists who thought they were so crucial, the tastemakers, the gatekeepers, who thought that they could make or break a band's career -- I love that Pink Floyd granted them no favors under Roger's leadership (and not much more under David's), and I love how, all these decades later, they're literally a smaller and shorter magazine, because anybody can go online and read criticism (intelligent or otherwise) for free. Nobody needs _RS_ or their stupid "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".

[@marinam3607]

Same thing I'm going to do👍💔💞

[@Broken_Branch]

"how very strange to meet you" haha! Perfect Syd, fucking perfect! You truly are one of the greatest icons of misconceptualism and an inspiration.

[@Shepards-tone]

The guy was making perfect sense, talking about how education infinges on the creative process and how taking a break from music might free himself up. People are soprogrammed into thinking he's crazy that they don't understand what he is saying!

[@BSwartz99]

My son has Asperger's which actually is not an emotional disorder but a neurologically based disorder. The brain is wired differently and "emotionality" can be the result. Just reading about him, he could have had AS. They can be incredibly gifted in art and music and have the ability to create things that are typically "outside the box". They also can be prone to breakdowns as processing all the different emotions and sensory input can be overwhelming. Interesting thought.

[@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter]

Jeez, the interviewer is ten times more deranged than Syd - by any stretch of the imagination.. I'm surprised Syd allowed him to talk bollocks as long as he did !! Rest in Peace Syd.. Peace.. Rxx

[@dutchvonrichardson]

Riki Newton That dude, the interviewer, in the last video, asked a broken and more insane question than Syd could ever come up with.

[@deloresgreene848]

The interviewer is an butthead. If he had been interviewing David Gilmour , he would have found himself thrown to the curb in no time at all. Syd is trying to be polite and nice to this interviewer.

[@davidaston5773]

@@deloresgreene848 The entire 2 parts are CLEARLY an interviewer, who thinks he's clever, trying to be so TO a Syd who, stoned or not, was sound like he was being made to feel more and more uncomfortable. From all interviewers like this, including the famous "Why does it have to be so terribly loud?" from a CLASSICAL MUSIC FAN, Syd is as polite as can be. (Yes, because there's NO classical music pieces which are loud and never influenced 1960/70s music?!). Based on the audio of this interview, we should think ourselves lucky it WASN'T filmed because if it had been? It would've been 100% more uncomfortable to watch let alone listen to. And very likely, it would've blown up as a internet viral sensation. And as with this video: most would be siding with Syd. IF the interviewer IS still alive? I'd LOVE to hear his side of the story but something tells me A. The intervening years would've clouded his memory and B. Syd's legend would've polluted his recollection too. You know the 'he was out there blah blah'. I'd LOVE to learn more about the interviewer and how HE IS seen. Did he have a history of being so probing to the point of being embarrassing? Or maybe, as another commentator said, they were both not in the right state to have a one to one interview? This interview DOES prove one thing: No wonder Syd became disillusioned with the music industry, if he had to endure so many interviewers like this? MY VIEW OF SYD: I feel the loss of his Father to cancer traumatised him so he was left with an attachment to childhood? He took drugs to MAINTAIN his fantasy childhood mindset, but disillusionment and adulthood realities, slowly chipped away at it until he was left in a limbo? And one day, he decided he'd be happy just doing his own thing and he didn't want fame or music. He simply wanted to BE SYD. Painter and gardener. He wanted to be free and happy. Sounds like what a sane person would decide?

[@joannefrancia5940]

This interviewer is absolutely the worst! It’s like he’s intentionally trying to make Syd sound bad. And his questions or lack of questions are terrible. Poor Syd just tried to be polite.

[@davidaston5773]

@@joannefrancia5940 The interviewer sounds like a smug self absorbed bore. Like he's copying Syd? Why not simply ask engaging ones?

[@Shelachel]

conversations like this will drive you insane...

[@Dismemberdisgust]

Awh. Syd seems aggravated that an interviewer is trying to ask such in depth questions. It's obvious he wants left alone. He just can't get it out. He's also still trying to be nice and passive aggressive. Sad.

[@jmes70]

Yep..

[@-MrRichBiker1967]

not deep ques...more like retarded ones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheUnspokenAlias]

+Andrew Haeufle : if I'm not mistaken , he was 21 at the time. These questions came a tad too early...

[@masquitoman]

it sounds like they are both tripping on acid

[@behavioranalyst2]

i would like to hear Syds impression of the interviewer without Syd using words

[@TheChugg11]

Wow- I had just put this on and was reading the comments and the top one really resonated with me...I swear that I have no recollection of writing it or hearing this before. Must have flicked a flashback and I wrote without realising it! I've definitely had conversations like that, back in the late nineties and I would genuinely forget that people couldn't read my thoughts and everything would sound disjointed...

[@jimiguitar100]

Its great that he also looked the way he was inside. A child.

[@sarshurl]

very sad, poor guy. just imagine the potential highs pink floyd might have reached had he not been sick. breaks my heart. the man was genius.

[@LunaSeaSane]

Love the busy street in the background...

[@crazyd1mond]

a little piece of syd is alive in all r hearts

[@theronstacks]

coolest interview ive ever heard.................its cool to hear a discussion with someone on a trip................its cool that that person is more aware, better understanding..........and that person is Syd

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

I always felt that much conversation or ' talking ' wastes a lot of energy and is often superfluous. I laughed when the guy was asking for Syd's impression of him followed by silence then finally says that the strangest thing is that he is meeting him at all. lol...

[@tomitstube]

"do you often feel when you see people, that you can tell something about themselves that they don't already know?" syd actually gives a cogent answer to this bizarre question. i'm sorry, who's the crazy one?

[@squid262]

I really like how its just audio, close your eyes and you feel like your there.

[@eltjemueller-stewart1145]

You and I, you and I and dominoes, time goes by... God bless ya, Syd.

[@goatmasterau]

RIP a true legend

[@mahatmacote]

It was related that his house-mates were dosing his coffee every morning with LSD for months, so he was basically 'flying' without stopping for all that time. His mind got fried, and it's debatable whether LSD does 'wear off' and the person returns to their original state of mind. Timothy Leary completely bought the cow - he thought he could analyze it by taking it, but it took his mind with it. How can you expect a part of your mind to remain above your affected brain and observe pragmatically?

[@bernardmahoney6684]

it is a great pity those around syd could not stop thinking of money and got this guy the help he needed . what a shame what a pity .

[@bobshenix]

They tried. You (and others) have the benefit of hindsight. It ended up working out for Pink Floyd, but in late 1967 into '68 and onward there was no assurances whatsoever that the band would be fine without Syd, the band's creative leader and main songwriter. The idea that the other members ditched him for money is simply untrue. They were desperate to find an arrangement that worked, even trying a Brian Wilson/Beach Boys-type arrangement where Syd could write songs and opt out of touring altogether. As far as they knew at the time, if that arrangement couldn't work out... the band would probably be finished!!

[@Valientlink]

@@bobshenix They really didn't though. They ignored him for several years as their success grew. I can't listen to any of their music knowing they betrayed the one who got it all started. Either way I like Syd's music infinitely more

[@bobshenix]

@@Valientlink I get where you're coming from, but you seem to be forgetting that Syd became a recluse... he was not exactly eager for contact with his former bandmates. Gilmour basically had to drag Syd to the studio and did a lot of the legwork himself on Syd's solo albums... Syd was disinterested in music altogether. However sad Syd's mental decline and alienation from the group was, holding it against the other members for still wanting to try their hand at a successful career in the music industry strikes me as small-minded.

[@sammcooley]

The way he is calmly explaining everything in a rather good way makes me really question how crazy this guy was. Because right now he just sounds confused from the questions, but still attempting to explain them in the deep way that he has. If you THINK HARD ENOUGH -- whether youre under the influence of something, sensory deprived or meditating, you will realize that you are alone with everything you do.. and even attempting to EXPRESS that will fall short.

[@valaurwen]

@dbrinkm1 As Barrett said, the LSD has very little to do with it. Barrett was high in this interview, so was the interviewer. It's that simple. The interviewer even said that they had both gotten high prior to the interview (I'm not sure if they got high together or separately). The interviewer is asking egotistical ridiculous questions in an attempt to sound transcendental and Syd, already high, is doing a terrific job of attempting to answer the interviewer's nonsensical idiocy.

[@seanreillyireland]

I feel like I've tuned into a extremely obscure wavelength.

[@bobshenix]

L s d

[@aaronmonkeylover]

A lot of people don't appreciate Syd becuase they can't understand how someone can put it out there. It freaks people out when someone isn't afraid to let it all out. Syd put everything on the line. You can hear his heart through his voice, music, and lyrics.

[@seamonkey2641]

I didn't really see that in this interview. The interviewer asked him to be completely honest and Syd shrunk back almost like a timid child and reviewed to expose his true thoughts.

[@emilyblackmore9025]

Rip shine on you crazy diamond

[@triptoheaveandho]

i remember hearing some of thiis before and stopping ..after.. the guy sia d"can youn tell me about myself.. ..

[@TheNightmare75II]

"I dunno, sort of strange to meet you" Translation: "You're fucking weird, my guy, and I'm very uncomfortable right now."

[@Hannahcannae]

One guy from 'the stars' (that barrett did his final gig with) made the fitting comment, i think. syd has lost track of where he wants to be. he basically just doesn't want to be there.

[@Messmilligan]

Sorry man,I got the wrong end of the stick.When I first heard the interview, I also thought the questions were poor but on reflection I think he was trying to engage Syd in any conversation he possibly could. I don't think Syd would have answered any of the usual muso questions ( he wasn't even talking to the other Floyd members at that time )

[@FaiellaBen]

OK, we ALL know Syd was taking a LOT of acid by this time and was PROBABLY (sarcasm font needed!) high as f*ck when asked such heavy, esoteric questions! I mean, whenever I was frying, I couldn't hold on to a single thought for a moment until I was onto the next! I couldn't even talk to ANYONE at times! Kudos for not just walking out and "dealing" with it! Love ya Syd!

[@ntomic1]

Completelly agree, the silence between words is underestimated.

[@zigzagwanderer9531]

You can almost see the sparks from Syd's overloaded synapses flying in all directions, his reality shattered, his personality deconstructed. Words fail him because it's impossible to describe his new realizations and insights to a sraight who isn't Experienced. He reached for the secret too soon.

[@brianm90]

+ZigzagWanderer You are absolutely correct! He reached for the secret to soon.

[@toyaquiyvoyaya]

It's never too soon. Because you are never ready until you do it.

[@valaurwen]

@Equinas You can easily llook it up. It's on a few Barret fan sites. I believe it took place in 1971 at his mother's house on Hills Rd. In the interview Barrett is specifically asked about his acid trips and antics in relation to his breakdown. He answers that acid really had nothing to do with it, etc.later.

[@Dan5482]

Today it is 3 years without Syd Barrett. RIP Syd.

[@MB-gz1ji]

Today it is 16 years without Syd.

[@roostercogburn1984]

however the suns the same in a relative way

[@zenbabaloo1931]

When these two get together it's fun fun fun!

[@FJBC810]

hearing syd speaking brings back memories. Thank goodness I left that behind.

[@gregor2042]

This interviewer is pretty good. His use of words sets up a stage that Syd instantly recognizes, relates to, and is asked to perform on. It's a shame Syd was unable to finish his performance.

[@Niili187]

You are on point sir.

[@ternak001]

I wish I could've talked to Syd.

[@Deadlydanish]

Syd was kind enough not to give this interviewer his REAL impressions of him. lol

[@TheUnspokenAlias]

With the exact same tone and in the exact same mood (a bit like vintage MTV's VJ Simone interviewing Richard D James), allowing him to take his time to answer (Fuck the format, right ?), even if that means the interview would be filled with blanks (I just love the contrast between the rushing cars in the sonic background and the chilled-out pace of the conversation...), here's what I would have asked him a few years later, had he granted me an interview : - As a founding member of the Floyd, were you expecting a little more (patience, understanding, eclectism) from the others at the time they rejected you ? - Did you sometimes have the feeling some later Floyd songs (Shine On, Comfortably Numb, et al.) were appealing straight to your own experience after leaving the public scene ? If so, could you describe that feeling,socially and intimately, knowing all ties with the band had been broken ? Did you feel in any way betrayed ? - Which post-Barrett Floyd song, if any, could you have written yourself ? - How hard was it for you to remain "silent" during all those years ? - The other members of the band often claimed they didn't take any psychedelic substances. Do you confirm ? Personally, I think the kind of sounds they produced proves otherwise, but who am I to judge ? if they did, did they lie out of bourgeois considerations inherited from the social environment they grew up in, or because they wanted to avoid the fuss numerous other psychedelic bands were famous for at the time, and let the music speak for itself ? - In retrospect, would you take LSD again, if you were a late teenager today ? Would you do anything differently in that department ? Do you accept the critique it's the LSD that was the decisive reason for the split ? - Do you miss the visions ?... - Individualism is supposedly what's ruling modern Western societies. Yet, these societies are (increasingly ?) based on stereotypes.Without even knowing you or what you've been through, some people think you' are or were somehow insane. How would you characterize insanity today ? - Aside from being a passion, was painting also a relaxation therapy ? What did it bring you music couldn't ? Gainsbourg once said songs were a minor art form, poetry being a noble art. Do you agree ? Are your paintings a form of poetry ? - Had more copies of your solo albums been sold, would you have envisioned a lasting musical career ? - Did you find your inner peace ? - Are there any questions you would want to ask yourself, without necessarily answering them ?...

[@calvindavis9188]

+TheUnspokenAlias a shame you weren't there eh?

[@TheUnspokenAlias]

You said it !

[@chelseachen265]

Wow this is a hypnotising interview

[@francescabento1705]

What a waste surrounded by distructive people. Jealousy does this. Sad.

[@Le1gh]

The line of questioning here is completely asinine.

[@andreat.2809]

I love Syd for all he has done. He made some mistakes, of course, but no more than many boys of his time. He was very unlucky. Syd, for me, is a great example of the possibility of doing what you really want. If Syd had been in touch with the world, he would probably have written books, given interviews, and so on. Syd, on the other hand, has left something more besides his songs. He left his two lives, that of the star and that of any man. Specifying in an interview "and in any case I am nothing of what you think I am". Thanks Syd and thanks Roger Keith.

[@28westlodge]

Really good interview... switch off the monitor and listen without the images... Tells you a lot more about post acid Syd than any biog... Mark T.

[@valaurwen]

It's disgusting how many people refuse to recognize his very OBVIOUS Asperger's Syndrome which is a social disability. His absolutely brilliant mind could not handle the social pressures of having to write EVERY single song for Pink Floyd, the fame and then the psychotropic drugs to top it off. That would make ANYONE lose it a bit, much less someone with a social disorder like Asperger's Syndrome when no one cares a damned thing about you as a person besides for what you could do for them.

[@glitchesandglitter]

i feel you on that... it's really sad beloved, that people wrap themselves in a culture of taking drugs. people need to realize that the most beautiful things about life is the experiences. drugs are irrelivent a lot of times. people need to realize that anesthetizing your brain toward reality is fine and all. however, when does it end? what purpose is there in life to take more and more until your physically unable to experience all the splendours that life can provide.

[@nessihoi]

Mr. Barrett, i'm very much in love with you. Please come over and haunt my house. That is all.

[@kaylynzoe8117]

speed up the video to 1.25 and it makes more sense.

[@jetboy_]

oh fuck, you're on to some with that. good catch.

[@jackscagnetti1]

he wasn't tripping out he was just rebellious and had a change in heart,

[@mandimobscene100]

Syd is so perfect.

[@Jake_AC]

All of these questions are so abstract! It's impossible to tell whose "sane" by any of this

[@DEMAN885]

i found that some of his questions are about things i think on deeply about sometimes...

[@linamohammed9742]

Man i feel like an idiot and i don't get anything what the fuck are they saying

[@JockoJonson17]

lol wtf this is the weirdest interview ever

[@phillysusan22]

Syd's problem wasn't LSD but quaaludes which he is clearly on in this interview.

[@wonderer-u4r]

really? didn't know ludes were avail in 67. something to consider. perhaps he was on both, or even more?

[@joshjuanfifarek7382]

He didn't like the boxed in confines of the pop music industry. He loved art school, chatting with his professors, painting and gardening. Quite a typically high performing Cambridge mind . RIP Roger Keith Barrett

[@brycebeverlinII]

this is cool. seems that syd is nervous that it is an "interview" but finds himself confused that the interviewer is asking deeper personal questions about perception and existence. i am not bothered by the slowness, i like it. gives me time to think about my own answers to those questions...

[@MetalheadNatasha]

What he did manage to say makes sense to me....seems like he just has a lot going on in his mind and is having a hard time putting it all into words. That actually happens to me quite a bit as well.....not quite to that extent but enough to where people tend to cut me off when I am trying to say something important because I can't think of the right words quick enough. Not to mention those are weird questions hes being asked, anyone would have a hard time answering those.

[@jamesheath7601]

RIP Syd, legend

[@jmack619]

that interviewer creepshow shouldn,t have been allowed to conduct this (so-called) interview. And good for Syd he gave him what he deserved .. nothing !

[@RandyDrayton]

This was like me on shrooms at camping after consuming 3 grams in a nutella sandwich. Apparently I had all the caps...and the big ones too...dear god, never again. Was literally upset for my family and friends, that I've stepped out of the building 'upstairs' and I dont know when I'll ever come back. I envisioned myself having to say goodbye to all who ever knew me, because I lost all concept of reality and become lost in the sea of blank void...scary sh*t guys! Keep it safe out there.

[@Valientlink]

If you'd eaten them without food it would've been a way stronger trip too

[@DEMAN885]

and syd's answers... sometimes things i think about a lot too

[@whojim13]

summary- interviewer supposes or projects an interest in homosexual relations with Syd.

[@Stechamppn]

To many people analysing every thing. To many opinions on this and that...none of us will ever understand the pressure he was under...he was a very open minded artistic guy..that hit levels most of us can only dream of......add fame and that kinda pressure ....acid almost daily for a good few years etc...also mandrax...to much pot.... fuck I'd struggle too like most of you would.... but the important thing isn't all this bollocks...the guy wrote some of the most imaginative artistic songs any English man has ever wrote...and he was extremely Cambridge.. its a very magical place Cambridge.....and Syd is its gem in my eyes..... no one will ever get to the bottom of his situation...so just play the music...cos that is what is important..not acid etc..his songs are up there with the best English songs of all time in my eyes....

[@bimhead01]

i'll be honest i find him relaxing

[@chasewhiteye]

I just read Polvotone's post, "And its cool", exactly the same time I heard Syd say it....more than coincidence: the stepping stones in the dark that I follow through life....

[@bernardmahoney6684]

poor old syd he does not know whats a trip and what is not anymore , what is real and what is not real gone man .

[@liamardo007]

is good to be able to hear syd's voice, so it's a useful interview. syd would never have remembered the interview anyway. Probably better to have asked him what his favourite colour was.

[@vaderkenniscentrum]

All in all I would say that Roger Waters' career and good fortune was made only and in a very disrespectfull way over the back and at the expense of Syd Barrett. Without Barrett, Waters in my opinion would have disappeared in obliviance. Something better fitting to him in my book. Can't say that of Syd Barrett. Although he completely withdrew, he was never forgotten and never disappeared in obliviance. Why would that be I wonder!?

[@sofi_nadsat]

Could anybody translate it to Spanish, please?

[@jaysuncharris]

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[@quantumfloyd10]

Yes! quiet terrible! In the first interview he asks him if "things seem to repeat..?" Asking him this in his state of mind is like asking a slave if he works. Now in this interview "I can see it in your eyes.." For Both questions Syd pauses for an extended period of time. This man psychologically abused Syd. Then, "Do you get assumptions about people when you see them?" As most schizophrenics claim to be able to accurately do. These questions seem to aim at further compromising his sanity.

[@kyle2point]

THIS IS SO FUCKING WEIRD. man the sixties took a weird pace.

[@knickd1979]

@nerdyharry hey there harry. where did u get that "lucy" line? i like it. still unsure if it applies to syd. i think thats what keeps me interested in him. can't figure it all out. though i have my theories. are u a fan of will i see u on thousands of other clips?

[@valaurwen]

@Equinas Also, I'm not saying that acid use had no effect on him. I am saying that he was not mentally ill and that, while the acid overuse no doubt exacerbated the issue, I do not believe that it in any way effected a mental instability for Barrett. But as Gilmour and the lot said, what happened would have happened with or without acid use. He just could NOT emotionally handle it all. He was extremely disappointed with himself and very depressed before and after he fully left the scene in '81.

[@bobshenix]

Talk about putting someone on the spot!! "Do you like me?" Man they are both tripping hard... this was the summer of love '67

[@russellschaeffler]

What kind of game were you playing with your questioning?

[@vovindequasahi]

If you listen, it is the same spirit as Jim Morrison. Evolved.

[@MrFrankieTeardrop]

very strange to meet you

[@AutoSanchezMusic]

You know that they were both on LSD during the interview?

[@MrBlacknail69]

what was the point what did we learn from the interview poor old syd there was a lot of innocence back then