Syd Barrett talking (takes,interviews,etc)

Most of the audio was took in from songs, interviews and a KZbin video but I forgot what it was called so the only thing I really did with it was add captions 

[@Mothanomalydrinkstoomuchcoffee]

Sorry for disabling comments for a while I was gonna repost with better captioning and I forgot about the video for a while. The video will not be changed tho. Sorry guys :/

[@susanschildt2738]

Syd is an icon. The younger generation know who he was, they are fans,and its sad that Syd left us to soon,physically and mentally. His songs were so simple,melodic, and interestingly strange. Shine on Syd,you left us too soon.

[@ericklein5927]

He made no sense

[@7x263-h7r]

​@@ericklein5927you have no sense.

[@ericklein5927]

@@7x263-h7r aww..did you get bum hurt...awwwwewww

[@jayc1676]

@@ericklein5927 Yeah, he's a product and a victim of the times and the scene he lived in. I think early on he took just enough drugs to be confused but stay comfortable in his own mind and that's when he gained his status as an artist. Later on he seems to have taken more of certain drugs that left him really confused and i think he knew he wasn't making sense anymore and that would be scary, so he just withdrew.

[@ericklein5927]

@@jayc1676 yes LSD is a hell of a drug. Doesn't help with playing guitar.

[@EXQCmoi]

Genius, i don't know. An adorable and sensitive man, yes. Syd was just different.

[@ozzystar3545]

Tf r u talking about he was genius af he was the visionary for one of the biggest bands ever

[@rafox66]

@@ozzystar3545 Well not really, with all respect to Syd. But Pink Floyd's music became great after he had already left, that whole situation did inspire Roger to write a lot of the songs though.

[@tuskact4overheaven873]

​@@rafox66nah they were already great before, the first two floyd albums are incredible, pipers in particular i think it's the second best album behind wish you were here and sairceful of secrets is a goddamn great album

[@ScottDonaldson51]

Different from what? He was an individual. (normal)

[@nuts45150]

And yet He was just a Human Being who looked at being Famous as not HIS thing..syd roger barrett God Bless SYD

[@northernthrifter8817]

Same with Peter green, funny isn't it that they call people mad who don't want to be a corporate money train for lecherous music industry vampires. Psychedelics have a habit of cutting right through the bullshit with some people.

[@websurfer5772]

@@northernthrifter8817 Great comment! 👍

[@VanishedPNW]

If this is the version of reality that one needs to have for themselves, so be it, but all the evidence points elsewhere, Peter Green eventually came mostly back to himself and professed candidly that he damaged himself doing way too much LSD. He knew this. Syd knew this, too. Yes, they went away from fame...AFTER they damaged themselves. Rick Wright and others have said the opposite...Syd actually quite liked the benefits of popularity and fame. He didn't like the music industry/sales/marketing/singles ethics (or lack thereof), but he knew that about himself beforehand and still leaned into it. Barrett would've been a pop star...happily so...had he not gone through the damaging effects of too large a quantity of psychedelic drugs in too short a space of time. Maybe others would've been fine...but some have a weakness mentally and are destroyed by overindulging. We've all seen it, no? I know two people who were normally and fine and in the span of five months & three months respectively...at ages 19 & 30...went completely off the diving board & into full blown psychosis. Neither ever came back.

[@husq48]

If that's all you blokes think that happened to Syd and Peter you are blind fools!

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Syd's chordings resonate in much of Kurt Cobain's stuff.

[@tobiasdog100]

My thought exactly.

[@giorgioladd8720]

Yeeeesss I thought I was the only one that noticed this. I wonder If Kurt took some inspiration from him

[@VegetabIeMan]

Yup. Especially Scream Thy Last Scream. Similar to intro pickings of Heart Shaped Box.

[@barneyrubble8255]

They both had ability to make strong melodies over strange random chord progressions that no one else can

[@kai_johnsonn]

Kurt Cobain was definitely a fan of Syd Barrett. The 'Rat' song was very Nirvana-esque

[@cactaceous]

He was not.

[@emilytvmusic]

he never mentioned anything about syd barret i dont even think he was aware of him

[@Unseen_warfare.]

@@emilytvmusicKurt knew his rock n roll.

[@recommendacious8026]

Nope

[@SJ-ni6iy]

He may have been if he had access to KZbin.

[@keiranbradley3238]

As an old codger now in my late forties I remember hearing Piper at the Gates of Dawn as a 13 year old being completely mystified by this "Syd" character, who is he?, Where did he get that style from?, I'm still as baffled today as I was then!. He's a complete one-off. R.I.P Roger "Syd" Barrett.

[@Valientlink]

Same with me in summer 2015, 21 and unsure where to go but with creative ambitions. He influenced my song/poetry writing style a lot, and doing weird things with my guitar. Piper blew my mind so much, I'd simply never heard a single thing that made me feel what I'd felt. Totally mesmerizing, it stuck in my head like an endless rain for awhile.

[@keiranbradley3238]

@valientlink I often wonder what became of his Esquire?. That Tele he's playing in the "madcap" flat with the bound body has never been identified either. Interstellar Overdrive was born after Syd was trying to play/remember the theme tune of Steptoe and Son which goes a little ways to illuminate his creative process.

[@Cloughjordan23]

Late 40s? You're a youngster still... even 60 ain't old in 2023. ,( you can guess I'm mid 50s. And have literally just realised with this comment that I'm officially pushing 60 that means)

[@Sandwich13455]

​@@Cloughjordan23wow , you're ancient 😅

[@damiensuil2183]

@@keiranbradley3238 it was actually after peter jenner was humming 'my little red book' by love

[@adrianbeaumont6745]

Syd was like a magical mystical firework that blazed in the night sky in beautiful colours for one moment in time but sadly there was nothing left after that. RIP Syd

[@BaconGreasePartyFoul]

He inspired the others to go on and create masterpieces like Animals and Meddle and The Wall, DSOTM, etc.

[@butters395]

exactly....i think he only had those songs in him....'piper at the gates of dawn' then...he didn't have anything else to say... musically...and struggled because everyone expected more from him... sometimes people only have that one album in them then...... that's it... u cant force it..😒

[@auriamoon2662]

Shine on you crazy diamond

[@burtramone765]

Syd actually played quite a bit on Saucerful of Secrets as told by David Gilmour, (they were a 5 piece ) but had strangely only 1 written track on it, which he sang, 'Jugband Blues' , the best track on it imo. However, many will say that his later solo albums are his best work.

[@markhilbert6573]

Lots of leading questions. This is from the days when interviewers thought they were more interesting than the people they were interviewing.

[@MissJensk1]

They still do

[@linexi]

i could listen to him talking for hours on end

[@sharonrichards1627]

Shine on you crazy diamond.

[@deniece0821]

He was a gorgeous man! 😍His 👀👀👀👀👀👀. So soulful.

[@juliacardoso7022]

thank you for this incredible material!

[@jimmyoconnell6167]

RIP SYD YOU GENIUS

[@petaunotthoughtsintime]

Laugh at something I can't explain..

[@dictionarypictionary9872]

I used to play Wined And Dined to my baby nephew on guitar and he'd nearly always stop crying.🤩🤩

[@1967dooter]

Would he stop crying when you stopped playing? ;-)

[@dictionarypictionary9872]

Yeah, I used to just start playing so I couldn't hear him cry and I realised after a while he'd stop and be listening. Before he could sit himself up, he's listening to all the house noise bored, scared and confused. The music makes sense, would comfort him and intregue him. I came home one night and me sister was fuming because he'd been screeming and crying from 10am-10pm I went and sat with him, played this on guitar and he was silent within 1 minute, and he'd peek at me every now and again for half an hour. He thought I was a genius. But thanks be to ultimate guitar. A F A D A Ex2 E E D A E E C D and Sid @@1967dooter

[@Here4TheHeckOfIt]

That's sweet. I can see some of his music appealing to kids

[@dictionarypictionary9872]

@@Here4TheHeckOfIt oh yes, my nieces enjoyed some of his music but they didn't grow up to know who Syd was or anything

[@razormadetorbica]

5:37-6:29 you can see the rear cover art of the Piper LP sleeve (designed by Syd) in his collection to the right ✨💠♥

[@krisptaco]

Geniuses are rarely treated as such and feel awkward even when they are. Most people are so immersed in the Matrix, when someone escapes it or even tries to they are seen as crazy or deranged. Who really knows what's going on in another person's mind?

[@TheJudgeofLevelstm]

Indeed..,

[@ChristopherNicholasMakarov4120]

I left the matrix and yeah I'm a weirdo to most people now! But I left because I felt imprisoned by social media materialism and people today are so full of themselves alot of narcissistic people around!

[@jennfaire8726]

Most accept the matrix because they're overwhelmed, those who don't usually die or live with the rejection.

[@1893unknownuser]

He's so overrated... Pink Floyd went waaaaaay better after he left the band... all the best Pink Floyd albums are on the 70's...

[@benwherlock9869]

I'm no genius but I have Bipolar Disorder and I definitely feel like I too am outside the 'Matrix'. It's both great and awful depending on the day. Early Pink Floyd is the most interesting to me.

[@clubderunzensiertendichter]

Thank you very much for posting this ! In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, freedom, justice and truth, we express our feelings with music on our channel. Greetings from Germany, CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS

[@giorgioladd8720]

Wow I liked how you talk, it seems to me that this has been my path

[@butters395]

the fact that he started off... painting.... and ended up painting... makes me think music was just something he dabbled in in-between....he wasn't so much crazy as much as....he didn't want to kneel down to a record company and have to perform and record music at their command....🤔

[@barneyrubble8255]

True but, pink floyd had a pretty sweet relationship with the record company. I think they were the first band ever that got to take their time in the studio, produce themselves. But forsure he didnt like the demands of having a schedule and could not keep to it.

[@lastman7409]

that's exactly what he's saying in the interview

[@katkk4096]

Syd, my favorite pink Floyd member❤ Rest In Peace Syd Barret.

[@peytonlong5573]

A lot of Syd Barrett in Kurt Cobain more I think about it, this video really makes it stand out the similarities of the two

[@spacemonkey5470]

That interview was weird, I can see how you would be damaged psychologically after being told you should be frightened because you're a prisoner

[@giorgioladd8720]

Looooool interviewer tried to disturb Syd, knew something deep was up to him and made points into that 😂😂😂

[@CrystalClear1500]

Fr 💯

[@lucasgoncalves4390]

Syd's voice is kind of good for asmr, his talk

[@freddiesimmons8730]

Totally agree, he had a soft voice

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

Oh yes, such a soft, beautiful voice. I agree about the ASMR. It makes me swoon.

[@tylersims6937]

Absolutely! Damn, dood! I would've never realized that. The fella could talk for hours without really saying Anything, whatsoever...which, I mean in thee coolest fuckin best way would ever could say that. Of such.

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

@@tylersims6937 Yup. Such a gorgeous voice! So deep and soft... and that Cambridge accent is the cherry on the sexy boy sundae.

[@robertdefex3439]

Syd is in the international film fest this year get ur freaking tickets the film is called have you got it yet

[@Langy24]

Oh My God this is beautiful to listen to.

[@ryanjavierortega8513]

Such a Legend

[@sarifahschweizer7354]

Syd is one cool guy, musicaly and artistically ! Appreciated his sound and style which is rare finds !Rip Sir, will always ❤u !

[@butterflysigh9577]

when you realise the kind of pychologically terrorising interviews they were on the receiving end of at that time it makes their musical achievements even more impressive............perhaps it got to Sid & did his head in.................

[@bazbarrett8103]

Terrorising...what are you talking about? You are a butterfly.

[@sternuens]

I can't follow what 1960s people are talking about.

[@chrisatkins7959]

I believe the acid did his head in. He went on a trip and never came back RIP Syd.

[@YogsenForfoth]

Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr and SHINE. ❤

[@icydelon]

my mannn, thanks so much for this 🥺🤍

[@scotthallo7735]

I’m not sure who rambles more…Syd or the Canadian interviewer!?

[@Mothanomalydrinkstoomuchcoffee]

LOL For real!

[@iplaymytele]

No Shit…! “ Like the Systems, are Criticizing you , When the Systems themselves are critical already.., so the systems actually systematic systems at all… 😳

[@randybackgammon890]

I don't actually think it's from the Canadian radio interview Dec '66......I think it might be from his therapists recording of a session dated Aug '67 in London....but I agree the waffle factor is off the scale😺

[@cynthiamarston2208]

I know. Really being weird as can be.

[@triskelion2056]

glad people understand syd wasn't some babbling madman who spent his whole life from 1968-2006 in some permanent psychosis, he had mental health issues and the LSD certainly didn't help, but part of him also bluntly didn't want to be in the spotlight and wanted to live a simple quiet life in Cambridge

[@MissJensk1]

@triskelion2056 My brother was the producer of Syd's solo album "The Madcap Laughs", & he said that Syd was actually pretty together during the sessions. If you are interested you can find his account of the recording process "The Making Of The Madcap Laughs" by Malcolm Jones.

[@giorgioladd8720]

​@@MissJensk1thank you for adding this, I've been absorbing information about Syd since I was a teenager, I'm 28 now and I still find more details, and even photographs which is super cool. I really once thought I wouldn't find more about Syd reaching one point but the information remained coming indirectly

[@thomasdowling6594]

I'm finding myself increasingly drawn into the world of Syd Barrett. To me and perhaps to many others, his musical genius is an acquired taste. A voluminously withdrawn, introverted personality like that of Syd tends to produce great art, to say nothing of the often great speed or volume at which it is made. Upon first hearing The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn I was skeptical as to whether the music had any real depth to it, in all honesty. Many family members of mine simply called it "bad" and opined that the band was simply too wrapped up in the psychedelic experimentation of the day for the album to create any real lasting impression. While I wholeheartedly disagree with both remarks I would call to mind the old cliché about truth in the eye of the beholder. That's art. Essentially what Syd was doing and what made Piper so ingenious is that he was painting by music, as it were. Rendering negative judgment of music upon only one or two hearings, I think, is not a wise musical stance to take.

[@sexobscura]

Wholeheartedly agree

[@toulminbrown9166]

I trust my judgement and this man was "a genius"

[@angelicaveragutierrez651]

La Muerte no exite asi que aun brilla por la eternidad syd barrett y su musica no pasa de moda es atemporal

[@juanfrankazofeifagonzalez6583]

- Asi es,Y ConForme Pase el TiemPo Sera Mas Reconocido y Reinvindicado,Y Aquellos Los que le Cerraron las PuerTas,Serán ComPleTamenTe DesPreciados...~

[@Monkeyspankerelite]

Awesome!! Big thanks for uploading.

[@Valientlink]

The Mandrax really speaks here

[@flaviaannaro5483]

I cry.....very emotional...💔💔we miss you crazy diamond

[@Andreamartinez-vv3fe]

Losing Syd has been a heartbreaker for us who seen the brilliant, talented, creative mentally ill man drop out.

[@JuxtaCrucem]

Syd was interesting even in mental decline.

[@davek5749]

LSD and Mental health doesn't match I should no iv got schizophrenia I used to drop lsd when I was younger and ill never forget my last trip it were a fkn nightmare all I can remember was getting of a bed in hospital and laughing and crying at the nurses and after that the mental health developed at around 17 or 18 then I got diagnosed and spent 11 months in andrew duncins clinic which did help now I'm 47 and getting treated with Meds but yeah life better now so Shine On 🙏🙏

[@robertoneill1979]

I spent some time in the Andrew Duncans too. I was so lost and confused. I think they saved my life.

[@giorgioladd8720]

Nah man, Ive heard about people with schizophrenia doing acid and the outcomes varies. Some even have relieving trips in which their symptoms become more on the positive side. Set and setting is everything. You fucked up that day. As well as it has happened to me. Schizophrenia is evem different in India, they don't have the paranoic type of hallucinations, since they live in a more united society (even thoughh they are poor) people with schiz there would often just see colours and shit like that.

[@ChristopherLightfoot-zu3kb]

Did they want to give you ECT?

[@Luna-wv5zx]

I respect Syd but I love what David Gilmour brought to Pink Floyd, the sound would not have been what is!

[@kenthetalkingpen2518]

Just remember with out Syd there would not have been David.......😮

[@Luna-wv5zx]

yes of corse I do agree to that

[@kenthetalkingpen2518]

I truly appreciate what Syd was an stood for.....p.s. he just wanted to be an artist... lsd helped him realize his situation in the late 1960s ,they had to lipsync caz we didn't have the technology to go live for an articulate artist that must have been infuriating. Imagine if Syd was able to unleash his essence as live p.s.s. I find Syd very intriguing because he didn't want to play the game and drugged and others helped in drugging I really do feel for Syd in many shapes facits and form .... hope you understand what I am saying . And David was a real close friend

[@lukeriely4468]

As things went, yes. But as things could have went, no. Syd could have progressed just as the band ultimately did anyway. And times changed. Music changed and progressed. Had he not lost the plot, his style remaining in pink floyd as it progressed would have been far greater. Also, without Allan Parsons, Dark side would not have been what it was. That was his sound and his production work. IMO, wish you were here was their first decent post Barratt album. Although live at pompe is rather special and a juncture point of turning for them. It's all hypothesis now.

[@alexbowman7582]

Imagine the band with both of them?

[@patrickreilly7256]

My first Pink Floyd record was "See Emily Play". My last was "Barrett" (Bees) Syd didn't go crazy... the other members just sucked. "Have you got it yet...???"

[@danabrahams7892]

only love for this genius

[@Bacon7666]

I remember back on the 80's when I was a young kid and in my house there was a Vcr player and my uncle owned the wall movie, it must have been 1985 when I saw it first and I didn't know much of Pink Floyd. PinK Floyd to me was revealing as time went by. By 1987 I went with my uncle to a record store and he purchased A momentary lapse of reason and I realized Pink Floyd was a band at that time. My uncle and cousins who are older than me never mentioned to me anything about Syd or any other members of the band. I saw them live on 1994 and I didn't know much about the band members at that point. It was until 2002 when I saw an article about musicians that had gone out of their minds. I found a list and between them I found Brian Wilson from the beach boys and there was Syd Barrett and that's when I read the biography and became more interested in Pink Floyd early recordings and I also found Barrett recordings. The thing is that not even my uncle who was a huge Pink Floyd fan since 1973 knew who Syd was because they only turned out to be Pink floyd fans from the Darkside of the moon era and he said he didn't even know Pink Floyd had other albums like Piper at the gates of Dawn. A lot of people only liked the most commercial side of the band. My uncle was surprised about the facts he ignored from a band that he had been listening to for years. Most people even today still discover that the founder of Pink Floyd had also some projects and then he just disappeared to live an ordinary life after he reached for the secret too soon.

[@PhilProsser-h8o]

Syd Barrett legend ❤

[@davidpoole8840]

Syd was for the music and art he proved we can all do great things

[@kerry-ch2zi]

Tho' I always had respect for the Gilmour Pink, it was Syd that shattered the paradigm; however, it shattered him as well...

[@cubes6012]

Well said. It’s such a shame that the music company executives push and push for what will make them money without care for the artists who are struggling with a multitude of problems. The list is very long and that is a crisis

[@shannonelizabethkelley7822]

Love the montages of pictures

[@Mothanomalydrinkstoomuchcoffee]

Thanks!

[@JohnHovan]

Ive always believed what rick wright had to say about what happened to syd. Although he was effected by daily lsd consumption, it was an accidental one time overdosage of lsd that got him. Ive seen it happen to others in the same manner. They ended up the same way, not fuctioning likeca normal human being the rest of thier life. I think the reason he rekected the name syd, and anything to do with pink floyd is because he knew well what happened to him. No wonder any mention of that period of time was so painful for him.

[@samsonmcgloughlin]

How much did he overdose by?

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

Yup, the lost weekend. It was also possible that it was a more dangerous knockoff like "STP" (since the law decided to make LSD illegal, so all that good Owsley stuff was no longer around). Going crazy with the quaaludes (the Mandrax) isn't all that hot an idea, either. I think it was STP and Ludes that wrecked his noggin. Toss in possible neurodivergency with an combo of stress from constant touring and the music biz sucking all the joy out of being a rock musician and you have Syd. Poor guy. He was such a bubbly, fun fellow beforehand. Everyone loved him. He was a charmer.

[@nicholasrosebush6182]

I am a huge Floyd fan but I have always found him much more interesting than talented honestly. Other than piper, his solo stuff has never really moved me.

[@Mysterywhiteboy78]

The problem is that once you do LSD or any psychedlic you realise that everything is a sham and there's no going back.

[@butters395]

maybe why we were not supposed to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 🤔

[@johnlackey1244]

You don’t need LSD to achieve that realization.

[@VinegarDoppio]

I love him my pookie little baby 😭😭‼️

[@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974]

Love him

[@TheJudgeofLevelstm]

I'm an old coot. Met the man once briefly long ago. We'll not see a genius of his stripe anytime soon

[@marvelherman419]

You met syd barrett? What was that about?

[@sternuens]

Now you have to tell more

[@nashahowkins3875]

SYD BLEW OFF THE LYD IN A BYD TO BE 64 CARROT THATS OUR SYD BARRET

[@bobconnor1210]

Loud. Tell that to Hayden, Tschaikovsy and Rossini. They knew loud.

[@williambock1821]

Poor Syd. Wish he could’ve kept it together a bit longer. Might’ve had a successful solo career. There are some mind blowing moments in his solo work. Of course there are,lol!

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

So Waters even stole the Animals concept from Syd.

[@lnormann2410]

No he got that from the novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.

[@wotdoesthisbuttondo]

@@lnormann2410 But Syd still covered the concept of animal politics first with Effervescing Elephant, Waters also copied the naked woman image from Syds first solo album cover for his first solo album cover.

[@stevenwhite8936]

the fuckin interviewer is higher than syd !

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

I like both Syd as David era of Pink Floyd. Make a cup of coffee and have some Belgian choclates and Pink Floyd on your turntable 😊

[@spaceengineer1452]

Whats the purpose of INCORRECT subtitles ? To confuse ?

[@michaelholtermann9129]

The healthy Syd Barrett was very creative. He wrote 52 songs. When he was thrown out of Pink Floyd, unfortunately he didn't learn from it!!! He continued to take drugs on his two solo albums. In 1974 he recorded the guitar piece Lanky 🎸. After that he didn't do anything else. The last documentary is boring. It doesn't show anything new!!! Nobody knows exactly how Syd lived from 1975 to 2006. I'm interested in how Syd lived with his illness??? What was Syd Barrett like as a person???? How long did he battle his drug addiction??? Was Syd in a psychiatric hospital??? Why did he live in such isolation??? He painted pictures and burned them in his garden. Syd said of himself: I'm just vegetating. That explains the catatonia. His illness. The Barrett family doesn't say anything about it... Not even his sister Rosmary Breen. Embarrassing moments aren't discussed. A sad story.

[@tazfm1769]

I think it's important to be aware that Syd's family and friends grew up in a time when mental health disorders were heavily stigmatized (which might at least partially explain why they didn't want to talk much about it), and research on and treatments available for these conditions was primitive compared to what we have today. At the time, it was difficult for medical professionals to determine whether a person's psychiatric symptoms were caused solely by drug use or an underlying mental condition, so the fact that Syd used psychedelics heavily complicated the matter further.

[@michaelholtermann9129]

@@tazfm1769 Thank you very much. Unfortunately, Syd Barrett lived in a bad shared apartment!! He had the wrong friends. Syd took LSD several times a week. No brain can handle that. His alleged schizophrenia was caused by drug use, and not by genes. His brain had obviously suffered damage. Syd's older brother was a doctor!! Roger Waters tried to intervene in the Barrett family. The brother said: Everything is fine.... His sister Rosmary trained as a nurse!! Psychiatry wasn't advanced enough at the time... Syd obviously didn't want to do therapy!! Roger Waters drove Syd to the psychiatrist 🚙. Syd didn't get out of the car... But what was noticeable was his catatonia!! The way he stared into space. Syd said of himself: I'm vegetating... A sad story.

[@jonrelic2214]

True deep sage, questioning the fabric of our beings

[@archstanton_live]

This is late night, deep into the tortured genius mind stuff ❤

[@polskikraj1]

HE HAD THE VISION TO BAD HE DIDN'T MAKE IT 🎸 🎨

[@SeboDigital]

Nice compilation, but i'i'll leave a hint here. leave your subtitles with shades around it, it's better for viewing in darker background images. Thanks for the video.

[@Mothanomalydrinkstoomuchcoffee]

No problem! I’m making a part 2 soon and I’ll keep that in mind

[@John-zn4lp]

So much lost potential, but we have to call it what it is, he simply had a breakdown of some kind that affected him mentally and emotionally. Maybe a terrible analogy, but he became the Pete Best of Pink Floyd to let David Gilmour take over where he left off to become the super group we know. I wonder how it affected him knowing Roger used him so often for material in a group he helped found?

[@Ck-zk3we]

And never payed him a penny

[@sacredsounds4234]

"Some people never go crazy,what a miserable life they must lead".-Bukowski

[@keatzoffem]

@@Ck-zk3weActually they did, they kept him in the band legally the entire time. His estate still receives royalties. The band uses this as a way to justify their sending Syd into a psychotic break.

[@andreilapere2836]

@@Ck-zk3we they made sure to pay him royalties till he died

[@Watcher4111]

His mental state could be induced by drugs. My cousin got mentally ill cause using drugs.

[@justmadeit2]

I like the guitar sound on wined and dined. Sounds Beatlish

[@rukamukus]

I had a friend who we would go out at evenings and smoked weed. Things went good, we had d get times just messing around in the woods riding our bikes and getting high. But then one day he took a hit of LSD, not knowing his status I went to meet him to go off riding our bikes. But at his house was total chaos with cops all around. So I stayed back as not to interfere. A few days later I heard his parents gave up on him and sent him into an asylum. I never did get to see him again and after 40 years I finally gave up on looking for him. I do hope he is doing better, but I feel he’s no longer alive. Long story short, certain drugs can alter the brain to where the brain no longer exists.

[@coopart1]

An artist myself, Sid’s Floyd taught me rules can and should be broken once you master the rules.

[@donovan942]

And the sea isn’t green And I love the queen And what exactly is a dream And what exactly is a joke

[@kathrynmcmorrow7170]

@1:11 sounds like Nirvana's "Come as You Are."

[@t34_guy90]

thanks for that

[@Swat-ed5bt]

Rip diamond ❤

[@timhall3575]

I think around 3:33 he says 'art school' not 'our' school - ok?

[@blindeyezphotography]

Definitely, because he left art school to pursue music, few years went on and he did not want to be a popstar at all and didnt wanna be associated with the name syd at all

[@Mothanomalydrinkstoomuchcoffee]

Sorry about that mistake! I wasn’t really paying attention when I captioned it but thanks for pointing that out : P

[@ash83]

Rats is a masterpiece

[@waynesilverman3048]

Not seen that thumb nail photo .Probably after his solo lps

[@ramsey6681]

Syd Barrett and Nick Drake left to their own devices in a room... They'd both have been dead within a month because neither of them would have had the wherewithal to venture outside of their own volition to find food.

[@JF-xq6fr]

"The Pink Floyd" was the best "Pink Floyd".

[@dollybelfiore7628]

Thank you...

[@gratefuldawgs2738]

He was buddies with David, brought him in

[@richardtofts4977]

That ' wine and dine ' track - grunge twenty odd years before its time

[@kentclark6420]

The interviewer is as spaced out as Syd. Or just both highly intellectual. However you want to put it.

[@humanbeing2420]

It's just spaced out. "Highly intellectual" involves actually making sense and communicating coherent ideas. That's not what Syd was doing.

[@mariamery7025]

Syd crea misterio y carisma es gancho por que se fue y nunca mas sesupo de el hasta el dia d su muerte crea mucho mistery mistical

[@hurleypiano3953]

Cool acoustics.

[@sharonrichards1627]

Imagine being in a tent with Syd and David while they were tripping together in their teens. Give anything to hear that conversation and have it on film.

[@asteurpicupp5227]

Un paume, ce gars, style Gainsborough, des déchets..

[@nathanbellamy3308]

Its is the systems inside us, the layers of magic and brain washing the desire to liberate oneself from conditioning, the fear that we may never be able to that makes us drop out and live quite lives in the shadows terrified of the beasts you all are.

[@stevebrescia3764]

I wonder if this guy is tripping balls During these interviews or what…? RIP Diamond.

[@maltesetony9030]

A sad burn-out.

[@MrAnswerification]

3:32 He says "Art school" not our school.

[@Mothanomalydrinkstoomuchcoffee]

Yeah I know I made that mistake and forgot to fix it

[@kathyhanna9792]

Nirvana "borrowed " the beginning of Wine and Dine

[@justmadeit2]

On which song?

[@dalegriffin6768]

The light burned out to soon

[@Misserbi]

You could see the man hiding inside when he drops the gimmicks and realizes what others think about him. I thought, "How mysterious and mystical he seems?" He was a gambler who was able to grab something. Did he let go of a thing?

[@glenndespres5317]

Hans! Stop the interrogation! Good Lord…

[@damkayaker]

Never saw that many photos of him ... his eyes ... around his eyes were so dark. What was going on with that?

[@lastman7409]

he used eyeliner

[@damkayaker]

@@lastman7409 thanks for reply

[@butters395]

he definitely had a cool look ! 👍😉

[@ericlofroos2405]

Early onset of schizophrenia. So sad to hear. Too bad he didn’t get the help he needed early on.

[@thermalchill]

I hear some Nirvana style guitar licks on those tapes .

[@davidlorenson8283]

Syd was unique and original and pioneered psychedelic type music a icon sure a genius probably. If he would have been more mentally stable Lord knows what he would have came up with pretty sure it would have been amazing.

[@scissors656]

syd 's pontiac