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syd barrett dead
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: ASturge ---ah, no i really wasn't. I don't like Pink Floyd and know nothing about them!
Annyways, I guess it sucks that he is dead, though I think all the "Shine on" stuff in that song Khar put up was a bit much.
RIP
--- End quote ---
Then get the fuck out. You don't know who the guy was, we do, and we actually give a damn that he died. It's not a 'bit much' to us. How about your mother requests one song to be played at her funeral on her death bed. You play it. Is that a bit much? Fuck you.
Your mother probably isn't a good example, because obviously none of us was that close to Syd. But that's how pissed I am.
IntermittentEvil:
I was rather... startled to see this. What a depressing way to end, alone and reclusive and too early. Even if Barrett's Floyd wasn't my favorite, a huge amount of their work was the result of his departure, health, mental state, etc., what a huge figure for someone so rarely in the limelight. I would love to see some of the paintings he made in his seclusion, though...
I should've posted something on here when Gyorgy Ligeti died, now that I think about it...
Two musical giants in one summer. Enjoy the afterlife, guys.
KharBevNor:
Saying that Barrets end was depressing is, I think, wrong. By all accounts, he rather enjoyed his seclusion and privacy. Time to paint and what-not.
Thrillho:
I recorded a cover of WYWH in tribute to Syd. I'm also currently wearing my Syd tribute t-shirt, which I designed myself.
onewheelwizzard:
What Khar says is, I think, true. Besides, Syd Barrett really didn't belong in a body anymore, as far as I can tell. I'm glad he's finally free. Syd Barrett is one of the few people whose death I feel good about celebrating, not as a "yay! he's gone!" thing of course, but rather as an absolutely-serious "good for him" thing. This, of course, plays directly into the way I personally view death. I like seeing death as a happy ending, but it's hard to do so when there are still things in the physical world that a dying person can do or wants to do or anything like that. Syd Barrett is one of the few people who, to the best of my knowledge, was/is genuinely better off outside the physical world than within it. There was really nothing for him here anymore.
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