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BillyxRansom:

--- Quote from: 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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i'm gonna have to agree. of course not 100% because you seem to be pretty firm on this stance. pink floyd was always one of the biggest influences on me as a person, so this definitely sucks for me and there's really no way to get around it at all, but i can understand this POV and i agree that his freedom will only make him stronger and his journey can now continue.


it just sucks. either way, it does. really, really badly.

RapsKallion:
Syd died from diabetes. This can happen.

I acutally always found it rather impressive, that he managed to stay alive for so long. But nevertheless, I was affected and as soon as I heard I put The Madcap Laughs on.

Does any of you guys listen to his solo material? It's great and very much like Pink Floyd. You can clearly tell how important he was for the band in the early years.

RIP, Syd.

Kai:
His solo stuff is great.

The Eyeball Kid:
Its 100% perfect stoner music. Hearing it for the first time was a 'where have you been all my life?' moment
I kinda eulogized him in a review of the new Tunng album for my local music paper, under the 'why should a CD review actually be about the CD' theory?


I’d like to think Syd Barrett died in his garden. It would be an English garden, with a small stream and a pond full of fish. A meadow would be nearby, and birds would perch on the wooden birdfeeder Syd made and sing to him. In the corners of vision fairies would flit, spritely reminders of his previous life.



Ok that looks a bit stupid. But it made sense at the time

Thrillho:

--- Quote from: RapsKallion ---Syd died from diabetes. This can happen.

I acutally always found it rather impressive, that he managed to stay alive for so long. But nevertheless, I was affected and as soon as I heard I put The Madcap Laughs on.

Does any of you guys listen to his solo material? It's great and very much like Pink Floyd. You can clearly tell how important he was for the band in the early years.

RIP, Syd.
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I've not heard much of it, I've been trying to find the albums in local CD shops for ages. The MP3s I have already - Octopus in particular - are fantastic.

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