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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Willem on 11 Jul 2006, 07:21
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at least, the quite trustworthy dutch tv tells me so. did he have cancer or something like that. the article didn't give the cause of death and he was only 60 years old so..?
edit: more here; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5169344.stm
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This makes me pretty sad.
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This sucks pretty hard.
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One of my all time favourite musicians and songwriters. This is really tragic.
It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here,
And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
That I'm not here.
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Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,
you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
and sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!
RIP
Oh man, I am crying.
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Oh man..weak.
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I can't believe how hard this has hit me. I really can't. I was just playing Wish You Were Here at my piano in a tribute to him, and I was singing my lungs out, and my voice kept cracking because I was nearly crying. Jugband Blues finally did it, and then when Bike came on...well, that was it.
RIP you miner for truth and delusion.
Shine On.
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i don't know what to say. i'm kind of sad now.
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I heard about it a while ago. I'm sad :(
Apparently cod was complications from diabetes.
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That's a damn shame right there.
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Supposedly, he passed a few days ago, and they just released it to the public today, including telling the remaining members of Pink Floyd. This is quite sad news, off to listen to Piper at the Gates of Dawn. :(
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Man... what the hell.
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He died on friday apparently
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RIP syd.
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Who is Syd Barret?
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I hope you are taking "le piss," but Syd Barrett's an original member of Pink Floyd, and a great songwriter.
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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
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Not really. That song was weitten about Syd by Pink Floyd when he was going through mental health problems. I think it's quite fitting.
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aaaah, see, I did not know this:P
Still ,definitly not my "bag". Either way, it's not good that a man that alot of peeps loved has died.
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Khar beat me to the punch. 'S what I get for never checking the music forum.
RIP, Syd. Shine on.
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I just heard, this is terrible. RIP
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http://madcaplaughs.narod.ru/video.htm
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*Sob*
I can't believe it... Syd was one of the greatest. :**(
You will always shine on, you crazy diamond...
Oh and thank you Knar for the complete lyrics. :)
How I wish... how I wish you were here... *sob*
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Man
just
man
He was great.
He put a Joyce poem to music. 'Golden Hair'
The Laughing Gnome is great
getting stoned to Syd, while cliche, is wonderful
man
i need more of his stuff
i cried when i heard
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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
OK, dude, I have to ask. Why the fuck did you post this? This is completely unnecessary if you have no opinion, and quite frankly, pretty fucking annoying to those of us who do care about this man and what he did for music.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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I recorded a cover of WYWH in tribute to Syd. I'm also currently wearing my Syd tribute t-shirt, which I designed myself.
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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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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.
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.
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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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His solo stuff is great.
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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
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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.
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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Syd Barrett's not dead, he's on the outside looking in.