From Philip Raffaele Sent Wed, Oct 7th 1998, 15:23
From Philip Raffaele Sent Wed, Oct 7th 1998, 15:23
> that's what i mean when I say Syd Barrett sucks. maybe a song or two he has > done is good, but his authorship seems irrelevant (since there was really > no intention behind it as he's completely fucking bugger). > > am i making sense? probably not. it's a matter of opinion, i guess. You're making sense but you've got a few facts wrong. First he wasn't always insane, he just snapped one day (according to a recent interview with Rick Wright). So a lot of his stuff was written when he was fully functional. Second, being insane does not mean you are completely devoid of all conscious thought. Crazy people think, too. There's just a low signal to noise ratio. -Michael I read a lot about Barrett when i was younger, and it was never apparent that he snapped one day. Everyday, he would take sugarcubes drenched in lsd and sometimes he would just stand on stage and play one chord for the whole show. A lot of the songs he wrote on the madcap laughs are pure nonsense, but then again, most of the songs on ummagumma are too and if im correct, waters ended up writing a lot of those.(ie:several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict, by waters) i dont have to remind all of you that many insane people created the best art ever made, with vangogh as an example, (but i read that the reason he went insane is because he drank so much absynthe.) just my 2cents. philip: