It's like a musical stutter. Somewhere deep down it's in there but it's coming out in fragments and broken pieces. By this time in his life he was stepping away from creating music but man I sure wish he hadn't. His brief musical career made a big impact on me.
He apparently showed up to this session with a stringless guitar. I reckon he hadn’t played for years and was just goofing around seeing if he’s still got it. And he certainly has!
They didn't finish lyrics, it's no good trying to hold your love where I can't see, because I understand that your different from me". Yes I can tell you can't be what you pretend. Lol From Mad cap
@@dazzyelizabeth2949 He did a few live performances in 1973 (Stars etc), mostly around Cambridge, so he was definitely "playing". Apparently he bought a few new guitars right before these sessions as well.
Say you got to hang out with Syd in the early 70s for 25 mins. He doesn’t talk. Just offers you something to drink and walks over plays his guitar the rest of the time. Then you can either listen again or come back anytime. Pretty amazing.
As someone who's influenced by Spaceman 3, 13th Floor Elevators, Billy Childish and various 60's garage punk bands these songs a lot like many of my drunk 2am recordings and I love it.
It was only a few months later he walked into Abbey Road once more during the Shine On sessions. So many misconceptions about that event, Gilmour had been in some form of contact with Syd most of the time since 1971 up until then. Syd showed up a few times at the Atom Heart Mother sessions to see how the band were getting on.
That was in 1975. It's crazy how his appearance changed so much in such a short time. I feel like shaving his hair was a way of saying goodbye to his image as a rockstar and leaving music for good and starting over as Roger, no longer Syd.
Syd had an autistic disorder of unclear etiology. His sister Rosemary once confirmed all of siblings in Roger's family were on aut.spectrum. But it's weird... We'll never know if the drugs made his disorder worse. Or it was already ''programmed'' mental disease which progressing in him. In his youth and young adult years he was literary a norman person except of a few perks (i.e. he made a few surreal paintings and collages which contained disturbed/hallucinogenic/nightmarish images) and some cases of behevioral strangenesses.
@@konstantinKcArney It was more than autism: in an interview with Ian Priston on 2023-09-16, Rosemary Breen explicitly mentioned "brain damage" and "many bad trips." Direct quote: "[Syd] found communication quite difficult because of his brain damage really…" Underlying mental illness or no, Rosemary Breen's remarks strongly support the view that brain damage from substance abuse was the dominant factor in his decline.
The music industry, band, society, all tried to cram Syd into a box. Syd never fit into a box. He was so far outside the box he didn't even know there was a box. That just wasn't compatible to a long successful career in the recording industry, as the rest of PF enjoyed. Too great a genius for many to understand (or work with).
I've actually heard Scream, and Vegetable Man, thanks for revising the fact, who blocked them. Btw, this is just Syd f*** about on a guitar. In no way can the boy be critiscised for giving noobs ideas. This is what guitarists do. They mess around with sounds and emotions.
Understandably I think people are projecting what they want to hear onto this, there really is barely a glimpse of the Syd of old, a couple of nice textures but other than that it just sounds like someone noodling around trying to grasp (or remember) the basics. Syd made music that touched me and countless others in a very special and unique way, while this was worth listening to to understand his journey it remains the sad swan song that has been described in the biographies and anecdotes.
Justin Hennessey if you are a kid you have impeccable taste. I was a kid in the 80s and I had to HUNT stuff like this down, have it special ordered, bought sketchy bootlegs from other countries- it was a pain in the ass, but well worth my collection I have now. That was in 1982 when I was 12-13 yr old punk......but yes you have good taste. Syd is precious and Skip, well the Oar CD NEVER leaves my CD player/changer. Roky, there's a great doc about him out there. I rented it in the 90s from mondo video in Hollywood, but I'll bet it's on TH-cam now. Skip you can read about- he was from Santa Rosa and has 4 kids with the same woman and the oldest boy plays music and looks just like him. Syd, well there's a barrage of Syd stuff out now, everything except a 4star film that should be made of him. Darryl Read, who recently passed away attempted to make a film with Barry about Syd and it was horrid. I have it only because I knew Darryl, but it was very bad. Ok I will shut up now- I only replied cuz I saw you admire the same three as I, and most likely a lot of people with good taste.....
You might enjoy John Frusciantes early solo albums as well since you seem to be drawn to semi tortured artists musical endeavors. I love all 3 of the artists you mentioned and Frusciantes early solo albums definitely fit in with this group. Check out Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T Shirt......and Smile From The Streets you Hold. Those 2 albums in particular have that true hint of madness/genius captured...much like Syd, Skip and Roky. Cheers
@@A_29886 makes sense since we are listening to some random guitar jams that would never had contacted our ears if it wasnt for the story behind it. Now go listen to some real music
Although inconsistent and it goes on too long it's admirable how a man who was about to have the lights go out on him could still come up with compelling material. One can only imagine what he could have created had he got his act together.
That "if you go" song is a diamond in the rough, it coulda been beautiful. Poor lad...... I know he had some help from Kevin Ayers, Steve Took Pelegrini David Gilmour etc on his last solo projects. This man to me is gold. Funny how people grew interested after the Internet. When I was 13 in the 80s during record stores I had to hunt his stuff down and order things once the Internet was born, but I aquired a lot of stuff. Like I could have never gotten I'm A King Bee back in the 80s Candy and a Curant bun either.
am from India my son introduced me to Syd nd his music nd life had changed ever since agree other band members couldn't matchup to his genius nd that get mind
Wow this is heaps better then what i was led to believe through everything printed about these sessions. With the right producer he could of come up with some magic out of these sessions. Also Syd would DEFINITELY have come up with some GREAT lyrical twists and turns on the standard blues sounding progressions here. He was already a lyrical genius. But if he went into the blues standards with his lyrical and melodic capabilities he could of hit the mainstream again with his original twist on things. This stuff is great to hear!
+benisme123 I'd like to believe so as well. Unfortunately, every time Peter Jenner or the engineers tried to set up a vocal mic and put Syd on it, he would refuse to sing anything. He also supposedly had a notebook with lyrics in it, but he wouldn't let anyone see them. Peter later suggested that it was because Syd in fact didn't have any.
Thanks for posting this gem "indeed" from the master. The "Man who fell to earth" lives on in his art, as he desired to. He wasn't nuts, & did exactly as he wished. He tired of the industry, and wished to live a simpler life. If I'd been in his shoes, I'd have done the same thing. Most of those close to him, see it the same. Wouldn't it be great if a lot of rock artists quit at their peak, so we wouldn't be exposed to so much burnout, and slow suicides.
zero Yeah same man. I mean was it that hard to just take him along to a few gigs and recording sessions every now and then? I mean I just feel as though they could've worked something out. Could've been a little more loose about it, like maybe a little less money for Syd since he would just participate when he felt like it, i dunno maybe thats crazy to some people but songs like Scream Thy Last Scream (studio version especially) and Vegetable Man are really really groovy, heavy, melodic, and psychedelic. Also the song writing is top of the notch, yet sadly the rest of the band was a little close minded
TDWE Well, thanx for agreeing w/me, however, it was the recording company who decided Barrett was a liability. I wish they all never had that disagreement about the copywrights. I think certain media is unfair to Roger expecting him to be in the Ostridge Society. He can express his ideas about things, man. Right?
TDWE How is this groovy for fuck's sake? It's complete rubbish! Don't you recognise dross when you hear it! It may be 'Syd' dross, but it's still dross!
His sister Rosemary made an interesting comment. Something to the effect that latter in life, Syd knew what people wanted from him, but he wasn’t prepared to give it. At that point, I think he just wanted to be Roger. Better than most of these rock stars who keep playing, even when they can no longer function.
A lot of supposedly virtuoso guitarists could never amount to the expressiveness of a single strum from Syd. Heck, he alone in history could do the stuff he did and he did it so well. What a legend, a genius. Some people just don't appreciate soul, always looking for structure, form and the obvious or materialistic side of things. Syd is exactly the opposite of that.
Zatoichi Masseur true very true very artistically he played his guitar whoever said he was no eric claptan heck he just was syd barrett and we are thankful for that
There are some cool bits there...you got to bear in mind that Syd would be pretty ill by this time & tough for him to get complete pieces together I imagine.
Reminds me of some of the guitar sounds I used to mess about with years ago in an old band. That clean sounding delay wah-wah...I used to love that full of gear too :)
It's great to hear this for the first time. Know for a fact that Syd recorded songs that hardly anyone knew about, there used to be a music shop in Crouch End, North London 38 years ago called Terrapin and the owner used to play a very rare tape of Syds regularly. He promised to do me a copy but this never materialised then the shop closed.
Could you describe what you remember about the music? It could have possibly been Stars his last band esp if there was drums. Or was it mostly acoustic?
@@timesupply6606 It was fully electronic and sounded different from the songs on his albums. The compositions were very energetic in contrast to much of what is on his LPs. It's a shame that the unique collection on the rare tape has never emerged to be downloaded onto TH-cam like the other Syd's unpublished tunes.
@@MrBenmanning As mentioned, a guy who ran a new and second hand record shop in Crouch End, North London called Terrapin had a tape that he played in his shop by Syd Barrett and when this shop closed, he was never heard of again. Perhaps someone else has a copy of this tape but it seems that tracking it down is going to be difficult.
@@MrBenmanning Yes it is. The guy had many 60's records that were hard to get and he had a reputation for his vast collection of music from that era. How many other lost tracks are there from other 60's artists? I know that there is a guy online known as Heavenlyblueorange that uploads rare 60's sounds to TH-cam, you can find hundreds of songs from unknown garage bands under his name.
If nothing else the leads between the 2 and 3 minute mark proved he could still play. That he overdubbed bass and leads onto these wandering chord sequences proved he was still nuts as well. As the engineer said, it was "music with a strong hardly begun feel to it." On a side note someone here on TH-cam overdubbed drums onto most of it and parts of that actually sound almost semi-coherent. 1974 Syd Barrett Sessions (finished) it's called. Check it out.
I didn't discover Sid till years and YEARS after I began listening to Pink Floyd. Still engrossed in their music, about four years ago I started digging into who Pink Floyd is, and was. I don't know if Sid's lack of interest in the music business was caused by drugs or just the workings of the business, or his supposed schizophrenia. All we can do is speculate. Not too much though. Enjoy the music he left us. Tragic anyone's life slips by like this.
If they had actually became a 5 piece (Syd tried to rejoin in 1969 and they told him no), they would've been even more successful. But knowing Syd he'd probably grow tired of Roger's ego by the 80s and split. He was already at odds with him by late 1967
I don't think Syd would have released these random doodlings in the studio if he had a say. Easy to be a rock god... so hard to be simply human & suffer serious burnout. But it's good that these tracks are available for hardcore Syd Barrett fans to cherish (the way diehard Buddhists revere even dental remains purported to be Prince Siddhartha Sakyamuni's).
We should all realize now that the band (probably Nick Mason) has been blocking songs/videos on youtube lately (which they have every right to) because (as of yesterday, 11/11/16) they are being officially released with the new box set 1965-1972. It is a good thing because now they can all be heard in the best possible quality. This includes Scream Thy Last Scream, Vegetable Man, John Latham, endless versions of Atom Heart Mother, and many other goodies. One unfortunate thing is that some original masters have been destroyed (the More soundtrack for one.... perhaps the vocal for "Seabirds" is gone, and I don't see "Oenone" on the set) but overall it's a great set.
Nick Mason is sitting in a dark chamber with the light of his 17 inch CRT monitor illuminating his face, day and night relentlessly forking through the internet. His mission is finding every snipplet in mediocre sound quality where any Pink or Floyd could be present.
have you guys heard the ATROCIOUS butchered video of Nick Mason's live performance of "Remember a Day"? (song from their 2nd album) it makes sense after finding out about the story they had to call the producer in the studio to record the drum parts in that song, because Nick couldn't come up with something decent... wow
Sounds to me the other guys didn't stop to listen long enough. The connection was there for the patient listener, the connecting type of person/musician. Xx
i’m 100% convinced that these recordings are running at the wrong speed.. they’re sped up. the lowest chord he plays in any of this is an F#. lots of C#. Syd’s bread & butter for his solo material were songs in E, G, A. if you slow the entire audio down 2 semitones, it sounds far more correct & natural.
I tested your proposition out today and you are definitely correct. The music falls into place with the tempo corrected by slowing down the audio by 11.76%, which is equivalent to lowering the pitch by 2 semitones without changing the pitch separately. These are perfectly good early demo sketches that sit readily against Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and solo work. They don't sound half as sketchy as the out of speed uploaded tapes. It's poignant to hear these unexpected seeds of songs rescued from the archive. Barrett's mental health struggles don't diminish his influential musical legacy. These fragile fragments are a testament to his tenacity during increasingly difficult times.
03seg a 30seg, Bo Diddley [Bo Diddley, 1955] and The Doobie Brothers - [Listen to the Music, 1972]. Syd was a genius who received influences from some and influenced many others.
If you would listen only to guitar tracks of the songs on Barrett you would get something like this. And most of the songs on Madcap Laughs. Without the sung parts we can't tell if it was anything or not.
It's great to finally hear this stuff, because, according to Miles' Floyd book, it's not even supposed to exist. Syd only turned up on the last recording day of three, with no strings on his guitar. Someone put them on for him, then Syd asked for his lyrics to be typed up. The typist used a red ribbon on the typewriter. Syd apparently thought it was a bill, and tried to bite the guy's fingers off. The session was abandoned.
OMG you are the only person I’ve come across who has compared peter green to syd barrett. Not only is some music alike but them themselves of people are alike. Both acid casualties. Both deep hatred of the music system. Both just wanted to be creative musically rather than worrying about the fame and money. Barrett and Green two of my favourite musicians of all time.
Syd's early work is fab. At this stage it wasn't. Best to remember him up to Madcap. Brief resume of this stuff. Track 1 Bo Diddley...nothing original. Track 2 Mish mash of sounds. Rest of it? A man who's run out of creative ideas. Walked away. Became a gardener and artist. Happiness.
I don't understand why these sessions were aborted because the material is very interesting and organic. I can hear where his unique vocals would fit in. Just another example of the power imbalance between artist's and produces, interfering with the creative process. I love these recordings personally.
Thank you very much for sharing. I look regulary for something i never hear before! This time i wasnt, found it in previous list. :). Gonna enjoy this.
He made some really crazy electric guitar sounds -- frantic, menacing, beastly sounds that were much darker than sounds typically associated with the 60s. 30 years later this sound was echoed in the heavy, sludgy, slovenly rock of the 90s grunge era.
@@scottlarson1548 never heard of Calvert, I'll check him out. Numerous rock writers have attributed Syd as the father of space rock. In fact, Pink Floyd was once pictured with a sticker on...forgot what it was. But it said "First in Space."
@@1thepner You're talking about Space Rock and you've *never* even heard of Hawkwind???? No, not one single rock writer has ever called Barrett that. I've been reading about Pink Floyd for fifty years.
@@scottlarson1548 we must read different writers. I already gave my example of the sticker. Think what you want. I'll go with Astronomy Domine & Intersteller Overdrive as proof.
@@1thepner Please tell me where you read this if you ever did. It's possible that I overlooked a Pink Floyd book in the past five decades. I seriously doubt it.
These sound like sketches that he did not want to forget. They are interesting and brilliant just as they are. Syd took his life back and became Roger again. We should be happy he gave us Syd and have let him be Roger again.
I mean...there's definitely brilliance here. Those first two songs it's like Syd is telling the origin story of Pink Floyd-- Bo Diddley meeting experimental/noise music. Musically he's explaining the early Syd/Floyd sound from moments like the incredible 'London '66-'67' recording.
Its actually quite soothing. It’s fine. I wouldn’t change the channel. I might pick up some embroidery or sketch my favorite is Rory Gallagher the more driving the better but no way would sketch with. I can hardly take my eyes of him in videos putting 5 cds in of him I get to work! Ha ha boogie style. He took anti anxiety prescriptions anti depressants and theyinjected him with cortisone often due mostly his hands and I always had drinking like a lot of people and that belatedly got out of control. It was insidious and started to show up about 30 years old right when he got his first injections for the tendinitis in his hands as well as more and more prescriptions. He loved playing so much. He IS WAS a prodigy. Not balanced in life but he had it all on stage and that was it....all of him. It’s decent lesson and he was such nice guy too. Wonderful work ethic!
@@bluecollar825 i should have said my favorite to draw or sketch id Gallagher. I still like drawing or painting with some Madcap Laughs and various Barrett stuff.
I agree. It's a whole lot more than that! He was good, very good, and would have become even better. They ( other band members) knew that. He could write, sing, play. He also had the girls literally throwing themselves at him. "They" knew that. I've read everything I can get my hands on about Syd. He was a kind, gentle soul. He was not crazy. The LSD caused him to act crazy. People have jumped off buildings to their death because of LSD. Were they all crazy? No, but they were on LSD. The band did drugs, yes, but it's too bad many people in the underground scene in London intentionally harmed him by spiking his tea and coffee with LSD. Cruel, evil hangers-on and roomates pretending to be his friends.
We’re going to see what we can get.” Syd came in with new guitars. He had six Stratocasters - his flat must have looked like a music shop. He still looked like Syd - long hair, a bit unkempt but still looking good. He seemed vacant, a bit shell-shocked; still, every day he would turn up with a different girl. There were no lyrics, nothing at all. I’m not sure if he even had any songs.’
@@vonclohk507 Dang!! I've read about some of his bizarre behavior during various periods after leaving PF, but have never read about those you mentioned. I'm aware that by the late 70s/early 80s, he no longer had an interest in music. Only art, gardening, and eventually the history of some particular subject - I can't remember what at the moment. But there came a point where he didn't own a single guitar, sometime in the 80s. Many years later, he was intentionally left alone in a room where there was a simple 6 string acoustic guitar. When he though nobody was looking or listening, he picked it up, and softly strummed it for a brief moment, but when he realized someone was eaves dropping, he put it down, and never touched another guitar again. I'm interested to know about whether he ever heard PF music, and whether or not anyone ever explained to him which songs were dedicated to and about him.
A few years ago I read an interview with a relative of Syd, she said they played him some Floyd stuff sometime in the 90s or 2000s. He apparently liked See Emily Play a lot, brought a big smile to his face. But he said the rest sounded "too noisy"
It's a Trip Syd Barrett aka Roger Keith Barrett Recorded this as his last known recordings Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London And just 10 Months later on June 5th, 1975 Syd Barrett would make his last ever Appearance at Abbey Road Studios entering The Studio while Pink Floyd was recording the final mix of Shine on you Crazy Diamond Also on that Same Day of June 5th, 1975 Was Pink Floyd's David Gilmour's Wedding Day when DAVE GILMOUR Married his fist wife.
Not bad. I like the wah-wah peddle stuff. Obviously, Syd is no longer here on these sessions, but they have their own charm. I come back to this video a lot to do homework. I guess if he had any inclination to continue, he would have done better as a member in a blues band. The sort of bar band you see in pubs playing Mustang Sally ad nauseum. Then again, he was probably beyond showing up for rehearsals and recording sessions at that point. It's tough to come to terms with someone simply not wanting to do something you enjoy, but from these tapes I think he was still able to do it.
Amazing really if Syd didn't want to record he wouldn't have been there. He was obviously displeased with something since he quit music not long after this. But there are gems in this
There is nothing here that resembles the genius of "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," that Syd created. OK -- I realize these are pieces that Syd was working out -- but, these pieces have no sparkle. It's like garage band tooling. Evidence of the issues Syd may have been having. I wonder what kind of conversation Syd would have had if he met Nick Drake? Both suffered differently, but I wonder what connection they could have made. We will never know. What a great musician he was -- and what a creative, original and intense songwriter he was. "See Emily Play," "Lucifer Sam," "Pow R Touch" "The Gnome," "Chapter 24," & "The Scarecrow," -- masterful ideas. No one ever even tried to emulate these song styles. Instead, they tried to sound like Syd. But the songs were never there for those other people.
dude whats he talking About...- Syd groovvy guitar style is so beutiffull...... and scofffffff.... - MadCap and Barrett are even better than Piper- or any of Pink Floyds Albums......
it's syd messin in a studio with no band or production, what do you expect, musicians do this for hours n hours a day, there are some good ideas there, he just couldn't be bothered with the music industry (the octopus) anymore
This tape is at the wrong speed and should slowed down two semitones to judge it. Its like watching sped up rushes of a film. At the correct speed the vibe shifts and the listenability improves substantially.
Hard to believe this was done at Abbey Road. It sounds like it was recorded on a cheap cassette deck or two with only a guitar, a bass and an echo box in tow recorded direct into a line input. It sounds exactly like bedroom recordings I made at home with a similar set up, a portable double cassette deck with which you could overdub once or twice before the signal get degraded that bad....it had charm, just like this. I still have some of those recordings made in the mid 80s. The music was the same too, meandering, almost aimless but occasionally getting some magic and intensity. I used an old Burns London and a cheap bass and a Melos cassette tape delay. No drums. I was a Syd fan in those days too, but never heard this before. Funny, some of it sounds like Marc Bolan/T Rex.
Listen to the last piece, fast boogie. They say Syd went back to blues. That’s not the way an ordinary person plays blues. That’s a genius’s at work dripping with psychedelic embedded even in blues.
He booked a blues band i was playing in to play at a village hall in Cambridgeshire in the 90's... We had no idea it was him until the sound engineer told us at the end of the night. He was fine, just seemed like a normal chap....
It's like a musical stutter. Somewhere deep down it's in there but it's coming out in fragments and broken pieces. By this time in his life he was stepping away from creating music but man I sure wish he hadn't. His brief musical career made a big impact on me.
He apparently showed up to this session with a stringless guitar. I reckon he hadn’t played for years and was just goofing around seeing if he’s still got it. And he certainly has!
They didn't finish lyrics, it's no good trying to hold your love where I can't see, because I understand that your different from me". Yes I can tell you can't be what you pretend. Lol From Mad cap
@@dazzyelizabeth2949 you loved him so much was he your lover
@@musashielmaldito6848grow up
@@dazzyelizabeth2949 He did a few live performances in 1973 (Stars etc), mostly around Cambridge, so he was definitely "playing". Apparently he bought a few new guitars right before these sessions as well.
The end of 2020 is nigh and I’m grooving to Syd, a sweet place!
I'm with you, let's groove with Syd ^_^
Unfished Ballad is one of Syds best chord progressions. What a fantastic song that could've been
unfinished ballad sounds like the opposite of late night
And what a fish he might have caught!
Sounds like love you progression in some parts
The moment when you go in too deep in the comments and something inevitably pisses you off
@@ALTROTOPIA if you dislike modern pop music then you have a clue.
@@YesIAmKIng012= Triggered soy boy 😂
Liking is like believing, Has nothing to do with reality. People that worry about either drift away from reality just like Syd.
@@KentonJoseph reading this comment 3 times in a row gave me a brain aneurysm
@@KentonJoseph bro what?
Where has this been hiding for most of my life? The way he was will always be a very special thing to me.
These tapes surfaced very late actually. They existed, but weren't circulating for a long time.
Good to find Syd still grooving in 1974. Cool stuff
Zero dislikes...because really, who could dislike Syd, HAH! Thanks for posting, I love everyone who supports Syd and keeps his spirit ALIVE!!
+thatvenusgirl :)
So OBVIOUSLY now you've said that 32 smartasses have to click it now just to make a point
He deserves it!
You have to look at these as quick sketches like an artist does gesture drawings. Ideas. That’s how it starts and then turns into something.
Say you got to hang out with Syd in the early 70s for 25 mins. He doesn’t talk. Just offers you something to drink and walks over plays his guitar the rest of the time. Then you can either listen again or come back anytime. Pretty amazing.
As someone who's influenced by Spaceman 3, 13th Floor Elevators, Billy Childish and various 60's garage punk bands these songs a lot like many of my drunk 2am recordings and I love it.
Syd's magic is still there, too bad they didn't expand on this to make a full album.
Thanks for posting this.
There's nothing to expand on. It's a guy noodling captured on tape. How exactly do you expand on these sketches, not even sketches, noodles.
@@AnthonyMonaghan Thank You.
Yeah, if Brian Wilson made this everyone would be raving over it's potential.
When you say "they," if you mean Syd himself, then yes, it is too bad. The account of the recording clearly shows he didn't even want to be there
I love Syd but there’s no magic here
It was only a few months later he walked into Abbey Road once more during the Shine On sessions.
So many misconceptions about that event, Gilmour had been in some form of contact with Syd most of the time since 1971 up until then. Syd showed up a few times at the Atom Heart Mother sessions to see how the band were getting on.
That was in 1975. It's crazy how his appearance changed so much in such a short time. I feel like shaving his hair was a way of saying goodbye to his image as a rockstar and leaving music for good and starting over as Roger, no longer Syd.
@allison418 Pretty much how I looked after the Covid lockdown 😅
@@jordil6152I think everybody's been going through their own kind of Syd Barrett arc, post pandemic
Syd had an autistic disorder of unclear etiology.
His sister Rosemary once confirmed all of siblings in Roger's family were on aut.spectrum.
But it's weird... We'll never know if the drugs made his disorder worse. Or it was already ''programmed'' mental disease which progressing in him.
In his youth and young adult years he was literary a norman person except of a few perks (i.e. he made a few surreal paintings and collages which contained disturbed/hallucinogenic/nightmarish images) and some cases of behevioral strangenesses.
@@konstantinKcArney It was more than autism: in an interview with Ian Priston on 2023-09-16, Rosemary Breen explicitly mentioned "brain damage" and "many bad trips." Direct quote: "[Syd] found communication quite difficult because of his brain damage really…"
Underlying mental illness or no, Rosemary Breen's remarks strongly support the view that brain damage from substance abuse was the dominant factor in his decline.
One of the original outsiders by far. Love you Syd!
I love Ballad unfinished especially, so beautiful..these were his 12 singles he talked about in an interview
I hope these sessions will one day be released. This is pretty unique.
@1:36 love the beginning of this.
He was an unconvencialist and did not want to be part of the machine. 🥰
The music industry, band, society, all tried to cram Syd into a box. Syd never fit into a box. He was so far outside the box he didn't even know there was a box. That just wasn't compatible to a long successful career in the recording industry, as the rest of PF enjoyed. Too great a genius for many to understand (or work with).
@@bakerj85226 Yes, how dare the recording industry demand their artists make records that people want to buy!
I've actually heard Scream, and Vegetable Man, thanks for revising the fact, who blocked them.
Btw, this is just Syd f*** about on a guitar. In no way can the boy be critiscised for giving noobs ideas. This is what guitarists do. They mess around with sounds and emotions.
He sure loved Bo Diddley!
Yes he sure did.
Snak3Rak3 double O bo
As we all should!
Double O Bo.
Syd had good taste. Bo Diddley was a man his own among many curators of that delta blues style. Love Bo Diddley
All i can say about Syd is that his technique and style of playing guitar is single handedly the hardest on the planet to mimic.
Along with his singing.
i call his singing harmonizing
His flow was lsd I feel his rhythm on acid
@@carmenescobar2938 sure you do
@@betweendreams5 lol 🤣 this killed me
Understandably I think people are projecting what they want to hear onto this, there really is barely a glimpse of the Syd of old, a couple of nice textures but other than that it just sounds like someone noodling around trying to grasp (or remember) the basics. Syd made music that touched me and countless others in a very special and unique way, while this was worth listening to to understand his journey it remains the sad swan song that has been described in the biographies and anecdotes.
One of my three musical heroes that was done in by the excesses of the day Syd Barrett Roky Erickson and Skip Spence
Justin Hennessey if you are a kid you have impeccable taste. I was a kid in the 80s and I had to HUNT stuff like this down, have it special ordered, bought sketchy bootlegs from other countries- it was a pain in the ass, but well worth my collection I have now. That was in 1982 when I was 12-13 yr old punk......but yes you have good taste. Syd is precious and Skip, well the Oar CD NEVER leaves my CD player/changer. Roky, there's a great doc about him out there. I rented it in the 90s from mondo video in Hollywood, but I'll bet it's on TH-cam now. Skip you can read about- he was from Santa Rosa and has 4 kids with the same woman and the oldest boy plays music and looks just like him. Syd, well there's a barrage of Syd stuff out now, everything except a 4star film that should be made of him. Darryl Read, who recently passed away attempted to make a film with Barry about Syd and it was horrid. I have it only because I knew Darryl, but it was very bad. Ok I will shut up now- I only replied cuz I saw you admire the same three as I, and most likely a lot of people with good taste.....
You might enjoy John Frusciantes early solo albums as well since you seem to be drawn to semi tortured artists musical endeavors. I love all 3 of the artists you mentioned and Frusciantes early solo albums definitely fit in with this group. Check out Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T Shirt......and Smile From The Streets you Hold. Those 2 albums in particular have that true hint of madness/genius captured...much like Syd, Skip and Roky. Cheers
I get the feeling you prefer the stories and mystique more than the actual music.
@@A_29886 makes sense since we are listening to some random guitar jams that would never had contacted our ears if it wasnt for the story behind it. Now go listen to some real music
@@A_29886 Pretty much, yeah.
This is a Diamond for us. Great!
Although inconsistent and it goes on too long it's admirable how a man who was about to have the lights go out on him could still come up with compelling material. One can only imagine what he could have created had he got his act together.
That "if you go" song is a diamond in the rough, it coulda been beautiful. Poor lad...... I know he had some help from Kevin Ayers, Steve Took Pelegrini David Gilmour etc on his last solo projects. This man to me is gold. Funny how people grew interested after the Internet. When I was 13 in the 80s during record stores I had to hunt his stuff down and order things once the Internet was born, but I aquired a lot of stuff. Like I could have never gotten I'm A King Bee back in the 80s Candy and a Curant bun either.
I paid $25 for a "rare" Syd Barrett CD back in the 90s - now it's on YT for free
am from India my son introduced me to Syd nd his music nd life had changed ever since agree other band members couldn't matchup to his genius nd that get mind
How wrong you are. When Syd left the band, Roger Waters became the main lyricist. Because of Syd leaving, Pink Floyd became who they are.
@@samlott99how wrong you are
I oughta report you for misinformation 🥸
Wow this is heaps better then what i was led to believe through everything printed about these sessions. With the right producer he could of come up with some magic out of these sessions. Also Syd would DEFINITELY have come up with some GREAT lyrical twists and turns on the standard blues sounding progressions here. He was already a lyrical genius. But if he went into the blues standards with his lyrical and melodic capabilities he could of hit the mainstream again with his original twist on things. This stuff is great to hear!
+benisme123 I'd like to believe so as well. Unfortunately, every time Peter Jenner or the engineers tried to set up a vocal mic and put Syd on it, he would refuse to sing anything. He also supposedly had a notebook with lyrics in it, but he wouldn't let anyone see them. Peter later suggested that it was because Syd in fact didn't have any.
Yep.... you CAnt Fuck with BARRET>>>>.
around 01:40 is surely SYD's sound, love that guitar.
+chris john Plenty of reverb and a Delay very simple, but sounds great
+Tyler Vanner Not reverb, but yes delay
yes! reminds me a lot of old coldplay :)
coldplay could never amount to this or even remotely sound this pure and it wouldnt be near as quality..coldplay is pretentious and horrible
R.nune and they borrow a lot from Kraftwerk for hits. I am talking about Coldplay
Thanks for posting this gem "indeed" from the master. The "Man who fell to earth" lives on in his art, as he desired to. He wasn't nuts, & did exactly as he wished. He tired of the industry, and wished to live a simpler life. If I'd been in his shoes, I'd have done the same thing. Most of those close to him, see it the same. Wouldn't it be great if a lot of rock artists quit at their peak, so we wouldn't be exposed to so much burnout, and slow suicides.
Damn this is groovy. Really wish he would've stuck with it for one more LP
TDWE I wish he stayed in the Floyd with Gilmour. They would have.
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Yeah same man. I mean was it that hard to just take him along to a few gigs and recording sessions every now and then? I mean I just feel as though they could've worked something out. Could've been a little more loose about it, like maybe a little less money for Syd since he would just participate when he felt like it, i dunno maybe thats crazy to some people but songs like Scream Thy Last Scream (studio version especially) and Vegetable Man are really really groovy, heavy, melodic, and psychedelic. Also the song writing is top of the notch, yet sadly the rest of the band was a little close minded
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Well, thanx for agreeing w/me, however, it was the recording company who decided Barrett was a liability. I wish they all never had that disagreement about the copywrights. I think certain media is unfair to Roger expecting him to be in the Ostridge Society. He can express his ideas about things, man. Right?
TDWE How is this groovy for fuck's sake? It's complete rubbish! Don't you recognise dross when you hear it! It may be 'Syd' dross, but it's still dross!
TDWE What do you mean 'especially the studio version? There isn't another one. Unless you know something the rest of us don't?
His sister Rosemary made an interesting comment. Something to the effect that latter in life, Syd knew what people wanted from him, but he wasn’t prepared to give it. At that point, I think he just wanted to be Roger. Better than most of these rock stars who keep playing, even when they can no longer function.
A lot of supposedly virtuoso guitarists could never amount to the expressiveness of a single strum from Syd. Heck, he alone in history could do the stuff he did and he did it so well. What a legend, a genius. Some people just don't appreciate soul, always looking for structure, form and the obvious or materialistic side of things. Syd is exactly the opposite of that.
Caverman he played guitar like Odilon Redon painted- he sang like the Brush strokes of Van Gogh..
Zatoichi Masseur true very true very artistically he played his guitar whoever said he was no eric claptan heck he just was syd barrett and we are thankful for that
Caverman totally agree amazing expression from this guy
Great name btw ...
Unfortunately that's just a colorful way to say that he really couldn't play.
There are some cool bits there...you got to bear in mind that Syd would be pretty ill by this time & tough for him to get complete pieces together I imagine.
Thank-You So Much for Sharing This! I've always Loved Syd.
Reminds me of some of the guitar sounds I used to mess about with years ago in an old band. That clean sounding delay wah-wah...I used to love that full of gear too :)
everyone on here is a goddamn music expert but none of them were syd LOL
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It's great to hear this for the first time. Know for a fact that Syd recorded songs that hardly anyone knew about, there used to be a music shop in Crouch End, North London 38 years ago called Terrapin and the owner used to play a very rare tape of Syds regularly. He promised to do me a copy but this never materialised then the shop closed.
Could you describe what you remember about the music? It could have possibly been Stars his last band esp if there was drums. Or was it mostly acoustic?
@@timesupply6606 It was fully electronic and sounded different from the songs on his albums. The compositions were very energetic in contrast to much of what is on his LPs. It's a shame that the unique collection on the rare tape has never emerged to be downloaded onto TH-cam like the other Syd's unpublished tunes.
Please expand on these sessions . Can they be found!?.
@@MrBenmanning As mentioned, a guy who ran a new and second hand record shop in Crouch End, North London called Terrapin had a tape that he played in his shop by Syd Barrett and when this shop closed, he was never heard of again. Perhaps someone else has a copy of this tape but it seems that tracking it down is going to be difficult.
@@MrBenmanning Yes it is. The guy had many 60's records that were hard to get and he had a reputation for his vast collection of music from that era. How many other lost tracks are there from other 60's artists? I know that there is a guy online known as Heavenlyblueorange that uploads rare 60's sounds to TH-cam, you can find hundreds of songs from unknown garage bands under his name.
If nothing else the leads between the 2 and 3 minute mark proved he could still play. That he overdubbed bass and leads onto these wandering chord sequences proved he was still nuts as well. As the engineer said, it was "music with a strong hardly begun feel to it."
On a side note someone here on TH-cam overdubbed drums onto most of it and parts of that actually sound almost semi-coherent.
1974 Syd Barrett Sessions (finished) it's called. Check it out.
I didn't discover Sid till years and YEARS after I began listening to Pink Floyd. Still engrossed in their music, about four years ago I started digging into who Pink Floyd is, and was. I don't know if Sid's lack of interest in the music business was caused by drugs or just the workings of the business, or his supposed schizophrenia.
All we can do is speculate. Not too much though. Enjoy the music he left us. Tragic anyone's life slips by like this.
If they had actually became a 5 piece (Syd tried to rejoin in 1969 and they told him no), they would've been even more successful. But knowing Syd he'd probably grow tired of Roger's ego by the 80s and split. He was already at odds with him by late 1967
I really love it. Amazing!
I love playing along to this
Cause it makes you sound better LO. L.
my bby, thinking about him all the time:(
This is amazing and I worship Syd Barrett
Ahead of his time. Absolutely brilliant!
Your comment is way ahead of its time.
this is not true.
This is not syd barrett
This was recorded 10 years ago I guess
I don't think Syd would have released these random doodlings in the studio if he had a say. Easy to be a rock god... so hard to be simply human & suffer serious burnout. But it's good that these tracks are available for hardcore Syd Barrett fans to cherish (the way diehard Buddhists revere even dental remains purported to be Prince Siddhartha Sakyamuni's).
I really like this!
Thank you very much for the upload!
What bothers me is this sounds better than most of the pop crap on the radio, TV, or whatever.
l could listen to he stuff all day long .
We should all realize now that the band (probably Nick Mason) has been blocking songs/videos on youtube lately (which they have every right to) because (as of yesterday, 11/11/16) they are being officially released with the new box set 1965-1972. It is a good thing because now they can all be heard in the best possible quality. This includes Scream Thy Last Scream, Vegetable Man, John Latham, endless versions of Atom Heart Mother, and many other goodies. One unfortunate thing is that some original masters have been destroyed (the More soundtrack for one.... perhaps the vocal for "Seabirds" is gone, and I don't see "Oenone" on the set) but overall it's a great set.
Nick Mason is sitting in a dark chamber with the light of his 17 inch CRT monitor illuminating his face, day and night relentlessly forking through the internet. His mission is finding every snipplet in mediocre sound quality where any Pink or Floyd could be present.
@@krollpeter Entirely reasonable assumption given his somewhat 'pursed-lip' retired headmaster persona.
have you guys heard the ATROCIOUS butchered video of Nick Mason's live performance of "Remember a Day"? (song from their 2nd album)
it makes sense after finding out about the story they had to call the producer in the studio to record the drum parts in that song, because Nick couldn't come up with something decent... wow
"cave man drumming" huh?
seems more like illiterate drumming to me LOL
Had Syd pulled himself back together in '74, this would have worked brilliantly. True genius!
This could have worked in 1966 to 67, but by 1974 a new type of music was emerging leaving a lot of the psychedelics behind
A very strange trip through the vaults....but sadly,this was the end
Sounds to me the other guys didn't stop to listen long enough. The connection was there for the patient listener, the connecting type of person/musician. Xx
i’m 100% convinced that these recordings are running at the wrong speed.. they’re sped up.
the lowest chord he plays in any of this is an F#. lots of C#. Syd’s bread & butter for his solo material were songs in E, G, A. if you slow the entire audio down 2 semitones, it sounds far more correct & natural.
I tested your proposition out today and you are definitely correct. The music falls into place with the tempo corrected by slowing down the audio by 11.76%, which is equivalent to lowering the pitch by 2 semitones without changing the pitch separately. These are perfectly good early demo sketches that sit readily against Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and solo work. They don't sound half as sketchy as the out of speed uploaded tapes. It's poignant to hear these unexpected seeds of songs rescued from the archive. Barrett's mental health struggles don't diminish his influential musical legacy. These fragile fragments are a testament to his tenacity during increasingly difficult times.
03seg a 30seg, Bo Diddley [Bo Diddley, 1955] and The Doobie Brothers - [Listen to the Music, 1972]. Syd was a genius who received influences from some and influenced many others.
Appreciate this upload.
Oh, thank's for share, Barrett bless you! ;)
If you would listen only to guitar tracks of the songs on Barrett you would get something like this. And most of the songs on Madcap Laughs. Without the sung parts we can't tell if it was anything or not.
Just because a record has a groove, don't make it in the groove. Shine on, Syd!
It's great to finally hear this stuff, because, according to Miles' Floyd book, it's not even supposed to exist. Syd only turned up on the last recording day of three, with no strings on his guitar. Someone put them on for him, then Syd asked for his lyrics to be typed up. The typist used a red ribbon on the typewriter. Syd apparently thought it was a bill, and tried to bite the guy's fingers off. The session was abandoned.
Anybody on here ever listen to Peter Green's album The End Of The Game? This reminds me of Peter's album to a degree.
Yes . good call.
Gary Waits : two geniuses ruined by drugs, at least Pete Green is still with us.
OMG you are the only person I’ve come across who has compared peter green to syd barrett. Not only is some music alike but them themselves of people are alike. Both acid casualties. Both deep hatred of the music system. Both just wanted to be creative musically rather than worrying about the fame and money. Barrett and Green two of my favourite musicians of all time.
Very much so - ‘End of the game’ is a real intense Wah-fest! I’ve always seen a parallel between the two artists, to an extent. Love them both.
End of the game is alot better though
Boogie 2 and untitled are the 💣💣💣
Syd's early work is fab. At this stage it wasn't.
Best to remember him up to Madcap.
Brief resume of this stuff.
Track 1 Bo Diddley...nothing original.
Track 2 Mish mash of sounds.
Rest of it?
A man who's run out of creative ideas.
Walked away. Became a gardener and artist.
Happiness.
The untitled one at 10:44 reminded me of Run Like Hell straight away.
craigwithington roger waters stole some other of his songs, just shuffle through syd's solo career and you'll soon hear smth similar
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Oh man that's my favorite part man
@@TheLuismaBeaTle Sick. The way they treated him them stole his ideas.
I don't understand why these sessions were aborted because the material is very interesting and organic. I can hear where his unique vocals would fit in. Just another example of the power imbalance between artist's and produces, interfering with the creative process. I love these recordings personally.
He just walked out on the 3rd day of recording and never went back..i wish that he'd been able to finish them.
Thank you very much for sharing. I look regulary for something i never hear before! This time i wasnt, found it in previous list. :). Gonna enjoy this.
At 2:17. Sounds like the outro to Policy of Truth by DepecheMode! Syd, ever so futuristic.
Caverman I belive that Syd is one of the most copied(but who many bands do not give credit to.) artist in history.
He made some really crazy electric guitar sounds -- frantic, menacing, beastly sounds that were much darker than sounds typically associated with the 60s. 30 years later this sound was echoed in the heavy, sludgy, slovenly rock of the 90s grunge era.
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Is it way past time to consider Syd the godfather of punk rock?
@@gregrambo606 he is
Syd has a habit of popping up when you least expept. You can tell that when he was separated from his bandmates he took his sound with him .
At 1:35, the beginning of "Boogie#2" you get why he was called the "Father of Space Rock."
The Father of Space Rock is and always has been Robert Calvert, leader of Hawkwind. No one ever called Barrett that.
@@scottlarson1548 never heard of Calvert, I'll check him out. Numerous rock writers have attributed Syd as the father of space rock. In fact, Pink Floyd was once pictured with a sticker on...forgot what it was. But it said "First in Space."
@@1thepner You're talking about Space Rock and you've *never* even heard of Hawkwind????
No, not one single rock writer has ever called Barrett that. I've been reading about Pink Floyd for fifty years.
@@scottlarson1548 we must read different writers. I already gave my example of the sticker. Think what you want. I'll go with Astronomy Domine & Intersteller Overdrive as proof.
@@1thepner Please tell me where you read this if you ever did. It's possible that I overlooked a Pink Floyd book in the past five decades. I seriously doubt it.
Who else was playing with him?
beautiful Syd....thankyou.
These sound like sketches that he did not want to forget. They are interesting and brilliant just as they are. Syd took his life back and became Roger again. We should be happy he gave us Syd and have let him be Roger again.
I mean...there's definitely brilliance here. Those first two songs it's like Syd is telling the origin story of Pink Floyd-- Bo Diddley meeting experimental/noise music.
Musically he's explaining the early Syd/Floyd sound from moments like the incredible 'London '66-'67' recording.
Indeed a whole lotta more than what the studio guys remarks said...the crazy diamond was still shinning in '74, and playing proto punk!
No, this is very old school blues. 1920's and 1930's blues.
Syd got tired of trying to be everything to everybody and just went back to being Roger.
Rip you crazy diamond
I wish they'd just release this on vinyl as many other bootlegs and unofficial demo outtakes have been released
Its actually quite soothing. It’s fine. I wouldn’t change the channel. I might pick up some embroidery or sketch my favorite is Rory Gallagher the more driving the better but no way would sketch with. I can hardly take my eyes of him in videos putting 5 cds in of him I get to work! Ha ha boogie style. He took anti anxiety prescriptions anti depressants and theyinjected him with cortisone often due mostly his hands and I always had drinking like a lot of people and that belatedly got out of control. It was insidious and started to show up about 30 years old right when he got his first injections for the tendinitis in his hands as well as more and more prescriptions. He loved playing so much. He IS WAS a prodigy. Not balanced in life but he had it all on stage and that was it....all of him. It’s decent lesson and he was such nice guy too. Wonderful work ethic!
What is going on in this comment? R u talkin about Syd or Gallagher? U just cracked my brain in half 🤪
@@bluecollar825 i should have said my favorite to draw or sketch id Gallagher. I still like drawing or painting with some Madcap Laughs and various Barrett stuff.
@@cynthiamarston2208 awesome!✌
I agree. It's a whole lot more than that! He was good, very good, and would have become even better. They ( other band members) knew that. He could write, sing, play. He also had the girls literally throwing themselves at him. "They" knew that. I've read everything I can get my hands on about Syd. He was a kind, gentle soul. He was not crazy. The LSD caused him to act crazy. People have jumped off buildings to their death because of LSD. Were they all crazy? No, but they were on LSD. The band did drugs, yes, but it's too bad many people in the underground scene in London intentionally harmed him by spiking his tea and coffee with LSD. Cruel, evil hangers-on and roomates pretending to be his friends.
Yes this and Waters and Gilmour sucks
I blame them entirely. If syd was taking it willingly different story, he reminds me of blind owl from canned heat syd was tired of people
I want to finish one of these songs.
7:08 this makes me cry
We’re going to see what we can get.” Syd came in with new guitars. He had six Stratocasters - his flat must have looked like a music shop. He still looked like Syd - long hair, a bit unkempt but still looking good. He seemed vacant, a bit shell-shocked; still, every day he would turn up with a different girl. There were no lyrics, nothing at all. I’m not sure if he even had any songs.’
Odd. Syd always used Telecasters, not Strats. At least on stage, that is.
@@vonclohk507 Dang!! I've read about some of his bizarre behavior during various periods after leaving PF, but have never read about those you mentioned. I'm aware that by the late 70s/early 80s, he no longer had an interest in music. Only art, gardening, and eventually the history of some particular subject - I can't remember what at the moment. But there came a point where he didn't own a single guitar, sometime in the 80s. Many years later, he was intentionally left alone in a room where there was a simple 6 string acoustic guitar. When he though nobody was looking or listening, he picked it up, and softly strummed it for a brief moment, but when he realized someone was eaves dropping, he put it down, and never touched another guitar again. I'm interested to know about whether he ever heard PF music, and whether or not anyone ever explained to him which songs were dedicated to and about him.
A few years ago I read an interview with a relative of Syd, she said they played him some Floyd stuff sometime in the 90s or 2000s. He apparently liked See Emily Play a lot, brought a big smile to his face. But he said the rest sounded "too noisy"
It's a Trip Syd Barrett aka Roger Keith Barrett
Recorded this as his last known recordings
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London
And just 10 Months later on June 5th, 1975
Syd Barrett would make his last ever Appearance at Abbey Road Studios entering
The Studio while Pink Floyd was recording the final mix of Shine on you Crazy Diamond
Also on that Same Day of June 5th, 1975
Was Pink Floyd's David Gilmour's
Wedding Day when DAVE GILMOUR
Married his fist wife.
Great fun. Love ya Syd.
Lo último que Barrett grabó en vida...una verdadera joya!!!
Not bad. I like the wah-wah peddle stuff. Obviously, Syd is no longer here on these sessions, but they have their own charm. I come back to this video a lot to do homework. I guess if he had any inclination to continue, he would have done better as a member in a blues band. The sort of bar band you see in pubs playing Mustang Sally ad nauseum. Then again, he was probably beyond showing up for rehearsals and recording sessions at that point. It's tough to come to terms with someone simply not wanting to do something you enjoy, but from these tapes I think he was still able to do it.
i love Syd...but these recordings give me the impression that he was done with music by this point and did not want to be there.
Amazing really if Syd didn't want to record he wouldn't have been there. He was obviously displeased with something since he quit music not long after this. But there are gems in this
By this point, he had ingested so much acid on top of his mental illness, he was on downward slope.
Allen Albright no im guessing.
music like the temples etc, are keeping the vibe going.. once again ahead of his time and would be kicking ass right now... 👽
If people find gems hidden in that one here, well, then of course the Madcap Laughs is highest art.
I'm not really what you would call a Barrett fan but that's got some really good stuff...
Thanks for sharing.
I wish it was worked on a little more, it is still great
Oh my lovely Syd, to watch you totally disintegrate in less than five years was like watching a horror show......you were here, but yet you were gone.
so relaxing..
There is nothing here that resembles the genius of "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," that Syd created. OK -- I realize these are pieces that Syd was working out -- but, these pieces have no sparkle. It's like garage band tooling. Evidence of the issues Syd may have been having. I wonder what kind of conversation Syd would have had if he met Nick Drake? Both suffered differently, but I wonder what connection they could have made. We will never know. What a great musician he was -- and what a creative, original and intense songwriter he was. "See Emily Play," "Lucifer Sam," "Pow R Touch" "The Gnome," "Chapter 24," & "The Scarecrow," -- masterful ideas. No one ever even tried to emulate these song styles. Instead, they tried to sound like Syd. But the songs were never there for those other people.
ew garageband no, its not garage band tooling idiot, you could never get anything like this, and yes they do have sparkle, you just have to listen
dude whats he talking About...- Syd groovvy guitar style is so beutiffull...... and scofffffff.... - MadCap and Barrett are even better than Piper- or any of Pink Floyds Albums......
it's syd messin in a studio with no band or production, what do you expect, musicians do this for hours n hours a day, there are some good ideas there, he just couldn't be bothered with the music industry (the octopus) anymore
This tape is at the wrong speed and should slowed down two semitones to judge it. Its like watching sped up rushes of a film. At the correct speed the vibe shifts and the listenability improves substantially.
@@brentallpress - Good point. Thanks. This also happened to an early Billy Joel LP "Cold Spring Harbor."
Hard to believe this was done at Abbey Road. It sounds like it was recorded on a cheap cassette deck or two with only a guitar, a bass and an echo box in tow recorded direct into a line input. It sounds exactly like bedroom recordings I made at home with a similar set up, a portable double cassette deck with which you could overdub once or twice before the signal get degraded that bad....it had charm, just like this. I still have some of those recordings made in the mid 80s. The music was the same too, meandering, almost aimless but occasionally getting some magic and intensity. I used an old Burns London and a cheap bass and a Melos cassette tape delay. No drums. I was a Syd fan in those days too, but never heard this before. Funny, some of it sounds like Marc Bolan/T Rex.
When did these recordings get released to the public, and by who? Are they legit?
If you go #2 is sickkkk
Not bad at all! This could have become something!
'Unfocused licks' my eye...Random Precision, is what it is. Pure, unadulterated Syd (Roger) Barrett...
Listen to the last piece, fast boogie. They say Syd went back to blues. That’s not the way an ordinary person plays blues. That’s a genius’s at work dripping with psychedelic embedded even in blues.
He booked a blues band i was playing in to play at a village hall in Cambridgeshire in the 90's... We had no idea it was him until the sound engineer told us at the end of the night. He was fine, just seemed like a normal chap....
❤ Syd is Pink Floyd RIP acid rock