I had a bootleg cassette copy of this show I bought off a collector about 40 yrs ago. It sucked, was terribly recording/copied. Then I find this. Wow, much better improvement. Totally different experience. What a previous person said, get this into a proper studio & have it remastered. Make Syd's voice clearer, go stereo, whatever. Thanks for the upload. Tony/March 2023
Wow. Had no idea this existed. Quite literally a recording of his final gig in front of a crowd. Ever. I can't imagine what this was like for Gilmour and Shirley to be looking around for him after he just dipped out and ghosted his own show.
The recording's a bit of a mess (dropouts, bad live mix etc.) but thank God we have it. Great stuff! Syd in a power trio format, rocking pretty nicely during Gigolo Aunt. It's a shame no recordings of Stars in 1972 have ever surfaced but I reckon it probably sounded a lot like this so we're not completely shut out on that one. RIP Syd, RIP!
The live mix was probably quite bad but I think whoever recorded this was in the front row right on axis of Syd's guitar amp, the worst spot to be in terms of sound quality.
His voice isn't that loud Amsterdam and Copenhagen late 1967 Pink Floyd bootlegs either. Most accounts of the 1972 Stars gig talk about him being barely audible that night too. Possibly this was just something he did - very quiet vocals.
@TomorrowNeverKnows Rats its such a memorable track, Syd talking about society in a sarcastic way, I love it, the track makes me wanna destroy everything
Is there any possibility of taking this to a sound studio to have it remastered? This is true history that needs to be preserved. Wikipedia mentions it in Syd's biography. A price cannot be placed on it. Thanks for posting it. It would be fantastic to hear it cleaned up.
It'll never come out crisp like a professional recording... all we can do is imagine.... and hope against hope that a better quality recording surfaces...
Unfortunately remastering wouldn't do much. I've thought of toying around with it using parametric eq but when the audio is this poor it's akin to polishing a turd. As previously mentioned, we can only hope that there's a better version out there somewhere.
@@cdkilo77 Eq the vocal only in one take using some noise cancelling too trying to isolate just the vox the match it on top of the trck. There is so little vocal though.
Alla unicorn Speedbuilds : that is misleading or wrong , depending on what u call his ‘solo career’ in 72 he played a gig under the group name ‘STARS’ ... have a look on Wikipedia
Behind all the chaos and poor quality sound there is a subtlety that is pure Syd in all his genius. Certainly no mad man and no worse than the then offerings of the others in Pink Floyd.
He didn't detune his guitar on this. That was at Floyd gigs in late '67 (and it was actually something the Floyd used to do all the time back in '66 and at that point it was just accepted as an arty experimental thing to do.)
To be honest, the guitar is practically detuned from the word go ... he was either out of it, or didn't care. By the way, I love Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He was in a strange space here.
funny, I was just commenting about Jim Morrison, a guy who wanted to get away but waited to long, on another channel, and now hearing Syd I sense that he did, at least semi-voluntarily, slip away, and continued to be creative, which includes painting, and maybe even gardening, for all I know.............not everyone handles fame well............
Even when cleaned up, I doubt that this recording will do anything. The voice and the rest are totally under mixed. You can only hear Syd's guitar, the drums in the distance and even further away the voice and the bass because I think there was a bass player at this concert. Maybe there is another recording?
The saddest part of it all is it seems like Syd Barrett was always tripping even from the beginning of Pink Floyd. He never gave himself the much needed intervals to get in touch with his mind to expound his talents, no, he just kept eating LSD. Instead of him realizing his potential, he kept himself in mental psychological fugue. When you listen to his lyrics and playing you can hear the war inside his head. His real entity wants to break through and shine on. But the chaos he inflicted on himself is too much for him to overcome. We will never know the true extent of reality of Syd's talents all because he had no control over his appetite for LSD. Such a tragic shame 😞
By most accounts of people close to him at that time (including his roommates), Syd barely took LSD post-1967, but he was still overly fond of mandrax and weed. I think heavy LSD use is an easy scape goat (especially for those who have little or no experience with it) but it's likely only one factor in a myriad of things that influenced the decline of his mental health.
There's supposed to be a fine line between genius and madness...perhaps he sailed too close to the wind and crossed that line helped by pressure and too many chemicals. 😨
Sound guy sucked, lol. Took that long to realize the vocals weren't coming through?!?!?!? FIRED! Some decent playing in spots here by syd, better than I thought originally.
I love Syd, but this is pretty awful. Not sure if it's a case of Emperor's New Clothes, but surely i'm not alone in thinking this. The light had truly burnt out at this stage...
Wow this is awful. I’d have to think Syd was self sabotaging this performance because he was much better than this. There’s no way he was this bad and didn’t know it at the time
Thank you. I shake my head listening to Terrapin because at this late date, his guitar work is fantastic. I always get chills listening to this. As someone once said there is a thin line between madness and genius. Piper is still fresh and exciting today as it was in 67.
Syd was a time traveler, he traveled time in his mind and glimpsed the futche. His music is so futuristic. You can say that it's even more forward-looking than anything his bandmates went on to do (although The Gilmour-Waters era Floyd is great in their own right).
I wonder if dave Gilmour has this concert straight from the mixing desk somewhere ..there was a strong rumour that he did..but that was many moons ago and if he did I would've thought it would of surfaced by now...still,food for thought!
Terrapin is My Favorite song from Madcap! So badass to hear it played on Electric guitar! With his blues riffs thrown in there! The slides work so much better in this one! Wow. Even though his voice can barley be heard. I love this version so much! They we're always switching up there sounds!
There is some speculation after the 1st number "Terrapin", Barrett went to another song not bootlegged. Listening to the noodling & tune ups spliced in, it's possible.
Thank you for sharing this. Do you have the one with twink and jack monk and Jerry Shirley. I thought that was the one he walked off. They were called Starz and Twinks been posting some of his stuff lately in FB group....
Thnks for uploading...only read about this performance never heard it...the octopus version here is pretty solid...'lost in the woods' if my fav book on syd
Mate ... some of this improvised stuff he´s doing predates Motorhead , listen to it, there´s even some stuff which sounds like the latter in ´Gigolo aunt` ( I think ). The randy mandy/13th elevated combo nailed it on this performance , took Syd to the timeless pantheons (haha) of metal/punk ! Ace !
Great piece of information ... cheers, here we go on a bootleg searching journey ! Shame nobody ever asked Lemmy about having played right after Barrett . Should have been funny as it usually was/is .
Funny , you´re telling me this and as I was about to type , around 4:10 Syd randomly plays 2 notes which instantly reminds me of ´Purple haze` ... eheh ... Strange Lemmy having never referred to those days anywhere - oh well, definitely his acid - years ( at least that part he refers when he used to score for Hendrix, latter being extremely generous ... ) too , so ,all he recalled was having been ´on some distant shore , far from land , standing by an ebony Totem in ebony sand ` ... both him , sitting there admiring the view , and John Lennon , or something ...
Only speculating, but I think a great part of Syd knew exactly what was going on. They had a replacement guitarist in Dave Gilmour hovering around. Despite the necessity and how nice Gilmour and the band were about it, it still must have hurt. And Syd was able to stand outside of himself and see how others were handling him. He made his own exit, on his own terms, but probably never forgot how he was being handled. I'm not saying the band was right or wrong, but only that Syd was probably not as out of it as they made him out to be. Maybe those black holes in the sky were processing what was happening around him.
That was 3 years before this. But yes I think Syd was angry about it his whole life. And then they used his breakdown and romanticized it in what's hailed as their greatest albums which made them rock gods. I'm sure that didn't sit well with Syd, it wouldn't with me.
Sounds to me like once someone tells him the vocals are inaudible just before Octopus, Syd wanders over to the amp the vocal is plugged into and turns it up, then the person recording it hears the vocal coming from, say the other side of the stage and walks over there to get a better recording, which also sorts out the discrepency in vol between the guitar, drums and bass (previously it's been ALL guitar). So we are all set to get a semi decent recording of the rest of the gig, in addition to which the band actually start grooving- the guitar solo and bass and drums during that section are all ACE, then, Syd wanders off...!!!!!!
"And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes", what the hell is the bass player doing? This sounds like it has all been recorded (badly) through one channel, which doesn't help, but even so. No wonder he walked away from it all. Poor Syd.
No i think it is the transitioning to not caring anymore. It was clear he didn't really care. He was just very done with the music business and combining that with acid makes for an uncaring person. Acid definitely turned something in him but both the band pressure and the culture of the business really broke him. He was an artist, not a musician as his sister said. He was never really a guy made for the music world. Luckily he later got back in to painting again when he was doing better. In 2011 there was an art expo about him in Cambridge. Very impressive stuff
@@TheCheesyGamer38 I totally agree. Retiring in one's 20s sounds great to me! Love the piece they dedicated to him at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, which I do believe is where this gig actually occurred.
Syd, you make me cry listening you! You're brillant!... So many times you can imagine!... You live, you live, you live!... LOVE YOU, beatifull Diamond!! SHINE ON
Until Octopus it was a total mess. However on a good system it might have sounded better. Plenty of Blur chords in Octopus....a few before on others here also.
@@johnsydjimi here's the quote - " Alexander P. HB: Is the recording (the known) Olympia 1970 or The Stars 1972? , Are there photos of the performance in the hall of Corn Exchange ????? TWINK: Hello Alexander no. 37. I believe that recording is STARS 1972 because I recognise my drumming and I can hear Jacks voice." ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2013/04/twink-syd-barrett-stars-interview-313.html
If Peter Jackson can revive 50 year old Beatle out takes for the Get Back trilogy, surely we have the technology to sort this recording out. The guitars sound good so the tape must be in a reasonable condition? If David Gilmore got hold of this, he could preserve this for current and future generations to enjoy. Reaching out to you Mr. Gilmour........?
@@SRNFgive it time, with the miracle The Beatles were able to produce from a late 70’s cassette of John Lennons’ it’s kinda mind bending what the possibilities of AI truly could be when applied to recordings such as these. Not like Gilmour is in any rush to release anything Syd related since he’s been holding on to Stoned Alone for decades and probably countless other things but at least he somewhat respects Syds legacy instead of capitalizing on it like Waters would.
That’s a great photo that you used at the opening of the video. I thought I had seen all the photos from that session but not that one. It’s a great one.
And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke .....
Jugband Blues
The sea isn't green because it was just a dream, and the part about the queen was a joke
I had a bootleg cassette copy of this show I bought off a collector about 40 yrs ago. It sucked, was terribly recording/copied. Then I find this. Wow, much better improvement. Totally different experience. What a previous person said, get this into a proper studio & have it remastered. Make Syd's voice clearer, go stereo, whatever. Thanks for the upload. Tony/March 2023
Wow. Had no idea this existed. Quite literally a recording of his final gig in front of a crowd. Ever. I can't imagine what this was like for Gilmour and Shirley to be looking around for him after he just dipped out and ghosted his own show.
He played shows with a band he joined called stars. He played a couple more shows after this
The recording's a bit of a mess (dropouts, bad live mix etc.) but thank God we have it. Great stuff! Syd in a power trio format, rocking pretty nicely during Gigolo Aunt. It's a shame no recordings of Stars in 1972 have ever surfaced but I reckon it probably sounded a lot like this so we're not completely shut out on that one. RIP Syd, RIP!
The live mix was probably quite bad but I think whoever recorded this was in the front row right on axis of Syd's guitar amp, the worst spot to be in terms of sound quality.
@@Imsuchaliar All the concert recordings of Syd's vocals (except Octopus on here) are very muffled -see also the Floyd in Copehagen and Amsterdam.
@10:10 I can hear a dude tell em to turn the microphone up because they can't hear his voice and Syd says Ok.
I have to say, I can hear his voice perfectly well
His voice isn't that loud Amsterdam and Copenhagen late 1967 Pink Floyd bootlegs either. Most accounts of the 1972 Stars gig talk about him being barely audible that night too. Possibly this was just something he did - very quiet vocals.
Who said "fuck you"?
The original punk rocker
NOT
Umberto2 but he used to many chords for that to be true 😆
@TomorrowNeverKnows you need to explore a bit of jazz history
@@vonclohk507 You mean Lou Reed THEN Syd.
@TomorrowNeverKnows Rats its such a memorable track, Syd talking about society in a sarcastic way, I love it, the track makes me wanna destroy everything
Is there any possibility of taking this to a sound studio to have it remastered? This is true history that needs to be preserved. Wikipedia mentions it in Syd's biography. A price cannot be placed on it. Thanks for posting it. It would be fantastic to hear it cleaned up.
That would be awesome!
It'll never come out crisp like a professional recording... all we can do is imagine.... and hope against hope that a better quality recording surfaces...
Unfortunately remastering wouldn't do much. I've thought of toying around with it using parametric eq but when the audio is this poor it's akin to polishing a turd. As previously mentioned, we can only hope that there's a better version out there somewhere.
@@cdkilo77 Eq the vocal only in one take using some noise cancelling too trying to isolate just the vox the match it on top of the trck. There is so little vocal though.
No, there is so little detail in this recording, there's nothing to recover. This is as good as it gets.
David Gilmour played bass guitar for Syd's one and only solo performance.
#fact
Syd did more than one performance, not sure how many but he did several and the final one was in 1972
richard lawless on Wikipedia it states this was the only live performance Syd did in his solo career
Alla unicorn Speedbuilds : that is misleading or wrong , depending on what u call his ‘solo career’ in 72 he played a gig under the group name ‘STARS’ ... have a look on Wikipedia
@@w1lf1ewoo So you're saying that if you change the meaning of a word, then the other guy is wrong? Doesn't seem like much of a victory for you.
David. You are so much respected and offered all you could to try and make Syd a success as a solo artist
Behind all the chaos and poor quality sound there is a subtlety that is pure Syd in all his genius. Certainly no mad man and no worse than the then offerings of the others in Pink Floyd.
Syd was a shooting star and there was plenty going on without the very strong acid kicking about then.
this is raw, holy moly
"Thank you, goodnight". And that was it...
I knew something else very special happened the day this was recorded .....I was born !!!...a fine birthday present.. thank you Syd..... peace
Happy birthday a bit late !
@@MonsieurRette thank you very much ..its kind of you to comment ....
@@johnsydjimi thank you sir ..its very kind of you
@@jali898 full moon later i was born
Happy Syd-Solo Birthday to you, Mark. A quite special day, to be sure!
He detuned his guitar and walked off stage after this. What a strange guy. Rip roger
He didn't detune his guitar on this. That was at Floyd gigs in late '67
(and it was actually something the Floyd used to do all the time back in '66 and at that point it was just accepted as an arty experimental thing to do.)
probably because of the shitty PA.
To be honest, the guitar is practically detuned from the word go ... he was either out of it, or didn't care. By the way, I love Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He was in a strange space here.
@Be Beat Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett
Good quality for being recorded with a potato
Matthew Alistair YES
Wel .. I wouldn't say "good sound". I'd rather go "Thank god someone recorded this even with a potato."
a cut-price potato at that !
I can't get this shit outta my head ! It's beautiful !
I hear Nick Mason is going to digitally remaster this concert and release it as Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett Live
Really???
I would really look forward to that
Syd Barrett un genio muy por delante de su tiempo
y tan guapo!!!
si senor
@@betsysilva8646 bajo mi punto de vista astronomy domine es meddle y meddle es Pink Floyd. Si no hay Barrett no hay Pink floyd
Love ya Syd:)!!
As terrible as the audio is, i kinda like it because if gives like a shitty old nostalgia vibe.
It sounds to me like he finished the 4th song (Octopus) before walking offstage.
excellent !
its sad that there was only 1 pink floyd album.
Kim Humphrey he written one track and played instruments on PL second album so you could get away with saying two albums
Only one.
Syd was Master, band His puppets..to this day.
Without Syd it wasn't Pink and without Wright it wasn't Floyd
One man's sadness is another man's joy. I shudder at the thought of having to put up with more childish ramblings.
funny, I was just commenting about Jim Morrison, a guy who wanted to get away but waited to long, on another channel, and now hearing Syd I sense that he did, at least semi-voluntarily, slip away, and continued to be creative, which includes painting, and maybe even gardening, for all I know.............not everyone handles fame well............
and drinking heavily by himself alone at home for years...
Even when cleaned up, I doubt that this recording will do anything. The voice and the rest are totally under mixed. You can only hear Syd's guitar, the drums in the distance and even further away the voice and the bass because I think there was a bass player at this concert. Maybe there is another recording?
VERY cool- thank you!!!
awesome
The saddest part of it all is it seems like Syd Barrett was always tripping even from the beginning of Pink Floyd. He never gave himself the much needed intervals to get in touch with his mind to expound his talents, no, he just kept eating LSD. Instead of him realizing his potential, he kept himself in mental psychological fugue. When you listen to his lyrics and playing you can hear the war inside his head. His real entity wants to break through and shine on. But the chaos he inflicted on himself is too much for him to overcome.
We will never know the true extent of reality of Syd's talents all because he had no control over his appetite for LSD. Such a tragic shame 😞
By most accounts of people close to him at that time (including his roommates), Syd barely took LSD post-1967, but he was still overly fond of mandrax and weed. I think heavy LSD use is an easy scape goat (especially for those who have little or no experience with it) but it's likely only one factor in a myriad of things that influenced the decline of his mental health.
@@baron0877 But he already took too much in 67. When you pull the trigger, there's no comeback...
@@jjjj5228 Find one study that concludes excessive LSD use alone can lead to permanent mental illness... it doesn't exist.
Barrett never took that much acid, it's a myth. A persistent one, but a myth none the less..
fkn delicious. the seed of meat puppets and nirvana, of grunge
theres a of photo-where syd looks so charismatic at this gig.wayne from leeds
I wonder where....
At what time syd bails out the band here?
That’s were it’s start
I think they was tryin'a sabotage him.
Very possible
There's supposed to be a fine line between genius and madness...perhaps he sailed too close to the wind and crossed that line helped by pressure and too many chemicals. 😨
Is there any footage of this?
Sound guy sucked, lol. Took that long to realize the vocals weren't coming through?!?!?!? FIRED!
Some decent playing in spots here by syd, better than I thought originally.
Is this the upgraded version?
Octupus!!!!!
Vocals are almost inaudible.
+Ken Wolfe What do you expect from an amateur audience recording from 1970? Especially considering the PA's sucked in 1970.
Although the mic was low anyway. Someone in the audience even says he can't hear him. Octopus is a bit better after that as the mic vol was sorted out
Not far off punk really.
Soll das Musik sein von einem Genie ?
Dies ist ohne Zweifel die Musik eines Genies.
Is David Jon Gilmour playing that atrocious Bass?
No wonder Barrett took a hike!
This sucked too
Terrible. I would walk off too. It's embarrassing.
I love Syd, but this is pretty awful. Not sure if it's a case of Emperor's New Clothes, but surely i'm not alone in thinking this. The light had truly burnt out at this stage...
Naaah his guitar skills are on point sound quality though is horrendous
sorry. had posted my comment above before seeing this - I completely agree with you.
we're not hearing the full scope this is clearly just the guitar through the mixer, with the full band, I'm sure the gig was pretty cool.
IndependentGeorge76 it's the quality bud,I've remastered this on FL7 and it sounds great,I can send it if you'd like
Albert Pina can you send it to me?
Wow this is awful. I’d have to think Syd was self sabotaging this performance because he was much better than this. There’s no way he was this bad and didn’t know it at the time
Thank you. I shake my head listening to Terrapin because at this late date, his guitar work is fantastic. I always get chills listening to this. As someone once said there is a thin line between madness and genius. Piper is still fresh and exciting today as it was in 67.
Syd was a time traveler, he traveled time in his mind and glimpsed the futche. His music is so futuristic. You can say that it's even more forward-looking than anything his bandmates went on to do (although The Gilmour-Waters era Floyd is great in their own right).
George Anisowicz shine on brother.
Ya!
i dont think he played anything in this concert...just the vocals...
Rahul Bhaskar No, he played guitar with Dave Gilmour on bass and someone else whose name I can't remember on drums.
Magical when his voice emerges from the murk in Octopus
This is like some ancient blues recording, on a wax cylinder.
Lmborotff
Laugh my balls off rolling on the fu..floor🤣
This is pure unadulterated unmanufactured song writing this is a home jam not a Hollywood produced hit. It's a recording of a genius in his process
@Zetetic I get it: The recording possesses that mythical, magical quality of a timeless artifact, which indeed it IS…
It depends how many audience source bootlegs you've ever heard. I've heard similar quality to this from all sorts of artists.
I read this was a mess of a mixing job done by who knows who. He quit after the 4th song and politely left.
Too bad
Piper at the gates of dawn - bike. Sid what a trip, i'am still riding
I wonder if dave Gilmour has this concert straight from the mixing desk somewhere ..there was a strong rumour that he did..but that was many moons ago and if he did I would've thought it would of surfaced by now...still,food for thought!
I guess he has a lot of Syd footage or things under the surface but he keep it with himself as a obsessive secret love
Some day in the distance future they’ll put out the Syd Sessions ala Robert Johnson. There will be a lot we already have but some of what we haven’t.
Mad respect Syd singing and playing like that is a bitch
Syd was a musical genius. You can’t not feel good hearing him play guitar and sing
I really enjoyed this. Only wish the vocal was louder but knowing the songs helps. Guitar is brilliant, slapdash, ingenious...
davefusa
Still enjoying this in 2021, Thank you for your light, Syd Barrett.
Still enjoying this in 2024 ;)
Terrapin is My Favorite song from Madcap! So badass to hear it played on Electric guitar! With his blues riffs thrown in there! The slides work so much better in this one! Wow. Even though his voice can barley be heard. I love this version so much! They we're always switching up there sounds!
There is some speculation after the 1st number "Terrapin", Barrett went to another song not bootlegged. Listening to the noodling & tune ups spliced in, it's possible.
Thank you for sharing this. Do you have the one with twink and jack monk and Jerry Shirley. I thought that was the one he walked off. They were called Starz and Twinks been posting some of his stuff lately in FB group....
Thnks for uploading...only read about this performance never heard it...the octopus version here is pretty solid...'lost in the woods' if my fav book on syd
Mate ... some of this improvised stuff he´s doing predates Motorhead , listen to it, there´s even some stuff which sounds like the latter in ´Gigolo aunt` ( I think ).
The randy mandy/13th elevated combo nailed it on this performance , took Syd to the timeless pantheons (haha) of metal/punk ! Ace !
Great piece of information ... cheers, here we go on a bootleg searching journey ! Shame nobody ever asked Lemmy about having played right after Barrett . Should have been funny as it usually was/is .
Funny , you´re telling me this and as I was about to type , around 4:10 Syd randomly plays 2 notes which instantly reminds me of ´Purple haze` ... eheh ... Strange Lemmy having never referred to those days anywhere - oh well, definitely his acid - years ( at least that part he refers when he used to score for Hendrix, latter being extremely generous ... ) too , so ,all he recalled was having been ´on some distant shore , far from land , standing by an ebony Totem in ebony sand ` ... both him , sitting there admiring the view , and John Lennon , or something ...
Nice! Syd lives forever
David Gilmour on bass and Jerry Shirley on drums
What is the deal with Vegetable Man anyways.....why does P.F. bury a song that is so amazing???
It's coming out in a few months as a part of the new ridiculously expensive box set of Pink Floyd's early works.
Larold Will- you'll be able to buy most of the CDs individually next year.. that's what I'm planning on doing
Whoopee doo. The 'Cambridge Station' Syd CD set (2 CDs plus a DVD) costs 40 quid!?! God I hate the music business. It deserved to die.
My theory is that bc vegetable man sounds quite similar to another Pink Floyd song
It sounds like a lot of the wall's songs I find it amazing
theres a of photo-where syd looks so charismatic at this gig.wayne from leeds
Only speculating, but I think a great part of Syd knew exactly what was going on. They had a replacement guitarist in Dave Gilmour hovering around. Despite the necessity and how nice Gilmour and the band were about it, it still must have hurt. And Syd was able to stand outside of himself and see how others were handling him. He made his own exit, on his own terms, but probably never forgot how he was being handled. I'm not saying the band was right or wrong, but only that Syd was probably not as out of it as they made him out to be. Maybe those black holes in the sky were processing what was happening around him.
That was 3 years before this. But yes I think Syd was angry about it his whole life. And then they used his breakdown and romanticized it in what's hailed as their greatest albums which made them rock gods. I'm sure that didn't sit well with Syd, it wouldn't with me.
It just starts getting there, then he splits, haha. Still, octopus is great- really exciting version
Sounds to me like once someone tells him the vocals are inaudible just before Octopus, Syd wanders over to the amp the vocal is plugged into and turns it up, then the person recording it hears the vocal coming from, say the other side of the stage and walks over there to get a better recording, which also sorts out the discrepency in vol between the guitar, drums and bass (previously it's been ALL guitar). So we are all set to get a semi decent recording of the rest of the gig, in addition to which the band actually start grooving- the guitar solo and bass and drums during that section are all ACE, then, Syd wanders off...!!!!!!
correct in every detail
Shine on syd. Piper at the gates of dawn is still Floyd's best album by a mile
Listening this , I am sad. It is heartbreaking.
This man was sick.
Sorry.
"And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes", what the hell is the bass player doing? This sounds like it has all been recorded (badly) through one channel, which doesn't help, but even so. No wonder he walked away from it all. Poor Syd.
Hi Syd I miss you
there's that great sound of Syd's otherworldly guitar playing....quite amazing.
By the time 1970 rolled around, Syd was not even bothering to tune his guitars.....
RIP Syd. Shine on!
moonchild71 shine on!
Hey I'd like to hear Vegatable man from the BBC sessions, is there anyway to hear this?? What with them blocking Syd's stuff?
I'd read about this performance in a few books, would of loved to see it., but this is awesome. Thanks for sharing. Priceless.
kipperfeast
Hahaa
This is so sad to hear. Transitioning into madness.
Musical genius. Wow sad.
Seems you and I are the only ones who hear the decent into madness, poor Syd, sighs.
No i think it is the transitioning to not caring anymore. It was clear he didn't really care. He was just very done with the music business and combining that with acid makes for an uncaring person. Acid definitely turned something in him but both the band pressure and the culture of the business really broke him. He was an artist, not a musician as his sister said. He was never really a guy made for the music world. Luckily he later got back in to painting again when he was doing better. In 2011 there was an art expo about him in Cambridge. Very impressive stuff
@@TheCheesyGamer38 I totally agree. Retiring in one's 20s sounds great to me! Love the piece they dedicated to him at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, which I do believe is where this gig actually occurred.
the PA finally kicked in on clowns;and jugglers (octopus)
the rawrness of it is the real deal-you can still feel his musicality-
The last song is really intense. You can literally hear and feel his mental instability in his voice. Poor guy.
I really love you and I mean you, the stars around you crystal blue...oh baby, my hairs on end about you.
Syd, you make me cry listening you! You're brillant!... So many times you can imagine!... You live, you live, you live!... LOVE YOU, beatifull Diamond!! SHINE ON
Jacinta Cardoso
Fans like U are kind of scary
Until Octopus it was a total mess.
However on a good system it might have sounded better.
Plenty of Blur chords in Octopus....a few before on others here also.
Playing it thru my about 4k dollar system sounds pretty damn good
too insane to be in Pink Floyd...sorry, i don`t believe it!
~ People in the comments are fawning over this, but the Emperor has no clothes; this is beyond awful.
Whoever was working the sound board was deaf.
Interestingly Twink said this was Stars, not the Olympia Hall, said it's definitely his drumming on it.
@@johnsydjimi Yes he did say that. It's on an audio interview available online
@@johnsydjimi here's the quote - " Alexander P. HB: Is the recording (the known) Olympia 1970 or The Stars 1972? , Are there photos of the performance in the hall of Corn Exchange ?????
TWINK: Hello Alexander no. 37. I believe that recording is STARS 1972 because I recognise my drumming and I can hear Jacks voice."
ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2013/04/twink-syd-barrett-stars-interview-313.html
never knew this excisted but the crowd was diggin it!.wayne from leeds
it's like they didn't provide syd with a microphone ?
If Peter Jackson can revive 50 year old Beatle out takes for the Get Back trilogy, surely we have the technology to sort this recording out. The guitars sound good so the tape must be in a reasonable condition? If David Gilmore got hold of this, he could preserve this for current and future generations to enjoy.
Reaching out to you Mr. Gilmour........?
Revive? They existed as masters and stored away....this isnt close.
@@SRNFgive it time, with the miracle The Beatles were able to produce from a late 70’s cassette of John Lennons’ it’s kinda mind bending what the possibilities of AI truly could be when applied to recordings such as these. Not like Gilmour is in any rush to release anything Syd related since he’s been holding on to Stoned Alone for decades and probably countless other things but at least he somewhat respects Syds legacy instead of capitalizing on it like Waters would.
That’s a great photo that you used at the opening of the video. I thought I had seen all the photos from that session but not that one. It’s a great one.
The day Punk Rock was born!! listen to Octopus and imagine ANY punk band doing it a decade later!
SYD
What he was ready to take maybe drugs.?
they are both available. got it on now. both great songs
This recording needs Meg White style drumming,
and the soundboard guy on the channel equalizer needs to lay off the ludes for a day or two
Shine on you crazy diamond r.i.p
Ha habido un momento que unos acordes me han sonado a nirvana, al comienzo de la cancion del minuto 11
The description 😹😹😹😹
The embodied red flag of using acid.