What Syd Barrett really thought of Wish You Were Here
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Syd Barrett was one of the original founding members of Pink Floyd. He was their creative driving force and his vision gave them an innovative sound. However, after leaving the band in 1968, Pink Floyd was forced to create their own sound without him. In 1975 Pink Floyd released their album Wish You Were Here as a tribute to Syd Barrett. This video explores the influence Syd had on the band in both the early days and with Wish You Were Here.
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Its hard to know what he thought after frying his brain like an egg . Poor chap ! 😢
SPOILER ALERT: To save you 8+ minutes, he thought it was "a bit old".
lol really
Because I'm old too,
thanks for saving me 8 minutes.
There's a place in heaven for all you time savers.
Yeah, in the age of content, why take a minute to say something when you can take many more?
The universe is older😂
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is amazing, from the opening on. Pure magic and emotion.
To me, it's the most beautiful piece of music rock 'n' roll has ever produced.
@@agirotto1 Totally agree.
It's also the last piece from the Waters era that Richard Wright had a writing credit on.
I'm a bit of a punk rocker, myself. But, if I can pick the song I hear as I shuffle off this mortal coil.... Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
@@agirotto1 Listen to the masterpiece of another tragic genius. Find "Smile" by Brian Wilson. "Surfs up" (not about surfing in any way) is a masterpiece and in the middle of "Heroes and Villains" (My favorite song by anyone ) there is a section starting with "... my children were raised..." that to me is the most beautiful minute or so of music ever made.
I recently discovered Syd's solo albums while listening to a "psychedelic rock" playlist on spotify. Mistaking it for a Pink Floyd song I thought I never heard before I glanced at the song name/band and was genuinely surprised I never knew about his work. It really is a genuine extension of the floyd early era. Such amazing work. Syd, you really were a madcap genius.
I’ve never seen any of Sid’s solo work but I’ll be looking 👀 👀 👀
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You're saying what sounds like the right thing to say. But his solo stuff is really bad droning lifeless boredom and is hard to defend as anything more than a bad attempt at psychedelica. I have all his stuff. I dare anyone to make the case for why Pink Floyd would've been better off with even a sane Syd over Gilmour. We let go of all the influence David had on PF and hypothetically replace it with music akin to what Syd did solo. Sorry to say but you will be left with very subpar stuff.
I had a professor in the 90s who played baby lemonade in class and got interested. Always really appreciated Syds two records.
@@RedceLL1978i can’t agree more
@@RedceLL1978he was probably uninspired because of his mental illness. Speaking from experience of having schizophrenia myself, the illness robs you of your creativity/ your personality in general. Basically, it's better to just remember Syd for who he was before he became ill. To be remembered for just being an illness is something I don't wish on any living soul.
i dont think there will ever be another band like pink floyd. their music is still loved by the grandchildren and even great grandchildren of the generation that loved them first, its an amazing feat in music
It's a shame there is so much animosity between Roger and David
....Life is too short
I have to wonder if their music will outlast the Beatles. It's hard to say who from the last half of the 20th century will still be listened to and remembered in like 100 or 200 years.
@@goodbyebluesky5770 so true
@@goodbyebluesky5770 i agree
@@sdgakatbk oh the beatles are hard to beat imo, especially the psychadelic era of beatles, but it seems like pink floyd has been able to stay relevant from generation to generation, more so than the beatles. maybe that would be a different story had the beatles stayed together
Syd went places that few if any are able to come back from.
Rest in peace you madcap genius..
I went down the same rabbithole n left a part of me behind there too!🤯, now I plod along too in my own solitude, waiting to connect once again with the missing peices of my fractured soul!😌✌️
@@jamiecurran3544 good luck! May i ask what happened?
LSD = chemically induced insanity 😒
He didn't just experiment with LSD ..he was spiked constantly from a bunch of arseholes
IN A "NUT" SHELL, (NO PUN INTENDED), SYD JUST BURNED UP TOO MANY SYNAPSES, NEURONS, AND GANGLIA AND IT MADE HIM A CERTIFIED "JELLYHEAD". I WORKED IN A MENTAL FACILITY ON A WARD THAT DEALT EXCLUSIVELY WITH WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS "ACID BURNOUTS" AND APPARENTLY, ABUSIVE AND REPEATED "TRIPS" WILL ALMOST ALWAYS TRIGGER MANY TYPES OF BRAIN DISORDERS, DISEASES AND MALIGNANT MALFORMATIONS AND OR CANCERS, AND TUMORS, AND AS YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY SURMISED, WILL EVENTUALLY FORCE THE PATIENT TO REQUIRE ROUND THE CLOCK NURSING CARE AND TREATMENTS OF MANY KINDS.
If you listen carefully, you'll hear the band mourned Sid's leaving on several albums. They all truly loved him and were obviously heart broken long term.
Everything after Syd left is about Syd and his fate.
Everything.
could only go shopping with him once after making him feel like a stranger when he came to see them... SO much love... lol
Have you ever tried to interact with people who go off the deepend? It was very likely hard to interact with the guy.@@danielgriffith8911
Richard Wright even mentioned in an interview that he was hoping Syd would come back one day and say he was ready to join the band again
Syd never did and Richard died years after never having that dream come true:(
@@danielgriffith8911 Have you ever had your heart broken watching someone you viewed as a brother spiral away no matter how hard you tried to help them?
From what little I've heard from the period between Saucer Full Of Secrets to Dark Side they were essentially playing for there lives, touring as much as possible and cranking out as much music as they could to financially survive. With the success of Dark Side they finally had the money to be able to afford to relax and take a breather. It's no wonder that the album after Dark Side caused them to think about Syd after that span of time. They finally had time to mourn. It's no different than a soldier fighting his battle and holding themself together during the worst of it. Only after they're out of danger does the loss of their comrades suddenly hit them.
I don't know enough about the situation to know for sure that's how it happened but that's my line of thinking.
I suspect the finally achieved success, but without their founder/mascot/leadman stood out to them in stark contrast.
what do you think dark side of the moon was about?
What a beautiful lovely thought.I agree....and I love Syd.❤
Best opinion ever...& I have pondered this since 1987. Peace
Wonderful comment. That makes sense to me. I love the ananolgy with the soldier who can only mourn lost comrades after he's out of danger.
My own working life has been somewhat similar. I run an IT start-up business and it's been five years of living from one crisis to the next - always handling the current "problem", with no space for a private life or planning beyond tomorrow.
The part where Syd entered the studio and commented “It’s a bit old”,brought tears to my eyes.He was the one who brought me to Floyd so many years ago.I sported that same tinted lens as he has here when I returned from Nam in ‘69.
Hells teeth, you must be older than I am, and I am OLD.
"when men were men" if you were a man why did you go Vietnam then? Surely if all refused like the late great Ali then there would be no war? No one Had to go, but you left your families behind to kill people and you didn't even know why there was a war 😂 men! A man lives his own life not what some nonce politician tells him to do!
@@babaoreally8220 Hmmm. The men were men thing, I grew up under the thumb of that, and it allowed
Wives being beaten with impunity.
Intolerance of change.
Endemic racial prejudice.
Homophobia.
And when and where it has been changed in the world, the economy of those countries has expanded faster than the places it has not been changed.
So in fact I am satisfied those times have gone away.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592This right here. When people talk about the good old times they conveniently shove these horrible things you mentioned under the rug.
@@Pratty777 There have been a LOT of things that were
"Only natural. God given rights. The way things are done"
that we have grown out of.
Correcting the behaviour of infants with a stick or a strap.
Debtors prison.
Uniform Church tithes.
Religion ( a work under progress )
Unquestioning acceptance of Medical Practices. ( this one needs to be moderated by due respect to replicable scientific research . . . but not BLINDLY so. )
Divine right of Sovereigns.
Some of these, the guy I was first talking to would say, "Well, of course I agree with you" because he SELECTIVELY remembered "the good old days" didn't he.
I never followed the social behaviors of the musicians; I only listened to the music. I knew practically nothing, not even the names of the group, until the 1990's. Still, I loved their works, and thought that Wish you were here was their best album. It was only much later, that I learned that it was about Syd Barrett. Sorry, we will miss you, Syd. We hardly knew ya'.
I also never cared about the personal life of musicians and still don’t. I rather have them in the mystical area of my brain.
@Dave Smith I was the opposite. I first heard the dark side of the moon when it was released, and quickly researched their musical history. So I was fully aware of Syd Barrett very early on.
You should listen to the stuff they did with Syd, good stuff. 60s psychedelia
Dark Side Of The Moon*
Brain Damage from Dark side was also I think a reference to Sid' mental illness.
Wish You Were Here is such a wonderful piece of music. Can’t listen to it without a heavy feeling in my chest.
singing about how you wish your friend was still around while completely abandoning him is some evil shit lmao
Between the memories I have attached to Shine on you Crazy Diamond and Syd's story, I sometimes shed tears of emotion.
For fans of EARLY Floyd they hit rock bottom with DSOM. Yes it made them money a LOT of it. But I was not the Floyd that early fans loved. Give me Ummagumma and Saucerful of Secrets any day
@@blaumausfrau It's all subjective in the end. I liked the sometimes twee PATGOD, but they were bound to do something different after SB left, and DSOTM is awesome in its own way, and so it The Wall and many of the other albums they did.
@@blaumausfrauinnit 🎧🤘
@@blaumausfrauObscured by Clouds was and is a MASTERPIECE! If you’re a Floyd fan I’m sure you’ve heard it, if not JUST BUY IT. You won’t be disappointed.
Art you nuts OF COURSE I'm into OBC. Its one of my favorite Floyd LPs. When Floyd went commercial they got bad. 98% of their fan base came AFTER Obscured. @@Axeman428
Shine on You crazy Diamond
S Y D
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SYCD
@@MrOhmygoditsben Its the beginning letter of every other word
It would be SOYCD if it didnt skip
@@shroomboy432 no, it was a conscious decision to leave out "on", not a mistake. Acronyms typically exclude the initials of short function words such as "and", "or", "of", "to" or "on". So the proper acronym version would most likely not include it.
@@MrOhmygoditsben well roger waters said on a podcast they did it on purpose to spell out syd
I'm glad that now fans and others can perceive what and how much Syd was and meant not only to the members of the band but to their sound so many years later and today. Back in the 80's we only heard anything of Barrett by word of mouth. I didnt listen to his solo stuff until the 90's.
Yeah....the good 'ol days!
I like Sid also but he brought all his problems on him self taking acid once in while is fine eating it everyday while also doing STP is suicidal
The Barrett albums were very rare before the 90’s, I remember seeing the two albums in the flesh for the first in the 90’s, I’d only HEARD of them before that. I bought them immediately! I prefer “Barrett,” but both albums are great!
I just remember when I was in high school in the early seventies and listened to Pink Floyd for the first time, at a party, a friend telling me they had a former bandmate named Syd Barrett who went mad and was in a mental institution. I was thinking something like bloody hell, what is this band into.
@@Ohionortheast to be fair to Syd, while he did plenty of drugs on his own, according to what I've been told by Jerry Shirley from Humble Pie, a boyhood friend of Syd's who also played on Syd's solo albums, the bigger problems were people who hung around who thought it was somehow cool to dose Syd, with sometimes massive amounts of not only psychedelics, but also other drugs without his knowledge. This apparently happened with appalling frequency. As Jerry put it, in that miliue, you quickly learned that you never left your drink unattended and if you should happen to set it down, you subsequently left it and got another for that very reason, as surreptitious dosing was very common back then, although typically not an act of malice necessarily, with occasional exceptions. It was mostly seen by those who did it as a sort of act of hospitality, of sorts, although not by most others, and sometimes they saw it as a way to curry favor with famous celebrities. This greatly exacerbated the problems caused by Syd's own ingestion of those substances, and no doubt contributed to the the result.
This is so beautiful😍😍 I absolutely love this record and was very emotional when I found out it was inspired by Syd.
Same here
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How cool would it be if those who loved you most would remember you as a "crazy DIAMOND." Sure beats...he was a good man. Plus, as far as I know, Sid is the ONLY "crazy diamond" EVER.
@@Dharmabum2000they abandoned him as a friend and financially... geez, read BETWEEN the lines.
@@danielgriffith8911 he inspired countless songs and helped pave the way for them to succeed the least the could of done is forget he ever existed and offer no help to him and his family what great pals
I met Richard Wright at a Billy Joel show in Houston 1994. What a nice guy and actually started a conversation with me. I didn't act like a crazy star struck fan. They're all just regular people
you lucky duck!!
One of the saddest and at the same time worthy stories I've ever seen in a rock band. After Syd left, they continued searching for their own sound on albums that were always honest and surprising. After reaching the top, with their own merits, in Dark side of the moon, they paid tribute to their former bandmate with the album Wish you were here. Beautiful!!! This is definitely not for everyone.
One of the albums that most people slag off as rubbish is 'Atom Heart Mother."
I actually enjoy this album and I still listen to it fairly regularly.
It is pretty unique and has a very cool vibe about it.
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I love the album Atom Heart Mother. They hadn't met yet, but they only released good records.
Perfectly explained.
Thank God Syd left,and we have DAVID GILMOUR AND PINK FLOYD'S MUSIC AT THEIR BEST....
For whom is it sad? The fans? His sister said, basically, that this was the fans' problem.
I think the interesting thing abt pink floyd w out syd is that they really prove that its about the journey not the destination. When they got there w dark side they didnt just arrive like other bands they released something that carries profound wisdom within its contents and touched all who listened deeply because of the lessons learned along the jounrey which shaped them. Their struggle with identity is something everyone goes through, and how that struggle shapes and defines people is essentially their story and its significantly deeper and more relevant to the lives of ordinary people than works from most bands. That same process was applied in all of their work after as well until waters left the band.
looking back on it... was it really that deep? Sure you have Us and Them which has a certain level of depth but the rest of it?
wow, that is a lot of bullshit...
Do kids still play their record, rest nobody cares about.
It proved that nobody left in the band was all that imaginative.
@@charlespancamo9771 yes it was. For example, on breathe: all you touch and you see is all your life will ever be… theyre literally dropping philosophy on songs. Time is about life, and how it never goes the way its supposed to go which is exemplified with the line: you missed the starting gun etc…. Even if unintended, theres depth there that most bands never had
@@charlespancamo9771 Us and Them is my favourite Floyd song, but it's not the only song with depth they ever made. Besides: It'd be more accurate to describe Us and Them (music by Richard Wright) is beautifully melancholy and Shine On you Crazy Diamond (written by the entire band) is deep.
as a self-proclaimed Syd expert, I never understand why the narrative goes that Syd just randomly showed up during the WYWH session as if it was completely out of the blue. in reality, it is HIGHLY probable that Syd showed up that day BECAUSE his friend David Gilmour was getting married! i know, i know...they hadn't been exactly close for the previous few years, but a WEDDING is a big deal. it makes much more sense that he was aware of the wedding and showed up as a friend/guest (Syd was not the type to wait for a formal invite). this is further supported by the reports that he floated around that day before ducking out. and this sure as heck makes a lot more sense than the silly theory that he somehow knew the Floyd were recording a song about him via some form of magic, psychedelic mind magic. geez, its not all that mysterious fellow fans.
Thank you, finally someone is speaking sense. I never believed for a second that some random bald man could just waltz into a famous recording studio while a world famous band was recording and not one security person or staff would notice/care. It never made any sense to me, but with this context it finally does. Thank you
Wow, I'm utterly blown away by all the amazing footage of Syd back then!
This song will always be in my top five most emotional and haunting songs ever. It always takes me back to when I was young and the guy I was in love with the most. I remember he left for the NAVY and I'd listen to this for hours just sobbing. It's still just as amazing as it always was.
**someoneout-there,**
Stop making us sob.
I was in the Navy and I have fond memories of the girl I left.
Still love her in my memories and years later, we're still in touch, thru emails.
This is beautiful memories of a great relationship.
That’s so sweet dude, that makes me happy you guys still have each other in your lives. My ex and I are still friends, I love her more than anything but there are some walls built that I don’t think will tear down. I’ve known her since I was 13 and am 27 now
I’ll never forget Roger describing Syd at the studio. He had a tooth brush held to his teeth and he was jumping up and down to “brush” his teeth. I can see why Roger cried.
I never heard that about the tooth brush,, but I heard they spoke to him after realising who he was and he said the music wasnt too bad and then left.
@@gaskellr44 He said the music sounded “old”. I think he went to a PF party after but soon left.
That sounds like a bloody good joke!...Syd cirtainly had his sense of humour intact on that one.Perhaps not as traumatised as is popularly made out✌️
Yes, it's all about how you see it isn't it? You mean you'll never forget how you read Roger describing it, you weren't even there, stop acting like you were there and your emotions matter.
@@VinnyCarwash-js8op If you’re replying to me, did you even read the first sentence? Roger describing Syd. As in I watched a video on Roger describing Syd. Of course I wasn’t there, everyone got that except for you apparently. 🤦🏻
Don't know how many times I've cried listening to this song, thinking about lost loved ones. Wether they died or we don't talk anymore, I wish they were here.
Yup.
Fantastic video man. You are so well spoken. Thanks for sharing your passion for these legends and their music.
The band found their sound with Dark Side of the Moon, which came out in 1973, and was the number 1 selling album for a solid 10 years. Wish You Were Here was just a continuation of the sound they perfected with DSOTM.
Also, if you ever saw "The Wall", the film, there seems to be references to Syd, most notably in the song "Comfortably Numb".
Agreed, and in this sense I don't agree with the theories put forward in this video.
In the movie version of The Wall, too. Pink shaves off his eyebrows.
Very well put together video, excellent narration. Thank you! 👌
Wish You Were Here was their greatest work. Meddle, the album ýou unceremoniously dismissed as them 'finding their feet' has always been one of my favorite albums. Like that more than Dark Side, thank you very muchly
Me too. Meddle is the best of them all. I was a little disappointed when I first heard Dark Side, then alarmed at its worldwide success.
Same Meddle is my all-time favorite! And believe me Ive had every soundtrack and album....Meddle is just pure magic to me. Like Dark Side is technically a better produced album and sonically superior, even has greater hits, but Meddle is like that comfy jacket I can always wear. The intro in Wish You were here is btw a masterwork.
Ps it's interesting to see who's fav Floyd albums are. My 2nd fav is actually Obscured By Clouds weirdly enough. Again it was in my discovery of them, I realize it's not as good as some other albums but it has like personal personal value.
@@auralepiphanies4055 My second favorite is probably Ummagumma, for the live stuff.
@@chicklets4ever51 ok now I'm just gonna have to go back for a listen haha...It's been years.
Beautiful! Thank you for the succinct and compressed exploration of Pink Floyd in the aftermath years after Mr. Syd Barrett's departure. I only know a few of the more popular works by Pink Floyd and this video was very helpful in seeing their emergence (or reemergence) in the 1970's. Cheers!
I'll challenge the statement that nobody from Floyd saw Sid much after this album. There are interviews from the late 90's where Gilmore and Mason are quoted as saying that that everyone visited him when they could into the late 80's, but Syd's mother asked them not to because of how upsetting it was to him.
I hope what you say is true. That they got to spend more time with him. The whole story of him just disappearing from their lives breaks my heart.
@@Full_Otto_Bismarck what does it matter? Syd was not right in the head. Who knows if he even really knew who they were. It didn't matter to him. The guy wanted to just retreat and eat. It's like going back to an ex trying to make them love you again. Sometimes you just have to move on.
@@johnvalencia9927 He was definitely a lot more lucid that people realize, at least once he retreated home.. he definitely knew who they were and he wanted no part of interaction or acceptance at being called "syd" because it wasn't who he identified with anymore, and as his sister said, it hurt him. It's more that he couldn't take societies BS because he was sensitive, not because he was insane, though for a period of time in his early life the lines blurred and it made him LOOK crazy. Definitely a tragic story, but he nonetheless distantly appreciated WYWH and when he said it was too loud, it was his own way of saying "brilliant guys, nice one." Without having to really think too much about it. It's a reference to the comment by Franz Keller about his own work with pink Floyd in 1967 if I remember. Cheers
@@Full_Otto_Bismarck while I'm sure there were a couple of undocumented/slightly mentioned visits I feel like it just wasn't the same, syd made hundreds of paintings we will never see as he ritually destroyed them and perhaps hundreds of songs he took with him to that great gig in the sky. Fame was not what he wanted, he wanted peace and my only hope is that he at least understood why he had/has an ever growing cult following and found peace in his solitude.
@@chaffeehwood7290 I just feel for the fact that he was their friend (the rest of the band) and they still cared about him. I completely understand happiness in solitude, I'm a bit of a hermit myself, but old friendships going out like that is painful is to see, and it couldn't have been easy for rest of Floyd to go through.
I have no skin in this game myself, I just have empathy for those who've lost touch with good friends.
Waters: "Hey, Syd, we wrote this album about how crazy and drugged out you became. What do you think of it?"
Barrett: "Sounds old."
"shine on..." was a great album but i believe "dark side of the moon" was their best and one of my favorite albums. i saw pink floyd in 1975 where they debuted "shine on...", then after a brief intermission, they played "dark side of the moon". it was perfect. there was a full moon rising over the stadium as they began playing the song "money" and continued on with the rest of the album. another intermission, and then they encored with "echos". it seemed like the planets and the universe all lined up that evening for this tremendous concert. best concert i ever experienced.
Right on....peace and mercy....
a very well thought up, clear and thorough lecture, perfectly performed, recorded and edited...
As a ravenous PF fan, I may be totally off base, but I always thought the boys in PF loved Syd even after he left .... and they tried to express that love the entire time the other 4 stayed together. It was very endearing to me.
I agree....
It always surprises me how emotionally intricate band dynamics are. It is an intricate neverending web that leads to artistic greatness, which reverberates through the ages for us common audience to enjoy.
Humans coalescing in friendship and pursuit.
You are correct Syd never left the band for he haunted them till the end and you'll find him on all their music. Syd was a genius 🎶🎵.
Syd was just a kid, togetter they did good, him alone.....
@lucas Rem I love his album the madcap laughs and quite a few songs off his second Barrett as well.
Ya, he was such a genius that PF stopped sounding like crap as soon as he left.
@@rains00the no need for comment your words speak for itself your level of ignorance is outstanding 👍
Thanks David.🙏🏻 Great story video! 👍 I remember listening to the music in the ’60’s, and completely enchanted in the ’70 when I heard Wish You Were Hear….Magic!
One of my all time favorite. Thanks guy's!
Just discovered this Channel because of David Bennett and i absolutely love your music/band story videos!
Thx for the nice content and keep going on :)
Thanks, I appreciate it!
I heard this album when I was a kid. I fell in love with it before I knew what it was about. In the past few years learning about Sid, and the band's history. It has a much deeper meaning.
@Syd McCreath spell check has it's way with me. Besides that, I just don't give a shit
fantastic contribution! many thanks
What a great and touching story, thanks for sharing!
I agree. I've always felt that Wish was their finest hour. They were at their most creative peak and running on all cylinders; however, it was also their death knell as was mentioned the internal struggles within the group took their toll.
There's just something about the 'specter' of Syd appearing seemingly out of nowhere and disappearing the same way that finalized it.
...creepy
Great video! I didn't know much about Pink Floyd before. Now that you have more time I hope you keep posting more cool videos like this 😁
Thank you!
Great video. Syd was the spark for the genius that lived on well after he was gone.
Great piece David. Insightful
I saw Roger Waters in July last year. He dedicated an entire segment to play almost the entire "Wish You Were Here" album. As he did this segment he put his Politics aside and released old photos of Syd and displayed brief history on who Syd was.
It was very emotional segment of the concert. Roger showing us who his best friend was. And telling us just how much Roger still loves and respects Syd.
It was my favorite moment of the concert.
Rest In Peace Syd
You were a legend that created the best band in the world. And l thank you for that.
If only he could put his politics aside for the rest of the concert toobthat'd be great. Saw him twice at the Philly Spectrum in the early to mid-80s and they were great performances, without all the political asshattery he does today. His failing seems to be being overly self-important to the point of being insufferable. Which is why by that point he was no longer part of the band.
Rog just has a side to him that's insufferable. And no amount of musical and lyrical talent will ever change that.
@@ButterfatFarms
I was in another state, watching a Rock Star, all while high out of my mind. I didn't care what Roger was saying. I'm fact agreed with most but not all of it.
GG
I'm guessing you'd all heard of Roger Waters before you went to see him and knew how politically charged his shows were. Your choice at that point is to either accept that's what you're going to get or to not go.
I don't always agree with him but I respect his right to perform however he chooses. I wouldn't go to an N.W.A gig and complain that they're overly critical of the police.
It's amazing how you can try and say something about someone else you've never met, but still make it all about you.
How beautiful Syd was.
I always felt the way they put this album together was brilliant. The segues alone are memorizing. Especially Welcome to the Machine into Have a Cigar. But also the idea of taking a 9 part song and breaking it into two segments that bookend the album. A near perfect blend of music and lyrics that tell a tragic story. rip Syd
Very nicely narrated with an understanding, elucidating aspect and even tone.
Awesome content man, recently been watching your videos and you do a good job with the video essays!
Amazing video! Nice thought at the end
Likely the best description of WYWH album and SB influence. Nicely edited too! Thank you.
Put together very well. Writing and narration was very well done. Nice piece.
I always believe that it wasn't just Syd's leaving... finding direction after late 60's Psychedelia was always going to be a thing too! I've never been able to choose a favourite Pink Floyd album. With most acts it is quite easy but when so many are near perfect it's almost impossible. I always remember how much I played 'More'. I always make an effort not to leave that out.
great video! My favourite era of floyd is 66-77 Thats the golden period
Thank you for putting this together. I really like the filter you used for the video. Well done. You've got a new subscriber from Carleton MI US.
Thanks that was really interesting. My favourite band and favourite album.
Around 1988-89, I was a teenager and knew vaguely about Syd having read about him in a magazine article about Pink Floyd. I stumbled across Madcap Laughs on cassette and bought it without ever having heard any of Syd's songs. I listened to that cassette A LOT! I loved Madcap and LOVED Piper at the Gates of Dawn! Syd was a genius who was far beyond his time and "burned out" far before he should have.
I have loved Syd since 1965. You are a gifted child to treasure his work....peace and mercy...golden hair.....
It was around that time that I was introduced to him via a mate; we are probably of similar age. I love the early Floyd and Syd's solo works, including Opel, that I listened to on cassette when tree-sitting in an Australian old growth forest in the early 90s. There was/is something magical about what he created.
@@lordsod69 i love the cover of "Opel". Syd's look is distant yet poignant. And I love "Gigolo Aunt"...."effervescent elephant".....rock on dear friend....slow but sure....jan.❤
I was always fascinated by this era when the band went on to tremendous success and Syd went underground. As much as I like Dark Side I've always preferred Wish You Were Here. It only has five tracks but they all hit the mark.
Syd went "underground" several years before this.
Mr. Harley thank you for your excellent presentation. Peace
I think it was awesome they never forgot him, and whether he liked it or not, it was for him, so the rest of us can appreciate that!
The thing I appreciate and respect most about Pink Floyd is they continued to pay Syd royalties for PF music until his death.
He received royalties for the music he had written as he was legally entitled to this. It would not have been huge amounts of money since he was not involved in any of their big successes.
@@hanstun1 Because of their later success the music Syd wrote generated far more royalties than they ever would have...but, yes...acting like PF were saints for sending the man the money he was entitled to by law is kind of an amusing way to paint the picture.
Monumental, yet profoundly human; both the album and Syd.
Excellent piece. Thank you.
Very well done. Informative and informal. Good job!
ALWAYS has been my #1 "if you had only one album for the rest of life" record.
Mine too. It is the best mix of zen, introspection, and the raw emotion of blues music I have ever heard.
Well done!
I knew some. Not all that you’ve shared. Thank you. Can’t help but want to know more. Favorite of favorites.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
Honestly the fact that he showed up at the recordings unannounced after years of not speaking to them being a recluse and was unrecognizable to them always in morbid way for me just added to the mystique of the Album makes it even more hunting
makes it definitely more hunting.
Congrats on the awesome video!
Thanks!
Well done. Thank you for this.
My personal favorite band since the late 70's early 80s. No one has knocked them off as my favorite yet!! My late brother introduced them to me, can't help but think of us listening together whenever I hear one a PF song.
Pink Floyd's music has been a part of my life for ages. I enjoyed the commentary and production of this video. Thank you. This is the second Pink Floyd video of yours that I really enjoyed. It's only natural to subscribe at this point 🙂. Shine On!
I still get goose-bumps when I listen to The Dark Side of the Moon album!!!!!I am 65-years old now and have had that LP for some years now 🙂
Very nice video, you shone the light on Syd’s legacy in Pink Floyd. Well deserved credit. Too bad what happened to him.
When I look up Syd Barrett on Google your video shows up on the main page for him you did a great job on this video!
Regarding Wish You Were Here: It's a simple, somber song.
But when a person has suffered a truly gut wrenching loss, the sort that hurts at the dna level and breaks part of them, forever alters their world and pulls the walls down on their life, nothing fancy is needed.
For me, Wish You Were Here is basic and raw and flows thru the chaos and pain and shellshock of loss as nothing more complicated can do. It's the musical equivalent of only being capable to speak short simple words while sitting in a dark corner, utterly crushed and disconnected. Just managing a few words, and somehow nothing else is needed. And those close understand and don't push.
I couldn’t have said it better. Thank you @cattuxlavandula
Well put my friend! People often ask me why this of all their songs is my favorite, and I always reply with "It's Simplicity" the fact that one short simple song can reach deep into the depths of ones soul just captives me beyond words! 🤔💖💎😁
That’s Very beautifully said!
It's a decent little tune.
My fave non - epic Floyd song.
It's ''half decent'' as we say in Yorkshire.
So much so that I had it played at both my parent's funerals. My dad loved it - he hated most of my music and said King Crimson sounded like a drum kit thrown down stairs !@@badinfluence3814
Great video mate, really well done.
It is weird to think, if Syd stayed there is no Dark Side, Animals, Wish u were here etc and that would be a different world for all of us.
Or in a darker sense The Wall.. Syd's shadow hung over these albums!
@@Frankcastlepunisher74 Dark Globe was and preceded (by a decade) The Wall, pretty much covered it with only an acoustic guitar and a couple minutes of sincerity.
Very nicely put 👍
One of the best , & most influential rock bands , to ever come out of that era of music . They honored Sid Barrett throughout their lengthy career , continuing on in the spirit of what Sid had started . A career that spanned decades , & generations of listeners , who have come to love the words , feel the music , & find the inspiration , of what Pink Floyd is , was , & will always be . A remarkable band , with an even more remarkable body of work , much of it flowing seamlessly into the next track , only to end with the listener literally moved to tears , in it's humble brilliance , & profound compositions . It was truly a privilege , to see this band live . There was no demographic . It was every age , every color , where every single soul sat down , shut up , & listened . We were Awestruck . The stage show , lighting , lasers , sound , & the performances , were all over the top . To this day , one of the best shows I will likely ever see . Rest in peace , Sid , & Richard . Peace .
It's Syd, not Sid. The number of countless bootlegs recorded in the US over the many tours will attest that many in the audience did not in fact as you misleadingly assume "where every single soul sat down, shut up & listened."
I'll be 70 years old in a couple months, and I was lucky enough to have seen Pink Floyd in concert in 1975 and 1977, Roger Waters in 1986 and Gilmour's Pink Floyd in 1987. What a ride! They always defined the state-of-the-art in concert lighting and design. All highlights of my life.
i love all the Floyd work. yes those years are what some call the golden years and seminal works, i still love thier modern work and those each of the band members love and hate, they are one the most iconic and creative influences of all generations and still can't be boxed in to this day. pure brilliance in a an ocean of brilliance.
Amazing conclusion mate, never thougth around that idea before but it totally makes sense. Thanks a bundle
Thank you. Thoughtful and interesting video essay.
Actually they talked to him for a longer having the lunch in the cafe of Abbey Road studio. He said he is living in an hotel and has no worries: he had a TV set and he gets the food he wants.
Btw, Brian Wilson of Beach Boys was in much worse mental state same time but his band called notorious Eugene Landy who effectively saved his life and career for good.
1974 Syd btw made some guitar impro recordings in Abbey Road. He looked like a common bearded thin rock star then. The schizophrenia meds have the effect to make people fat, so it was his problem in 1975. Schizophrenia makes people to altere their outlook a lot too.
I am proudly a Pink Chic! There is no band that even holds a candle to Floyd! The most original sound in the world.They never got the recognition they deserved. Pink Floyd Forever....Shine On You Crazy Diamond. 💖💎💋🎶🎶🎶🎸🎹🎤🎶🎶🎶💋💎💖
I really agree with you. But I can tell you about a band that I bet you never heard of and is every bit as magical and mind opening as Pink Floyd and it's a band called The Legendary Pink Dots. The singer is named Edward Kaspel and he's an English person with a deep English accent so if you aren't English then it might take a bit to get used to it but I promise you they will take you to places that no other music can. I'd recommend starting with either Hallway Of The Gods or Nemesis Online as the first couple albums then explore their vast multitude of other albums. The amount of music they've put out is unbelievable.
Enjoy
You must be very old, lol, forever ?
not any kids here, only old people....that makes me sad.
Never got the recognition they deserved? I wouldn’t say that! This was an international success! It was just as awesome as DSOTM!!!
@@lucasRem-ku6eb No I'm not old LOL I'm only in my 40's and I love Pink Floyd and they will forever be my favorite band. My kids know Floyd and even know all the words to most of their songs! 💎😁🌹
@@prophez23hey got the recognition they deserve many times over. You don't do 700 and something consecutive weeks and 900 overall on the Billboard chart and go unrecognized for the attention you deserve. :) they got it, rightfully so. dsotm, wywh, animals, and the wall were an incredible run of back-to-back albums that met with great commercial success having mass appeal.
What a great video!
Interesting and well made. Thank you for your work.
WYWH is definitely my favorite PF album. Gilmour describes it well when he says it as close to perfection as one can get.
Obscured by clouds is a criminally overlooked Floyd album.
Not by me...
Impeccable works!
Very well done. Bravo!!
Now that I am singing along I realize the complexity of the harmony and how much chromatisim that is built into the melody. - truly powerful stuff
I remember reading that Nick Mason once said that he had spoken to Syd’s sister or mother sometime in the late 1970’s and they told him that it was probably best that they didn’t try to contact Syd. After that, the guys in the band purposely refrained from trying to get in contact with him ever again. It’s just so sad, when you think about it. Especially since Syd didn’t pass away until 2006, so there could have been multiple chances for any of them to just write Syd a letter or something. I know it’s what Syd likely wanted, but it still makes me extremely bummed out. 😔
Yes I remember that from interviews around the Dark Side SACD re-release. His family had told them it was very upsetting to Syd when he saw them or heard their music. Poor guy. There is no denying the three distinct periods of Pink Floyd. Barret's Floyd had fantastic writing. Waters' Floyd was more cerebral and bigger sounding, thanks to their skills and technology improving in the studio and on stage. Then Gilmour's Floyd, which I lost interest in after Momentary Lapse of Reason, but was still alright, doing amazing things live. Very few bands can survive losing two creative behemoths.
Yeah . . . I read the exact same thing.
I owned a small book that came with a Rolling Stone magazine that had past interviews with rock's greatest.
E g. John Lennon, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley Cat Stevens but the longest part of the book was dedicated to Syd Barrett.
Really bizarre expose as opposed to an 'interview " per se. This journalist talks about the making of Wish You were Here and how a bald, very overweight Syd shows up.
No one knew how to handle Syd. Syd disappears as quickly as he shows up.
1980 - 81
The " interview" ends when Syd allows this journalist into his flat in the UK circa 1980.
There are 6 television's playing at once, and it's obvious Sid's mental health issues have overwhelmed him.
There is no food or milk in his fridge.
Syd, amazingly, is no longer obese and his hair is exactly the same as it was in 1970.
This story ends with said journalist walks down the street with Syd. Barrett says ' I have to go now' and this interview ends with the journalist watching Syd Barrett walking down this London street.
RS deemed it would upset too many Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd fans so they never printed it as a Rolling Stone magazine expose of sorts.
@@FrostedSeagullSyd Visited the studio during Atom Heart Mother looking same as ever at the time (thin snd shaggy). He also reportedly visited during WYWH sessions more than once and was possibly there that day for Dave's wedding party. If he hadn't spoken with them in years, how did he know they were recording that day? A crew member recounts hearing Syd ask who might give him a ride afterward and watching him through the car window as he was standing in the parking lot with everyone leaving or left.
He clearly reached out several times even well after everyone but Nick helped him create his solo albums. What would make a childhood friend not want anything to do with his bandmates for the rest of his life?🤔
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Syd’s family told the guys in the band to not try and contact him.
Bless you Sid , and make, many thanks.......😢
The first song in the spectacular live album Pulse is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". The great gig on the video obviously shows the road of the young Syd to adulthood. Pulse is the greatest live album.
The best band ever imo! Roger still on Fire last week in Glasgow. WYWH is as David said the best of everything all on one album. Top Class.
Roger Waters is a moron.
One of the major changes that helped PF was to have Alan Parsons produce DSOTM, he definitely affected the mix of that album, made it more than it would've been without his participation. That said, wonder why he didn't work on any other PF albums.
Afterwards he decided to pursue other projects (literally the “Alan Parsons Project”
Would've been nice to see more collaboration between these two musical talents.
@@ninjaking2548 Exactly, he did produce for AL Stewart, though!
I thought he worked on atom heart mother too
@@johnmiller5987 Props to you. I didn't know that, I looked into it and turns out you're right. That said, Parsons helped with the mix on AHM but not to the degree he did on DSOTM and you don't really hear his signature production sound on AHM. DSOTM is almost a precursor to the sound he'd make with Alan Parsons Project.
This is a legacy for future generations to amaze in wonder and hopefully they’ll grasp the work that Pink Floyd has left behind, for I seem to struggle; one day I’m in love with Meddle and swear by it, only to fall in love with another one of their albums the next day. It is elusive all the while taking centre stage at all times.