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  • #49301
    SG
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      http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/34000927

      :(

      I`m not a big Pink Floyd fan but I am a Barrett fan.His influence has been heard over the decades(GBV and NMH for example).His vocal style was haunting and Georgia from Yo La Tengo summed up his songs as ‘strangly beautiful’ which I agree on.

      #119097
      rambleon
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        yeah, my husband was pretty bummed out by this info as well …

        #119098
        tonas
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          Very sad day. I listened to the Wish You Were Here album at work yesterday in memoriam. :'(

          #119099
          Carl.
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            :( :(

            Piper rules!!!!

            #119100
            duane
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              The only guy too far out there for even Pink Floyd….that’s just scary. And also a testament the fact that psychotropic drugs do enhance some creative portions of the brain, he just "cooked" a little too long.

              #119101
              my name is lisa
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                [img]http://www.pink-floyd.org/barrett/syd_img/sbw.jpg[/img]
                It is obvious
                may I say, oh baby, that it is found on another plane?
                Yes I can creep into cupboards, sleep in the hall
                your stars – my stars, a simple cot bars
                only an impulse – pie in the sky
                mumble listen dolly
                drift over your mind – holly
                creep into bed when your head’s on the ground
                she held the torch on the porch,
                she winked an eye

                Reason it is written on the brambles
                stranded on the spikes – my blood red, oh listen:
                remember those times I could call
                through the clear day
                time you’d be there…
                and braver and braver, a handkerchief waver
                the louder you lips to a loud hailer
                growing together, they good of each either
                no wondering, stumbling, fumbling
                rumbling minds shot together,
                our minds shot together…

                So equally over a valley, a hill
                wood on quarry stood, each of us crying
                a velvet curtain of gray
                mark the blanket where the sparrows play
                and the trees by the waving corn stranded
                my legs move the last empty inches to you
                the softness, the warmth from the weather in suspense
                mote to a grog – the star a white chalk
                minds shot together, our minds shot together…

                #119102
                fata morgana
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                  Hey, I know you ;) (I think ??? )
                  Yes, R.I.P. Mr. Barrett.

                  #119103
                  Hansione
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                    Shine on, you crazy diamond! The sky is finaly all yours

                    #119104
                    simmons
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                      Haven’t been that familiar with Pink Floyd, but have heard the Pulse live cd and know the most popular songs (how can one avoid that). Heard Barretts Madcap laughs over ten years ago, but haven’t listened to it since, so probably was not overwhelmed. To my excuse I was about 14 at the time. Still have the cd, so I can give it a second go.

                      Today I was in a second hand store, and bought some vinyl. Chet Atkins from 1967, Genesis’ Nursery Cryme, Nils Lofgrens Flip from 1987 (never heard him before, but what the heck), have no idea what to expect but hopefully it isn’t as awfull as the cover. And then, Pink Floyds Animals. Listening to it right now. Nice stuff. So will probably check out their catalog more closely and also get some stuff where Syd Barrett is on.

                      #119105
                      crazycloud
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                        oh god. i hope he is at peace… maybe there is a new star in the sky somewhere…. fitting there was a blood moon here in new orleans

                        #119106
                        saferthanheaven
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                          Quote:
                          fitting there was a blood moon here in new orleans

                          whats a blood moon?

                          #119107
                          likeaghost
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                            …Syd Barrett was too cool for this world and i think he had the right idea and was probablly happier than most made him out to be, but it made me sad that no one seems ot care that his is gone, i didn’t even hear for daze and it is sad but i have his solo albums and they make me smile and cry at the same time and that is all that you need to be…

                            #119108
                            my name is lisa
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                              i care… :'(

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