The 1974 sessions

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I don't understand what everyone thought was so terrible. It's a different direction from his psychedelic rock/pop sure but it's compelling. Does anyone recall the reason given for its abandonment?
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Well, the most official reason is that he just didn't want to be in there and he hadn't written any lyrics. (He had a habit of playing guitar and singing new songs at the same time, even if the songs were very incomplete; he didn't do instrumental demos, which means these songs had no words.)
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I see. Thanks. What a shame he stopped for our sakes but I can see how it could be more fulfilling to create only for oneself on one's own terms rather than deal with all the stress of being a pop group frontman.
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Re: The 1974 sessions

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dgsyd1 wrote:What do you think Syd's state of mind was at the time?
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Possibly that.
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Post by cwta eugene »

I heard these for the first time today. It took a while because I couldn't find the SHN plugin for Foobar 2000 :x anybody else had trouble? Anyway, I thought they were pretty good.