Hudini wrote:
2. OK, now I am begging you to explain me that "Barrett's vision" you keep talking about. Because I simply fail to see any trace of influence of Syd Barrett on any of these two albums, and if I were to choose I believe I'd be closer to choosing "The Final Cut" as more true to the original Pink Floyd vision, drawing parallels to early Roger Waters songs such as "If" or "Grantchester Meadows", which were obvious (and not really successful) attempts to re-create Syd Barrett's style.
Quite simple actually. Go back to the UFO Club and those trippy psychedelic shows. Barretts performance. As creatively genious as that guy was, you don't think his M-O was "I'm going to fuck with peoples heads."? That was his vision was to make music and shows that would fuck with people. The lights are amazing at their shows, and even The G remarked that he was getting tired of coming up with different ways to do solos. But he never failed to deliver. Granted, 'The Wall' was Waters' baby, and that was a good mind-fuck, but post-Waters, The Gilmour still carried on with Barretts vision of fucking with our heads with the Floyds music and performances. The Gilmour got it. He just got it naturally. Waters, awesome as he is, acted like he got it but was so extreme about it that he became transparent. While I enjoyed TFC, it failed to fuck with my head the way the other Floyd stuff did. The whole Pink Floyd experience is a beautiful mind-fuck. And that, I feel, was created by Barrett. He knew what he was doing. The whole time. The whooole time. He was a bad muthafucka bless his heart.
I'm prepared for the ass-chewing I may receive. But now I want to hear thoughts on Egypt so I'm moving to start a thread about it if it hasn't been done already.
Oh, sorry your first time wasn't as awesome as mine. A mind-fuck while you're being fucked is a wonderful thing.