Rough cuts

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 10:35 pm

The first time I heard Syd Barrett I thought he was appalling.

His music sounded like splinters; rough, jagged, hewn from sandpaper.

That was c. 1997, listening to Crazy Diamond. What's the big deal? Years pass. Oh right. Gotcha. Yeah.

Rough, jagged

, then intimate. Thankyouverymuch.

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:24 am

Syd is an odd and appealing genius with nice eyes, but there wasn't an option for that.

grateful pink · Post by **grateful pink** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:18 pm

Syd was the reason i got into floyd in 1967. He is a genius who strayed to the outer limits and, i am afraid, was never able to quite get back home.
there is nothing more i can say other than my signature:

kaya · Post by **kaya** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:11 pm

his eyes are so beautiful!!

SydsMadcapGirl · Post by **SydsMadcapGirl** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 4:00 pm

Syd Barrett (in his day) was the most beautiful man to have ever graced this earth. That's my opinion anyway. Also Jimmy Page...and hey, Davild Gilmour wasn't too shabby either...but Syd had this smoldering sensuality that would not could not quit. Marc Bolan had that too. (Love those British ones, I do.)

I was a rather odd teenager, I guess. Instead of posters of whoever the teenybopper flavor of the month was at the time, my walls were covered with all these hot (again...in their day) rockers from the 60s and 70s who were old enough to be my grandfather. Haha. A nice poster of Jimmy Page was on my ceiling, I remember being 15 and lying in bed listening to "Physical Graffiti" and staring for hours at this silly poster, obsessing over who this brooding man REALLY was and so on. Ah, those were the days.

::Steps back down onto planet earth.::

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 4:13 pm

SydsMadcapGirl wrote:(Love those British ones, I do.)

I was a rather odd teenager, I guess. Instead of posters of whoever the teenybopper flavor of the month was at the time, my walls were covered with all these hot (again...in their day) rockers from the 60s and 70s who were old enough to be my grandfather. Haha

This so much reminds me of myself, except they were old enough to be my uh...um...older cousin (that's how much of an old git I am). Yes, it was always the British ones too (Beatles, Kinks, Who, Stones...etc.). Friends from high school thought I was odd because they were into 1970s American pop tv culture (eeew) and I was discovering the 60s British Invasion...Funny thing though, I never knew much about Floyd from that era back then...it took a very, very long path in my musical appreciation to come back to them and deeply discover what I'd neglected in my youth; I guess I was saving it for my old age...hah. But I've always said that the music has to find you at the right time as opposed to you finding it.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:35 pm

Mother wrote:...music has to find you at the right time as opposed to you finding it.

Deafinitely (sic). If I'd have listened to King Crimson three years ago I probably would have killed myself.

kaya · Post by **kaya** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:23 pm

SydsMadcapGirl wrote: I was a rather odd teenager, I guess. Instead of posters of whoever the teenybopper flavor of the month was at the time, my walls were covered with all these hot (again...in their day) rockers from the 60s and 70s who were old enough to be my grandfather. Haha.
::Steps back down onto planet earth.

ARE YOU SERIOUS? i'm 18 and i also have posters like that all over my walls.

SydsMadcapGirl · Post by **SydsMadcapGirl** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:26 pm

kaya wrote: ARE YOU SERIOUS? i'm 18 and i also have posters like that all over my walls.

Haha, you rock.

I got a lot of crap in high school because I was wearing Zeppelin and Floyd shirts, while everyone else was wearing New Kids on the Block or whatever.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:28 pm

Hey, 'Hangin' Tough' is a classic.

kaya · Post by **kaya** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:50 pm

i am (un)fortunately not from NKOTB era. i am more THAKE THAT era. haha.

but, yea, i know what you mean, SMGirl, my schoolmates are looking at me weird, too.

Post by **mosespa** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:10 pm

SydsMadcapGirl wrote: Haha, you rock. I got a lot of crap in high school because I was wearing Zeppelin and Floyd shirts, while everyone else was wearing New Kids on the Block or whatever.

Sounds like you are a lot closer to my age than I had thought...When I was a senior in high school (1989) I wore a lot of G&R and Springsteen T-shirts...I think I only had one Rush.

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:28 pm

I waer Pink Floyd shirts all the time, i used to have a who one, but i dare not wear that nowadays.

Someone was arguing today cause they saw my shirt. I asked him "would you like Nirvana (his band of choice) if Boy George was the singer? Even if they still sounded exactly the same."

He said "no"

I tell him that i would love pink floyd no matter who the singer was, his couce of band was purely based upon their image rather than their meaning and music.

He stopped, told me to p*ss off (in the usual way you do when you've lost an argument) and stormed off.

madcap69 · Post by **madcap69** » Sun Mar 16, 2003 6:09 am

SYD ROCKS!!!!!

Zepeleptic · Post by **Zepeleptic** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:40 am

I have the sad disappointment to be in High School at this time. I am a huge Barrett fan and there is only one other person in the entire high school with the same musical appreciation as myself. People say i should have been born earlier. If only... If only....

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Syd Barrett...

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