SYD BARRETT DIED. 60years of age.

Some, or most, or all of you may know who Syd Barrett is, from pink floyd. His death was announced just recently.. and I thought i would Share it with the rest of you.

shine on syd barrett.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11072006/140/pink-floyd-s-syd-barrett-dies.html

 

I read this earlier today. It is VERY sad!

Rest in peace Roger Keith Barrett.

 

saying i felt sad when i heard the news doesn't really describe what i felt like...

Shine on you crazy diamond, Syd, and may you find your Interstellar Overdrive, somewhere in the Astronomy Domine...

 

...and Pink Floyd fans the world over are weeping and gnashing their teeth...despite the fact that Syd Barrett hasn't been seen in public, much less made any music in the last 35 years.

 

Yeah. I named my son after him.

It's a dark day.

 

Actually he was seen quite often in public going about his day in Cambridge.
What does it matter how long it's been since he made music. People aren't mourning over the fact he's not making more music but the fact he died.

 

he'll be missed

 

Going about his day? You mean trips to the market while he mumbled to himself?

I was being light-hearted. Don't take it personally.

Mourn on, you crazy Floyd fans.

 

i just heard he was my favorite artist of all time (pink floyd favorite band)
this is like worse for me than any loser elvis fan from back in the day


im super upset

 

"won't you miss me, oh wouldn't you miss me at all"?

Im terribly sad today...

 

I'd like to hope sombody in the industry still remember about him.
He represented a time when an artist could try to express himself and ppl would try to listen at it.
Now is the time when musicians sheep around what ppl ask for and ppl sheep around what the industry decides. I'm raged ! Maybe It's wrong, but this is what I am like!

 

Here is a link to an obituarty, some pictures


http://www.slate.com/id/2145531

 

its all over the forums.

 

R.I.P. Syd

We have lost an amazing musician and man.

 

I roasted several bowls while listening to entire album Wish You Were Here. I think I'll probably put Piper on when I go to sleep too.

 

I wouldnt go that far..........

 

Although he may be having a cigar at that great gig in the sky, we all know his legend is never gonna die.

 

my dad just told me about ten minutes ago. i had somehow not heard about this... my chest just kind of tightened up and i was trying not to cry a bit in front of my dad.

he's free but goddamn is it weird to think that the man behind all that music is....gone.

shine on, syd.

 

Even though he'd 'dropped out' of the music scene for 35 years or more,it's still shocking to hear he's died aged 60.
There was no serious possibility of a reunion of Syd & Pink Floyd - most of the fans knew this from the 1970s onwards.
I pause for thought about how impressionable his compositions have been on me throughout the years: - Golden Hair , Astronomy Domain , See Emily Play, Apples & Oranges.
These songs were more like: 'fairy tale tone poems'.
His stage-act with Pink Floyd was mesmerizing.Has anyone seen the black & white film of him on stage at the UFO Club in 1967 waving his arms up & down against a giant oil-slides backdrop?.
His death isn't a loss for pop music because he'd stopped making it but it is sad because he was an original flower-child that seemed to believe that the hippie culture wave of 1967 meant something important to his generation.

 

I heard about this the other day I was really sad to hear it.