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$$$ by -> AIDS $$$
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$$$ [ HOE E-Zine #956 -- 12/14/99 -- http://www.hoe.nu ] .,$$$
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`"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""'
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I've spent countless hours filling my head with enough information
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on Syd Barrett that it would make his old boyhood friend, Roger Waters
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sick. I've visited every website possible related to Syd Barrett, read
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articles, and even started this file over half a dozen unsuccessful
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times. But here it is, my very own personal thoughts on him, the one and
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only, Syd Barrett.
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OK, here's what I know about Syd: Uhm, he was in Pink Floyd and I
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guess he was friends with the guys in Pink Floyd and he wrote some really
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fucked up shit that sounds nothing like the celestial majesty that came
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with later Floyd releases like WISH YOU WERE HERE or DARK SIDE OF THE
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MOON or THE WALL. Instead Barrett worked on the insipid PIPER AT THE
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GATES OF DAWN, its desultory style mostly the result of his chronic LSD
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abuse. Unlike the other guys in the band, Barrett was really into drug
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use and it shows, his stuff is FUCKED UP and it sounds all crazy. It's
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too chaotic and silly and just sounds like a bunch of fairy tales and
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it's not anything like the stunningingly complex and in-depth things that
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later Roger Waters would accomplish.
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Eventually the guys in Pink Floyd decided they'd like to be a real
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band, so they kicked him out. He went on to do two solo albums; THE
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MADCAP LAUGHS and BARRETT. Both of these albums would SUCK! if it weren't
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for the fact that his replacement in Pink Floyd, Dave Gilmoure, produced
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them with the help of Roger Waters and uh the other guy. You KNOW that
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they did all the work and all Syd did was babble some shit about the
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faeires and elves in Elfland.
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so, ok, you gotta understand, SYD BARRETT took a lot of drugs,
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right? He took acid in his coffee and acid in his tea and acid in his
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food and fed acid to his cats and he dunked his head in buckets of liquid
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acid and try to go on stage and when he was on stage he'd be taking acid!
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He took acid 15 times a day for a year straight! And he wasn't the most
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sane guy to begin with, so you know, the acid FUCKED HIM UP. He went
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crazy and started being totally useless to the band, so they kicked him
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out, because they wanted to make MUSIC and not some fancy schmancy faery
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tales about the elven queen and her minions in hell.
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Syd went crazy as hell. It's that simple. He went totally nuts.
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Now he lives in Cambridge and rides a bike and it's a very nice bike, and
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he doesn't know anything that's going on at all. OK, even though I sort
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of hate Syd Barrett, I like one song called OCTOPUS (also known as CLOWNS
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AND JUGGLERS) and here are some of the lyrics:
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"Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
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you have no word
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trip, trip to a dream dragon
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hide your wings in a ghost tower
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sails cackling at every plate we break
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cracked by scattered needles
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the little minute gong
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coughs and clears his throat
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madam you see before you stand
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hey ho, never be still
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the old original favorite grand
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grasshoppers green Herbarian band
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and the tune they play is "In Us Confide"
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so trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
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you have no word
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Please leave us here
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close our eyes to the octopus ride!
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Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
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isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
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meant even less to me than I thought
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with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
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clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
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well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
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hey ho, huff the Talbot
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"Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo
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it's true in their tree they cried
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Please leave us here
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close our eyes to the octopus ride!
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The madcap laughed at the man on the border
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hey ho, huff the Talbot
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the winds they blew and the leaves did wag
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they'll never put me in their bag
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the seas will reach and always seep
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so high you go, so low you creep
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the wind it blows in tropical heat
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the drones they throng on mossy seats
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the squeaking door will always squeak
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two up, two down we'll never meet
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so merrily trip forgo my side
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Please leave us here
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close our eyes to the octopus ride!"
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It describes my life, just switch the just switch the Talbots and
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woods. It is very moving and I connect with it very well.
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With Syd Barrett's unique, musical ways, and his fucked up drug
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brain, he brought a whole level of stupidity to Pink Floyd that the band
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spent several years trying to escape. If you want to hear some wicked
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good guitar though, check out "Interstellar Overdrive" on PIPER AT THE
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GATES OF DAWN. Wonderful fuzz box distortion, I promise. From "sucking
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down more acid than chemical waste" and realizing "life is pointless and
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despair is my only friend," Barrett has taught us that "its a blessing to
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get fucked up beyond belief and destroy your mind" and that it is okay
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to be a "dreamer".
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It's also ok to love one another, I guess.
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[ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #956, BY AIDS - 12/14/99 ]
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