Excluding people who straight up died/OD'd and limiting this to the legendarily incapacitated
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Make myne Syd. Brian and Roky aren't burntout anymore, or weren't the last times I saw 'em (a few years ago).
― dow, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Write-in vote for the rhythm guitarist in Funkadelic who got into an acid-eating contest and fried his brain.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Tawl Ross
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
Yes! Him.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I could never get into that Skip Spence album tbh
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 21 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
peter green!
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 21 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
feel like peter green should be an option.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
ha!
Almost too close to pick between Syd and Brian. I guess Syd by a single brain cell.
― WilliamC, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
huh didn't know the deal w Peter Green (can't stand Fleetwood Mac)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Voted "Other" (write-in vote for Peter Green)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 July 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
Gene Clark deserves a mention here I think.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
he kept working all through the 70s!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Wilson did too, if you equivocate "working" with "doing lots of drugs and recording an album here and there".
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Scott Walker
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
According to Roger Waters, Barrett came into what was to be their last practice session with a new song he had dubbed "Have You Got It Yet?". The song seemed simple enough when he first presented it, but it soon became impossibly difficult to learn and they eventually realised that while they were practising it, Barrett kept changing the arrangement.[79][82] He would then play it again, with the arbitrary changes, and sing "Have you got it yet?". Eventually they realised they never would and that they were simply bearing the brunt of Barrett's idiosyncratic sense of humour.[83] Waters had called it "a real act of mad genius".[79][82]
― Treeship, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
syd is my favorite of the bunch, prob my favorite lyricist of all time.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
i don't think clark counts, his work in the '70s is pretty incredible. he did acid iirc but i think his descent was a more slow sinking via alcohol rather than a sudden burnout via acid.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
i love clark though, more than anyone else listed.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 21 July 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
idk Clark just seemed to keep up a higher degree of functionality than these other guys, and I was under the impression acid wasn't really his problem. He wasn't kicked out of the Byrds for being out of it, he was kicked out for being a threat to Crosby. And he didn't go through that kind of forced withdrawal all these other guys did (to a bathrobe, to an institution, to mum's house, etc.), he got on with his career and collaborated with all sorts of folks on different projects pretty consistently.
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 July 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Let's face it, you can't make a serious claim to being an acid casualty burnout until you have donned a bathrobe
― Josefa, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
...made of roadie skin!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
eel like peter green should be an option.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, July 21, 2014 4:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually just one of several Fleetwood Mac vets who could populate this list
― Lee626, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
what happened to Scott? are there any books that go into it? the film (30 Century Man) was very cagey on this era of his life.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
There were hints of substance abuse problems but walker absolutely doesn't belong on this list, I assumed that was a joke answer
― wins, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link
I mean if we're opening "acid casualty" up to "had a creative slump & did lots of blow probably"
― wins, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Roky for me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
Syd cos of the extent of his burnout and how it got (excessively prob) documented in his post-Pink Floyd records
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
Arthur Lee was famous for his ingestion of acid. Not sure if he declined though. Must get Black Beauty now that it's available.
Did Lennon decline due to acid? Certainly put out some very challenging listens and married a renowned Fluxus member. Did put out both Plastic Ono Band lps and Imagine after before the slump. But I guess he recovered?
Not sure which of the 2 famous Rogers to plunk for so might go for Ro Kynard over the one who poached his better known name from an older local musician. Though I have been enjoying him recently.Do like Oar too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 07:35 (nine years ago) link
Sly Stone?
― g simmel, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link
yeah scott was joke due to low visibility followed by mussolini meat punching
go w/ roky myself, mostly for the evil one (era/versions/etcs) but also the less celebrated all that may do my rhyme LP, both of which i love more than the jusifiably klassic material all these guys descended from
is "beloved casualty" always a guy thing?
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 09:48 (nine years ago) link
Roky by some distance, although I haven't heard much Skip.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 09:58 (nine years ago) link
Well there's the folk-singer Shelagh McDonald who withdrew form music and basically disappeared for 30 years after a bad acid experience iirc, but she's not anyway near as famous musically as any of the guys upthread, and she doesn't have that mad genius cachet either - her story somehow seems a lot more sobering without all the lol syd anecdotes, just a sudden withdrawal and then *nothing*
― john wahey (NickB), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 10:10 (nine years ago) link
syd for me mr. octopus garden ride but yeah, where's sly? or jackson c. frank, nico, or nick drake? i demand answers!
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
first of all, gotta love how these polls always devolve into "why wasn't ____ an option?"
second, there is an "Other" option to accomodate this.
Lastly, Sly's problem wasn't acid, and Sly made music all through the 70s. It's just that it was not as popular. I don't know who Jackson C. Frank is. Nico was a junkie who also maintained a career all through the 70s. Nick Drake - did he ever even do drugs? At any rate, not really a 60s figure, what with his first album coming out at the end of '69.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
I don't know who Jackson C. Frank is.
Fix that.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
jesus christ that is a grim fucking story! no acid though
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
WAs Jackson C Frank an acid casualty? I thought he was just somebody who had been dealt a very nasty hand by fate and suffered the consequences both physically and subsequently mentally. I hadn't heard much about him and LSD but maybe there was something? He was certainly around London at the right time and his decline started right at the time the popularity of acid was becoming widespread.
Do love the Castle/Sanctuary set Blues Run The Game which has most of his recordings from the 60s and 70s.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
i always thought he was a sensitive hippie casualty -- bipolar and should have stayed way the hell away from the harder partying that was going on
nico died in 88 and wasn't terribly active after the mid-70s
nick drake smoked mountain ranges of marijuana and hash and ODed on downers
i still say syd though
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
roky, not even close
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Refuse to choose between Syd, Brian and Roky. Skip wrote some great songs for Moby Grape but his solo stuff never did much for me tbh. Peter Green should definitely be on here, that whole story of the acid trip that finally did for him is weird, in Munich, am I right in thinking Uschi Obermaier (who 'played' in Amon Duul) and Rainer Langhans (who later worked with Fassbinder) were somehow involved? Ace Kefford from the Move was another acid burnout btw.
Newcastle Brown Ale probably more to blame for Scott Walker's lost years than acid.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 12:51 (nine years ago) link
Judee Sill, maybe? Although she was arguably a casualty before she started her music career
― Lee626, Thursday, 24 July 2014 00:42 (nine years ago) link
Judy Garland, Dinah Washington, Janis Joplin, Peggy Lee, Connie Francis
― Josefa, Thursday, 24 July 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
...but women are immune to acid, it seems
― Josefa, Thursday, 24 July 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
John George Haigh didn't think so.
― Alex In Complete Agreement (aldo), Thursday, 24 July 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
"...but women are immune to acid, it seems"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDRbnmjzY7U
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:04 (nine years ago) link
Karen Dalton?
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:17 (nine years ago) link
Licorice McKechnie? Oh, hold that was Sc1ent0l0gy, not acid.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:29 (nine years ago) link
:( that could be a different poll, musicians who were never the same after they went "clear"
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link
Cary Grant.
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 24 July 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link
:( that could be a different poll, musicians who were never the same after they went "clear"―( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 24 July 2014 09:56 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Defend the Indefensible: Woody Woodmansey's U-Boat.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 July 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
Thought of her, but heroin was her drug not acid.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
thx for the Jackson C. Frank heads up btw, nice album
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Billie Holiday kinda the ur-text for tragic female musicians, I would think
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Man, do I not get the reverence for Syd fucking Barrett. Pink Floyd weren't worth a shit until they were rid of him.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
no
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit. The dimension of wrongness you live in, where does it intersect with ours? The rift must be closed.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 07:58 (nine years ago) link
I voted Syd... eventually... but I can understand why him winning this poll might outrage some people.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 08:02 (nine years ago) link
This place being full of Floyd fans is a real black mark.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
Cosign that Floyd were far better under Waters than they were under Barrett.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 08:22 (nine years ago) link
Different not better. Am loath to give much credit to Roger Waters tbh.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:10 (nine years ago) link
That period where noone ws particularly in charge ws too great for that
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:21 (nine years ago) link
OTM
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 09:30 (nine years ago) link
Never been a fan of Syd's solo stuff, and some of the twee whimsy on Piper gets a bit wearing ("Bike" makes me ia at times). But the greatest guitar moments in Pink Floyd's discography are all by Syd.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
Except for Shine On, Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell and Dogs, that is.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
Gilmour has a moment or two here and there (my favorite is probably "Echoes" from Pompeii), but compared to Syd, he might as well be John Mayer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
The little-remembered "Peter Noone & the Pink Floyd" Northern cabaret tour
― Josefa, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Careful With That Axe, Henry VIII.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Arthur Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link