If Syd Barrett joined Pink Floyd at Live8 I think that Africa would work out a lot if its problems sooner

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I think seeing him on there after so long would make all the poor African people see how silly a lot of their fighting is and realize that anything can happen if you have hope and believe in yourself. It would probably make a lot of money too. What say you, music people?

― Jingo, Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If Roger Waters had ever heard Roger Waters's solo albums, do you think he'd really still have it in him to quit Pink Floyd?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like some of Roger's solo album. I like the Hitchhiking one a lot.

About SYD joining the band: iIt would be great but he can't. He has this condition that when he sees someone from the Pink Floyd era of his life then he throws a fit and stuff.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that condition is called "being pissed off at people who dosed you with drugs and locked you in a room and were mean to you" also known as "being sensible"

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The people who did that to him weren't Pink Floyd.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

well, they did kick him out of the band and refuse to let him play on stage and he'd show up and stand in the audience and stare at them or something.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 30 June 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't blame them for kicking him out. He wasn't able to do what they wanted to do. Even though I think he's a genius in every level, without David Gilmour there would be no Pink Floyd. They'd probably be put in with The Electric Prunes and The 13th Floor Elevators (which are both great).

Thank God for Gilmour.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Thursday, 30 June 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They didn't kick him out of the band as such. They just decided not to pick him up on the way to a gig. Not the best way of handling it, admittedly, but they didn't really have much choice at the time. It was Syd who refused to play on stage. I'm sure the band would have loved him to do some work instead of just standing there in a druggy daze. What were they expected to do? Continue the torture and slide rapidly down the dumper?

When Syd went to record The Madcap Laughs, Gilmour and Waters immediately went to help him out. Also they have made sure that he has stayed financially secure over the years, not only with ensuring that he gets his royalties, but they also gave him a cut of the royalties from Dark Side and Wish You Were Here as arguably (in their words) neither album could have been made without him as an inspiration. Consequently he has an income of a couple of hundred thousand a year. Pretty fair, no?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

.. plus doing "Interstellar" on live albums...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I also gather that Bowie covering "See Emily Play" on Pin-Ups has proved a nice little earner for Syd these past 30 years.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There was those signed books he did recently...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 June 2005 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got one of them! Every now and agian I get it out of its protective packaging and lovingly gaze on it for a bit. Then put it back. And no one else is allowed to breathe on it, let alone touch it (Although Onimo and aldo_cowpat have, but I was drunk at the time).

It was never revealed how much he was paid for the signed books (actaully he signed bookplates which were attached, but that's just me being a pedant)but it was a sizeable sum, apparently.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Roger Waters is soon to release an opera charting the course of the French Revolution (not Nikki Sudden's band).
Syd is soon to release nothing. It'll be interesting to hear which is better.

― snotty moore, Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i can never really deal with the fact that waters and gilmore managed to make a career on their discomfort over syd under the name pink floyd.

though the fact that syd has staid out of national health pits of dispair and safely in his own home because of floyd royalties does sugar the medicine

― b b, Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of don't think there's much wrong with him these days; or at least, not much more than there with, say, Brian Wilson. From that interview with his nephew it sounded like he simply does not care.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Said it before but to say it again -- when Syd passes, as we all must pass, I hope he does so in perfect comfort and in complete privacy. Sounds like the comfort, at least, is no problem.

Now what were these signed books again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this interview with his nephew?

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What were they? Umm, the Mick Rock photos, published by Genesis in the expensive way like they have with George Harrison, etc, and with an autograph plate by the man himself, signed "Barratt" which is a compromise between not answering to "Syd" anymore and actually personalising the photos of himself.

Presumably long sold out.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

and presumably spelled correctly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Psychedelic Renegades by Mick Rock is the book. Can't help with the interview.
(xpsssst)

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 30 June 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember where the interview with his nephew was published, but he gave a fair amount of detail on what Roger was doing these days. Basically, he is enjoying himself doing his own personal art, listening to the music he wants to (from memory, mostly jazz and a few classical - certainly no PF!.

OTM, Ned - If you really care about him, leave the man alone. He is Roger Barrett - Syd died a long time ago; just cherish what he left and leave the man that is Roger to live his life in peace. I echo Ned's thoughts totally.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

No, but that's the funniest comment made regarding this mess that is Live 8. Good one.

― julian, Friday, 1 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember where the interview with his nephew was published

It's right here.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

xpost, i'm still loling at the thread title.

Who wouldn't love to see Barrett perform with Floyd again? However, 95% of those who have heard of Pink Floyd have never heard of "See Emily Play," which is the most popular song Barrett ever wrote. There's no way they'll be performing anything he sings or performs on at Live 8.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Who wouldn't love to see Barrett perform with Floyd again?

me, for one. what a silly pointless trainwreck that would be.

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Even more of a reason to watch. Trainwrecks are hypnotic.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 2 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

What did Pink Floyd play yesterday (I'm too lazy to go sifting through all of the Live8 threads here.....)?

Did they do "On the Turning Away" as I predicted?

― PB, Sunday, 3 July 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

breathe
money
wish you were here
comfortably numb

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 3 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

it was great!

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 3 July 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Here's a link to the video of it.

http://web.mit.edu/amna/www/pink.wmv

― Ellis, Sunday, 3 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

any more live 8 vid?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 4 July 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

It was good apart from "Money", tho as that's a fucking rubbish song it was never going to be any good anyway. Gilmour sang almost all the songs as Roger Waters' voice now appears to be totally shot

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

the diff between the enjoyment factor was very noticeable - roger grinned like a cheshire cat throughout - dave looked in pain.

liked the 'this is for syd' from roger, though the microphone hardly picked it up.

they did indeed sound really good.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Dave was "emoting"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

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