Posted by: rob
Shine On - 11/07/2006 12:24
Sad to hear that Syd Barrett died a couple of days ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5169344.stmTime to put on PIper at the Gates of Dawn methinks.
Rob
Posted by: tonyc
Re: Shine On - 11/07/2006 12:53
Sad news, though, arguably, he really stopped living in the late 60s.
Posted by: rob
Re: Shine On - 11/07/2006 16:47
I'm not sure that's fair - he dropped a bit too much acid but by all accounts he's been enjoying a pretty normal life here in Cambridge for the last twenty years. Withdrawing from the music industry does not necessarily equate to no longer living!
Rob
Posted by: boxer
Re: Shine On - 11/07/2006 18:58
I used to drink with him in the Prince Of Wales, Holland Park, it just seemed like he changed overnight, the same as happened with Pete Green, you could only put it down to the acid, I'd seen the group, in the time of "See Emily Play", at the Roundhouse in the late 60's, and then he just turned up one night with someone I knew and was one of our drinking circle for a while, a quiet and modest sort of guy. I probably didn't think of him much in all these years, 'till this post.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Shine On - 11/07/2006 19:10
Do most Englishmen live with their mothers from ages 35 to 60?
Posted by: rob
Re: Shine On - 11/07/2006 19:29
I'm not saying he didn't have a breakdown, I'm saying that perceiving that as effectively the end of his life is a bit unfair. It could have been worse - look at Ozzy Osbourne!
Treat your LSD with respect, folks.
Rob
Posted by: Mach
Re: Shine On - 12/07/2006 01:29
Prince of Wales, Holland Park?
From the small world category, the Prince of Wales is close enough to be considered my "local" (if I understand the concept of a local correctly).
Posted by: boxer
Re: Shine On - 12/07/2006 05:20
I probably haven't been in there since about '72, for the 5 years before that, I was probably in most Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, having for some long forgotten reason moved our trade from "The Porcupine" in Charing Cross road, I wonder if that's still there?
If you were, for some reason, to get hold of a vinyl copy of the Rod Stewart album "Smiler", the centre spread is a 12" X 24" photo of the courtyard of the POW, with all the band and crew, I'm not sure what you get with the CD.
(And yes, he used to drink with us in both those pubs!)
Remind me at the meet, should you be interested, to tell you the anecdote of the Irish builder in the POW who had lost his wallet.
Incidentally, a young Richard Branson used to also frequent it, not that I can recall speaking to him - had I done so, I would probably have been checking the site from Necker Island.
Posted by: msaeger
Re: Shine On - 12/07/2006 22:21
I'm guessing they would have broken up anyway. They music syd wrote is totally different than what waters came up with.
Posted by: tahir
Re: Shine On - 13/07/2006 07:37
Nice to hear about him being a normal bloke Boxer, everybody just seems to want to make him out as some kind of freak.
A real genius, shame he stopped making music so early on.
I'm not on IT and I didn't leave home till I was 31