Product: The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
Rating: 4.0
Recommended for early Floyd fans!
Being a huge Syd Barrett/early Floyd fan I was VERY eager to see this and I must say I was not disappointed. It is amazing in many ways, the most obvious ways being it is the FIRST official Syd/early Floyd documentary (I've never seen the VH-1 Floyd Behind the Music episode) and it has recent in depth interviews with Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Rick Wright, and David Gilmour as well as close friends of Syd's like Bob Klose. You really get a feel of how each member feels toward Syd and his breakdown, the most touching one from Roger! There is some great early performance footage of Floyd with Syd and even a brief clip of an interview with Syd himself (when will they release ALL of it???). The DVD never gets boring and even spices things up a bit with interviews with modern day artists like Robyn Hitchcock (a self-professed Syd-head!). Another great thing about this DVD is the fact that they don't really delve into what Floyd did after Syd left and instead it focuses on Syd's all too brief solo career. It's definitely a fitting tribute to Syd and the only thing that kept me from giving it 5 stars was the fact that they didn't include more bonus features of the full length early footage and interviews with Syd. So please, whomever has the rights to that footage, PLEEEASE, PLEEEEASE lift a hand and RELEASE IT!!! ; )