Source: https://www.outsideleft.com/main.php?updateID=629
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 15:55:45+00:00

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Syd Barrett founded a supergroup called Pink Floyd and went home.
11:14 AM lamont You heard that Syd Barrett died?
11:15 AM Alex V. Cook I did, though I wasn't sure he was actually still biking around Cambridge or wherever his mom's house was. He seemed to handle post-career infamy in a rather dignified manner dropping out of sight in full view like that.
11:16 AM lamont Shall we cobble together a word or 300 for him? I just interviewed Ultraviolet Eye and they name checked him, before he even had a chance to die, although I think Shine On You Crazy Diamond killed him years ago.
11:17 AM Alex V. Cook I can do one this evening if you like.
Alex V. Cook for me, its reassuring that he died a normal death, instead of some messy suicide like so many others. Arguably, he died of an LSD overdose about 40 years ago.
11:20 AM lamont I was never much of a fan at all, pre or post Syd, Pink Floyd... Post was particularly unpalatable... I guess I was way too schooled by Johnny Rotten's I hate Pink Floyd shirt to listen to it.
Alex V. Cook I think Syd barrett wore a similar psychic shirt. Gates of Dawn has its moments, but overall, Pink Floyd worship is best contained during ones freshman year in college. I am however, a big fan of The Madcap laughs.
11:23 AM lamont the solo albums. Oh it all seems so long ago. Have we gotten to three hundred words yet?
11:24 AM Alex V. Cook not quite. I'd say his catalog is really the one record, being rediscovered over and over. Kinda like when each generation hears Pink Moon or Astral Weeks for the first time.
11:27 AM lamont The were already loathed by the 'kids'. So what's with todays kids and I mean, why not Ronnie Lane?
Alex V. Cook They had doubled back and become edgy during my formative years. Countless reviewings of "The Wall" on Night Flight.
you mean, why Pink Floyd, and not some other band?
Alex V. Cook Pink Floyd is the easy path to pretension. Its "Weirdness for Dummies"
lamont OMG! When Spock gets our house reopened in Feb 07, the Observatory you'll have to come back.
Alex V. Cook So what songs are we talking about in particular? lamont We'll start a list. It will be the most argued about ever.
Alex V. Cook ok, 12 bands?
11:35 AM Alex V. Cook Steely Dan - "Hey nineteen"
lamont Good one. For now though, Syd Barrett died, did you hear about that?
11:36 AM Alex V. Cook I did. Poor guy, but he did seem to go out on his own terms, both professionally and physically, so that's not such a bad scorecard.
Alex V. Cook Roger Waters WISHES he'd really gone mad.

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