Syd barrett madcap laughs album12/31/2023 ![]() The other way to look at the songs, 'Feel', 'If It's In Me' and 'She Took A Long Cold Look' is that they painted an accurate picture of the state Syd was in at the time. The sound of Syd audibly breaking up on record amid the sound of pages of lyrics being turned whilst he loses his place does nobody any favours at all, least of all Syd. One of Syd's best new songs, 'Opel' was inexplicably left off this debut set replaced by a couple of songs produced by Roger and Dave that openly let everyone see exactly how difficult it was for Syd to record these songs at all. Does any of this matter? It should give everybody a greater understanding, Syd was still writing good songs all through 19, his decline was harrowing but gradual. Others definitely post-date his final days with Pink Floyd, and others were indeed written whilst he was still an active member of Pink Floyd. At least one of the songs on this album was written virtually on the spot, in the studio. Another myth is that Syd was artistically washed up following his departure from Pink Floyd and had nothing more to offer bar a backlog of old compositions. At the time Syd took LSD, the after effects were a lot less well known, and his taking of this drug certainly contributed heavily to his downfall, but was not at all the only reason he became the way he became. When I went to university, there was a certain time a drug related to LSD was offered to me, I turned it down flat, quite aware of what it could do to me, given the way my mind was pre-disposed. Chances are, you'll neverĪchieve what you were once capable of. Severe depression is a very difficult thing to overcome, more often than not, a life-time battle. Mental Illness is a terribleĭebilitating disease that is too often misunderstood or under-estimated. I'd taken were a variety of prescribed anti-depressants. ![]() I had audio and visual hallucinations, and the only drugs Personally, I was once diagnosed as suffering from 'Severe Depressive Psychosis', that psychosis part worrying me especially. It certainly shortened his career, battling not only with images his own mind gave him, but also the bad effects of LSD must have been extremely difficult and frightening. Those things would have been the case, LSD or no LSD. He was uncomfortable with the level of fame he'dĪchieved with Pink Floyd. ![]() Precipitating his downfall, there's no doubt about that, but Syd was predisposed to mental-illness in any event. Syd's consumption of LSD was large and significant in Occurred seemingly overnight, the first time he took LSD, which is not the case at all. It's often mistakenly believed that the decline of Syd Barrett Although Dave had replaced Syd in Pink Floyd, he was the one member of the group that remained closest to Syd. Syd had bought a new flat that was so close to where Dave Gilmour lived, that Dave could see right into Syd's kitchen. ![]() Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour helped finish this album, taking over production duties and encouraging Syd at a point where it looked like 'The Madcap Laughs' was never going to be finished at all. Terrapin / No Good Trying / Love You / No Mans Land / Dark Globe / Here I Go / Octopus / Golden Hair / Long Gone / She Took A Long Cold Look / Feel / If It's In You / Late Night ![]()
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