The Madcap Laughs, his second, he says, was pretty good: “Like a painting as big as the cellar.” Before the Floyd got off the ground, Barrett attended art school.
I’m very good at it.” In fact, Syd has made three albums in that time, produced by the Floyd. “The only work I’ve done the last two years is interviews. Pink Floyd Put Bickering Aside to Finally Announce 'Animals' Reissue “Mostly, I just waste my time.” He walks a lot. “I’m treading the backward path,” he smiles.
THE MADCAP SKIN
The velvet pants and new green snake skin boots show some attachment to the way it used to be. His hair is short now, uncombed, the wavy locks gone. He has a ghostly beauty which one normally associates with poets of old. Hollow-cheeked and pale, his eyes reflect a permanent state of shock. “I’m disappearing,” he says, “avoiding most things.” He seems very tense, ill at ease. Visiting him is like intruding into a very private world. The Floyd were a house band and the music went on into the wee hours.Ĭambridge is an hour’s train ride from London. His eerie electronic guitar style and gnome-like stage presence made him an authentic cult figure for the nascent London underground, then just beginning to gather at the UFO club and the Roundhouse. He’d named the band and was writing most of their music, including the only two hit singles they ever had. In 1966–67, Barrett was playing lead guitar with Pink Floyd. He is in fact alive and as confusing as ever, in the town where he was born, Cambridge. LONDON-If you tend to believe what you hear, rather than what is, Syd Barrett is either dead, behind bars, or a vegetable.
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