But he was very clever, very intelligent, an artist in every way. I always thought I was the better guitar player. The thing with Syd was that his guitar wasn't his strongest feature. It's just writĭavid Gilmour: (on studying with Syd at Cambridge Tech) We would hang around in the art department, playing guitars every lunchtime. I do tend to take lines from other things, lines I like, and then write around them but I don't consciously relate to painting. Syd Barrett: (on the influence of art school on his songwriting) Only the rate of work, learning to work hard.
He wrote all his songs, including the ones on his solo LP's, in a eighteen month period. The creativity was there - dope was enough to get it The acid brought out the creativity, but more importantly, it brought out the madness. I'm sure it was his latent madness which gave him his creativity. You'd go round to Syd's and you'd see him write a song. Peter Jenner: The strongest image I have of Syd is of him sitting in his flat with a guitar and his book of songs, which he represented by paintings with different coloured circles. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.
Syd Barrett: Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter.The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. He was no introvert as far as I could see then. Smoked dope, pulled chicks - the usual thing. Syd and David Gilmour went to the South of France one summer and busked around. To take it to parties or play down at this club called The Mill. Syd started playing guitar around then - used Syd was one of the first to get into The Beatles and the Stones. Storm Thorgerson: It was the usual thing, really, (in) 1962 we were all into (R&B/jazz organist) Jimmy Smith. He was a very respected figure back there in his own way. Peter Jenner: Syd was the only person I know who Roger has ever really liked and looked up to.ĭavid Gilmour: Syd was a strange guy even back in Cambridge. L human tenderness to all his unique musical flights. I still consider Syd a great primary inspiration there was a wonderfu Roger Waters: Syd and I went through our *most* formative years together, riding on my motorbike, getting drunk, doing a little dope, flirting with girls, all that basic stuff. He had a creative brain, a way of looking at things that was really genuinely revolutionary and different. John Marsh: Syd was a beautiful person, a lovely guy. The little one said: 'Oh my goodness I must stay at home! Re around you and nothing to relate to.maybe that's a part of it, too.
Leaving school and suddenly being without that structu Maybe if I'd stayed at college, I would have become a teacher. It's so clean and I still drive back a lot. I think a lot of it has to do with living in Cambridge, with nature and everything. Syd Barrett: (on influence of fairy tales in his music) Fairy-tales are They're scribbly black and everything shines. Syd's father's death affected him very heavily and his mother always pampered him - made him out to be a genius of sorts. Syd Barrett: Everyone is supposed to have fun when they're young - I don't know why, but I never did.ĭavid Gilmour: In my opinion, it's a family situation that's at the root of it all. No! There it is again!' he cried, alert once more.Įntranced, he was silent for a long space, spellbound.'įrom 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame Nothing seems worthwhile but just to hear that sound once more and go on listening to forever. 'So beautiful and strange and new! Since it was to end all too soon, I almost wish I had never heard it.
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