Pink Floyd's Sid Barrett has died.

[vancouver]

:(

Link (http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/tm_objectid=17365322%26method=full%26siteid=94762% 26headline=pink%2dfloyd%2ds%2dsyd%2dbarrett%2ddies %2d%2d60-name_page.html)

[nrc]

Shine on you crazy diamond.

[oddlycalm]

I was sorry to see Syd go after he left on that trip that his mind never returned from. Hope he's found peace finally.

oc

[racer2c]

I was sorry to see Syd go after he left on that trip that his mind never returned from. Hope he's found peace finally.

oc

Nicely said.

I've done quite a bit of reading on Sid and it is indeed a sad story. Mental illness is a strange and bewildering thing. Was it brought on soley by heavy drugs such as acid? Maybe, maybe not.

I think it's interesting how much of Pink Floyds music is directly referring to Sid. He was a part of them long after he left the band.

[Lizzerd]

I think it's interesting how much of Pink Floyds music is directly referring to Sid. He was a part of them long after he left the band.

Wish You Were Here


Part one

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom
blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger
you legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision
rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter
you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

part two

Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
and sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and looser
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!


Other lyrics here. (http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/albums/wish.htm)

[Spicoli]

Well, somtimes dead is btter than not dead yet.

:gomer:


http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2626/1429/1600/1_richards.jpg


:shakehead

[Opposite Lock]

I wonder if flashbacks last into the afterlife?

RIP, crazy diamond.

[redmist]

Well, somtimes dead is btter than not dead yet.

:gomer:


http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2626/1429/1600/1_richards.jpg


:shakehead

holy s**t, what's the story on that photo? looks like he just came out of a coal mine. i think i've found my halloween costume for this year. ;)