Any One A Pink Floyd Fan?

[killallhippies]

Echoes, 'nuff said

[AlanPartridge]

Pink Floyd's (and particularly Syd Barrett's) music was and is some of the most influential music that has shaped the rock music we hear now. Barrett's insistence on playing either two minute songs about gnomes or 14 minute improvisational pieces on stage was not perhaps new (jazz bands jammed interminably live), but it stretched the boundaries of rock music before Sgt Pepper, Jimi Hendrix or The Doors came along. Unfortunately for Syd he couldn't handle fame and the resultant mental problems and subsequent reclusiveness were tragic.
However, his influence on the rest of the band and the way they evolved after his replacement has now become a part of continuing rock history, and like them or not, you have to wonder what Led Zeppelin or Sonic Youth or Queens Of The Stone Age would have been without it.
Syd's story is a sad one, and listening to 'Shine on you crazy diamond' (written about him) is heartbreaking, but what a legacy he has left!
...and in true style, it doesn't interest him.