Did Floyd make the right decision about Barrett?

Svetonio wrote: NutterAlert wrote: I am not sure what annoys me most....the exploitative non-story of Roger Barrett who tried to quietly live out his days in Cambridge or the fact a despicable rag such as Daily Express is quoted here. Actually, I posted that "Daily Express" due to beautiful pic of Syd Barrett who is riding his bike. The picture speaks more than 1000 words. However, I'm just curious what you find so wrong in that text on the pic?

At the risk of putting words in NutterAlert's mouth, I suspect he is annoyed that a publication designed for and digested by middle class c.u.n.t.s and their kids would feign concern about the fate of a once iconic 60's Rock star who chose to become a Cambridge gardener as if this might somehow whet their reader's insatiable appetite for 'whatever happened to?' schadenfreude. To be fair, it would be completely unreasonable to expect an eastern European like Svetonio to be cognisant of such habitually crass and venal UK press expediency.

Svetonio wrote: Another pettifogger?!

The Dark Elf wrote: Svetonio wrote: Another pettifogger?!     Charles Dickens called. He wants his thesaurus back.

ExittheLemming wrote: Svetonio wrote: NutterAlert wrote: I am not sure what annoys me most....the exploitative non-story of Roger Barrett who tried to quietly live out his days in Cambridge or the fact a despicable rag such as Daily Express is quoted here. Actually, I posted that "Daily Express" due to beautiful pic of Syd Barrett who is riding his bike. The picture speaks more than 1000 words. However, I'm just curious what you find so wrong in that text on the pic? (...) To be fair, it would be completely unreasonable to expect an eastern European like Svetonio to be cognisant of such habitually crass and venal UK press expediency.

 it beats the hell out of having to read the dribble he writes in lieu of intelligent discourse. 

Edited by Dean - April 15 2015 at 12:30

Everyone is a bit mean to him but if you can look past the English misunderstandings and weird opinions he has on things, he actually is more excited about prog rock than anyone I've ever talked to.

Smurph wrote: Everyone is a bit mean to him but if you can look past the English misunderstandings and weird opinions he has on things, he actually is more excited about prog rock than anyone I've ever talked to. And it's ok to snap back a few times here and there and even be mean a few times but it's pretty constant on here. Being huge prog rock fans, we've probably all been made fun of enough in this lifetime.

KingCrInuYasha wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: If Syd had remained with the band, and they were determined to only play music with him, then they would have folded very quickly. Even tracks like `Vegetable Man' and `Scream They Last Scream', which are still cool psych tracks, are pretty incoherent, messy and unfocused, so it seems the well of mixing psychedelic with a cool melodic pop tune like `Lucifer Sam', `See Emily Play' and `Arnold Layne' etc had already started to run a little dry. Sticking with Syd, they'd be not much more than a brief interesting footnote from the psychedelic era only. Assuming they didn't shift to more pastoral sounds a la The Madcap Laughs and Barrett with their later works. Though I'm not sure if that would have been just a temporary solution before they ran out of gas.