Sid sadly dies

Only 60 ... :(


Think I'll put on some Floyd ...
 
Echoes?

Try any from the Piper At The Gates of Dawn, See Emily Play & Arnold Layne singles and from Saucerful Of Secrets: Jugband Blues. They're Syd songs.

Or you could try his solo albums: The Madcap Laughs/Barrett/Opel.

Or maybe just play the song dedicated to him: Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
 
Just watching DVD Floyd live at Pompeii 1972......one of my favourites....
 
Poor old Syd..... I'm sure he'd have a laugh if he knew what people were playing to commemorate him :lol:

Truth is, Syd contributed very little to Pink Floyd apart from the very early days. That's not say he wasn't influential - he was.

Syd was quirky, a stoner, an acid casalty, a pot head, very very English and fitted in right there with Mummer's plays, witchcraft, Alice in Wonderland, cobbled London backstreets, Punch & Judy, the tang of seaweed and the rattle of buckets & spades, something vaguely threatening and disquieting, velvet suits & eccentricity and above all a uniqueness that was borne of Albion.

If you really want to remember him, try Scarecrow; Bike; Astronomy Domine or even Interstellar Overdrive.

Cos that was Syd.
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Floyd at Pompeii is great, especially the first track where the camera pans round the back of the PA and it's stencilled with 'Pink Floyd. London'. Echoes was really rather funky :)

I actually ripped the music tracks from that DVD to make my own audio CD, cos it isn't available as an audio only product.
 
Yes i know he contributed only little as he was only with the band 3 years and was a founding member, but i like playing any floyd and regardless of how long members were in the band, there contribution is lasting no matter what...I was playing pompeii because thats the earliest dvd footage i have of the band..


But yes you are right he probably would be p*****g himself if he knew what was being played in memoriam....

But i listen or watch floyd on a daily basis anyway as it's the first cd of 6 in my HiFi system
 
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