Shine On, You Crazy Diamond

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:07 am

Syd Barrett has passed away, aged 60...

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1012162006

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:15 am

Sad news indeed. Odd but I wondered what had happened to him just a few days ago. He disappeared from the music scene many years ago.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:21 am

On the threshold of stardom, members of the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd leap from the steps of EMI House in London in this March 3, 1967 file photo. From left: Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Syd Barrett and Richard Wright. (AP Photo)

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:43 am

He has been a reculse for years, Brian. The band had always seen to it that he received all monies due to him and he lived a quiet life in England.

Very sad news. I am a huge fan of the early Floyd stuff.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:34 am

My gramma woke me up with this news today.. when I told my dad (big Floyd fan) he snapped out of bed...

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:38 am

That photo of Floyd apes almost exactly a picture of the Beatles on the same steps four years earlier.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:15 am

Syd was a poster boy for don't do drugs ...

drathbun · Post by **drathbun** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:08 am

Brilliant... eccentric... tragic...

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:29 am

Truer words were never spoken (or posted), Doug. Very sad indeed......

RIP Syd.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:20 pm

"Syd was a poster boy for don't do drugs ..."

I thought that was Ozzy...

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:21 pm

No, it's Keith Richards.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:01 pm

Keefy is a classic case of the walking dead.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:55 pm

I hear Keefy has landed the part of Jack Sparrow's father in the next "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.

Perhaps a better part might be one of those horrible skeletal pirates...........

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:01 pm

Pfft, it's not Keef.. Ozzy is a vibrating mumbling machine. Keef can still walk and talk. He may be old, but Ozzy is beat.

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:29 pm

Don't forget that Keef fell out of a coconut tree recently and 'it 'is 'ead, Nate. Who knows what damage that has done!

BTW.... I've asked you before - what hat size are you? If that's a bit hard, ask somebody to run a measuring tape around your noggin, eh?

September isn't all that far away, you know!