Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrettwas an English musician, composer, singer, songwriter, and painter. Best known as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band. Barrett was excluded from Pink Floyd in April 1968 after David Gilmour took over as their new guitarist, and was briefly hospitalised amid speculation of mental illness...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth6 January 1946
waste path wasting-my-time
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.
disappear avoiding
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
guitar dust
I'm full of dust and guitars.
rich my-friends lots-of-money
I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
light feelings done
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.
im-sorry sorry speak
Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.
nice greatest-love fairy-tale
Fairy-tales are nice.
color buying pork
Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.
should
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
pace months groups
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
two years lasts
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
serious operations
I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
clean cambridge
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
english-musician sort written
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.