It is with great sorrow (footloose, footloose, kick off your sunday shoes.. etc) that the House of Bacon must report the passing of a great, great hero of music. Sydney "Roger" Barrett - seen, on the left in the photo above, enjoying a joyful backstage moment with fellow member of pink floyd, Roger Waters, back in the day- was a great inspiration to all. Especially, it must be said, to those fucked out their faces on any kind of choice, whacky shit.
The "vegetable man" became synonymous with the sureal and his acid fueled poetic fairytales were certainly the talk of london, back in the day. Then, regrettably, his legendary drug taking got on top of him a bit. It is believed that Syd's acid binges got so bad that pink floyd drummer, Nick Mason, even stepped in and suggested that "he should take it easy for a while". It is during this period that childhood friend Dave 'no chance' Gilmour infiltrated pink floyd whilst syd was putting the bins out.
"Syd was totally fucked out his brain, he once even burnt my carpet a bit by knocking over a small heater" recalls ex floyd roadie Mike 'the knee' Stovies, "then, this other time, he told me that my cat had become accidentally locked in my garage - the weird thing is, I DID have a cat at the time. He was a strange guy."
There are thousands of stories about Syd's antics, some real, most of them endless. There is one thing for certain though, drugs will kill you. Dont even think about it kids! Its not cool and the message is the same as always - only take drugs you can smell or, failing that, spell.
RIP Syd "Roger" Barrett (1932-1989) - shine on, you freaky cunt.
5 comments:
Yes, this is fairly sad news alright. However, I say 'fairly' cos I thought the cunt died in the 80's, to be honest.
Yep a a sad, sad day for us all that. See ya syd...
Interesting fact: he died on the same day as Jim Weird from the Weird way, a wee moustachioed Scots fellow who liked to pee off the top of mountains and film it......
It would be nice to think of them both looking down from Heaven, peeing on us whilst their off their tits on the Owsleys old original with interstellar Overdrive playing very fucking loudly from Jesus' boom box....
Blessing be to both.......
To be fair he'd not released anything for years. I can't see his death making a big hole in the hit parade. Mind you the new single off the ground breaking new album by T-Bone Dangerfield is going to make people shit glass out of there eyeballs.
R.I.P Syd and Jimbo
i think as a drug taker in the 60s he got what he deserved. take this as a lesson kids if you take acid you may die of unrelated illness upto 30 years or so later! i dont remember cliff richard ever taking drugs and as a result he is still knocking out pop tunes like there is no tomorrow. and they are all fucking magic too.
I agree with you on the dangers of the LSD, my mind is as fried as syds was although I also have to disagree with you on the cliff anti drug stance....It was well known he shot loads of the smack in the 70's and indulged in Satanism...It was under the influence of both he composed the now legendary DEVIL WOMAN (with evil on her mind). This explains his yoof-full child like looks (Sold his soul) and why whenever he's round at mine he nicks all that isn't nailed down to sell for the HORSE and why he leaves dirty smack spoons in the toilet....
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