35 years ago today, Syd Barrett wandered suddenly into Abbey Road studios and visited his former bandmates in Pink Floyd as they were working on the final mix of this song.<\/p>\n
I just noticed this coincidence of a coincidence as I coincidentally listened to some articles about Pink Floyd on Wikipedia.\u00a0 My usual Vegetation Day routine of playing a very old video game and reading Wikipedia has got me into reading articles about every Pink Floyd album and every Pink Floyd song on those albums.<\/p>\n
I was hitting that “Random article” link when something popped up… I don’t even remember what it was.\u00a0 Anyway, I haven’t listened to much Pink Floyd for a while because of that “overplayed” phenomenon.\u00a0 Now that I haven’t listened to any radio stations for several years, I could probably enjoy “Dark Side of the Moon” again or even “The Wall”.<\/p>\n
But I was always more a fan of their mid-period stuff from “More” to “Echoes”.\u00a0 I especially like the “Atom Heart Mother” and “Ummagumma” albums.\u00a0 I think they’re just dandy.\u00a0 Oddly enough, those are what the members of Pink Floyd later tried to distance themselves from.\u00a0 I’ve read snippets of interviews from each of those guys dissing those albums.\u00a0 Well, Roger Waters can fucking keep “The Final Cut”, I’ll keep listening to the mid-period stuff and telling everyone it’s their best stuff.<\/p>\n
Anyway, since I’m off topic again, here’s some links to a BBC documentary about Syd Barrett that I just watched:
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ea5whDFnV-o<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RXZrUp4UnEo<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U9yYIMgp8xY<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGtN9P8Vyro<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sU5YJMJz7kA<\/a><\/p>\n