You can call him mad, crazy or diagnose his psyche to a scientific term, but he simply wandered too far off the track, where the temptress on the dark side wants to take us..where the amazing music came from and he spoke from there to us.
They had one track that had as part of it an instrumental that was the instrumental part of Shine on you CrazyDiamond (the first parts).
A friend of mine passed away of a drug over dose, and he knew that he was dying, he was at his father's home, so instead of calling 911, he recorded a message to his mother telling her all of his last wishes.
The last ties with Barrett were severed in musical, as well as literal, fashion with Wish You Were Here, whose epic track "Shine On You CrazyDiamond" was written both as a tribute and elegy to their friend.
In a famous anecdote, a heavyset man with a completely shaved head and eyebrows wandered into the studio while the band was recording "Shine On You CrazyDiamond".
Some of the tracks, such as "Echoes", "Shine On You CrazyDiamond", "Marooned", and "High Hopes" have had substantial sections removed from them.
When the album "Wish You Were Here" was released the track listing on the back read "Shine on You crazyDiamond".
Roger was very sad to see his old school friend be abandoned in the early days of Pink Floyd, but the rest of the band found it impossible to work with him when on occasion he found it impossibly to do anything on stage except stare at his guitar in amazment.
I think it was left unpunctuated deliberately to leave it ambiguous- whether it is "Shine on you crazydiamond", refering to something that will shine on the diamond (presumably Barrett) or "Shine on, you crazydiamond", urging Syd to keep going despite his mental illness.
For some reason, your post not only made my day and made me want to tell you how happy I am for you, it also brought to mind these lyrics from one of my favorite songs:
"Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun, shine on, you crazydiamond.
...Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far, shine on, you crazydiamond!" -Pink Floyd-
He correctly posited the axial rotation of the earth, and inferred correctly that the orbits of the planets were ellipses.
He also correctly deduced that the moon and the planets shined by reflected sunlight and provided a valid explanation for the solar and lunar eclipses rejecting the superstitions and mythical belief systems surrounding the phenomenon.
Although Bhaskar I (born Saurashtra, 6th C, and follower of the Asmaka school of science, Nizamabad, Andhra) recognized his genius and the tremendous value of his scientific contributions, some later astronomers continued to believe in a static earth and rejected his rational explanations of the eclipses.
1946-2006You were caught on the crossfireof childhood and stardom,blown on the steel breeze.Come on you targetfor faraway laughter,come on you stranger,you legend, you martyr,and shine!...
Ecco i post di altri blog che fanno riferimento a Shine On You CrazyDiamond:
Commentando "Shine on you crazydiamond" Barrett disse ai Pink Floyd: "Mi sembra un po' datata, che dite?"
