The Fallen Hero Wrote:Ok well, he was crazy before Floyd. Syd Barrett was a schizophrenic. He did LSD, which brought it out, along with other mental problems. Syd began messing up live. He would stop playing, play random things, or sing random things. You can imagine how hard it would be to work with someone like that. He is now a diabetic, going blind (so ive heard) and paints and plants grass.
Moral: stay away from acid
syd was never crazy. winds me up why people say that when they know its such a crazy mooo
Syd was just very hard to communicate with. The first time he ever tried acid he was on a picnic, he took a very concentrated dose (8 hits or so). With a plum in one pocket and an orange in another, he started hallucinating that the plum was Mercury, and the orange was Venus, and he was floating in space in between the two. A friend of his who had given him the LSD took his plum and ate it. Syd went awry over this due to his friend eating the "planet".
If you have heard the song Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" It was come up with years before written when Syd in the middle of a concert put down his guitar mid solo and brought onto the stage a camper stove and fried bacon with the micophone next to it for 12 minutes. That was one of the last concerts he did with the Floyd.
It is also said that Syds friends would slip LSD into his cereal when he woke up so he spent the whole day tripping and half the time he had no idea. The fact of the matter was that Syd Barrett was already unstable and hard to communicate with, and with the sudden cliff dive of insane amounts of acid on a daily basis made him impossible to work with. He left the studio for two weeks because Roger Waters disagreed with a solo he wanted to do in Saucerful of Secrets that would have been a single note over and over for 4 minutes. Many mornings Mason found him in the studio room on the floor not moved an inch from the previous night just plucking the same string. And all these stories I read in After the Wall/The meaning to Every Pink Floyd song so its reference checks out.
Did you mean Another Brick in the Wall by Cliff Jones? If so I'd be careful stating "facts" many, many "Floydians" have questioned his "facts" and his rather loose interpretations of the the songs.