(07-25-2010 10:55 AM)The Pict Wrote:  

(07-25-2010 10:41 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  Roger was not responsible for Syd having a mental breakdown. Roger was not responsible for Syd doing too many drugs and worsening his mental state. Roger was not responsible for the band as a whole deciding that they needed to move forward without Syd, owing to his increased inability to work.

There are more than enough things to legitimately blame Roger and his ego/attitude for, without making things up. Syd was not well. Exactly how unwell he was and to what degree he was unwell we'll probably never know, but trying to say that it is not true or that he was a victim of Roger's dastardly ego is not going to change the fact that he was in fact, a sick man.

So yeah, I'd say your post was wildly inaccurate.

Well I can see I've logged onto a Syd-haters forum here. So be it.

Where have I accused Waters of causing Syd's breakdown? (waiting...)

See? I didn't. But I doubt whether his lack of empathy will have helped matters. After all, nobody likes a bully.

Where did I say I hate Syd? Where did anyone say they hate Syd? Saying that he had mental issues is not hating. That's called stating the obvious. He was not well. All it takes is two eyes and an ability to read to see that. If saying something factual about a person, as much as you may not like that fact, is now equivalent to "hating" them, we should just start lying about everything all the time.

I have never disagreed that Roger had control issues. He had them from day 1 to the day he left the group and then even after that. However you're conveniently forgetting something in your zeal to blame Roger for everything. The whole band were behind him. Nick, Rick and David all supported the decision to drop Syd from the group and just move on without him. If you've seen any documentaries or read any interviews they've done about it, you'd have known they readily admit to it now. None of them wanted to put up with Syd's increasingly problematic behavior. They all couldn't deal with him anymore and didn't know what else to do. It's not like Roger started barking orders at them and demanded they go along with it or else.

I'm far from Roger's biggest fan and have quite publicly criticized him for what happened to group toward the end of the 70s and early 80s, but there does come a point when you need to step back and ask yourself if you're too biased to be objective anymore.