(07-25-2010 11:28 AM)The Pict Wrote:  

(07-25-2010 11:09 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  If you've seen any documentaries or read any interviews they've done about it

I know the story very well. I read my first Syd article in 1974 (Nick Kent, NME). I have read many books about PF and Syd, and seen many documentaries. Possibly all of them. I also grew up in Cambridge (England) and went to the same school as David Gilmour, and am therefore fully aware of Syd's formative social and geographical influences, and the local folklore surrounding him. I should therefore be grateful if you would refrain from talking down to me.

(07-25-2010 11:09 AM)Electrophile Wrote:  There does come a point when you need to step back and ask yourself if you're too biased to be objective anymore.

I agree - you should.

LOL. That's rich. The guy who called the rest of us amateurs and told us to "get our facts right" is going to get pissy and demand that people not talk down to him. Oh the hilarity. Try practicing what you preach, brother. I don't care where you grew up, where you went to school, who you know or who you don't know.

As to my second point which you totally and completely missed -- I'm not biased. I don't even know what the hell you're talking about or why you claimed I was. I can speak objectively about all of them, without a moment's hesitation. This is about you blaming Roger for Syd getting kicked out of the group when it was a band decision and this is about you saying Syd wasn't really sick, it was just "convenient" for Roger to say that he was. Which is an out and out lie, and you know it.

You obviously have some kind of issue with Roger or about Roger and that's for you to resolve, not the rest of us. You want to rant and rave about how much of an asshole you think he was, by all means -- start a "Roger is a big old asshole" thread in his forum and stop crowding up this thread with it. This thread is for talking about what would have happened to Pink Floyd had Syd not developed the problems he did and was subsequently dropped from the band.