'This is the end' for Pink Floyd, Gilmour says

The picture of roger waters is a nice touch. Lol.

Pink Floyd was rubbish after Syd left. They were certainly finished way before this year.

Pink Floyd was rubbish after Syd left.

Yeah. "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall" didn't sell at all! (rolls eyes). Syd Barrett stopped being a part of the band before he was actually dropped. The band would have broken up due to stress if they had tried to keep him with them.

According to Roger Waters, Barrett came into what was to be their last practice session with a new song he had dubbed "Have You Got It Yet?". The song seemed simple enough when he first presented it, but it soon became impossibly difficult to learn and they eventually realised that while they were practising it, Barrett kept changing the arrangement. He would then play it again, with the arbitrary changes, and sing "Have you got it yet?". Eventually they realised they never would and that they were simply bearing the brunt of Barrett's idiosyncratic sense of humour. Waters had called it "a real act of mad genius".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett#Departure_from_Pink_Floyd

Justin Bieber sells fabulously ...doesn't mean he is any good though, Fadamor. Floyd post Syd had some good stuff, but certainly nothing worth listening to after Wish you were Here. The Wall was overblown, self important, pompous Roger Waterism.

Syd was the creative force behind the band, even to the extent that just writing about him, in Wish you WEre Here, made a decent album.

I like floyd but this is long overdue. the number of tired oldies who go on and on is a travesty.

why the photo of Roger Waters? he left the band in 1985. update your archives people!!

Syd was as unpretentious and subtle as Waters was self important and bombastic. Piper and Syd's solo work was first class groundbreaking experimental psychedelia. I would wonder about anyone who found Flaming or Lucifer Sam "twee", but then there is no accounting for the taste of Roger Water's fans. Floyd traded off Syd's genius for years...then they just because unimportant and a bit rubbish. The Final Cut for instance is almost unlistenable.

I think Syd did his best work in the early 70s, Madcap Laughs, Barrett and Opel. Without Syd there would have been no Bowie. He paved the way for the whole Brit scene. There are always going to be people who don't get it, and those that appreciate it. I suppose you are in the former group, and me firmly in the latter. Syd's solo work did not have the benefit of a big abbey road production.

In my opinion what Floyd developed into was not worth even a fraction of what they were before, but that is just my opinion, my ears, my musical tastes.

Waters by all accounts was not at all sympathetic nor helpful to Syd, Gilmour appears to have been though.

Lots of people can do what Waters did - introspective MOR rock. Syd was something else altogether, a far rarer creature. I would have loved to hear what Syd could have done with Vashti Bunyan

After Floyd had done trading off Syd's legacy they turned into uninspiring pap.

Syd was doing a lot of drugs, and yes it showed, but I know Ild have rather spent a day in the company of a tripping Syd than a day putting up with Water's and his me me me-ism.

Syd needed a more sympathetic production and people who were willing to spend the time with him. His work needed bringing to fruition, sure.

I dont find any of Syd's work unlistenable, but listening to whats up John , Learning to Fly, or the Wall..gives me the proper rage, and not in a good way.

Waters owed Syd everything, every cent, every house, every car, every accolade, but never gave him nearly enough credit for it.

In the end I couldnt give an effervescing elephant what other people think about my musical tastes, and you are very welcome to listen to whatever floats your boat.

@ Wipeout -- .. For all Your claims and facts - You do not get it. PINK FLOYD was birthed by Syd Barrett. If and when the others felt they wanted to continue without him - it was time for them - to get a NEW NAME. We all know who's bike they were riding. And if Waters were honest about it - he would've continued with a name like .. 'Luke Warm Waters' - or something appropriate like that. But i digress: SUBJECTIVITY - yeah, i can dig it. People like whatever they like - ok. That just goes to support the claims of LaWren - who obviously knows what PINK FLOYD was and was meant to be - AND who was responsible for it. However late they were to that party = Gilmour and Wright support her statements. When they got sick of Waters and they had eaten enough of the pie that Syd built - and Roger burned - to give him the boot. Gilmour at least TRIED to help Syd, but Roger Waters held resentment and disdain out in plain sight, for the and envy he couldn't hide. He didn't want to give anyone more reason to realize who the credit for Pink Floyd belonged to. But i got no truk with anyone who digs Roger Waters MUSIC - ride that elevator 'till the bottom falls out. But his music ain't - and never was PINK FLOYD - just because he plonked the bass with less than admirable ambition while he stood in Syd's space. All they would have had to do was stop taking the PINK FLOYD name in vain.

Openminded? The digs at Syd's mental health and his use of psychedelics show anything more than an open mind. Syd was fine. It was the rest of the world that sucked...and still does to a large extent.

That sound, the experimental edge atom heart mother, saucerful.., Echoes even..that sound was Syd's. They rode that genius long after Syd had opted out of the world.