SEVERAL SPECIES OF SMALL FURRY ANIMALS GATHERED TOGETHER IN A CAVE AND MOURNING WITH A PICT: Syd Barrett, co-founder of Pink Floyd, is dead at 60. He was a troubled man who produced strange music. When I first heard Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucer Full of Secrets when I was sixteen, no doubt they were interesting, but they didn't strike me then (or now) as particularly good. Critics may disagree, but I never got it.
Still, Pink Floyd served as a musical backbone to my adolescence so, I suppose, Syd Barrett served as its coccyx. For that, I thank him. I hope he is at peace, at last.
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