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Tom In VA wrote:In the video "Live at Pompei" Gilmour IS playing guitar for Echoes. Not sure if Syd ever did. I thought Dave was always a "member of the band".

Echoes was written 3 years after Syd left. That was all Gilmour. But, a primary reason for the hiring of Gilmour was that his style of playing was (in 1968 at least) nearly identical to Barrett's.

Lastly, I just think Syd and that dude from Cure looked about as wigged out as each other.

Robyn Hitchcock is Sydish, so probably a combo of him and the Floyd sound we know and love.

I need to listen to some Robyn Hitchcock. Everybody says he was a huge PF and Syd Barrett fan. I'll have to see if I can see the influcences someday.

BSmack wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:You misspelled “tripping". Badly.

FTFY...

Speaking of tripping, maybe you should try to mix in something about Syd Barrett or Pink Floyd?

So I was tripping on you? That would indicate you were in the vicinity of my ankles. Not what I suggested at all. Speaking of tripping, I saw Pink Floyd live in Madtown in the early 70’s whilst tripping on what was purported to be synthetic psilocybin. I believe it was a pretty neat show.

Goober McTuber wrote:So I was tripping on you? That would indicate you were in the vicinity of my ankles. Not what I suggested at all. Speaking of tripping, I saw Pink Floyd live in Madtown in the early 70’s whilst tripping on what was purported to be synthetic psilocybin. I believe it was a pretty neat show.

My guess is that you had might have had mescaline. Only because real synthetic psilocybin is pretty damned expensive. But hey, as long as you were having the right visions....

Which I am sure looked something like this...

BSmack wrote:Only because real synthetic psilocybin is pretty damned expensive.

Which seems pretty silly to me, since real psilocybin is free.

Those zany pharmeceutical companies...

I suspect that a lot of what we were ingesting back then was not coming from pharmaceutical companies. Couldn’t find those pills anywhere in the PDR.

Goober McTuber wrote:I suspect that a lot of what we were ingesting back then was not coming from pharmaceutical companies.

Back then, who needed pharmy companies? There was this place called Reed College, and they cranked that stuff out of the dorm rooms faster than any pharmy company could.

So naturally, the school that became famous during the counterculture movement was OF COURSE given their own nuclear reactor...makes perfect sense.