Syd Barret (Aspie DX'd)

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18 Feb 2009, 10:43 pm

Any comments about him ?

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18 Feb 2009, 10:55 pm

Yeah? Syd Who?

the floyd?

Barret?/toxic@RobertO.iii

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18 Feb 2009, 10:56 pm

Do you mean syd barrett? (formerly of Pink Floyd)

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19 Feb 2009, 5:06 am

Postperson wrote:

Do you mean syd barrett? (formerly of Pink Floyd)

hey postie: you too young to know!! !

PS: googled and found: NO official dx, just (strong) post-mortem claim
but what a very nice thought indeed...

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19 Feb 2009, 5:48 am

I've read speculative claims every now and again. You could peg a lot of different things on him given how strange he appeared to behave in Pink Floyd, but we don't really know the man, and now he's no longer with us.

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19 Feb 2009, 8:45 am

It doesn't matter any more. All that matters is that he seemed content in his final days. Let him rest in peace.

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19 Feb 2009, 9:36 pm

Hector wrote:

...I have read that he was officially DX'd as Aspie , besides what other DXs there may have been , of him .
I was VERY , VERY , RUSHED!! ( Still am now , altho , somewhat , less so . ) when I first posted this...

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20 Feb 2009, 4:39 am

ASS-P wrote:

Hector wrote:

i did see a mention ' officially ' but could not check source and still reeked somewhat unsubstantiated
could be wrong

JohnHopkins: let's please NOT let the man rest in peace:

RIP it SYD! ROCK-ON! FOREVER

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22 Feb 2009, 3:00 pm

syd barrett? (formerly of Pink Floyd) is a hero of my music collection

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24 Feb 2009, 12:02 am

He was wacky because of drugs, from what I've always heard.

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26 Feb 2009, 10:43 pm

...Certainly that contributed :wink: ! !! !! !! !! !!

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27 Feb 2009, 8:21 pm

I read an interview with David Gilmour, in which he claimed that Syd had always been rather odd, even as a child. I personally think that Syd was aspie, given various things that I have read, his lyrics (esp. solo work) and that 'Aspie-ish' look that he had in his eye, both pre and post break down.

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28 Feb 2009, 10:05 pm

He did shine on, that crazy diamond...

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28 Feb 2009, 11:12 pm

CowboyFromHell wrote:

He was wacky because of drugs, from what I've always heard.

He was a prime example of what happens when you take too much acid.

I love that man though.

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01 Mar 2009, 7:32 am

i'd heard that some believe he suffered from aspergers.
whilst some believe drugs caused his breakdown, david gilmour said it woulda happened anyway, but that the drugs worsened it.
i'd read that in an interview with nick mason, someone tried to explain syd's symptoms to him, and he replied "are you sure this is syd's problem?"

i think he was a cool lyricist and musician

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04 Mar 2009, 1:13 am

As for drugs, he was particularly fond of Mandrax...

His sister Rosemary shared some information about him...

As children, she (his sister) and Barrett shared a bedroom and she recalls him leaping from his sheets to conduct an imaginary orchestra. He always had an extraordinary mind, bordering on the autistic or Aspergic. He had a rare talent to exploit ambiguities in language and also experienced synaesthesia — the ability to “see sounds and hear colours” — which was to be a huge influence on his music in his psychedelic phase.

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