When I was an animator, I’d listen to music to keep focus. After about a decade songs got irritating and repetitive; improv jams and formless explorations like this were what I’d rely on as ambience. Like classical music, it takes a while to learn to listen. Friends would just hear noise; I heard music that travels places. It reminds me of hiking a new trail or riding a bike through a strange city.

@oupahens9219

4 ай бұрын

It is always a shower to the ears and soul to put on Metal Machine Music for a couple of hours a year to readjust.

For years this was said to be "20 minutes of percussion." It's a whole lot more than that. It's Syd's free jazz masterpiece. How in the world did they ignore this and Opel back in the day?

@PsychedeliaMinds

8 жыл бұрын

+zen babaloo completely agree. Opel is absolutely beautiful

@loveevolmachine

8 жыл бұрын

you are right mate

@Ratelzwatel

7 жыл бұрын

The long percussion is 'Lanky Part 2', which is unreleased.

@stevenjosuetapiasalazar4294

5 жыл бұрын

Opel!! Maravillosa pieza para despejar la mente

@johnnyw8444

5 жыл бұрын

So true cheers

This is a 1968 studio jam of Syd Barrett with Soft Machine. It's 20 minutes of those guys playing with and off each other all together at the same time. It's a band performance, not a solo recording. The notion that it could be Syd on every instrument (besides percussion) is highly unlikely. Sure, there are overdubs to enhance the track. But Barrett's frame of mind was not focused enough to diligently overdub the whole 20-minute piece four or more times to get bass, guitars, keyboards and sound effects. No. It didn't happen. This isn't one of those boy-genius solo recordings, it's a group. Steve Took is playing percussion, as widely reported (the only credit given besides Syd). But it's Robert Wyatt on drums and Mike Ratledge on keyboards. The bass and guitars are Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers and Hugh Hopper. I'm not sure which one is playing which instrument. I lean toward it being Syd on bass, at least at first, because that instrument takes so much of the lead. And there's some similar sounding bass on his final session (8-12-74). But if so, it changes to Hugh Hopper later when the bass playing gets so much more adept. The guitar parts are more "thrown in". It was revisited and mixed in early 1969. After the track was recorded it wasn't hard to add touches throughout, which Syd and Ratledge applied. There's a 2nd guitar in places. There are weird backwards tape moments, panning, add-on sound effects, mellotron, vibes, and other psychedelia. It's a cool track. Made not in the least less significant by not being solo but being a collaboration between Syd Barrett and Soft Machine, two legends of Brit Psychedelic music. Can't help but hear echoes of "Sing This All Together (See What Happens)".

@GCSoundArtifacts

2 жыл бұрын

That's the most insightful comment I have read here. Thank you!

@fuccasound3897

2 жыл бұрын

What can i say, i agree with GC Sound Artifacts reply; and it is so obvious just from listening, that it's the Soft's at work here with Syd and the others. i've heard that the Soft Machine were asked to help out because they could cope with Syd's varying tempo's and timings. Listening to the songs that were released they do a brilliant job.

@SpeedOfThought1111

2 жыл бұрын

I'm reading a bio on Syd right now (which is why I heard about this track) and it states that Kevin Ayers did not participate.

@solsunson262

Жыл бұрын

agreed.. some people reach very (baby) strange conclusions on how this instrumental take was recorded...iiwii really does sound like the late 60s Soft Machines keyboardist Mike Ratledge pounding on the organ..not sure about the piano player tho

@movieman4710

Жыл бұрын

Even if it was at all known for a fact that it’s the members of Soft Machine playing (which I’m fairly sure it’s not), it still makes sense Syd Barrett would be the credited artist. Like there’s a shit ton of albums where even though it’s a whole band playing free form improv it’s only credited to one artist (there are several by Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra for examples). Even though it’s a jam, Syd Barrett is still acting as bandleader and it was during sessions for his album, also I’m sure it was assumed by everyone involved with the song that Syd would be the sole attributed artist

Syd Barrett and his track "Ramadhan": a free-jazz piece played by a big genius!

despite what you might read in the comments soft machine did not play on this..by their own admission they were first contacted by barrett after a gig they did at the hundred club in london in march 1969 and were booked by barrett to do one session on the 3rd may 1969 overdubbing the barrett tracks 'clowns and jugglers','no good trying',and 'love you'....this track is from june 8th 1968-much earlier-at that time the ayers line up of soft machine was busy touring the states and hugh hopper had yet to join soft machine

@officialFredDurstfanclub

11 ай бұрын

So is it just Syd and Took? Someone pointed out that it wouldn’t be likely for Syd to have gone and overdubbed the track loads of times to add the effects plus guitars and mellotron (assuming that’s him playing bass), unless it was done at a later time like when they did all those overdubs for the Madcap Laughs songs he did in ‘68?

@damiensuil2183

11 ай бұрын

syd did indeed overdub on this track on a number of sessions -apparently he was very keen on this piece and tooky helped out@@officialFredDurstfanclub

Nobody on this planet could do with a guitar what Syd could. This is a fragmented masterpiece that you couldn't possibly fit into any timeline by listening to it.

Syd est le brillant reflet d'une époque, sa musique un astéroïde fantôme qui revient jeter son dévolu sur l'art sonore. Une onde prodigieuse chargée de paradoxes d'où s'échappent l'obscurantisme la féérie et l'irrationnel, facteurs hypnotiques défiant les âmes vulnérables en quête d'absolu. Son architecture musicale tourmentée est un court tunnel qui mène à la lumière 🤠

This is a collaboration Syd Barrett did with his friend Steve Peregrin Took, former percussionist with Tyrannosaurus Rex. Steve was also a backing vocalist for a session with David Bowie.

@damiensuil2183

Жыл бұрын

spot on

@oupahens9219

4 ай бұрын

So, who were all these other musicians?

@reiayanami455

Ай бұрын

Only him and Syd as far as I know

This sums up my psychedelic neurons left in my brain 🧠 im 55, piper was always my go to plus madcap, im intoverted and recluse just as l immagined it to be. Thank you for this beautifully memorie. Peace to you all, wish you were here right now sipping on mushroom tea 🍵 ❤

@sanpatricio9490

11 ай бұрын

Me too wish I was sipping mushroom tea.

The cover image is really smart.. Its actually a collection of Syd's songs, on the right is "See Emily play", on the left is "bike" and around the masked man there are "Apples and Oranges" even the masked man can either Syd himself or his song ""Clowns and Jugglers"

@Kowasi

5 жыл бұрын

What are those planes meant to reference? The teddybears? Why the picture frame? …and where is Lucifer Sam?

@SuperNevile

5 жыл бұрын

@@Kowasi "you were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom" : planes/bears = childhood top hat /mask = Arnold Layne Vid. Sam could be in the basket or up the tree ;-)

@psychedelicpiper999

4 жыл бұрын

+Kowasi The teddy bear is reportedly a reference to a heavy acid trip Syd Barrett had with a group of friends, including Storm Thorgerson (who did the cover here). Everyone apparently saw Syd dancing around as a teddy bear while on it, and Syd supposedly became withdrawn following the trip.

@ragayomama

4 жыл бұрын

wow. amazing you noticed that.

@psychedelicpiper999

4 жыл бұрын

I forgot where I read it, but I have frequented the Syd Barrett groups on FB, and talked to ex friends and girlfriends of his that knew him. Somewhere along the way, someone posted about that trip. I think it may have actually been a post from the Men on the Border page. They go really deep into Syd’s history, and have lots of long posts dedicated towards dispelling rumors and myths about Syd, and digging up facts about why things happened the way they happened.

Syd is truly verily rare that the mainstream music industry can't make room for bcoz his music lacks the common commercial value but as only time can tell, his creative juice is now better absorbed & appreciated, aleluah!

@thinginground5179

3 жыл бұрын

fuck the industry.

@psychedelicpiper999

Жыл бұрын

Syd knew how to make hits. The 1965 sessions proved he had bangers, and “Arnold Layne” and “See Emily Play” were bangers, too. “Piper” had a good number of them as well. That’s what got the album to chart so high in the UK, despite grouping them together with extremely experimental instrumentals. It simply got to a point where Syd saw the music industry for what it really was. He hated the lack of control, and being labeled a sell-out by the audiences he originally played to, while his new audiences who loved “See Emily Play” disrespected the band’s instrumentals. The record label kept milking him, and for him, enough was enough. But of course, if he wanted to, and without any pressure, he was easily capable of writing commercial songs.

@job5986

Жыл бұрын

@@psychedelicpiper999piper is the best floyd album no doubt about that

@cultureclashmusicvideo4545

Жыл бұрын

I would agree with you, and due to Syd’s original and unique contribution to the whole band’s sound.

Never heard this before. Definitely jazz influences. Floyd with Barrett did a ton of freestyle jams. This one is really cool.

The mighty syd barrett strikes again! I heard that this was just percussion and random bits of nothing slapped together but I knew better and decided to check it out, glad I did. How tf did something as awesome as this get written of like its nothing special?

Wonderful previously unreleased track! Typically, I notice that most people (incl. ROLLING STONE magazine) dismissed it, when it was first available as a free download for the "AN INTRODUCTION TO SYD BARRETT" album. But what were they talking about?!? This track ranks with the best of Pink Floyd's early improvisational material. Listen to that bass guitar, which I initially supposed to be Roger Waters at some his best, only to learn that it's apparently Syd himself playing it! And listen to that mellotron, after the 11-minute mark! It sounds like either he time-traveled into the future to jam with Autechre (my favorite experimental electronic group), or else they time-traveled back into the past to jam with him!

@Kowasi

5 жыл бұрын

All time is one time, Brandon. All chords are eternal chords. All notes, one note ultimately.

@Xavier-ty4jw

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kowasi sure...if you're talking of the monotone, but this isn't the case

@Kowasi

3 жыл бұрын

@@Xavier-ty4jw As you wish~

@pbzp

Жыл бұрын

@@Kowasi ALL COMMENTS, ONE COMMENT please respond to this in kind (also i liked ur comment btw)

The guitars on this track sound so much like Syd. Thanks for posting.

I don't think anyone mentioned "In Islam, Ramadan is a holy month of fasting, introspection and prayer". Syd was advanced and he was 2 free to be Pink or Floyd. This astonishing music reminds me of "Bitches Brew". Miles and Syd had a lot in common and a lot different. It took a lot of alcohol, "girl n boy", n psychedelics to make bitches brew not to mention exposure to 19 y.o. Betty Davis and not much older Hendrix. Difference is Miles had a recording contract, an international following and sidemen. Syd is the best part of Floyd cause he was so free and such a changeling! Thank you Willyam St Jean! ~~*

@jamesdaniel2363

6 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, Sid was an "acid casualty" which means he had the genius, but not the stamina, nor the discipline to be anything more than an "inspiration" later in life, or maybe not----given how he lived and died in obscurity. While an interesting character, his music doesn't age well, nor is it particularly inspiring to enough people to even know who he was. This rambling mess he recorded is best left alone.

@grocerewe1935

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdaniel2363 uninformed assertions.

@solidmentalgrace

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdaniel2363 i wouldn't trust a man whose dream isn't to live a quiet life and then die in obscurity.

@sealevelbear

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdaniel2363 Nope.

@Onio_

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdaniel2363 Another ridiculous proposition which is spouted every time Syd is recognised for what he truly was. People like you are the reason he died in obscurity; people who are far too uninteresting and talentless.

How did I not know of the existence of this until today? I fucking love barrett man..

@bluecollar825

3 жыл бұрын

Dont feel bad Im 2 months behind you lol. I love Syd too 🤪✌

The wait was worth it. The fidelity of the recording alone fully elucidates the performances. All that is left is to work out who is playing what - so much personality.

Wow, I had never heard of this until today, and I'm a huge fan of Syd. Thanks for posting this- glad I stumbled upon it!

Needs more motorcycles.

Actually jazz maybe suited him better during his latter days. This is actually quite good!

@Esrom_music

2 жыл бұрын

Eceipt you have to actually study and commit to learning theory. And poor syd couldn't commit to anything for for than a couple of weeks at a time

@SpeedOfThought1111

2 жыл бұрын

@@Esrom_music lol no you don't

@ethangandy1406

Жыл бұрын

@@Esrom_music even if so, he knew enough to get by. The guys clearly was not a total idiot.

@dewilew2137

Жыл бұрын

This is not jazz.

@psychedelicpiper999

Жыл бұрын

@@dewilew2137 It’s jazz fusion without jazz instruments.

My goodness that's good..my jack russell pal is called Syd and he is is so talented.I really missed Roger Barrett from the Pink Floyd and no guys he was Roger Barrett RIP Syd x

It’s a shame that this isn’t available on iTunes. Thank you very much for the upload!

Conga played by Steve Peregrin Took during the recording sessions in May 1968. He had to keep his involvement in this session secret because Marc wouldn't have liked him 'moonlighting' for others while in Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is why it wasn't until recently when his identity was confirmed.

@mysteryjesus

8 жыл бұрын

What? How could that be? Syd was Marc's hero, as if he wouldn't approve of Steve playing with him. Something suspect with that story.

@feemercurymoon

8 жыл бұрын

Hi Marc wouldn't approve because as you say Syd was Marc's 'hero' so as Marc considered Took to be secondary to him Took's identity was kept hidden so Marc wouldn't feel snubbed by his 'lesser' getting to play with his hero.

@mysteryjesus

8 жыл бұрын

Fee Warner Interesting...

@feemercurymoon

8 жыл бұрын

Actually, there wasn't a "bitter feud" as you put it +psychedelicpiper. When they met at Boston Gliderdome they hugged. They met a number of times before Bolan's death and Took was distraught when he heard Bolan had died. It was a clash of egos certainly, Took was writing songs and wanted the duo to perform some of his songs. Needless to say Bolan was having none of it and as Bolan was the one who was financially outward looking band member compared to Took whose 'underground' ethics were less commercial the management sided with Bolan - and so Took was sacked prior to the US Tour, but was forced to go on it as the contracts were already signed for Tyrannosaurus Rex as "Bolan and Took".

@psychedelicpiper999

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info, you certainly know your stuff.

This is brilliant. I think it’s possible that part of Syd’s decision making was he was a true artist and wanted to get away from the hype. This is music at its best.

AMAZING!!!! Have had it since the release of Introduction. Love It!! Best track!

its the proverbial Cheshire cat -comes out of nowhere,grows and grows on me ..this jazzy masterpiece

hell yes this sounds like earthbound music. love it

@swindlesween

2 жыл бұрын

Yooo this really does sound like earthbound music! Thanks for making that connection.

@psychedelicpiper999

Жыл бұрын

Earthbound was really influenced by the psychedelic era of music.

Marc Bolan loved and admired Syd and his poetic mind,would sit in on his jam sessions in total admiration . . I'm sure he'd have been ok with Took on percussion for this piece

@wailin1967

4 жыл бұрын

I think he would've been jealous - he was a real control freak.

@silverdragon710

4 жыл бұрын

ugh bolan was such a poser

@feemercurymoon

4 жыл бұрын

@@wailin1967 Indeed he was!

@planetqueen4782

3 жыл бұрын

@@feemercurymoon I don't understand why you look after a shrine to Marc , when all you ever do is badmouth him !

@psychedelicpiper999

Жыл бұрын

Bolan kicked Took out and wiped his overdubs on “A Beard of Stars”. He was dating one of Syd’s ex’s at that point, so he got what he wanted. 😂

improvisational sensational genius-love the drums by tooky!

Syd - The Artist 🌻

It sounds like great impressions of Lalo Schifrin doing Dirty Harry incidental and Fred Karlin doing Westworld chase music before either of them actually surfaced, it's great.

at 2::15 That melody is so essential, so beautiulf true jazz!

Ten years more and so many people will understand this masterpiece

@phyll6133

Жыл бұрын

I understand about 50% of this and it's 100% better than Pink Floyd.

@cleftturnip7774

Жыл бұрын

That's pretty vague

Going to see Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets tomorrow: will be fascinated to see if they can reincarnate the spirit of the original Floyd.

@bruce369able

Жыл бұрын

how was it?

@hssmrg

Жыл бұрын

@@bruce369able I was impressed. Nick Mason gave a sincere tribute to Syd Barrett “without whom we wouldn’t be here” and they played with enthusiasm. But it was a tribute band rather than something completely original.

its sad that its taken years after his death that people are finally starting to see the truth about Syd and pink Floyd . I remember years ago when I first got into Pink Floyd the whole thing seemed weird to me but every time I would point it out the community of fans would just "lol Syds crazy" and dismiss it. as I read more and more i understood pretty much what happened as i imagine most do now thanks to the internet.

@alexalex-fp2fo

7 жыл бұрын

thank you youtube!

@LibertyLeslie

6 жыл бұрын

Personally I think Syd seriously actively prevented it. Now that he is dead we can intrude and celebrate an artist who made three architects into musicians. It took another 3 decades to make them artists. His sister is glad too and said he would not have liked it. I guess there is a lot of truth in that artists don't get their appreciation till after they die.

@toyaquiyvoyaya

6 жыл бұрын

Lol, I was terrified of Syd when I was a child. Now he just seems too good to be true. He's the only musician in the British psychedelic scene that could compete with the BIG Psychedelic bands of USA, like Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Too sad that he is sometimes neglected, one of the most brilliant minds in the history of Rock Music, for sure.

@droprecords3189

5 жыл бұрын

Liberty Leslie I hope you're not implying that david gilmoure or rick wright were nothing without syd. Maybe roger and nick but not those 2.

@5jerry1

4 жыл бұрын

@@droprecords3189 ~ There's no e in Gilmour.

Delightful! Soft Machine with Syd joining in on guitar.

Here we do taste melodic contours known and loved by Hindus, but there is also an absolutely new harmonic material which brings us prisms, clusters of chords, light chimes and tinkling of garlands. What strikes first of all in this music is, on the one hand, the penetrating charm of the harmonic aggregations and, on the other hand the absolute clarity of the intervals 🔥🕊

He's on that Sun Ra shit

in my younger days I listened to madcap laughs and barret albums on LSD and they sounded great! but dip (drug induced psychosis) is a sad,sad, nasty thing that can happen to anyone if they are not cateful

@delhidelirium9091

6 жыл бұрын

1 word : " crippling "

@TheBluesman511

6 жыл бұрын

jisim 67 : i listened Syd Barret no drugs and was high on music. No needed bloody lsd or anything else...

@3-methylindole730

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheBluesman511 Not needed, but appreciated.

@cdkilo77

5 жыл бұрын

Yes but his solo music is amazing. And yes you can hear him start to become more and more withdrawn as he sometimes would forget lyrics and get a bit lost but the music is genius in my opinion. Some of the best lyrics I've ever heard. It's more like poetry.

@Sandwich13455

4 жыл бұрын

Drugs stunt your mind!

look at this guitar...it's everywhere if you look for it!

beyond words and from another planet

That was something a bit different but good 🎸🎸🎺🎹🥁

This is groovy baby. Sounds like a soundtrack from an indie film with beatniks

Many Floyd fans and music lovers in general sometimes ask something like "how Pink Floyd would sound along it's career if Syd stayed as the band's frontman and creative leader?" I think they would go in a way similar to this style...and far beyond. Much more.

The thing that's really scaring me is that i totally get this.

great track! so rich! thanks!

Sounds like Can.

This is so "The end of the Game " by Peter Green in spirit.

Amazing to draw to while tripping

превосходно! даже не слышал эту композицию раньше

idk but i enjoy these sorts of pieces. i could be nuts but this is interesting and fun to listen to to me, not the best thing I ever heard but fun.

Masterpiece!!

The pinnacle of British musical individuality.

The picture is the album cover to, "An Introduction to Syd Barrett." Such a cool image.

Actually, Barrett is doing something similiar to what Zappa did with the Mothers of Invention, prompting the other musicians with his rhythm guitar and pointing the direction of the piece. I site "King Kong" on side 4 of "Uncle Meat" as an example. This even applies to the episodes of complete musical abandon and anarchy. And don't forget that both the Stones and Floyd were impacted by "Freak Out" and "Absolutely Free". There is very little in the way of melody in Syd's playing. He's more involved with rhythm and timbre like his idol Varese.

Thank you,been waiting and searching to hear this ...not awful at all....

That could have been the best Pink Floyd album cover yet! Is it a Hipgnosis picture? Haven't even come close to reading all of the comments, but some interesting prespective from what I have read! Maybe this has already been discussed. Didn't know this existed, but I've been a big Floyd/Soft Machine fan since the early 70s. Great stuff!

@psychedelicpiper999

Жыл бұрын

It’s the cover to the “Introduction to Syd Barrett” compilation that David Gilmour executive produced, and which features a few remixes of Syd’s tracks. Unfortunately, “Rhamadan” was a download-only track which has since expired. I really wish they’d release “Rhamadan” as a Record Store Day exclusive, at least. And yes, the album cover’s by Storm.

@andreazavareei6548

Ай бұрын

@@psychedelicpiper999 It's at least physically on the 2015 Japanese Madcap Laughs CD

@psychedelicpiper999

Ай бұрын

@@andreazavareei6548 Very digitally compressed, though, a victim of the loudness wars. I got a copy, just to check the waveforms. The iTunes bonus track is the best-sounding source for this track.

And there's a chocolate teapot in orbit around Saturn.

@zetetick395

6 жыл бұрын

Woo! I LOVE chocolate!

@toyaquiyvoyaya

6 жыл бұрын

Gong reference?

@rainblaze.

5 жыл бұрын

Zetetik - yeah chocolate's cool..... though probably not that one what with it being so near the sun an all. But hot chocolate can be cool as well ........ mmmmmmmm chocolate!!

@Twistedhippy

5 жыл бұрын

A teapot orbiting the sun is a reference to Bertrand Russell the Philosopher.

Brilliant of course. Lockstep with the Beats..

So much that has already been told about Syd and it's easy to believe it when you know what decade he created his music in! The man was a genre all his own and will always be talked about like a creepy painting you'd find in the attic of an old rundown house! Or maybe they could make a really good motion picture about him and tell the music world who gave birth to Pink Floyd and not who made one album and disappeared! Who knows maybe they will! Who could play Syd? 💎

@MegaCirse

4 жыл бұрын

Je verrais bien Edward Norton pour le rôle "post Floyd" ..... Votre commentaire est sympa merci .. ;-)

@Kowasi

3 жыл бұрын

@@MegaCirse Mr Norton's a good call, but I thought more Mr. J. Depp…

What a shame this masterpiece is no longer available to buy. Edit: having KZread as the sole source for it isn't too bad though. Sounds great to these ears at double speed (the bike sounds ferocious) and also at a quarter speed (the soundtrack to an unreleased Kubrick film set in deep space).

I just love this

Is that Syd on bass?? And what is that funny distorted key-like instrument playing throughout? Very cool.

@Nastic88

3 жыл бұрын

It sounds to me like a Farfisa organ then a Mellotron. Brilliant and influenced by Rick Wright IMHO...

This sounds FRESH!!!!!

Ummagumma has got nothing against a masterpiece like Rhamadan.

@MinorCirrus

6 жыл бұрын

Ummagumma should have included Rhamadan if you ask me!

@laynescooby9784

5 жыл бұрын

Ummagumma is great

@5jerry1

4 жыл бұрын

@@MinorCirrus ~ Why? That's post-Barrett Floyd, and this is post-Floyd Barrett.

@MinorCirrus

4 жыл бұрын

@@5jerry1 That's my wishful thinking if you will. If Syd had stayed in the band a bit longer, this could have been his solo contribution to the Ummagumma studio project.

@Kowasi

3 жыл бұрын

@@MinorCirrus Mr. Barrett remaining with Pink Floyd happens, just not how we see.

They ignored Syd because they didn’t want to hurt pink Floyd sales. Period.

@Spuzzmacher

2 ай бұрын

I think that's pretty fair assessment of where Roger was at once Syd was out of the picture and PF was his. Suddenly Syd's contributions were almost entirely cut from Saucerful and they've all said they dropped Syd's songs from the live set pretty quickly bc even though they weren't too confident in writing without him, they had to move on & find their own sound. Sure, but then Waters made quite a career out of playing up Syd's "madness" (of being an artist and not wanting to do endless repetitive music & performances, so omg he must be craaaazy). Gilmour was pretty adamant about getting Syd back to making music & paid for Syds solo recordings out of his own pocket, got the rest of the musicians together, played on em, mixed them, made sure Syd got included on compilations and got his royalties for decades, & still seems the most affected, but then Syd & Dave were the childhood friends who learned to play guitar together & traveled on their own pre-floyd. So I think I give DG & to a slightly lesser extent Rick Wright the credit for making the effort with him, especially as challenging as his sprawling free-form compositions were to record. But Waters...

There’s a sequence on an early Floyd/Syd playlist I’ve curated that has Lanky, Pt. 1, Rhamadan, Sysyphus Pt. 3, and the John Latham tracks 1-9 in one section. I’d love to sample Lanky, Pt. 2 and slot it into the sequence as well.

Fabulous, thank you

Floyd fan since 1987. Aged 14

oh my grud! if only he"d finished it !! the vision here is amazin , puddin ! Quick fixers -fuk off --- true believers - listen + imagine....what would his vocals + lyrics b like ???? its a paintin

@edmess6372

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not certain that this was to have lyrics. Most likely going in a sort of return to interstellar direction. From what I've gathered it could also have been called innerstellar.

Wow!..a great bit of music...much more interesting than Pink Floyd.

Reminds me of Peter Green's "The End of the Game" album...

@IICARUS99

5 жыл бұрын

Caverman there's also the lost Mad Jam from Germany that Peter Green has on cassette tape that never saw the light of day. Maybe someday.

@irplane

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like The End of Game's "Peter Green" album...

@pauloalexandrepaixaodeoliv3899

2 жыл бұрын

Its pure lovecraft brazilian group. The cave experimental side.and troglo jazzy touches...

@pauloalexandrepaixaodeoliv3899

2 жыл бұрын

Spontaneous and warmful too....

المرحوم طلع يصوم رمضان 😍

Location looks like Newnham in Cambridge

pretty clear that syd was into zappa

@russellmurray3964

Жыл бұрын

And Sun Ra.

@andreazavareei6548

2 ай бұрын

I believe that I read in a biography in the 90s that he loved his copy of Freak Out! That's what got me into Zappa.

Brilliant

Love it so this is how PF copied him to do long sets

WTF This was nothing but the bongo & motocycle when I last heard the bootleg, and it was dismissed in the books as such as well. Did someone DIY this of if this is real, wtf is wrong with the Floyd & Record Co for not releasing this stuff? Barrett didn’t write & play music so no one could hear it. Ffs take all these leftovers and odds & ends, put them on an album and release it.

Very original sounds.

VERY VERY GOOD. WHO WAS THE CRAZY ONE AGAIN?

Love this

Genius ❤️

Some of this is very Stones-like [I'm thinking of bits of At Their Satanic Majesty's Request]. Excellent.

@liamardo007

8 жыл бұрын

+routeoz02 I think they were heavily influenced by the beatles too. All that 'for the benefit of mr kite' type stuff! People even spoke weirdly in those days.. sort of a cross between tommy steele and bbc radio broadcasters.. keith moon, classic example.

@daleeloph7759

5 жыл бұрын

routeoz02 yeah I heard that too why don't we sing this song all together

is floyd syd's pink elephant in the room!

if you told me this was sun ra I wouldn't be surprised

this song is basically pink floyds intersteller overdrive on steroids.

Pretty cool! Would fit in very nicely with Miles Davis' "On The Corner" album/box set

I bet you that that is steve perequinne took on percusion

Fuck yeah !!!! " What colour is time ?? " unreleased material

7:46 taking off, telling story with sounds-thats music for me. 12:00 what kind o effect is it?

@Kowasi

2 жыл бұрын

I heard that the effect at 12:00 is a mellotron…

I love the repetitive percussive guitar-you can almost here it say rhamadan!

Thanks for the upload. Intriguing piece, yes, like several stoner jams of the era (Mighty Baby, Clark and Hutchinson).

Disturbing…I like it a lot!

This is Barret´s "End of the game" or is it the other way around ?

@mchorchos

6 жыл бұрын

good comparison. i love peter green and 'end of the game', he leads the other guys like a mentor on this album. they paint background to the story and peter paints main characters. but here on 'rhamadan' it lacks leading instrument. i'm not even sure what Syd plays here; not much guitar here; i've read somewhere he played it all by himself [except congas]. Correct me if i'm wrong.

@delhidelirium9091

6 жыл бұрын

I´d never heard this one even though I have all albums, the box set which comes with Opel and all outtakes, the compilation with "Bob Dylan Blues" in it which is amazing in its naivety and childish reverie. But yeah, definitely , 1st few secs I hear of this and it instantly reminded me of just how good those post fleetwood mac singles and "end of the game" were ... I loooove Peter Green (up till that point at least, inclusive) as much I like Syd. Why my favourite artists ended up in the " acid casuality " category is beyond me, really. It´s not like I set myself in the 80s to like acid freak outs exclusively or anything ( which I do not even associate with these guys anyways). Glad you enjoy both too, pretty sure the reference went over most people´s heads .

yes I read about the motorcycle overdub

Walk out on Pink Floydd to join the Soft Machine? Good Evening Sir!

@vaughnhenderson1174

3 жыл бұрын

Nick Mason from Pink Floyd and Rick Fenn from Soft Machine actually did several albums together. A lot of good stuff in Mason's solo work.

Fun, avant garde!

une barrett de Syd ,premiere presse

Is this an album or c.d as it is today i could buy somewhere im a big fa of syd