Syd Barrett Pink Floyd’s Madcap
by Donald Lee
March 15 2025
March 15 2025
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Syd Barrett was the driving force behind Pink Floyd writing most of the band’s early material in the early years. Syd was compared to John Lennon by their producer, Norman Smith in his memoir, “Syd Barrett could write like John. I've said it before. He wasn't quite as good as John, and I am talking about a Syd on top form with 'See Emily Play'. But he would have developed. Definitely! In time he would have gotten even better.” Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin told an interviewer, “Syd Barrett's writing with the early Pink Floyd was inspirational. Nothing sounded like Barrett before Pink Floyd's first album. There were so many ideas and so many positive statements. You can really feel the genius there, and it was tragic that he fell apart. Both he and Jimi Hendrix had a futuristic vision in a sense.”
Syd Barrett used extended guitar techniques and explored the sonic possibilities of dissonance, distortion, feedback, the echo machine, tapes, and other effects as an innovative guitarist. Syd was influenced by AMM and their guitarist Keith Rowe, known for free improvisation. Keith Rowe would lay his guitar flat on the back and roll ball bearings down the length of the strings. Pink Floyd played several shows with AMM from early 1966 to early 1967 and attended their recording sessions for their album “AMMMusic”.
Syd Barrett was known for playing his guitar through an old echo box and sliding his Zippo lighter along the strings to create space-age like sounds that became associated with Pink Floyd. Barrett also used Binson delay units to create his well-known echo sounds. Barrett’s southern English accent was described as a “quintessential English style of vocal projection” by Guardian writer Nick Kent. David Bowie said that Syd Barrett and Anthony Newley were the first people he heard sing rock music with a British Accent. Syd is known to have played a Harmony hollow body electric guitar, 1963 Harmony Sovereign H1260 acoustic guitar, Fender acoustic guitar, single-coil Danelectro 59 DC, Fender Telecasters, a white Fender Stratocaster, a silver Fender Esquire with mirrors glued to the body. Syd traded the Fender Esquire for a Black Telecaster Custom in 1968, current whereabouts of the mirrored Fender Esquire are unknown.
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