Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Wednesday, April 26. 2023

More on Schizophrenia


Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd, gradually sank into psychosis during the group's early days. The group wrote this remarkable homage to him (this performed by David Gilmour):





Posted by Bird Dog in Music at 15:53 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

I recall reading somewhere that Syd had a roommate named Scotty who had a habit of spiking EVERYTHING with acid. I'm sure that didn't help.
#1 Maniac on 2023-04-26 17:16 (Reply)
Syd did way too much liquid LSD when a few drops will make an entire sheet.
Oldest sibling fried himself with too many trips in the 100 acre woods.
The hidden message on The Wall is for Syd and the Wish You Were Here album is about him.
O/T-Read about a German court clearing a Roger Waters concert and realized just how far gone it is.
Later a page said the world is a prison now...find your gang.
#2 Roger Chalfont on 2023-04-26 18:21 (Reply)
Jim Gordon died last month. He played on so many records in the 60's and 70's that nobody has a complete discography. Derek and the Dominoes, Steely Dan, Seals and Crofts, Frank Zappa etc etc etc.

He was also undiagnosed schizophrenic that got worse with age. He ended up murdering his own mother and spending the rest of his life in a facility for the criminally insane. He never made an effort to get out even though he qualified years ago.
#3 itsatax on 2023-04-27 10:06 (Reply)
The way I heard it (from the band's official history) had nothing to do with mental illness. Syd was a heroin addict -- enough so that he showed up at one of their concert venues so wasted that he couldn't perform, and the band had to fire him.
#4 jdgalt1 on 2023-04-28 15:09 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.