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July 13, 2006 10:06 PM

Syd Barrett has pased. The cofounder of Pink Floyd who "reached for the secret too soon" died from complications related to his diabetes on Friday.
posted by trinarian (71 comments total)

Erm....
posted by jokeefe at 10:08 PM on July 13, 2006

[old]
posted by thirteenkiller at 10:08 PM on July 13, 2006

no kidding?
posted by bob sarabia at 10:09 PM on July 13, 2006

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 2
posted by daksya at 10:10 PM on July 13, 2006 [2 favorites]

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posted by gubo at 10:10 PM on July 13, 2006

sniffle... again
posted by jeblis at 10:10 PM on July 13, 2006

Shine On You Crazy Poster
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 10:11 PM on July 13, 2006

Wow... slow to the ball, guys. I'm sitting in a dingy internet "cafe" in some tiny muddy mountain village outside of Tianjin, China and I break the news Syd Barrett has passed?

Good Pink Floyd overview, and Syd bio at All Music Guide.
posted by trinarian at 10:11 PM on July 13, 2006

oops. how did this not pop up when I typed in Syd?
posted by trinarian at 10:12 PM on July 13, 2006

Congratulations on the worst goddamned dupe ever.
posted by cellphone at 10:12 PM on July 13, 2006

Jesus Christ. Good opium at the cafe, I assume?
posted by keswick at 10:14 PM on July 13, 2006

Still??
posted by jonson at 10:14 PM on July 13, 2006

perhaps the tag search function should be changed to be a bit more practical in the future... so when one types in "Syd"... you know, the link pops up. I don't get the idea of clustering quoted tags. This would stop a lot of doubles.
posted by trinarian at 10:15 PM on July 13, 2006

In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
posted by swell at 10:17 PM on July 13, 2006

Did someone put peepee in your Coke? Or LSD?
posted by bardic at 10:18 PM on July 13, 2006

Crap. I've waited all day for thread that's going to get deleted so I can post some animated gifs and it turns out to be an obit. There goes 18 minutes.
posted by jeblis at 10:18 PM on July 13, 2006

Bush is the new Franco.
posted by stet at 10:19 PM on July 13, 2006

I did my search. I wasn't aware that Yahoo didn't organize threads in chronological order and would rank his recent death below an interview last year and a review from several months ago. Of course, I must be an idiot. And smoking opium... because I'm in China. And dropping acid... because I know who Syd Barrett is.
posted by trinarian at 10:26 PM on July 13, 2006

The second time he died, i cried hard. thanks trinarian.
posted by cascando at 10:26 PM on July 13, 2006

trinarian, the usual protocol when finding out that one has made a double post is to apologize and bow out gracefully.
posted by jokeefe at 10:35 PM on July 13, 2006

I still don't buy it. Hoax!
posted by allen.spaulding at 10:36 PM on July 13, 2006

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posted by one.louder.ash! at 10:36 PM on July 13, 2006

wow. i didn't care about this newsfilter on the first go and i don't care now. thanks for not making the effort to at least include some FPP-worthy material in your post. [noise].
posted by casconed at 10:45 PM on July 13, 2006

I apologized. I don't appreciate the insults. I don't quite think they were warrented.
posted by trinarian at 10:47 PM on July 13, 2006

Aaaand... flameout in 3... 2...
posted by evilcolonel at 10:50 PM on July 13, 2006

Syd Barrett has what?
posted by tellurian at 10:50 PM on July 13, 2006

Is it wrong of me to laugh aloud at one.louder.ash!'s ".." ?
posted by UbuRoivas at 10:52 PM on July 13, 2006

Dont worry, trinarian. This will be deleted. Ignore the casc-whatever newbies.
posted by vacapinta at 10:53 PM on July 13, 2006

Syd Barrett has what?

Ah, there's the problem: Syd Barrett *had* Periodic Algebraic Separation Energy Demodulation, or at least he thought he did.

Then he died.
posted by UbuRoivas at 10:55 PM on July 13, 2006

BUSH IS THE NEW FRANCO!!! FOLLOW THIS MEME!!
posted by stet at 11:01 PM on July 13, 2006

link to apology plz
posted by thirteenkiller at 11:02 PM on July 13, 2006

Trinarian ate the elephant!
posted by shoepal at 11:04 PM on July 13, 2006

China censored news of Syd's death for several days, out of fear of sparking a civillian uprising.
posted by Jimbob at 11:07 PM on July 13, 2006

Which one's Pink?
posted by bunglin jones at 11:07 PM on July 13, 2006

Floyd from Dr. Teeth's Electric Mayhem is dead?
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:10 PM on July 13, 2006

I won't believe it until I see the dead body.

Or...

$
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:11 PM on July 13, 2006

Yeah... there's no apology here. And searching for "Syd" on the home page yields the story. And chiming in with your first comment chiding us all for being so slow on this story (a full 8 comments into a page full of comments pointing out the dupe) is just asking to be mocked a little, Trin. As someone who is no stranger to dupes, I know when to bow out gracefully. Now go fetch my laundry & get back to building my railroad.
posted by jonson at 11:13 PM on July 13, 2006

I am sorry to hear of his pasing.

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posted by First Post at 11:14 PM on July 13, 2006

I don't appreciate the insults.

No, none of us do (when they are being directed at us). And yet we keep coming back.
posted by nanojath at 11:21 PM on July 13, 2006

Syd Barrett will always mean something "different" to me ... thanks metafilter...

no gnome song references...

lack of drugs.... or lack of opinionated preference....

i'm happy just the same

if you didn't get it, you'll never get it

syd barrrett would haVE IT THE SAME
posted by matimer at 11:24 PM on July 13, 2006

That's some mad Syd SCIENCE.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:26 PM on July 13, 2006

syd said he's much obliged to you for making it clear that he's not here
posted by pyramid termite at 11:31 PM on July 13, 2006

tellurian, you have made me laugh hard.
posted by dminor at 11:32 PM on July 13, 2006

careful guys we might harsh his mellow
posted by keswick at 11:32 PM on July 13, 2006

I just pased wind when I found out about Syd.
posted by newfers at 11:33 PM on July 13, 2006

"Crap. I've waited all day for thread that's going to get deleted so I can post some animated gifs and it turns out to be an obit. There goes 18 minutes."

THANKS FOR THE ADD!!!111

But seriously, I didn't comment on the original, so, here's to you, madcap!

::pours some out::
posted by Democritus at 11:48 PM on July 13, 2006

posted by bob sarabia at 12:04 AM on July 14, 2006

lets see. Dead thread. So head over to to this russian site and post the first not-NSFW image you can find.


posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 12:10 AM on July 14, 2006

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posted by bob sarabia at 12:19 AM on July 14, 2006

Thank god we've still got Jim Morrison.
posted by freebird at 12:19 AM on July 14, 2006

posted by bob sarabia at 12:19 AM on July 14, 2006

posted by bob sarabia at 12:24 AM on July 14, 2006

I dare not post this image. NSFW
posted by bob sarabia at 12:27 AM on July 14, 2006

posted by dhammond at 12:36 AM on July 14, 2006

bob sarabia = debaser!
posted by shoepal at 1:06 AM on July 14, 2006

posted by jeblis at 1:26 AM on July 14, 2006

I wanna grow up to be bob sarabia
posted by cloudscratcher at 1:27 AM on July 14, 2006

Traveling, I see that I've been remiss in killing animated gifs on my day-in, day-out browser. Or maybe not.

Syd was an interesting guy. This is about what he deserved. Kudos. I think he died a week or so ago, though.
posted by mrgrimm at 1:44 AM on July 14, 2006

Barrett paired with bandmates David Gilmour and Roger Waters in 1965 but left the band after just three years following a battle with drugs.

Really? I'm not a huge fan, but I kinda though Barrett passed as Gilmour came in. True?

According to Roger Waters, Barrett came into what was to be their last practice session with a new song he had dubbed "Have You Got It, Yet?" The song seemed simple enough when he first presented it to his bandmates, but it soon became impossibly difficult to learn: as they were practicing it, Barrett kept changing the arrangement. He would then play it again, with the arbitrary changes, and sing "Have you got it yet?" After more than an hour of trying to "get it," they realized they never would.

So far ahead of those guys ... have you got it yet?
posted by mrgrimm at 1:49 AM on July 14, 2006

Heh.
posted by delmoi at 1:55 AM on July 14, 2006

posted by zardoz at 2:11 AM on July 14, 2006

WHO KILLED LAURA PALMER?
posted by Smart Dalek at 2:22 AM on July 14, 2006

in Communist China, Syd Barrett kills you
posted by matteo at 2:27 AM on July 14, 2006

so does this mean the sex pistols will break up?
posted by Hat Maui at 2:29 AM on July 14, 2006

posted by johnny novak at 2:37 AM on July 14, 2006

I heard he didn't really die, he's just hanging out with Ken Lay.
posted by SteveInMaine at 2:47 AM on July 14, 2006

johnny I grew up 30 minutes from that peach, and I can tell you we laughed every time we passed it
posted by cmicali at 3:24 AM on July 14, 2006

cmicali

I found the picture in the anvil thread yesterday. What were the townsfolk thinking? Do they have a monorail?
posted by johnny novak at 3:45 AM on July 14, 2006

See, it's not my fault I double posted. The software made me do it.
posted by eustacescrubb at 3:56 AM on July 14, 2006

Well the Gaffney people love their peaches
posted by cmicali at 3:59 AM on July 14, 2006