#madcap laughs

[aerial-tal]

Unseen Syd Barrett picture, November 1967.

[guessimdumb]

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Syd Barrett - Dark Globe (1970)

I knew the version on Madcap Laughs, and I'd heard the version on Opel, but this one (released on a bootleg in 1986) is very different from both. The Madcap Laughs track is painful and out of tune at times, whereas this one has "a ghostly and slightly out-of-sync vocal shadowing the main one. That ghostly shadow enhances the woozy mystique of the recording considerably"*

[killcityarchive]

Syd Barrett, 1969

Madcap Laughs photoshoot.

Photography by Mick Rock.

[anewkindofanger]

[sectumsempraxz]

"I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway."

Syd Barrett

[yokoohnoooo]

practicing profiles.

1st sketch is from a Julia Margaret Cameron photo.

2nd is from a portrait of Syd Barrett by Mick Rock.

[lonelinessfollowsme]

I’m a little sad that most young people won’t understand the simple pleasure of vinyl records. Or the fun I used to have running home, putting the record on, and then devouring the inner sleeve for the photos and words to the songs.

[piperplay]

Good morning folks, how handsome is he? I'm actually speachless