Saputello

Everything sounds so damn retro, starting from the cover...

Absolutely incomplete review (where is alan's psichedelic breakfast???) and with absurd judgments. Goodness me.

Could it be a singer-songwriter like Dylan?

Yesssaaaah!

What leaves me shocked and fascinates me is: Syd used LSD as a vehicle to express something new, to live an artistic experience. And then the same LSD took away his ability to continue playing, composing, singing.

Anyway, what I believe (and what I haven't read anywhere to form a personal opinion) is that when a person feels the need to take so much LSD to stay in a constant trip (and then also the abuse of mandrax), they have problems and weaknesses that are out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, Syd was an artist, perhaps a genius, but a weak and ill genius. It's sad that his artistic story ended so soon.

regardless..

I must say that, considering the inevitable spelling mistakes (and what about Joe strammer? or maybe Strummer?), I really enjoyed the review.

Comparative analysis between the Floydian Barrett and the solo Barrett?
The Floydian Barrett is still a physically valid, eccentric, and wacky figure who has been making lysergic songs and taking acid for a couple of years now. The solo Barrett is a man destroyed by mandrax and hallucinogenic drug abuse, which has permanently compromised his PHYSICAL and MENTAL state. His mind experiences deep moments of spontaneous DISSOCIATION from his body and the result is the recordings of a terminally ill drug addict playing. But Barrett has always been out of his mind. And things like Astronomy Domine or the lyrics of Arnold Layne or the gnome and everything else only confirm this.

All of the last part where you contradict me about Barrett's state is in turn contradicted by many testimonies (direct and credible) that describe Syd as already suffering from psychosis and half lost before and during the recordings of Piper. So what you say is at least debatable (but I have no doubt in stating that Barrett was already mad). The fact that he could still sing and play doesn’t mean he was mentally healthy. Not at all. And I tell you this because it’s pointless for you to elevate yourself by claiming: "these things are either known or unknown," because I reply that I know everything, as I have always been fascinated by his figure and have often read and watched things related to that period. And his closest friends assert that he was already strange and half out of it long before. Amen. And these are things that are either known or unknown. I know them. A certain Gilmour also said so.