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Greg - 2006-09-17 23:15:20
Firstly: Psych Night at Freddy's was excellent. Thank you all IHoP managers and readers who were participants. Re: Syd--I don't know the average age or background of IHoP regulars, but there was a window there in the 70s for hicktown kids (like me) when it was near impossible to get any Floyd prior to Wish You Were Here, let alone solo Syd. Madcap Laughs was considered a trophy find and the true signifier of musical creds. I learned about Syd Barrett working backwards from Roger Waters interviews... despite that I had found a copy of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, combined with Saucerful of Secrets on 8-track... no liner notes, folks. Syd was legend. Syd was apocryphal. It was nice to see him represented last night... well represented I may add, by everybody. Discovering his songs after the fact was great the first time around. Rediscovering through everybody last night was great. Hats off to the performers, figuratively and literally to those who "bowled" the strikes. Thanks to all. Very cool. It was also very cool to hear an Echo & The Bunnymen cover, one of my favorite songs by a favorite band--Killing Moon a psychedelic classic if there ever was one.
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Paula - 2006-09-18 00:01:25
Madcap Laughs was considered a trophy find and the true signifier of musical creds

I actually stumbled upon Syd's music after hearing an REM live bootleg whereon they covered "Dark Globe." I was awed by the song, and how it managed to convey such pain and alienation using words that made little sense at all. (Except the chorus).

Previous to that, Pink Floyd was just an annoying band that the pot-heads in my high school listened to. I'd had no idea that P/G/Dawn was so groovy.
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jon - 2006-09-20 10:03:27
Paula, I will be eternally grateful to you for copying some of that second generation cassette of "The Trouble Tree" for me. I sought out the LP (and later the CD), and I've been a Freedy fan ever since. There are indeed some gems there: I would add "Innocent" and "Down on the Moon" to the two you mentioned.
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