LAST THOUGHTS ON SYD BARRETT
Syd Barrett died the other day
As he watched the network news
The Madcap cried and passed away
This world gave him the blues
It wasn't that Pink Floyd fired him
From a band that he had started
It wasn't that they got real huge
Right after he departed
It wasn't his mind all burnt to hell
On dope and LSD
It wasn't the albums he couldn't sell
Nor his obesity
It wasn't his shaved eyebrows
Or obsession with T.V.
It wasn't isolation
Or the friends he wouldn't see
No, the thing that made Syd Barrett cry
And sent his spirit past us
Poor Syd had learned
That Dana Tyler
Was banging Ernie Anastious
As he watched the network news
The Madcap cried and passed away
This world gave him the blues
It wasn't that Pink Floyd fired him
From a band that he had started
It wasn't that they got real huge
Right after he departed
It wasn't his mind all burnt to hell
On dope and LSD
It wasn't the albums he couldn't sell
Nor his obesity
It wasn't his shaved eyebrows
Or obsession with T.V.
It wasn't isolation
Or the friends he wouldn't see
No, the thing that made Syd Barrett cry
And sent his spirit past us
Poor Syd had learned
That Dana Tyler
Was banging Ernie Anastious
posted by smelly at 6:34 PM
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This is incredibly sad news, Dana Tyler is banging Ernie Anastious!
I guess she got tired of that hobbit Phil Collins.
Bravo Smelly! Another fine piece of poetry my friend.
Did you mean Ernie Anastos? Your original post (if corrected later) referred to Ernie Anastious. Not that I’m looking for a copy editor's job or anything.
And by the way, Smelly, do your students ever say (or sing) to you: "we don't need no education?" You know, that familiar line from that song by The Who.
That's how I thought Ernie spelled his name! Anyway, CMJ, it's not like I'm some kind of stickler for the mechanics of writing or even making much sense when I do. It's like that old Justin Timberlake song that goes:
"This post is my post,
This post ain't your post.
A frickin' Spell Nazi
Ain't what I need most.
So keep your big nose,
Out of my french toast.
Let me do what I frickin' please."
What's the deal with Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz?
Slag and I tried it out years ago and there were a few weird coincidences between the words being sung and the images from the movie.
Start the album Dark Side Of The Moon right after the third roar of the MGM lion at the beginning of Oz.
I forget what they were because, well, let's just say we were listening to Pink Floyd appropriately and leave it at that.
Save yourself the hassle of renting the DVD and starting that album at just the right spot: click on the The Wizard of Oz link in my July 16 Comment above. And please listen appropriately. Or maybe I mean listen inappropriately.
That was really cool. Thanks CJM.
It was a very necessary antidote to the thrubbing my eyes and ears got by that Hasselhoff video posted by ace.
Cool Sid Barrett Link.
Oops. That's Syd Barrett. What do I know about those early-but-quickly-disappeared members of the Beatles?
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