Syd Barrett Pink Floyd Increasingly Uncertain Because Of His Cult, And The Constant Drugs

Roger Keith Barrett was born on 6 January 1946 in Cambridge to a middle class family living at 60 Glisson Road, He was the fourth of five children. His father Arthur Max Barrett was a prominent pathologist and was said to be related to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson through Max’s maternal grandmother Ellen Garrett, In 1951 his family moved to 183 Hills Road. Barrett played piano occasionally but usually preferred writing and drawing, He bought a ukulele aged 10 a banjo at 11 and a Höfner acoustic guitar at 14. A year after he purchased his first acoustic guitar he bought his first electric guitar and built his own amplifier, He was a Scout with the 7th Cambridge troop and went on to be a patrol leader. Barrett reportedly used the nickname Syd from the age of 14, derived from the name of an old Cambridge jazz bassist Sid the Beat Barrett, Barrett changed the spelling to differentiate himself. By another account when Barrett was 13 his schoolmates nicknamed him Syd after he came to a field day at Abington Scout site wearing a flat cap instead of his scout beret, because Syd was a working class name. He used both names interchangeably for several years. Starting in 1964 the band that would become Pink Floyd evolved through various line-up and name changes including the Abdabs, the Screaming Abdabs, Sigma 6 and the Meggadeaths. In 1965 Barrett joined them as the Tea Set. When they found themselves playing a concert with another band of the same name, Barrett came up with the Pink Floyd Sound. During 1965 they went into a studio for the first time, when a friend of Richard Wright’s gave the band free time to record. During this summer Barrett had his first LSD trip in the garden of friend Dave Gale, with Ian Moore and Storm Thorgerson. During one trip Barrett and another friend Paul Charrier ended up naked in the bath. That summer as a result of the continued drug use the band became absorbed in Sant Mat, a Sikh sect. Storm Thorgerson and Barrett went to a London hotel to meet the sect’s guru, Thorgerson managed to join the sect Barrett, however was deemed too young to join. Thorgerson saw this as a deeply important event in Barrett’s life, as he was extremely upset by the rejection, While living near his friends Barrett decided to write more songs. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed the video please! ​follow my INSTAGRAM : All materials featured in the video are owned by their respected owners. We do not claim their videos as our own. All videos/photos/used in the explanation are for visualization purposes only. #sydbarrett #pinkfloyd #rogerwaters #davidgilmour