>Look at the sky, look at the river
>Isn't it good?
How fucking stoned was this guy?
Quite, considering he lost his shit and turned into Kane from WWE.
>you have to be stoned to appreciate nature xD
fucking normie
>>63956690
>>63956690
Quite, but you need to remember that this song is written from the perspective of the gnome or whatever it was called.
>>63956690
he got into a cult that explored the mind through LSD trips.
long story short he took too much and went bananas
syd the beat
>>63956785
No, it's written from the perspective of a child observing a gnome. A lot syd's work is influenced by children's fantasy books.
Well, isn't it?
>>63956818
But then the gnome is talking to the kid saying that or what?
>>63956821
amirite?
post rare syds
>>63956967
Syd "the literal madman" Barrett
>>63957146
doctor waters I'm LSD
>>63957162
THE ABSOLUTE MADCAP
I just realised he looks like babyraper Ian Watkins
What exactly did Syd do for like the 30 years after he got out of music until his death?
>>63957348
Eat Chocolate and take LSD, I guess.
>>63957348
Made pencil shavings into hamster bedding
>>63957348
Lived with his mom, painted, also gardening
>>63957300
Yeah, RIP.
>>63957348
he worked in sainsbury's for a short time. if you're not british, that's a grocery store.
>>63956690
kek'd t b h
>A GNOME NAMED GRIMBLE GROMBLE
>>63957434
>Excuse me sir. Where are the Tomato and Bacon Crisps?
ALONE IN THE CLOUDS ALL BLUE
>>63957230
kek
>>63957348
painting and gardening. His sister said he was content with it. Seems sad though
>>63957503
Kek. Also, source on the sainsburys thing? Never heard of him having a job.
His address was 4 st margrets square. I like Syd so its sad buts its a little funny how the television personalities told the world syds actual address, and had a song about it thats actually pretty good.
>>63957594
A while back I watched a doc on him. it was on yt, so it might still be up there. said by a friend of his. he used to help with the shopping carts.
If I take LSD will I end up like Syd and Brian?
>>63957695
Don't flatter yourself. Your music will never even come close to theirs. You'll just die a loser.
>>63957731
You don't even know who I am
>>63957695
If you take enough, yes.
>>63957807
Brian took LSD three times.
>>63957695
Syd was taking acid daily. He moved into a flat (Apartment for Americans) next to the 1st LSD dealer in London. People were slipping into his tea. He was on it constantly.
Source: Saucerful of Secrets; The Pink Floyd Odyssey by Nicholas Schaffner
people that talk about acid horror stories like Wilson, Syd, K. Dick etc. forget that they were almost all constantly fucked up on amphetamines for years and developed terrible paranoia, which LSD can amplify.
>>63957992
Have you ever had a bad trip, lad?
>>63957992
Never read anything anywhere about Syd doing amphetamines. Ever.
>>63958029
Yes, of course, but if you have a history of amphetamine use and predisposition to paranoid schizophrenia, a bad trip can trigger full blown meltdowns. All of my rougher experiences subsided after the comedown.
>>63957807
Syd went nuts because he presumably spent more time tripping than sober. By the time he went nuts, he likely had a very high tolerance to LSD, and was taking extremely large doses to compensate. Here's a good resource on syd: http://www.pink-floyd.org/barrett/quotes.html
Brian Wilson had a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, and LSD activated it in him. He was also taking lots of amphetamines, which can greatly amplify psychosis in schizophrenics
If you're not a dumbass and you don't have a predisposition to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, you're good.
>>63957992
Source on syd doing amphetamines?
>>63958098
>>63958125
To my knowledge their drug of choice during the Syd era were inhaler strips and barbs, along with the LSD Syd obviously went overboard with. Cocaine is currently the only drug the living Floyd members admit to having problems with.
David Gilmore said Syd was fine, just a regular ol acid user until one day he had a bottle of it but no paper and he accidentally chugged like a quart of the stuff then had a panic attack causing a horrible trip. David said when he recovered he was never really there anymore.
>>63957695
i doubt it
since i did acid i would be lying if i said im "completly" normal, sometimes i feel pretty confused about life, but i dont think it is completly acid's fault.
Brian was doing a lot of weed, alcohol, and cocaine too, and had a bad childhood iirc.
im not sure about syd but i think he was always kinda weird, and smoked insane amounts of weed and acid too.
acid isnt addictive, but the 60's were another time, and these two friend were pretty much degenerates, and i mean this in the less /pol/ way possible
>>63958125
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeVgEs4sOo
Another case where amphs and mental illness were a good 80% of the problem, LSD is pretty tame if you can take a bad experience. Although being a complete nutcase can lead to genius like VALIS so I guess it's not all bad.
>It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
>And I'm much obliged to you for making it clear
>That I'm not here.
That song always makes me so sad... To think of what could have been, how the rest of the band treated him, how they never truly reconciled. It would almost have been better if he'd died of an overdose instead of livinging undeserved obscurity for the rest of his life
>>63958125
>Jonathan Meades: [...] Syd was this rather weird, exotic and mildly famous creature, who happened to be living in this flat with these people who were pimping off him both professionally and privately. I went there and there was this horrible noise. It sounded like heating pipes shaking. I said, 'What's that?' and they sort of giggled and said, 'That's Syd having a bad trip, we put him in the line cu pboard.' And that seemed a terrible thing to do.
>Roger Waters: I believe Syd was a casualty of the so-called 'Psychedelic Period' that we were meant to represent. 'Cause everybody believed that we were taking acid before we went on stage and all that stuff....unfortunately, one of us was, and that was Syd. It's a simple matter, really, Syd just had a big overdose of acid and that was it. It was very frightening, and I couldn't believe what had happened, 'cause, I remember we had to do a radio show, and we were waiting for him, and he didn't turn up. And then he came the next day, and he was a different person.
>tfw you will never go back in time and save Syd from madness
>>63956835
Damn...
so when do you get to see dragons on cid? all that happens for me is wavy visuals and an inability to finish sentences
>>63959051
that just means you arent taking enough
>>63958233
Pink Floyd's cocaine usage timeline is pretty fuzzy, but I don't believe it started until a few years after gilmour replaced syd
>>63958692
>tfw
That bit about locking syd in the cupboard when he had a bad trip pisses me off. I wouldn't be surprised if experiences like that gave him symptoms of PTSD
>>63958437
I don't know anything about Phillip K Dick's mental state but he was pretty wild in that video. Too bad he isn't around today, he'd love all the modern day computer simulation speculation
>>63959111
he already knew about it all, considering we're actually just living in the 1st century AD anyway.
>>63959091
i've only done it in social situations where we walked places and i was scared i'd make a fool out of myself.
is cocaine that easy to get addicted to? my gf does it regularly and I'm worried
>>63959338
Try doing a low to moderate dosage alone or with a really trusted friend, and if you enjoy it, move up to a larger dosage. Acid hits you much harder when you don't care about looking like an idiot
>>63959438
Yeah, if you do it often enough. Shit like that I would never touch.
>>63959438
yes and it's the one to most likely make you treat other people like shit on. at least smackheads just go to sleep when they get their fix.
>>63959438
>coke
>my gf does it regularly
You might want to worry about what else she's putting in regularly
>>63959438
M8, cocaine is up there with heroin. Stay away from that shit
>>63959438
she's gone m8
>>63959338
do it on your own
>>63959438
She'll cuck you for coke bro!
>>63959438
nah, me and my m8 did it just once, we were worried but not that stupid so it never happened again
>>63959532
>>63959591
I thought it was just a phase like her pot phase she quickly grew out of after two months
Any advice on how to help someone get off coke? Please she's beautiful and I don't want it hurting her, I'm very worried
>>63959820
>help someone get off coke
just leave
>>63959820
Except pot won't give you a physical dependence that you'll suck dick / rob to get a fix of. Coke is only safe if you party rarely, shouldn't ever make a habit out of it.
>>63959901
She's a wealthy actress though, she wouldn't have to lower herself to use. Plus it's just her shitty friends who supply it with her she doesn't have a dealer.
She's usually reserved and a bit glum, but lately she's been bubbly and kind of vapid. I hope it hasn't take a toll on her conscience
>>63959973
Yeah but she'll still develop the mentality of an addict which is terrible even if you're loaded. I would try talking to her about it, idk.
>>63959438
coke is so whack
it's the easiest drug to get addicted to and it's not even that fun
A Syd Barrett thread turns into a drug thread
>>63957348
painting
>>63959438
>is DRUG easy to get addicted to? my gf does DRUG REGULARLY
what do you think
>>63959591
You have no idea what you're talking about. Heroin addicts act fucking insane.
>>63960408
of course they do, cluckheads are the same without their drug. i meant when they're actually using it.
>>63960377
Not all drugs are physically addicting, bro, juss sayin. Cocaine happens to be physically addicting, however. Meaning, once your body develops a tolerance to it, it's quite difficult to give it up with withdrawals. Your body physically cannot function properly without the drug in your system.
>>63960548
How long does it take to be physically addicted? She's been using since I'd say early February at least twice a week
>>63960785
>twice a week
So, just a party thing? I don't think you have to worry yet. Try and ease into the conversation, ask her if she feels she is under control of her usage.
>>63957695
No. Many people who have mental breakdowns in conjunction with psychedelic usage have predispositions to mental illness. LSD, psilocybin, mescaline etc just help to precipitate the onset of those illnesses
>>63957930
Taking acid daily doesn't do anything. You can't take the same dose of acid two days in a row and trip. You would basically have to double or triple the dosage everyday which I doubt he was doing.
>>63960785
That's not too bad.
You still have a chance.
If you really want her to stop seek professional help.
She's probably going to say you're exaggerating so it might take a while to convince her.
There's probably a wikihow page on how to do it.
i hate /mu/
oh i hate hate hate /mu/
>>63960989
what did we do now
>>63959438
Yes it is, try talking to her if you dont want her to die of overdose
