[Neongod]

One of my favorite Syd stories from 1967:
'Another eager host [for the band] in Los Angeles was Alice Cooper, who invited Syd and the others to dinner with his own band - thus enabling rock's most ersatz psycho to come face to face with a more authentic speciman. Cooper guitarist Glen Buxton came away convinced that "Syd was definitely from Mars." Though Barrett said hardly a word all evening, Buxton did not find him altogether uncommunitave. "All of a sudden I'd pick up the sugar and pass it to him," he recalled, "and he'd shake his head like 'Yeah, thanks...' It's like telepathy, it really was. It was very weird. You would find yourself right in the middle of doing something, as you were passing the sugar or whatever, and you'd think, 'Well damn! I didn't hear anybody say anything.' That was the first time in my life I'd ever met anybody that could actually do that freely. And this guy did it all the time."'

== A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odyssey ==

A great read...the first third of the book is all about Syd and the early years. In light of this tragedy, why not pick it up? Or read it at a bookstore.

RIP, Syd.