Syd Barrett was an English composer and purveyor of some of the
most intriguing music ever written. Famous before his twentieth
birthday, Barrett led the charge of psychedelia onstage at London's
famed UFO club. With a Fender Telecaster and a primitive Binson echo
unit, Barrett liberated the guitar from being, in critic Simon Reynolds'
words, 'a riff machine, and turned it into a texture and timbre
generator.'
His inspired celestial flights of improvisation, and
his more structured and whimsical short songs indicated a mind of
unusual inventiveness. Chief in Barrett's mind was a Zen-like insistence
on spontaneity; each performance had to be unique, and Barrett strived
to push his music farther and farther out into the zone of complete
abstraction.
This in-depth analysis of Pink Floyd founding member
Syd Barrett's life and work is the product of years of extensive
research. Lost in the Woods traces Syd's swift evolution from precocious
young art student to acid-fuelled psychedelic rock star, and examines
the myriad musical and literary influences that he utilised in composing
his hypnotic, groundbreaking songs. A never-forgotten casualty of the
excesses, innovations, and idealism of the 1960s, Syd Barrett is one of
the most heavily mythologized men in rock, and Lost in the Woods offers a
rare portrayal of a unique spirit in freefall.
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