piper passes thru gates of dawn
I was uninformed at the time, but discovered via last week’s NYTimes Magazine that Syd Barrett died in august. Ummagumma was a huge influence on me during my highschool years, and I followed the band closely for several years, seeing them live in Atlanta around 1978 shortly after the release of DSOTM (coincidentally, the same night my long-lost godson Temuchin was born). Of course I never saw Syd but was a big fan of PATGOD and found his solo releases amusing. Syd be piping on the other side now.