the United States,' a Doc Produced by Mark Ruffalo
He’d bring the band a song and continually change it as they tried to follow him - this remarkable documentary takes its title from one such song, so titled because they could never get it if he kept changing it.Īmerica's Real History Is Revealed in 'Lakota Nation vs. He became uncommunicative and withdrawn he’d go onstage and just stand there, strumming one chord or doing nothing while the other bandmembers would struggle to hold things together. His bandmates and friends say one day, he was just gone: The distinctive sparkle in his eye and spring in his step had disappeared. Yet he was also one of rock’s first “acid casualties” - people who took too many drugs, or at least the wrong ones, and were never the same afterward. Syd Barrett was the guiding light of the original Pink Floyd - the band’s singer, primary songwriter and guitarist from their first day until their psychedelia-defining 1967 debut album, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” His sparkling, childlike melodies and lyrics have cast a huge influence over rock and pop music ever since - David Bowie cited him as a pivotal influence, and it shows - and entire genres of music, particularly the neo-psychedelic waves of the early ‘80s in the U.S.
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