apparently he’s dead.
Rick Wright, the keyboards player later told an interviewer: “I saw this guy sitting at the back of the studio… and I didn’t recognise him. I said, ‘Who’s that guy behind you?’ ‘That’s Syd’. And I just cracked up, I couldn’t believe it… he had shaven all his hair off… I mean, his eyebrows, everything… he was jumping up and down brushing his teeth, it was awful…
“Roger [Waters] was in tears, I think I was; we were both in tears. It was very shocking… seven years of no contact and then to walk in while we’re actually doing that particular track. I don’t know - coincidence, karma, fate, who knows? But it was very, very, very powerful.”
this peter whitehead film, of pink floyd’s first recording session, is truly wonderful.
