[pdunkin]

It seems to me as if you can hear Sid losing his mind in the music that follows the last verse of Bike on their first album

[gawatchman]

He may have already started his slide then, but that song appeared on the Piper album when he was really creative, and I think that whole album was a masterpiece. I think those sounds at the end of Bike were supposed to be the gears in his mind turning while coming up with new music and/or lyrics. My take anyway. To me the lyrics on the Jug Band Blues song showed that he was losing it.

Esp the 2 lines:

"It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here, and I am most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here."

"And I'm wondering who could be writing this song."