Posted on 05/21/2010 10:32:14 PM PDT by pissant
In addition to the enthralling, elegant artistry of "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," the pathos of it is, I think, a startlingly realistic summation of... themselves, and of the 'hippy movement,' and rock culture, while still trying to cling to the lure of it all.
(BTW, I agree with those who say that the tragic drop-out of Sid Barrett was about the "best thing that could happen" to Pink Floyd. If he'd not blown out his mind, I think he'd continue to have narcissistically taken the limelight with his funky court minstrel songs and I'm guessing the rest would have gotten frustrated and the band would have split like most do, after another year or three of success.)
“Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.”
An excellent song.
“the definitive version really was Hendrix”
That is without a doubt the greatest cover version of all time.
I saw some of her later video’s and she seemd to be obsessed with sex in them. She was so cute and wholesome looking in her earlier stuff!
Yeah, she was quite a dream girl for a little while.
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