Paul-B wrote:
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (yes)
Wish you Were Here ( I think so)
Comfortably Numb (maybe not directly but I think so) I think it
alludes to Syd slipping away in the gigs before Gilmour replaces him.


The Guardian or another paper said he lived a very modest lifestyle on
tiny Piper's and solo royalties. I thought I read that PF was a
corporation and I assumed Syd would have had shares. You would think
if he was getting peanuts they could have played a benefit for him and
set up a trust.

I thought I read Mason's family had to invest because the band was
losing money before Dark Side of the Moon cause the stage shows and
lowish record sales.

Didn't Roger or one of them visit with Syd but afterwhile it was
pointless and too painful?

<Fabiorossi5 (AT) yahoo (DOT) ca> wrote

he and Syd remained friends of a sort.

Charles Perry P.E.

<Fabiorossi5 (AT) yahoo (DOT) ca> wrote

From Wikipedia:
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Up until his death, Barrett still received royalties from his work with
Pink Floyd from each compilation and some of the live albums and singles
that had featured his songs; Gilmour has commented that he "[made] sure the
money [got] to him all right."
------------

Charles Perry P.E.

<Fabiorossi5 (AT) yahoo (DOT) ca> wrote

Nah - but it is, indirectly about drugs. By the time of the Animals tour,
Mason was a booze fiend, Gilmour and Wright had serious coke habits and
Waters was, apparently, into both booze and drugs. CN alludes to the (ahem)
'medical' help he, Wright and Gilmour needed to get on stage each night of
that tour.

AIUI, PF is a limited company of four directors, and I'm not even sure they
have equal shares, as Gilmour seems to have the final say in everything they
now do under the Floyd banner. Waters also absents himself from anything to
do with post 1984 business.

As for Syd, they all - Gilmour and Wright in particular - made sure he got
all the royalties due to from his songwriting, whether Floyd or solo, and
any record sales. The sales of the most recent compilation - Echoes - that
went through the roof post Live 8 last summer would have contributed very
significantly to Syd's bank account as he wrote a 5th of the songs on the
album(s).

Gilmour also made sure, that where he could, he would perform at least one
Syd song on any given night. The last full blown Floyd tour opened with
'Astronomy Domine'- there'll be another pile of royalties due to his estate
from last week's release of the 'Pulse' live DVD of that tour. On his
current solo tour - taking a long break at the moment - he performs
'Dominoes' and 'Arnold Layne' (Rick Wright singing it superbly louchely for
a 60 yo!). And would have loved to have been at the oyal Albert Hall a
couple of weeks ago to see David Bowie sing it. Guess I'll have to wait for
the DVD.

I believe Mason's parents bought the band a new (well second hand, but new
for the band) van to tour with. Though they may, also, have paid some wages
for a couple of months too. Can't remember, unless I dig out Mason's superb
book (now in a remaindered book store near you).

I'm not sure any of them ever visited him after the Shine On studio
incident - after which Gilmour was, reportedly in tears at seeing his
childhood friend in such a state. I think they all wanted to, but unless
they got the agreement of first his mother then, after she died, his sister
they wouldn't. I don't think they ever got the go ahead from the family.

--
Cheers,
Probert.

In article <4hlm8dF6rfnU1 (AT) individual (DOT) net>, pipesandtobacco (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
says...

--

Dave

In article <VIydnfx9eOX5OSjZnZ2dnUVZ8s6dnZ2d (AT) bt (DOT) com>, nick.wf1commdept2
@btinternet.com says...

I have heard that this was the point (Syd turning up at the studio
during the shine on record) at which it all got just too much,
emotionally, for any of them.
--

Dave

On 12 Jul 2006 17:25:41 -0700, Fabiorossi5 (AT) yahoo (DOT) ca wrote:
....You are Phil Newnham AICM5UKP.

__

"...Luigi follow only the Ferraris."

David Melville wrote:
Yeah I think they all just freaked out over the studio incident. I
could see how that would be just too much to bear. Really sad.

<Fabiorossi5 (AT) yahoo (DOT) ca> wrote

Did you see Echo & The Bunnymen do The Killing Moon on Late Night with Craig
Ferguson the other night?

They haven't lost their rhythm.