![]() ![]() The Madness of King Syd seemed to have touched a nerve with a generation who had seen the end of the decade take a darker turn failure of hippie revolution, Altamont and the bombing of Vietnam. The Madcap laughs was released on January 3rd 1970. It was something the engineers tried to avoid. The sessions all together were not very productive because in those days recording four or five songs on just guitar in four or five hours wasn’t considered very productive. ![]() Syd had recorded songs Opel (a beautiful misty ballad that would not see the light of day until 1988), No good trying, No man’s land, Here I go and Love you. Over four sessions beginning on April 10th 1969. Shortly after July sessions Syd suddenly stopped recording, breaking up with his then girlfriend Lindsey Corner and then going off a drive around Britain in his Mini only to end up in psychiatric care in Cambridge.īy the start of ’69 Barrett, somewhat recovered, resumed his music career and started working with another engineer Malcolm Jones, after both Jenner and Norman Smith (Pink Floyd’s producer at the time) had declined his request to work on the album. Peter Jenner, who had worked on these sessions claimed that they had not gone smoothly although he got on well with the singer. Sessions resumed in June and July produced songs Late Night, Octopus and Golden Hair all featured on The Madcap Laughs. Syd Barrett first entered the studio as a solo artist on 30th January 1968 just ten days after his last show with Pink Floyd, for what would be an unfruitful session. ![]()
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