Syd Barrett was an English composer and purveyor of some of the most intriguing music ever written. Famous before his twentieth birthday; Barrett led the charge of psychedelia onstage at Londonrsquo;s famed UFO club. With a Fender Telecaster and a primitive Binson echo unit; Barrett liberated the guitar from being; in critic Simon Reynoldsrsquo; words; lsquo;a riff machine; and turned it into a texture and timbre generator.rsquo; His inspired celestial flights of improvisation; and his more structured and whimsical short songs indicated a mind of unusual inventiveness. Chief in Barrettrsquo;s mind was a Zen-like insistence on spontaneity; each performance had to be unique; and Barrett strived to push his music farther and farther out into the zone of complete abstraction. This in-depth analysis of Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrettrsquo;s life and work is the product of years of extensive research. Lost in the Woods traces Sydrsquo;s swift evolution from precocious young art student to acid-fuelled psychedelic rock star; and examines the myriad musical and literary influences that he utilised in composing his hypnotic; groundbreaking songs. A never-forgotten casualty of the excesses; innovations; and idealism of the 1960s; Syd Barrett is one of the most heavily mythologized men in rock; and Lost in the Woods offers a rare portrayal of a unique spirit in freefall.
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