Originally Posted by DeathTöngue

I wish my favorite lit major was around to analyze it... But I don't think we have anything more substantive than opinion here.

I have Syd's albums, and I would like to have heard more PF with his participation. Due primarily to his illness, that didn''t happen; but we sure as hell didn't get ripped off, either. Roger's version of PF was in every way as good as Syd's, but with stylistic differences and and one very major one, in that Roger was able to continue and Syd was not.

Point is, what happened to Syd was a tragedy, but what happened to PF as a result wasn't.