Personally, I'm not a fan of the Syd Barrett era Floyd. I respect Syd as a songwriter/guitarist and for basically founding the band, but I enjoy Dave Gilmour's work with the band a million times more than Syd's. Put any album with Gilmour be it with PF or solo up against anything Syd ever did, and the Gilmour album wins every time for me. I hate how the media blows up the whole "victim of the 60s" thing with Syd. I think it's like how Roger said in the Floyd episode of VH1 Legends. Syd had schizophrenia and the lsd just sped up it's hold on him. The whole "what a waste" in reference to Syd is just more glorification b.s. Which I think is a pretty unfair thing to say about Barrett. It comes across like it was his fault for what happened. Yes Syd was talented. Yes his story is very sad, and Syd is responsible for whatever drugs he took. But imo it was inevitable that the mental illness took over. I think Syd was born with the disease and it's manifestation coincided with his experimentation with acid which is the saddest part imo. He probably had no idea that the lsd would worsen his condition until it was too late. Imo you cannot blame someone for that. Sorry I kinda veered a bit off topic there!