To me, he's the essence of Floyd, and certainly the leader and image of the early Floyd. maybe until Atom, where PF left psychedelia. But to me, Dark Side of the Moon IS Pink Floyd, it's cover is Pink Floyd, because everything's in there: They all worked together as a band, and Syd phatom was wandering around the ablum(I don't think Waters'd had made the lyrics to Brain Damage if it wasn't for Syd, and it's my favourite floyd lyric!!)

Would had been better if floyd conitnued to be leadered by Syd??? The same kind of question like Would have been better if Jeff Beck entered the band instead of Gilmour??? I Love Beck, but if he should had entered PF, I'm sure they would have not record dark side, WYWh, etc... So... I prefferred tings as they happened, because floyd is such a perfect band!!!!!

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"And if the band you're in starts playing diferent tunes, I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon"