[Already posted on "Syd's First Trip" forum but thought it might be found easier under its own heading.]

Was a very interesting and entertaining programme on this evening under the above title with all the gang (RW, RW, DG, NM, and Bob Klose) amongst others giving their personal takes on "Syd the Beat".

I mention it here because it showed a clip of Syd having what looks to be a very heavy trip. Later in the clip, he's shown with mushrooms between his fingers and over his face. Whether the drug du jour was acid or 'shrooms, one wasn't told. He was just tripping.

The hotel scene in The Wall film with Bod Geldof as Pink, we're told, was based directly on Syd. Roger said, the shot of Pink sat zombie-like in the chair with the cigarette burnt down to his fingers was based on an actual memory of Roger's of Syd.

All in all, it was a very poignant, almost depressing review of our beloved Crazy Diamond, his skyrocket rise and meteoric fall from Rock stardom. Consensus verdict: "Syd took too many/too much drugs."

Roger seemed the most perturbed by Syd's leaving and, he claimed, continued absence. Roger said he didn't visit Syd because he's aware that Syd would rather not be reminded of that era of his life and that such a visit would probably be too disturbing for Syd, and just as disturbing for Roger himself. Nick seemed the most unsympathetic, but after hearing his accounts of some of Syd's antics during his last public appearances with The Pink Floyd, Nick could hardly be blamed.

So glad I saw it. Wish You Were Here is the BEST PF album, ever!

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