vegetable man

That song for me kind of draws the line between his Pink Floyd days and his solo career when it comes to style. Its a hybrid of sorts. I like it a lot

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Green fields, a cold rain is falling in a golden dawn

It was supposedly written while tripping and waiting for the band to pick him up for a rehearsal and he is indecisive about his clothes.

VEGETABLE MAN was recorded in the same block as SCREAM THY LAST SCREAM and JUGBAND BLUES. The last Syd/Floyd recordings.

My band NC-17 did a funked-out version of VEGETABLE MAN in 1992-1994, and it was a big audience-pleaser, even if 99.9% of them didn't know it was an unreleased Floyd song. I have a few live recordings out at the studio, I'll have to pull 'em out and listen to them...

i like how Syd can use simple lines and words to make such a good song. thats the beauty of it. so good.

'it just aint anywhere...'

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"I open the door, to an empty room, then I forget."

Wonder if you know (I realised last week) that there are actually not two, but three versions of this song floating around. One is the BBC live, the second is the studio with the echoed voices and the third is without them and a bit different mix. I was really surprised.

yeah i got the one without the echo. its not as good honestly.

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"I open the door, to an empty room, then I forget."

i just know that...
thx for the info anyway

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Shine on you crazy diamond

_when I go forward, You go backward, and somewhere We will meet_

If 'Scream Thy Last Scream' and 'Vegetable Man' are so revered, how come they aren't on any official releases?

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it's so very lonely

you're a hundred light years from home

It's because Dave says that they were made before he came in (which is true), so he thinks he does not have the right to release them. Rick and Nick won't do anything about it I think.

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In the womb, the baby thinks that it's the universe. And when the baby is born, there is a glimmer of light.
I was there, but now I am here. So there are two things - me and the universe. The universe is there for me.
Then what happens? Other people. But the universe is there for you. Now tell me what happened in the glade.
I did something to myself. Like entertainment, like music, like a daydream. There was nothing there and I saw something.
I saw his head on the bonnet of the car. You can say what you like but I saw the bird of paradise spread its wings.
DO YOU PLAY BRIDGE?

Syd guitar playing on Vegetable Man is similar to the Apples and Oranges guitar part. It has that strange filtering sound on it, like an early wah or something. I think the same sound is on the live Astronomy Domine on Ummagumma. If one wants more Vegetable Man, you could get a recording of the rehearsal that's floating about. It's on Have You Got It Yet.

Anybody ever hear Lucy Leave good song but Vegetable man is better.

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Follow me "he sounded of dreams supreme" follow me
Drifting within the glow and the after-glow of the eve
And if that firelight, I could match the inner flame
Sacred ships do sail the seventh age.

Lucy leave was one of Floyds earliest songs recorded when Bob Klose(sp?) was still a member and playing lead guitar. Very catchy .

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And the sea isn't green, and I love the queen, and what exactly is a dream? And what exactly is a joke?

Bob Klose? I thought Syd played guitar on Lucy Leave! Sounds like his voice....

Bob Klose should play the second (or lead?) guitar there. He surely is on I'm A King Bee.

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In the womb, the baby thinks that it's the universe. And when the baby is born, there is a glimmer of light.
I was there, but now I am here. So there are two things - me and the universe. The universe is there for me.
Then what happens? Other people. But the universe is there for you. Now tell me what happened in the glade.
I did something to myself. Like entertainment, like music, like a daydream. There was nothing there and I saw something.
I saw his head on the bonnet of the car. You can say what you like but I saw the bird of paradise spread its wings.
DO YOU PLAY BRIDGE?