{"id":609,"date":"2007-06-01T00:14:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-17T11:32:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:32:23","slug":"even-more-surprising-than-my-slowly-buil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/even-more-surprising-than-my-slowly-buil\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Surprising Than My Slowly Building Respect for Pink Floyd&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hF669ePa-Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI just watched a <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong> documentary on VH1 Classic that was surprisingly good and touching. I love the 2 Barrett solo albums and his work with Pink Floyd is almost always &#8220;cool,&#8221; even when not &#8220;great.&#8221; However, I usually keep my enjoyment of Barrett to myself. Other people tend to ruin it for me by focusing on the crazy\/drug stuff that most people, I sense, like to live through vicariously. By watching this documentary, which was driven by interviews with the Floyd guys, I&#8217;ve not only gained a little more respect for the members of the classic version of Pink Floyd, a phenomenon that creeps forward with each passing year of my long-overdue maturity, but I came to an even more surprising realization and feeling of warmth and tolerance. There&#8217;s a brief bit with <strong>Robyn Hitchcock<\/strong>, who talks about the natural ease of Barrett&#8217;s solo albums. It&#8217;s never been a secret that Hitchcock was a Barrett fan, but it was my perceived take on his fandom and his seeming fascination with the KEEEERRRRAAAAAZY diamond side of the artist that turned me off on Hitchcock&#8217;s music beyond its frequent mediocrity and that made me think twice, tonight, about watching this Barrett doc. As it turned out, from the 2 minutes Hitchcock spoke on the solo Barrett albums, I got a rare taste of Hitchcock&#8217;s better side, a side that I&#8217;ve only been able to enjoy on his <em>Element of Light<\/em> album and the song <strong>&#8220;Winchester&#8221;<\/strong>, in particular. I also admire the guy&#8217;s hair. Now, if only I could determine another half dozen Hitchcock songs I&#8217;d really like to hear on a regular basis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched a Syd Barrett documentary on VH1 Classic that was surprisingly good and touching. I love the 2 Barrett solo albums and his work with Pink Floyd is almost always &#8220;cool,&#8221; even when not &#8220;great.&#8221; However, I usually keep my enjoyment of Barrett to myself. Other people tend to ruin it for me <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/even-more-surprising-than-my-slowly-buil\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}