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Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit
#26302826 - 11/06/19 12:32 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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So I read something in a Rolling Stone article about Pink Floyd and the article claimed that Syd Barrett, the former and brief frontman of Pink Floyd, used LSD nearly daily.
Aside from micro dosing, trying to actually trip off LSD daily is impossible isn't it?
I once tried tripping 4 days in a row years and years ago and by day 4 I couldn't even feel anything anymore.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Niffla]
#26302868 - 11/06/19 12:46 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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there's almost no way you'd be able to take lsd every day n trip. yer tolerance builds up way too fast n then yer just eating rick diculous amounts of acid to feel the effects of like one hit. that being said, i did have a crazy experience where i tripped a lot in a month n didn't experience any tolerance issues. but that's probably due to a kundalini experience i had. so who knows anything is possible... but i seriously doubt that he was able to eat lsd every single day without tolerance issues, unless he was doing a buncha kundalini work lol.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Niffla]
#26302889 - 11/06/19 12:54 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I remember reading somewhere that it was often unintentional as well. People would slip him huge amounts of lsd because they thought it was funny. Not sure how true it is
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: I_was_the_walrus] 1
#26303044 - 11/06/19 02:04 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I_was_the_walrus said: I remember reading somewhere that it was often unintentional as well. People would slip him huge amounts of lsd because they thought it was funny. Not sure how true it is
Apparently that happened to Jerry Garcia. Im sure I read about him refusing cake because he said he didn't trust anything he was given as it was usually spiked with acid. They told him it wasn't so he ate it, and of course it was.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: I_was_the_walrus] 2
#26303090 - 11/06/19 02:21 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Niffla said: So I read something in a Rolling Stone article about Pink Floyd and the article claimed that Syd Barrett, the former and brief frontman of Pink Floyd, used LSD nearly daily.
Aside from micro dosing, trying to actually trip off LSD daily is impossible isn't it?
I once tried tripping 4 days in a row years and years ago and by day 4 I couldn't even feel anything anymore.
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I_was_the_walrus said: I remember reading somewhere that it was often unintentional as well. People would slip him huge amounts of lsd because they thought it was funny. Not sure how true it is
There are a lot of crazy stories out many of which we may never know if they are entirely true or not.
But yeah it sounds like they lived in a shared pad of sorts where people would drug and fuck with Syd. I remember reading in a Floyd biographical book that people would lock him in cupboards while he was high.
Aside from psychedelics he also apparently developed a sleeping pill habit, from what I remember his girlfriend at the time took sleeping meds but Syd would eat a bunch of them and stay awake for the weird side effects. Later around when he got kicked out of the band he was apparently doing a lot of tranquilizers, there's a quote from one of the band members talking about him crushing up tranq pills into his hair and detuning his guitar on stage when they were trying to play a show 
There's a really old video from the 60's out somwhere of Syd and the rest of the band allegedly tripping, it's basically a video of them walking around out in nature acting super high 
Here's the video in super low resolution:
SYD BARRETT FIRST TRIP
Pretty crazy seeing old footage of him from the 60's.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Niffla]
#26303293 - 11/06/19 04:24 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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he reached for da secret too soon?...
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: zZZz]
#26303387 - 11/06/19 05:08 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I sorta disagree on the tolerance thing. I used to dose acid every weekend and I had no build up. With mushrooms too doing them near daily had not much tolerance.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: zZZz]
#26303392 - 11/06/19 05:12 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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The pill habit he picked up was Mandrax, which I know nothing about. The cocktail of drugs he was taking along with Syds alleged mental health problems and sudden rush of fame (which he himself said he didn’t want), more likely had more to do with his mental collapse than LSD alone.
There was one story I remember Storm Thorgerson (album cover designer) shared in a documentary or an article where they were all laying acid on blotter and syd spilt some on himself, and was shortly thereafter describing planets he was seeing float by
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: FungiMaster] 2
#26303393 - 11/06/19 05:12 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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FungiMaster said: I sorta disagree on the tolerance thing. I used to dose acid every weekend and I had no build up.
Every weekend and every day are two totally different things.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Lotus-Eater]
#26303399 - 11/06/19 05:15 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mandrax is quaaludes.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Crazy_Horse] 1
#26303415 - 11/06/19 05:21 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Didn't Ozzy Osbourne and Jim Morrison claim the same thing? I think a bunch of musicians claimed the same thing. I think they probably are it pretty frequently and are exaggerating like the majority of people do with stories.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Psyche delics]
#26303444 - 11/06/19 05:34 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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i do think tolerance is exaggerated quite a bit. there is tolerance build up, but you can trip daily or close to with increasing doses for a while... its probably different for different people, just like dosages and their effects are different for different people
different psychedelics build tolerance in different ways, but in shamanic practices its pretty common to be taking psychs you're working with daily
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Psyche delics] 1
#26303659 - 11/06/19 07:10 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Psyche delics said: Didn't Ozzy Osbourne and Jim Morrison claim the same thing? I think a bunch of musicians claimed the same thing. I think they probably are it pretty frequently and are exaggerating like the majority of people do with stories.
All of the legends of that era have a shroud of mystery draped over them. The fact that syd spoke so little and created such a powerful entity as Pink Floyd only deepens peoples curiosity towards him. If you want to understand syd a bit better go back and listen to piper at the gates and some of his solo work. True genius of his time.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Lotus-Eater]
#26303665 - 11/06/19 07:13 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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And check out this haunting little gem:
Syd recognizes his detachment from reality in an almost apologetic way.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: pixelpopper]
#26303699 - 11/06/19 07:31 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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It is well documented his flat "mates" would regularly dose him with high levels of LSD and other man made RC's and fuck with him to the extent of locking him in rooms, cupboards; frequently treating him like a lab rat. I'm sure that caused some massive psych damage.
As we all know with even the perfect set/setting any man made (100% lab produced) have the ability to cause permanent damage where as with Natural Psychs (naturally grown and not altered) such as cannabis and mushrooms it can get crazy; but now matter the dosage the coming down is not accompanied by "fried out" unnatural "hangover" and usually accompanied by a positive "after-glow". It's risk/reward.
Life's to short to not embrace something that has connected itself through it's mycellium networks all over the world and communicated electromagnetically for the benefit of this world with intentions to keep a sustainable balance. From all the research and experiences of not only myself but as many as I have been fortunate enough to have shared: Mushrooms are the obvious choice from micro-dosing to full experience that can reward even more knowledge without the "over-stimulating" & some degree (even if minute) of a "fried" hangover. And cannabis is equally obviously the choice instead of alcohol when I want to relax and take the edge off.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: O_Dweeds] 1
#26303701 - 11/06/19 07:33 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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O_Dweeds said: It is well documented his flat "mates" would regularly dose him with high levels of LSD and other man made RC's and fuck with him to the extent of locking him in rooms, cupboards; frequently treating him like a lab rat.

wtf kinda "friends" are these
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Niffla] 1
#26303706 - 11/06/19 07:36 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yeah I’d never heard of them doing that. Kind of an asshole move if you ask me..
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: O_Dweeds]
#26303710 - 11/06/19 07:38 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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The trade out of Syd Barrett to David Gilmore is one of the best things to happen when looking at what an amazing trajectory of albums they launched and comparing those to pre-gilmore . I don't go more than a month without watching their amazing performance in Pompeii. What a piece of art; and without a crowd.
No more Syd, Gilmore. Less cid, breath more.
Handful of great Syd music tho.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: Niffla] 1
#26303713 - 11/06/19 07:40 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Niffla said:
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O_Dweeds said: It is well documented his flat "mates" would regularly dose him with high levels of LSD and other man made RC's and fuck with him to the extent of locking him in rooms, cupboards; frequently treating him like a lab rat.

wtf kinda "friends" are these
Who needs enemies with friends those. Nah those wheren't any actual friends, or hell even humans if you ask me. Just dead weight that tied themselves for a free ride.
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Re: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd and his alleged LSD habit [Re: O_Dweeds] 1
#26303730 - 11/06/19 07:51 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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O_Dweeds said: As we all know with even the perfect set/setting any man made (100% lab produced) have the ability to cause permanent damage where as with Natural Psychs (naturally grown and not altered) such as cannabis and mushrooms it can get crazy; but now matter the dosage the coming down is not accompanied by "fried out" unnatural "hangover" and usually accompanied by a positive "after-glow". It's risk/reward.
Even "natural psyches" can trigger an already hidden subconscious problem(s) that no one, not even the person knows is there, or is obvious. The drug is merely a catalyst not the cause, lab made or natural.
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