Psychedelic Renegades: With Photographs of Syd Barrett by Mick Rock
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Author: Mick RockEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 1934471003
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Gingko Press Inc.
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Book Review: Beautiful, mysterious and haunting... just like Syd's music
Summary: 5 Stars
The primary photo session covered in this book will be familiar to all Syd fans from the original "Madcap Laughs" album art. And some of the other photos have been reproduced here and there over the years. But this photo session has never, as far as I know, been seen in such completeness. It feels different when you see all these photos, from several sessions dated 1969-1971, together in one place. It feels quite intimate, a bit like looking through a family album. There is a teasing familiarity between Syd and his close friend Mick, the photographer; you can feel it. And you can feel that in certain photos Syd is playing up the "rock star" mode, and in others he's allowed Mick Rock to capture a resigned, dark, dissociative mood.
Rock's brief essays about his time knowing Syd are well-written and interesting, even if it seems at times that he still has rose-colored glasses on about Syd's state of mind. The famous "dust and guitars" interview he did with Syd in Syd's mother's house in 1971 is published here in its entirety, and it's hard to read that interview and not feel that Syd was mentally and emotionally devastated. I'm no psychiatrist, but the disconnected "word-salad" phrases Syd comes up with are not reassuring to those who think he may have been suffering from schizophrenia.
Interestingly, for those who've always wondered who the nude girl in the "Madcap Laughs" sessions was, Rock says she was one of the women who drifted in & out of Syd's life and apartment, she was called "Iggy," and she was an Eskimo. He offers a theory about what happened to her when she wandered back out of Syd's orbit. I did a bit of Googling, and someone out there has created a "Holy Church of Iggy" -- they've actually tracked her down, interviewed her, and even have current photos of her! It's nice that she's alive and well, but I almost feel sorry that a bit of the mystery was lost...
No Syd fan will be able to look at this book without feeling melancholy for the beautiful, deep and mischievous man the world lost when "Syd" went back to being Roger and withdrew from us forever. But I'm glad these intimate photos survive him; I'm not tired of him yet.
Summary of Psychedelic Renegades: With Photographs of Syd Barrett by Mick Rock
When he passed permanently into the next dimension in 2006, Syd Barrett s life had developed into something far more significant than he could ever have imagined. The man who turned his back on probable fame, fortune and the entire rock music scene over thirty years ago had become an involuntary legend. Was he a genius or just a madman? The definitive answer to this question will never be known. But Psychedelic Renegades goes a long way towards unraveling the enigma that was Syd s personality. Mick Rock s extraordinary images and frank text expose a man with enormous natural charisma, whose moods could be dark and brooding as well as buoyant with madcap laughter. Mick shared a friendship with Syd that began in the acid haze of the sixties and endured until the early seventies when Syd locked himself away. This superbly produced book covers the period 1969-71, and features the photo session in and around Syd's London flat that produced the cover for his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs; it also features images Mick shot for the now famous Rolling Stone interview in 1971, which became the last photos Syd ever posed for.How-to Books
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