Yeah, but Waters had the vision to go anywhere he needed to go. He was only a bassist, but he basically became the frontman.
Wright could do anything Floyd needed him to do, so could Mason. And Gilmour was off the wall, he had the intensity to take Barrett's spot.
Though no one could truly take place of Syd Barrett, he was a poetic legend..
But still, just because they had 17 albums doesn't mean that most of them are dry rot. They're all worth listening to. People just like to pick favorites.
Floyd had much more of a vision, and Morrison was a drunken buffoon posing in front of an underground that loved him. He was a latter-day vomit puppet.
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