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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I don't know why anyone would vilify them I think they did everything they possibly could for him.
The way I always saw it was that nobody was fired or walked out on anyone , they just sort of stopped bothering to work with each other. He couldn't be bothered to show up , they couldn't be bothered waiting around for him. That's fair enough in my opinion.
And they looked after him well regarding royalties , from what i've read they were very generous with what they paid him so that he could be left alone to do his own thing.
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I've been watching a lot (and I mean A LOT) of documentaries on Syd Barrett lately and that's basically what happened. It really wasn't a firing, Syd just wasn't showing up and when he wasn't they had Gilmour fill in for him. When he did it was sort of a co-frontman duty, when Syd sang and played guitar Gilmour let him when he didn't Gilmour did. Most of the time Syd just stood there completely still staring into the back of the room totally lost. I mean they even went out of their way and helped him on his solo albums there was absolutely no animosity there. It wasn't really a firing or a leaving it was a pretty unique and singular example of a member leaving a band.
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