Today is the birthday of Roger Keith Barrett, better known as Syd Barrett. The crazy diamond recluse, but also the founder and main muse even after he left the band years later, died of diabetes complications on July 7, 2006. Syd Barrett legacy lives on even know. His quick ascent and descent mentally and otherwise, has created a mystic quality to him. Would he want that? Who knows. I just wanted to share my love and thoughts of him on his birthday. His music is unique, bizarre, brilliant, and catchy. From the entire Piper At the Gates Of Dawn record, to the madcap laughs and Barrett, he still has his own world he creates. Today we should all celebrate his music and his life. His influence is undeniable. A mad genius, but geniuses usually have a touch of madness. Shine on you crazy diamond.
The Night Creeper, by Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats, is their third record, and it shows them progressing. And its fucking fantastic. It has the riffs and vibes of Black Sabbath, with haunting vocals, and a sense of melody that most Stoner Doom Metal bands lack. There are hooks, and dark vibes. It's incindiary. And if anybody doubts their legitimacy, they opened for Black Sabbath on the UK leg of their last tour, which in Doom, that's a hell of a endorsement. They don't copy Sabbath, they put their own dark, melodic spin on the genre. This record is absolutely phenomenal, dark, abysmal, eerie, and filled with incredible freakin riffs. With lyrics that are reminscent of old school b movie horror films, they create an atmosphere that literally makes you feel like you are walking down a dark alley in the cold English rain. With songs like Waiting For Blood, Pusher Man, and the title track, slow, sludgeing Sabbath-esgue riffs, Iron Maiden like guitar harmonies, a
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