man in terms of coming into EMI, more than Roger and I can remember him at least twice asking how Syd’s sessions were going, when I was doing it. The occasions we went round to Dave’s flat to borrow his amp we didn’t stay long but it was all matey and the fact that Dave was lending him his amplifier, and that was before Dave was involved with the LP. Produce more interesting tracks than I ever could.") He also has positive things to say about some of the tracks reproduced by Gilmour over his own.ĭave, I remember, he always seemed to me to care for Syd and to be rather protective about him, I mean that’s probably why they wanted to produce him once he’d decided once he knew that EMI were interested properly. He admits that he wasn't really a producer as much a record label executive (he helped get the studios to agree to Syd recording) and clearly understood that Pink Floyd helping out was a much better opportunity for Syd and the album than him.("But I felt that it was very likely that he and Roger could Malcolm Jones: That’s creating an image for somebody who didn’t necessarily deserve quite as bad as that.īy the way, a side note, Malcolm isn't upset he was replaced. Ivor Trueman: It tends to play up to the lunatic image. y’see that I think is an acceptable mistake whereas the stuff they put on, I don’t think that it shows the songwriting process or whatever he’s doing that he made a mistake and that he knows to go back and so on, whereas the Madcap things they did just made him look a babbling fool. Malcolm Jones: That’s… (Syd makes a slight mistake). In the interview, he makes comments on the tracks the interviewer plays for him. He also wrote a booklet called "The Making of the Madcap Laughs(it's short, you can read it quickly) describing the sessions he had with Syd. That article took me to search for Malcolm Jones, and read this interview with him in the 80s (he passed away around that time it seems). We didn't want to appear cruel, but there is one bit I wish I hadn't done in retrospect." (M Watkinson & P Anderson, Crazy Diamond, p92). "We wanted to inject some honesty into it to try and explain what was going on. ""Perhaps we were trying to show what Syd was really like," David Gilmour confessed, years later, "but perhaps we were trying to punish him." (T Willis, Madcap, p112).Įlsewhere, he was equally candid. She does post a few quotes from Gilmour that seems to indicate he has some regrets of his handling (but Waters has no such remorse), The author of that blog post also has another article that lays out the argument that Pink Floyd were not acting in good faith when they took over (even though Syd invited them himself) from Malcolm Jones and they tried to create a certain image of the sessions and Syd himself that largely shaped how we view him. I came across this blog post, going through the sessions and tracks, and the author seems to point out that the uncontrollable legend of Syd Barrett during the making of the album was largely false, and that the producer, Malcolm Jones, who helped produced the first few sessions had positive things to say about him. I want to know what others think, specially Syd Barrett super fans who have a better understanding of all the various versions of the track. While we welcome feedback, if you pop into modmail being a stick, you are less likely to be taken seriously or with actual concern, so please take that into consideration. While we can't please everyone all of the time, we are human and do our best to make the sub as enjoyable as possible for everyone.
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