>>127342435
he didnt want to straighten out and make pop hits. like at all. he didnt wanna mime to songs. he didnt wanna do stupid tv interviews. he didnt wanna do any of that.
and even just his songs, you listen to his """pop songs""" like arnold layne and see emily play. these are rly weird songs. like they ARE pop songs, but theyre just barely on the corner of pop. THEN you listen to piper. that hard psych stuff was very popular in london at the time, and basically nowhere else.
roger rly had that drive to get famous, and syd just despised it. syd wanted to keep getting even weirder forever, and roger wanted to just get paid
so i think it was mostly artistic differences
theres also the factor of him actually fucking up pretty hard on the US tour. i posted about it ITT
>>127340538
i have it on pretty good authority, from talking to old bay area hippies over the years, that STP was all over the bay area during summer of love. and thats NASTY stuff. takes like 6hrs to even come on, so if you think its bunk acid and double up, youll be on the worst trip of your life for like 3-4 days. so thats likely where those stories of "staring blankly into the light and hitting one note all show" came from. cuz if you can get right off a 6-7hr plane ride and immediately play a show like that one i posted? idk that just doesnt sound like a lobotomite to me.
even 3yrs after hed been ruining himself on drugs, his playing and singing on the solo records is great. arguably better than it was.
idk. when you see your buddy fucking up, you try to pull him back up. you dont just leave him for dead like that
dave did, with the solo records. it was just too late by then
roger never did, and i think its because he felt too guilty knowing what he had done. least he got a few good records out of it i guess
