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Syd barrett was born as Roger Keith Barrett in the English city of Cambridge to a middle-class family at 60 Glisson Road.[3][4] Barrett was the third of five children.[3] His father, Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominent pathologist[3][5][6] and it was known he was related to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.[5][7][6] Max Barrett was member of the Cambridge Philharmonic Society[3][5][8] and both he and his wife, Winifred, encouraged the young Roger (as he was known then) in his music. After playing piano occasionally, preferring writing and drawing, Roger got a ukulele at 10 or less, then a banjo at 11,[9] then an Hofner acoustic guitar when he was 14.[10][11] A year after he got his first acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar and built his own Amplifier.[11] In 1951, when Barrett was four years old, his family moved to 183 Hills Road.[3][4] One common tale of how Barrett acquired the nickname "Syd" at the age of 14, is of a reference to an old local Cambridge jazz double bassist,[11][12] Sid 'the beat' Barrett, which claims Syd Barrett changed the spelling in order to differentiate himself from his namesake.[13] However, when he was 13, his schoolmates nicknamed him "Syd" after he showed up to a field day at Abington Scout site wearing a flat cap instead of his Scout beret; making reference to "Syd" being a "working-class" name.[14] He used both names interchangeably for several years and his sister Rosemary stated, "He was never Syd at home. He would never have allowed it".[12] Like his brothers before him, between 1953 and 1957, Barrett attended Morley Memorial Junior School, at one point, at the Junior school he was taught by Roger Waters' mum, Mary.[15] Later, in 1957, he attended Cambridgeshire High School for Boys[16] (with Waters)[3] and Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. Starting in 1964, the band that would become Pink Floyd underwent various line-up and name changes such as "The Abdabs",[29][30] "The Screaming Abdabs",[30] "Sigma 6",[31][30] and "The Meggadeaths".[30] In 1965, Barrett joined them as The Tea Set[32][30] (sometimes spelt as T-Set),[33] and when they found themselves playing a concert with a band of the same name, Barrett came up with the name "The Pink Floyd Sound" (also known as "The Pink Floyd Blues Band",[33] later "The Pink Floyd"). He devised the name "Pink Floyd" by juxtaposing the first names of Pink Anderson and Floyd Council[34] whom he had read about in a sleeve note by Paul Oliver for a 1962 Blind Boy Fuller LP (Philips BBL-7512): "Curley Weaver and Fred McMullen, (... ) Pink Anderson or Floyd Council—these were a few amongst the many blues singers who were to be heard in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, or meandering with the streams through the wooded valleys".[35][36] Barrett used "Pink and Floyd" as the name of his two pet cats.[33] Barrett also told the story that the name was transmitted to him by a flying saucer[37] while he was sitting on Glastonbury Tor.[28][36] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
