Syd Barrett /Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues' LAST SONG with Floyd

December 1967
London Line promo video" (London, 1967
is featured on their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, released in 1968. Written by Syd Barrett, it was his sole compositional contribution to the album, as well as his last published for the band.
The video features Barrett (shown with an acoustic guitar for the first time) and the group miming to the song in a more conventional stage setting, with psychedelic projections in the background. The original audio to the promo is lost, and most versions use the BBC recording from late 1967, consequently causing sync issues most evident as Barrett sings the opening verse.The original film was considered to be lost, until it was re-discovered in the Manchester Arts Lab in 1999. Barrett and Waters first watched the promo video during the second week of December 1967.

[HDPinkFloyd]

"Jugband Blues" featured on their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, released in 1968. Written by Syd Barrett, it was his sole compositional contribution to the album, as well as his last published for the band. Dec 1967

[nottelling]

"And I'm wondering who could be writing this song" is incredibly haunting.

[johnnykapferer]

I think I’m obsessed with this song. There’s something about the “I don’t care if the sun don’t shine” section that makes me play this OVER and OVER.

[johnbrowne]

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.

[northvilletunnels]

Nick Mason plays this over the PA after his concert as everyone is leaving.

[brianv]

I didn't realize this until recently, but the first few lines are:

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
That I'm not here

It makes me appreciate the Wish You Were Here album title that much more!

[leavebutdontleaveme]

Syd has such a unique presence. Thank you for this rare footage.

[jeremyacton]

Syd's Famous Last Words that I have not heard before:
"...And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?"

And I really can’t give him an answer.

[jmbottaro]

metaphorically speaking, listening to pink floyd's whole discography without knowing of their life, feels like growing up and the kid slowly fading away, but yet still present like a dream (childhood haunts all of us, in a good and bad way). Syd is the kid you are no more, The kid with an infinite potential, infinite imagination. You are no more the kid, but the kid sculpted you. If Syd knew this all along and sacrificed his life for this(making contact or telling the band would have changed this sculpture) then he truly was the most genius artist and person the world has ever seen.

[georgeoconnor]

Nothing Sad about this Absolute Masterpiece..Syd was obviously on another level beyond measure..turning the whole band into his canvas as a universal sound engineer..

[phayzyre]

This is like listening to a swan song. 😥
Syd was a misunderstood genius. He wasn't on the music scene for very long but his musical prowess made a huge impact that will never be forgotten. Shine on forever you crazy diamond! 💎

[KrunkCobain]

I feel like he's more together and self aware here than everyone else is leading on. His first lines sting with sarcasm. everyone is treating him like he's gone, fragile, and lost, so this performance is him showing us how "Crazy" or "out of it" he is. Yet his timing and theming is impecible so he must know what hes doing! Then the last verse hits us with how he truly knows what is real and what is fake, and maybe we are the ones who can't tell.

[caryheuchert]

This song hints at the direction he would take on his two solo albums. Very different than “Piper”, and the Floyd were already setting their controls for the heart of the sun.

[fiercepuppy]

This was a man that is beyond most human comprehension. Artist and visionary as so few in history. A treasure that can only start to be understood and appreciated a century after his passing.

[Byzantine]

Been a Floyd fan for nearly 40 years since I was a kid. Never got into the Syd stuff until recently. Now I'm even listening to his 2 solo albums as well. At age 48 now I get it. RIP Syd.

[Proxydram]

I legit cried. It sounds pretty depressing too...

[RCAvhstape]

Given what Syd was going through at the time mentally, the lyrics are remarkably lucid and pointed. Huge impact, especially that last line, hits like a sledge hammer.

[Hana-hddj]

i love how some people see his eyes as dead and soulless while others see the beauty of entire worlds inside of them...

[RossBayCult]

I think David Gilmour got it spot on about Syd. The drugs didn’t help, but he was on his way to the state he would eventually be in. The pressure of the record company and the expectations that came with being a popular hit band was going to undo him. He made music as expression and as art form. He didn’t like the business aspect of it and he became disenchanted with it all. As a result he withdrew from the band and himself. Sad, but true.

[natjonestower]

Out of his mind, out of the band, and he knew it. Congrats to them for actually recording it.