![]() This guitar came about a year after Syd bought his first guitar, which was an acoustic Hofner, and about the same time he form his first band called Geoff Mott and The Mottoes. ![]() This was Syd first electric guitar, bought sometime in the early 60s – probably as early as 1961, for £25. ![]() Syd Barret’s Electric Guitars: 1961 Selmer Futurama III Main part of his amp setup was a 50W Selmer Truvoice Treble n’ Bass played through a 2×12 cabinet, and his main effect unit was a Binson Echorec box, also used by his friend and a brief band-mate David Gilmour. ![]() Perhaps the most significant and most memorable part of Syd’s gear was his 1962 Fender Esquire, which Syd decorated with polished metal circles to enhance at that time already mesmerizing light effects during some of Pink Floyd’s early gigs. In 1972 he went into self-imposed seclusion in his hometown of Cambridge, UK lasting until his death in 2006. Barrett left the group in April 1968, and continued working as solo artist until releasing two albums – The Madcap Laughs (1970) and Barrett (1970). He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter during the band’s psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work. Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd.
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