"Shine On You Crazy Diamond".... The "Crazy Diamond" was Syd Barrett, Founder of Pink Floyd. The song was conceived and written as a tribute and remembrance to him. Barrett was eased out of the band in 1968 because his drug use and deteriorating mental health were affecting his ability to integrate with the other band members and create and perform as a musician. He was replaced by David Gilmour... That changed everything, like the guitar work on this song, not possible with Syd. Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught in the cross fire of childhood and stardom. Blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. Shine on you crazy diamond. Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light. Shine on you crazy diamond. Well you wore out your welcome with random precision. Rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions. Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

"the guitar was good". Understatement of the year! LOL

Back To Back Pink Floyd.... Both showing the skillful hands of David Gilmour on both acoustic and electric with 6 strings and 21 frets... Legendary

parts 6-9 next!

I agree with EVERYTHING Mark Tandle said below. Sid Barrett started PF, but David Gilmour took it forward. These albums were all meant to be listened to in a single setting as each song plays into the next one. @JMBoyTV, you're doing a bang up job of presenting, kudos to you!!!

I consider this to be the best song that's ever been written, recorded, produced and performed

The album cover... No CGI.... They lit the stunt man on fire, just because.

I highly recommend the second half of this song.

Syd Barrett again. I cried from the beginning til the end. We buried my mother's ashes this afternoon and all Pink Floyd's albums have a story to tell and this one was touching me.

This is a 9-part composition, you only listened to Part 1 - 5. You need to also react to Part VI - IX (that is, 6 thru 9).

Now you have to do the other half of this classic

On the album notes you see something strange called a "glass harp". What that is, in the opening sequence is chords being played on wine glasses! it is seen in many later concerts as in here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odeId5h_sNCYlGg.html (Shine On You Crazy Diamond - David Gilmour live @ Gdansk 2006) This one isn't as flashy as the one in the Pulse concert, but both David and Richard play the music brilliantly, and David's lone vocal is very moving, as he and Syd Barrett were childhood friends and David has said watching him descend into insanity was very tragic so it is personal to him.

Pink Floyd was in a style of music by itself . Most bands try to play music that has a groove and to tap your feet too but PF you just sit back and listen and then when you hear what inspired the songs it's even better

You don't listen to Pink Floyd - You EXPERIENCE it

This is one of those songs.... if you know what I mean. "Legend" doesn't do it justice. The Live Pulse version, well. you know that is incredible too. Another Excellent Reaction.

I shook both of David's hands. still gives me a RUSH.

(S) hine On (Y) ou Crazy (D) iamond ❤🙌🏼🔥

They are/were pretty fantastic. Setting scenes & stories for those who choose to engage. They were all musical geniuses, as well. Incredible, actually. Thank you for sharing, as you do.

If you know about the meaning of the song then it's even better/more sad. It's about their former singer, Syd Barrett who had to leave the band a few years ago because of drug problems and mental health issues. He was even around when they recorded it (by accident). He looked very different and the rest of the band cried when they saw him later on.

One aspect that a lot of people don't know about this particular track is the phenomenal work done in the studio on the original recording tapes. On your video, at 4:26, before the drums come in, did you notice that the reverb (echo) precedes the guitar chords and the drum hits? Normally the reverb follows, but here it also precedes the chords. This effect may seem simple to achieve with digital technology, but with magnetic tapes it was much more complicated. To achieve this, they played the magnetic tapes in reverse, then added the desired effects on another tape and finally remixed the two tapes. There was a BBC documentary outlining the studio work done on this and other tracks, but KZfaq pulled it following a complaint from Steve Levine. The name of the documentary was: (Pink Floyd - Multi-Track Song Analysis - BBC The Record Producers).

Spark Up my pipe for this one..... Thanks

congratulations, you have now discovered a masterpiece

Loving the reactions brooo ❤ pink Floyd is a great rabbit hole to jump down! Pretty much all their albums are best listened to in one continuous piece as each song transitions smoothly to the next. Highly recommend: The Wall Dark Side of The Moon Wish You Were Here Animals Thanks and enjoy 😊😊

Because of the amazing intricacy of their music it is best to hear the Album versions first... then go watch it performed at the Pulse Tour... You know that is a real "Experience"

Musical Masterpiece!

Best record they made !

No other band could pull off what they did in this song. If you listen to it enough times, you don't need to read the story behind it. You put the lyrics together to get you on the right path then the music tells the rest.

Otherworldly.

You really need to watch them in concert. Beautiful.

Not sure if anyone else mentioned it, but the album cover was shot back in the days before Photoshop, the stuntman on fire...IS really on fire...just off camera there were safety people...but it was really shot on a back lot of a studio, pretty impressive in it's own right, those of us from the 60 and 70's were almost as impressed with "album" art, as we were with the music...I spent 30 plus years as a radio jock in the 80's after my time as a tank commander in the Army...I wish you pleasant journey's on your musical journey...Rock ON!!!

I love Roger’s lyrics so much.

Richard Wright is the perfect artist for setting a scene. Gilmour comes in and fills out the meaning with his exquisite guitar. Dick Parry sets it all on fire with the sax outro. Nick Mason's drums keep it all on track.

So glad to see u getting in to this great, sad, but beautiful song and the inspirTion for it. Lots of Love and emotion in those notes and words. Beautiful!!

4:15…this song was written around those four notes. David was playing that riff one day over & over and Roger told him there was something there! 🔥🔥🔥

The song is about SYD Barrett (Shine on You crazy Diamond; S Y D).

Speechless ... so good

Parts 6-9 is wonderful.

I could see in your reactions each part of the song as it came. I see you really liked the saxophone at the end. This is one of my favorite albums by Pink Floyd. I appreciate that you played it through without interruption and saved comments for the end. It let me enjoy the song with you.

Yes,I like you,see a movie with color great story line and intrigue that fuels my imagination and brings my mind to stable place.Funny thing it's for a man who lost stability in his life.However you hear it, certainly it's one of the most amazing pieces of music ever created.I like your ability to enjoy the flavors of all different kinds of music.I know you truly cherish all you hear from the past

legendary ❤

Continue with the groovy experience with the rest of the PINK FLOYD, "WISH YOU WERE HERE" Album . With "Welcome to the Machine", and "Have a Cigar"...

This song, like most Pink Floyd song, is like a movie score. The music (and few lyrics) guides you through your own life's experiences and the movie occurs in your head. So close your eyes and listen, it's your movie!

Two of Pink Floyd's greatest tracks were on the first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Astronomy Domine, which Syd wrote and sings with Roger, and Interstellar Overdrive, an instrumental written by the whole band.

I like that little smile when the music started, you know you're in for a hell of a ride

My favorite Floyd album. Also, it is so relaxing to fall asleep to. I drift off into a peaceful realm for the night.

Pink Floyd is named after the first names of two black American bluesman named Pink Anderson and Floyd Council

🤗 Awesome reaction! Had to see if you started at Part 1! 😉🥰🐰

JM I suggest you get in bed with your headphones and take the time to listen to Pink Floyd’s theme album “THE WALL” the album is really meant to be heard in one sitting. Personally I feel their album “DARK SIDE OF THE MOON” deserves the same attention.

I recommand to listen to the next album : « Animals », a concept album about the politics and the bussinessmen in the 70s, three big pieces of music that are 10+ minutes length But before, finish this album (Wish you were here) with « Have a cigar » and « Shine on you crazy diamond part VI-IX » And I think you haven’t already listened to « The Dark Side of The Moon », you need to.. 😂 A pure masterpiece, a concept album about all the issues of the humans in the society (war, time, death, greed, money, peace, respect, mental disease, loneliness etc), this album was released in 1973 and stayed in the charts until 1987 I think, the lyrics are always relevant today and the songs flow to each other without pause …. Freaking awesome

I view Shine On You Crazy Diamond as a modern day Requiem, (Mozart would approve). The guitar part is almost like a vocal part, literally singing the notes.

(S)hine on (Y)ou crazy (D)iamond - in memory of Syd Barrett

My brother and I with a couple of our navel mates would play this while watching the sunset at the boat dock in key west in. 1976 . Now every time I hear it , it takes me back to those times so many years ago..

Check out Hall & Oates (She's Gone & Sara Smile) as well as Kenny Loggins (This is it). Definitely a different vibe than this masterpiece, but good old soft rock from the 70s that you will for sure like.

The song is an eulogy for Syd Barrett, founder, singer, guitarist, and main composer of Pink Floyd until 1968, who left the band and the music business at large as a young man because of his fragile mental health and inability to perform. Syd (or the absence of Syd) is the main theme of a few other songs such as Wish You Were Here, and even earlier in The Dark Side of the Moon, and later in The Wall, but you could really argue that Syd's legacy permeated everything they did in the last five decades.

You gotta do Time by PF

“You reached for the secret too soon” 🌞 😝 💎

Do you understand what the lyrics mean?the music & the pain of it?

Syd Barrett, cofounder and friend to all, went severely mad in ways that weren't properly understood at the time, and was replaced with David Gilmour. They went on to become legends while Syd deteriorated. His former bandmates were powerless to help him and were all deeply affected. Decades later, Syd showed up by surprise, a silent hollow eyed bald bloated pasty ghost of a man and nobody recognized him. Gilmour was so shocked at his appearance that he later cried.

Spiderbait oldman Sam 😊

Where did you get that black cap to cover your full frontal lobotomy?