Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | What Syd Barrett means to me by Rick Moody

Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | What Syd Barrett means to me by Rick Moody:
"It's a great album, especially the big rave-up Interstellar Overdrive. But it's only in Bike, the strange closing number, which seems to wander off and never quite come back, that we get the first intimation of Syd Barrett, sui generis. His voice was strange, thin, reedy, capable of leaping awkwardly high, and of ominous basso rumblings. His guitar playing was trebly, raga-influenced, more like Eric Dolphy than Eric Clapton."