Halfway through "If It's In You" he suddenly interrupts and says he wants to start over again. The studio engineer then says "Take One". Near the end of "She Took A Long Cold Look" Barrett mumbles: "That's short".Stop and Go: During the opening track Barrett is heard saying "O.K.", whereupon the music briefly interrupts, then goes again.Spoken Word in Music: Barrett starts mumbling during the performance of "No Man's Land".Special Guest: Willie Wilson from David Gilmour ( Pink Floyd)'s old band Jokers Wild and Robert Wyatt ( Soft Machine) contribute to the album.
Well, oh, baby, my hair's on end about you. In "She Took A Long Cold Look" we can him hear pausing for a brief moment to turn pages from his lyric sheets. During songs like "Dark Globe" he even sings out of tune. Barrett's lyrics are bizarre and he is sometimes heard stumbling over his lines or playing.
Barrett also didn't allow the musicians to rehearse or re-record their overdubs, which explains why a lot of tracks sound improvised, full of amateurish mistakes and moments where Barrett is out of tune. As a result the recordings crept on for over a year. His musicians would ask him questions to which he gave little to no helpful responses. Barrett's mental problems were so bad that he had to be persuaded at times to work on his own album.
The Troubled Production behind the album was colourful enough that an entire book has been written about it: The Making Of The Madcap Laughs (2003) by Malcolm Jones. Gilmour also played bass, guitar and (on "Octopus") drums. Apart from Barrett, the album went through four different producers: Peter Jenner (Barrett's manager) for the 1968 sessions, Harvest label head Malcolm Jones for the early-to-mid 1969 sessions and former band-mates Roger Waters and David Gilmour for the mid-1969 sessions. Recording commenced immediately after Barrett's departure from Pink Floyd in 1968, lasting for well over a year. Twelve years on, and after several successful exhibitions, He has developed a strong client base and feels confident working alongside fine artists, though due to the highly stylized nature of his work he will always consider himself to be an illustrator.The Madcap Laughs is the debut studio album by Syd Barrett, released on Harvest Records in 1970. first exhibition "˜Demons' 2004 focused on musicians that had used their inner torment to create and was greatly received within the local art community and after that the commissions came rolliing in. David's love of music and fascination of pop culture naturally progressed as he combines the two within his artwork, creating bright, stylized portaits of musicians for mass consumption, easily recognised and accessible. He strives to find a common ground between the conceptual artworld and the everyday life. Living with, and working alongside fine art students throughout his degree David had the opportunity see how the fine art world works, visiting exhibitions and seeing his fellow students handling the ever changing art scene. David's main aim as an artist is to create artwork that the genenal public can find accessible, though appreciating the conceptual art movement that has been dominant in the last twenty years he sees that for many people some of the concepts would be a little hard to grasp and possibly elitist.