I wasn't dissing Mason, I just love that line. He is a better drummer than people give him credit for.
I watched this one video of Floyd on Live at Pompeii playing One of These Days, and around the latter part of the song after the drums come in Mason dropped one of his drumsticks but he pulled his spare out so damn fast he didn't even miss a beat, I thought that was rather impressive. I rarely hear him miss a beat on stage. People just give drummers like him a bad time like they do with Meg White, because they're no Neil Peart.
Just because you play very simple stuff dosen't mean you're an incompetent musician.
Anyway about Barrett, I think Indie fans prefer him because they like him for the same reason they love mid 60s Dylan, they love the lyrics that make no damn sense. Add to that PF developed into a prog band and Indie fans aren't really into that.
Most prog fans like myself just tend to prefer 70s Floyd and for the same reason other people prefer Syd, beause 70s Floyd is more polished, prog is basically the more polished younger brother of psychedelia and prog fans love polish.
Floyd were different from most other prog bands at the time because they weren't as technically skilled, but they made up for it with their composing skills and they really knew how to craft some beautiful amazing soundscapes and they did it very professionally for musicians who didn't have as much chops as their peers.
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