Syd bought this guitar sometime in early 1964, when he decided to start playing a bass. Our guess is that Syd sold this guitar before leaving to London in summer of 1964 to study painting at Camberwell College of Arts. There is some debate going on whether the guitar was Futurama II or III model, but we tend to believe Roger Waters who said that Syd played the later. It was most likely finished in sunburst, since most of Futurama guitars at that time were, and it featured a maple neck with Strat-shaped headstock. The guitar was made in Czechoslovakia and imported to the UK starting from 1959, and was often advertised as “the most advanced guitar on the market” – an easy claim to make considering the low amount of competitors on the UK market at the time.Īs far as the specs, the guitar was equipped with three single-coil pickups and a tremolo. Syd’s Hofner Futurama was at that time the closest you were able to come to a Fender Stratocaster on a small budget. Since there are no photos of Syd playing this guitar, everything that follows is based on pure speculation, and on the guess that the guitar was made sometime between 1959 and 1961. 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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