Aww :'( this song makes me feel so fkin sad, more so than jugband blues. I read that his friend Jenny Spires introduced Syd to Iggy the Eskimo cos she was off to US & didn't want to leave Syd alone. Iggy was homeless at the time so it suited them both. But just knowing this makes me understand the song in a totally different way. However much I love PF & their music I still can't quite believe how they dealt with the mental deterioration of their childhood friend. An illness largely characterized by fear & paranoia hardly needs it expressed in a song by your closest friends for the whole world to hear. I can't begin to imagine what this did to him. So, so sad !!
Aww :'( this song makes me feel so fkin sad, more so than jugband blues. I read that his friend Jenny Spires introduced Syd to Iggy the Eskimo cos she was off to US & didn't want to leave Syd alone. Iggy was homeless at the time so it suited them both. But just knowing this makes me understand the song in a totally different way. However much I love PF & their music I still can't quite believe how they dealt with the mental deterioration of their childhood friend. An illness largely characterized by fear & paranoia hardly needs it expressed in a song by your closest friends for the whole world to hear. I can't begin to imagine what this did to him. So, so sad !!