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One of my upcoming “Meth Minute 39″ cartoons is about the late great Syd Barrett. For those of you who are unaware, Barrett was the original singer for Pink Floyd until he drifted off into a insane world of LSD fantasy and became a mysterious recluse.

For the cartoon’s soundtrack, I needed to create some songs that sound just like Barrett’s own. I turned to my friend William Rahilly, a longtime musical collaborator. Will has a closet-sized recording space in Brooklyn crowded with instruments, analog-replicating tube amps and more.

First, I had made a list of words and phrases that I felt like Syd would use in his lyrics.

Then Will started strumming his acoustic and I put together some lyrics with the words from the list.

Then we started recording all the instrumental tracks.

Finally I laid down my Syd Barrett imposter vocals.

And that’s all it took. Without further ado, click here to hear the outcome.

It’s an mp3 of three separate ten second songs; “Moonlight Trousers”, “Sorrow’s Rainbow” and “Lumps!”. The whole experience of creating loving spoof of British rock kind of made me appreciate The Rutles and Spinal Tap even more.

More blogs about the animation as it happens!

-DAN METH