To this day my advice to anybody who has just been through a break-up is to avoid Pink Floyd’s The Wall for a few months. It was weird, like the album and I were swirling downa drain together. It never left my turntable for weeks. I even recorded it onto a blank 8-Track. Remember my …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 210 The Rise & Fall Of ’84 Impact
She agreed to meet me one last time. I had one last chance to convince her that it was a mistake. In the parking lot of Hardy’s over spilled Diet Coke and tears we closed the door on what could have been. It wasn’t the last time that I would see her. Over the next …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 206 College Intermission Another Brick In The Wall Part 1
Up until the summer of 1984, Pink Floyd was synonymous with Dark Side Of The Moon for me. I knew that they were more than that. I had even heard Confortably Numb at Chip’s house way back in the Academy Days. In August if 1984, my concept of Pink Floyd would be expanded and The …
My Musical Evolution – Part 121 Academy Days Hanging On In Quiet Desperation Is The English Way
I am still amazed that there ever was a time when I didn’t know of Pink Floyd. As much as I loved Kansas, Boston, Styx, and Journey, Pink Floyd would eventually eclipse them all. I began The Academy Days the year that The Wall was released. I remember sitting in Mrs. Lind’s Biology lab freshman …