{"id":1757,"date":"2012-08-09T21:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2012-08-09T21:18:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T01:18:39","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-211-the-rise-fall-of-84-another-brick-in-the-wall-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/09\/my-musical-evolution-part-211-the-rise-fall-of-84-another-brick-in-the-wall-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 211 The Rise & Fall Of ’84 Another Brick In The Wall Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pink<\/a>To this day my advice to anybody who has just been through a break-up is to avoid Pink Floyd’s The Wall<\/em> 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 old stereo had an 8-track player. That way I could let it cycle over and over without having to even get up out of the chair that I was sinking into.<\/p>\n

I seemed to connect to it on so many levels. Absent father, over protective mother, didn’t really ever have a life threatening illness or a dead rat but I now had the woman leave me for another man.\u00a0 What did it all mean? I was numb but not very comfortable.<\/p>\n

I knew every note and every rest. I listened to The Wall<\/em> so many times that I was able to translate the backwards dialog embedded in Empty Spaces.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>The album opens with “we came in” on the very first track. The last thing on the last track of side 4 if you are still listening to vinyl is “Isn’t This Where”.\u00a0 When you listen to that on continous 8-Track it says “Isn’t this where we came in?” It was like Roger Waters knew that I’d be listening to The Wall <\/em>just like this.<\/p>\n

I don’t remember how long I sat there like Bob Geldof in the movie. In the chair, staring ahead. Unable or unwilling to do anything else but build a wall.<\/p>\n

 
\nThe Wall<\/em>
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