{"id":2707,"date":"2012-11-22T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2012-11-22T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:46:32","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-334-the-90s-the-division-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/11\/22\/my-musical-evolution-part-334-the-90s-the-division-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 334 The 90’s The Division Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pink<\/a>In 1994, Pink Floyd<\/em> released what appears to be their last studio album. I didn’t run\u00a0out and buy it right away. I had been focused on New Age <\/em>music for a few years.\u00a0 I wouldn’t say exclusively but pretty close. What prompted me to buy The Division Bell <\/em>was a trip to Vermont. I had been back there in 1993 and I wanted to bring my\u00a0lovely bride Mary out there to show her some of the beautiful sites in that wooded paradise.<\/p>\n

We had planned to go out\u00a0near the end of May.\u00a0 May offers a\u00a0fresh green canopy of new leaves, cool nights and the streams and rivers are still full with\u00a0the runoff of melting mountain snow. Of course I made arrangements to visit Adam who was living in Boston at that time. As it turned out, he surprised me with a ticket to\u00a0see Pink Floyd<\/em> live in Foxboro. It shocks me to think that was nearly 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

So I bought The Division Bell\u00a0<\/em>as preparation for the show. I listened to it a couple of times to get familiar but I wasn’t really moved by it at the time. It was good but didn’t rise to the level of some of\u00a0my other Floyd favorites. Then I went to the show.<\/p>\n

This was the old Foxboro arena where\u00a0The Patriots<\/em> played football before they built Gillette Stadium.\u00a0 We drove down to\u00a0Boston and spent the day downtown seeing the sites and having a Guinness at Cheers. Adam and I went to the show. It was a cool spring evening with a little drizzle now and again but\u00a0nothing to complain about.\u00a0 The show was phenomenal. They opened with Astronomy Domini and I followed the lasers\u00a0beaming out into the night sky as far as I could see. I can’t underscore enough how truly awesome it was to be there.<\/p>\n

When we got back home to\u00a0Indiana, I would burn those little balsam fir plugs\u00a0 that I bought in a Vermont Country Store. I’d watch the smoke curl and billow out of the chimney of the little log cabin. While I savored the aroma, I’d listen to The Division Bell <\/em> and dream of being back in Vermont. After that show and the second one from Chicago, The Division Bell<\/em> became one of my favorite\u00a0Pink Floyd albums. Really, Meddle<\/em> and The Division Bell<\/em> are my favorites. Is that because the\u00a0Dark Side, The Wall, <\/em>and Wish You Were Here<\/em>\u00a0 are the ones most often played by the world?<\/p>\n

Cluster One<\/em>
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