I bought P/F's The Wall on it's release day in November 79 in Brighton. I didn't get to play it at the time because my system was back in Rotterdam where I was living and working. I left it at my parents, so I first played it in 82. Some great tracks and it did make sense because I could identify with the trip the character was going through at that time in 79.
A few nights ago I saw that the film - The Wall was going to be on a TV channel here in France. Why I didn't get to see it on it's release in 82 I don't know. Watching the film brought it all back to me. Living somewhere I couldn't identify with - I don't like big cities, The rage and trashing of his apartment I understood completely why, a woman. I survived it all and came out stronger and not as a brick in the wall.
If you havn't seen The Wall - check it out.
A few nights ago I saw that the film - The Wall was going to be on a TV channel here in France. Why I didn't get to see it on it's release in 82 I don't know. Watching the film brought it all back to me. Living somewhere I couldn't identify with - I don't like big cities, The rage and trashing of his apartment I understood completely why, a woman. I survived it all and came out stronger and not as a brick in the wall.
If you havn't seen The Wall - check it out.
Because Pompeii archaeological excavations are in itself a very fragile structure and in those days (1971) there was not even the hypothesis of being able to access thousands of people without the risk of compromising their integrity.
Furthermore, adequate access to electricity was even missing.
"The idea was born to the director Adrian Maben - who soon we will hear again - who initially tried to convince David Gilmour to write music that interacted with picturesque images. Gilmour did not show great interest, on the contrary, he refused immediately. Months later, in the summer of 1971, Maben, on vacation in Naples, was hit by the image of the Roman amphitheater of Pompeii to the twilight. He had returned to the sunset because he believed he had lost his passport a few days earlier. It was there that he had the idea of making Pink Floyd play, right in that location. But without audience.
Thanks to friendship with a professor of the University of Naples, Maben soon obtained authorization from the Superintendency. But everything wasn't simple. The Pink Floyd in fact stunned on two aspects: the songs were to be performed strictly live and, consequently, this meant the organization of transport via truck of all the necessary instrumentation, to ensure a sound quality comparable to the studio works. But arrived in Pompeii - here is the first hitch - Maben's troupe realized that there was not enough current and it was therefore decided to take it directly from the town hall through a very long cable that traveled all the streets of Pompeii, from the town hall to the amphitheater".
https://ecointernazionale.com/2022/09/live-at-pompeii-50-anni-concerto-pink-floyd/
On 7 and 8 July 2016 Dave Gilmour obtained the suitable organization (managed more as if it were a maximum security event than a concert) and the permission of the national authorities of cultural heritage for 2500 people only at a ticket cost of €345,00 (!) per person.
https://francescoprisco.blog.ilsole...glietti-non-possono-costare-meno-di-300-euro/
https://www.dalessandroegalli.com/events/393/david-gilmour
Furthermore, adequate access to electricity was even missing.
"The idea was born to the director Adrian Maben - who soon we will hear again - who initially tried to convince David Gilmour to write music that interacted with picturesque images. Gilmour did not show great interest, on the contrary, he refused immediately. Months later, in the summer of 1971, Maben, on vacation in Naples, was hit by the image of the Roman amphitheater of Pompeii to the twilight. He had returned to the sunset because he believed he had lost his passport a few days earlier. It was there that he had the idea of making Pink Floyd play, right in that location. But without audience.
Thanks to friendship with a professor of the University of Naples, Maben soon obtained authorization from the Superintendency. But everything wasn't simple. The Pink Floyd in fact stunned on two aspects: the songs were to be performed strictly live and, consequently, this meant the organization of transport via truck of all the necessary instrumentation, to ensure a sound quality comparable to the studio works. But arrived in Pompeii - here is the first hitch - Maben's troupe realized that there was not enough current and it was therefore decided to take it directly from the town hall through a very long cable that traveled all the streets of Pompeii, from the town hall to the amphitheater".
https://ecointernazionale.com/2022/09/live-at-pompeii-50-anni-concerto-pink-floyd/
On 7 and 8 July 2016 Dave Gilmour obtained the suitable organization (managed more as if it were a maximum security event than a concert) and the permission of the national authorities of cultural heritage for 2500 people only at a ticket cost of €345,00 (!) per person.
https://francescoprisco.blog.ilsole...glietti-non-possono-costare-meno-di-300-euro/
https://www.dalessandroegalli.com/events/393/david-gilmour
I used to listen to Pink Floyd for their musical talents, but slowly found their lyrics & narrative direction profoundly dark & brooding. Listening to them circa 1980...had I been an emotionally "troubled" individual , I could have spiralled into depression & suicide.
As such, The Wall movie brings visuals to the enveloping darkness. I attribute much of the dark, moody, defeatist ... look of the movie to the English pathos.
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As such, The Wall movie brings visuals to the enveloping darkness. I attribute much of the dark, moody, defeatist ... look of the movie to the English pathos.
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My journey with Pink Floyd started with Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point at the age of 16. That isn't a comedy either...
ahaha I have a good pill for you : go listen to Joy Division !
I think you have to have been of a particular age, perceptive and to be living in certain western countries/ UK/USA/ northern Europe/Oz to understand the incredible changes that came about in just a few years. Lots of young people got swept up and lost in the whole sex,drugs and R&R. It started in the 60s and carried on into the 70s'. The hippie thing was real and good for just a few. So many thought that real change was possible but a lot got really ripped off mentally by so many con men with long hair. Van Morrison's words were spot on 'go down to love city where they rip you off with a smile and it don't take a gun'. Our parents had led controlled lives and suddenly all that was gone. You had to be strong to chart a steady course through life.
Today it is the same, if not worse.
I lived in a megalopolis and seeing the film was not too heavy for me because at the time I saw not far from me what of similar many people really lived, thought and did.
May be one should not be afraid of being or becoming a "brick" like many others, instead one should be able to understand how he is internally and how much "how" he is "can be directed towards the" good "rather than towards "evil ", and how to do it.
In other words, one's life path.
Or one can even justify everything thinking that everyone reacts just as he can.
Perhaps the things that one made or not made could be judged by himself, but even in this case it is difficult to be able to prove themselves not to be "a brick" like many others, in any "category" one want to self-insert.
Of course, one is also free to believe that one cannot be inserted in any category/wall.
As everyone knows, the movie is autobiographical and protagonists are both Pink, that's Roger Waters himself,
and his life events: the drug addiction, the death of his father, the betrayal of his wife, the severe teacher and the consequential his mental "reactions".
A desperate person will never make the right choice.
However, judging from how Roger appears today it would be said that he too has "survived" very well.
I cannot say if he himself is or is not a "brick" like many others, and anyway that would be a completely different story.
Wise people would say that we are all the same despite being all different, and what sometimes does the difference really are the experiences of life and how you can "live/react" to them.
So at the end of the day I don't see anything wrong with being a brick like many others, what really matters is which wall one is a part.
And how the history ends.
Just before the Wall was released, my dorm neighbor, Gary Wykoff, and I took black markers to the cinder blocks in the hallway. Around our doors and towards the dead end of the hallway, we outlined the "bricks". We were likely in an induced stupor. Every one left for thanksgiving break, and when we returned people were telling us we were idiots. Then the Wall was released and we went from idiots to clairvoyant masters of all things cool. I still laugh thinking about that Wall. Sadly we lost Gary not long after that. Wish you were here ...
If your originality and singularity is out of the question, maybe despite this fact one will be part in a way or another of a kind of "category" (wall) of people.