WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Booomer Anthems: Comfortably Numb
byVanderleunonJuly 12, 2019
Re that overwhelmingly apocalyptic solo by David Gilmor:
“It was a fantastic moment, I can tell, to be standing up on there, and Roger’s just finished singing his thing, and I’m standing there, waiting. I’m in pitch darkness and no one knows I’m there yet. And Roger’s down and he finishes his line, I start mine and the big back spots and everything go on and the audience, they’re all looking straight ahead and down, and suddenly there’s all this light up there and they all sort of—their heads all lift up and there’s this thing up there and the sound’s coming out and everything. Every night there’s this sort of “[gasp!]” from about 15,000 people. And that’s quite something, let me tell you.”
“And then ten years gets behind you , no one tells you when to run,you hold the starting gun”
All will be well Mr. V. Your Mom is home. You have done your job,now the question is whats next?
Thanks for the song,call you Saturday.
Love to you from AA and Geoff.
HJuly 13, 2019, 3:37 AM
Fantastic musicians, certainly. Although their politics really, really suck, so they have that going for them, and I’ll not financially support their communistic proclivities. I’d pay up if they’d just shut up and sing.
Gilmour is such a great guitar player. The best thing in the band, for me, although the drummer must be really good to hold it all together, with all the space between the notes that they build into their songs.
The band itself is too dominated by Waters and his Shitty Outlook on Life.
When I was a freshman in college in 1977 I distinctly remember a conversation with a girl who lived on my floor, somebody asked her if she liked Dark Side of the Moon and I assumed she would say “of course” since hey who didn’t like that classic? And she said no, it was too depressing.
What?! This was quite an eye opener for me and I slowly realized over the years that she nailed that one, for the whole band. Lots of bitching and complaining in those lyrics, Roger
Gordon ScottJuly 14, 2019, 5:43 PM
I admit I’ve never been a fan of Pink Floyd.
But if one lived in England in 1977, it must have seemed like the whole frigging world was going to hell. Nothing and no one worked. For 20 years it had seemed that one government followed another in arranging the decline and fall of the United Kingdom.
Margaret Thatcher turned that around. I could never understand the youths who danced for joy when she died. She pulled that country out of its never-gonna-get-better mentality through sheer force of will, when even her cabinet wanted to just let it go.
Roger Waters hated it all, of course. He got rich because she cut his taxes from near confiscation to tolerable.
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
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“And then ten years gets behind you , no one tells you when to run,you hold the starting gun”
All will be well Mr. V. Your Mom is home. You have done your job,now the question is whats next?
Thanks for the song,call you Saturday.
Love to you from AA and Geoff.
Fantastic musicians, certainly. Although their politics really, really suck, so they have that going for them, and I’ll not financially support their communistic proclivities. I’d pay up if they’d just shut up and sing.
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Gilmour is such a great guitar player. The best thing in the band, for me, although the drummer must be really good to hold it all together, with all the space between the notes that they build into their songs.
The band itself is too dominated by Waters and his Shitty Outlook on Life.
When I was a freshman in college in 1977 I distinctly remember a conversation with a girl who lived on my floor, somebody asked her if she liked Dark Side of the Moon and I assumed she would say “of course” since hey who didn’t like that classic? And she said no, it was too depressing.
What?! This was quite an eye opener for me and I slowly realized over the years that she nailed that one, for the whole band. Lots of bitching and complaining in those lyrics, Roger
I admit I’ve never been a fan of Pink Floyd.
But if one lived in England in 1977, it must have seemed like the whole frigging world was going to hell. Nothing and no one worked. For 20 years it had seemed that one government followed another in arranging the decline and fall of the United Kingdom.
Margaret Thatcher turned that around. I could never understand the youths who danced for joy when she died. She pulled that country out of its never-gonna-get-better mentality through sheer force of will, when even her cabinet wanted to just let it go.
Roger Waters hated it all, of course. He got rich because she cut his taxes from near confiscation to tolerable.