THE WALL

John or Paul? Peter or Phil? David or Roger?

I listen to Pink Floyd thanks to my older brother Alex (that's rather a story about Atom Heart Mother), but to say it shortly, Pink Floyd has been the most influential band in my puberty, my top band. And if you asked me what album by PF he would chose to be the only one to entertain him on a desert island, I think, It'd be this one. I know my brother takes it as a masterpiece.

The whole concept is just a remarkable piece of art / study of life. Personal history on the background of the history of the whole society. It is a vicious circle, a question what was first: egg or chicken? Interdependece and influence of one to the second - history forms a personality, a personality creates history.

The whole concept of the wall as barriers, state frontiers, personal boundaries. At university, I read Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville. What a work would it be to write an comparison essay on the concept of wall in Pink Floyd's album and Herman Melville's book. Wallstreet...

And these ingenious ideas, I don't doubt that Roger Waters is a genious, lead me somewhere where I don't like it anymore, into the Ivory Tower, home of all intelectual loners, those who believe that their ideas are more important, that they are somehow superior to the others, that they are the creative brain and the rest just slows them down. Today, I watched the famous The Wall concert where the stage is being bricked up during the show. I saw David Gilmour, who is my favourite member, I also saw the rest of the band for a very modest couple of times. And I saw Roger Waters, with a number 1 white t-shirt in the front. The work is his baby, an ingenious one, but only his. The rest of the band changed into just some musicians holding instruments, not equal band members. Well, if Roger was not so ambitious, this album wouldn't have been created, but frankly, without trying to be too much philosophical - the most important things are more difficult to see and one of them is friendship and cooperation and this is not here anymore.

I prefer Paul to John, but with the Beatles, I don't think John took over the whole band. I also prefer Peter to Phil, until he took over the whole band.

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