Pink Floyd is one of my favorite groups. They are right up there with the Beatles for me, but in a different way. I know everything about the Beatles, but I know very little about Pink Floyd other than I love their music. The Wall is probably one of my favorite albums followed closely by Darkside of the Moon.
When I was in college and would visit my friend Jeremy's apartment that he shared with Chris, I would always ask that they play Pink Floyd the Wall. Chris was an audiophile. In fact he worked at the same university that Jeremy and I were attending at the time. He was the head of their audio visual department. But he had a pretty amazing stereo system so Pink Floyd sounded amazing. There was something about the album and it's theme of madness that appealed to my 20-something mind.
I have since retained my love for Pink Floyd's music and the revival of David Gilmour and Roger Waters (who apparently hate each other). Syd Barrett was one of the original band members and the one who named the group. He was also the one who had a psychotic breakdown that pretty much ended his tenure in the band. I would have assumed that the Wall was written about Syd Barrett, but Roger Waters said it was actually about him and his disillusionment with fame.
Oh well, being creative and being crazy seem to go hand in hand. I remember being in a staff meeting early in my career after college and writing on a notepad, "Crazy, toys in the attic, I am crazy. Truly gone fishing. Must have taken my marbles away." It is a lyric from the Wall song, "The Trial." I forgot the notebook in the conference room and my bosses secretary found it and was telling me that she was concerned that someone on the staff wrote it. I had to laugh and explain to her I wrote it because it was a line from Pink Floyd and it is how I felt in that staff meeting (and every staff meeting since).
I love Pink Floyd.
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