>>>Interesting. I was close with "One of These Days". I wonder what Pink Floyd's obsession with people with axes was? (OK, in One of These Days you don't know it's an axe, he just says "One of these days, I'm going to chop you into little pieces." The only lyric in the song. Could mean with a butcher knife, machete, meat cleaver, whatever...)
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>>Didn't this have something to do with Sid's going 'round the bend? I remember hearing the Wall was based pretty much on Sid's breakdown and eventual incarceration.
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>Honestly, I don't know. I don't know much about the individuals in Pink Floyd. The only name I even know is Roger Waters. The song references we were talking about were from before "The Wall". "One of These Days" was on "Dark Side of the Moon" (I think), and "Ummagumma" album is from before I'd heard of Pink Floyd. I think the others said Ummagumma was from the 60's? I turned 5 in 1969 ... although I remember the first episode of Sesame Street, and remember watching the moon landing on TV, and remember watching Vietnam combat on TV news, and remember the house we moved out of in 1970, I wasn't into Pink Floyd then ...
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>Cheers,

Neither was I, and I'm only a year younger. Sid is Sid Barrett, who was replaced by David Gilmour (guitar player). He had a breakdown and spent sometime in a mental home. I've heard stories (don't know how true) that he lives with his mother in the UK and is pretty much a veg. Supposedly, the wall was about what happened to him when he went on a US tour and his wife/girlfriend cheated on him. Apparently, he freaked out in the hotel and that was the end of his time in the band. Is it true? No idea. I do know it is documented he had a breakdown but as for the rest.....

Ah, well...

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