Happy 44th Birthday to The Wall! A masterpiece in its own right and a true landmark in music history and production.
I'm opening this thread because I'm curious if any of y'all have any stories surrounding this album that you'd like to share!
For a lot of people, this was their proper introduction to the band. That was the case for me. A lot of folks can probably resonate with the writing in the lyrics or the story.
For me — since I'm a younger fan — I only just got into this band a handful of years aago. This'll be a slightly long post but I'd rather share my story asap just so that some folks here don't need to ask for it and wait for a response. Anyway! I had no real intention of getting into them but basically, everybody knows Brick pt. 2, right? Well, the song popped into my head one day and I wanted to see if there were videos of them playing it live. I found stuff from the David era but I wanted to see it with the original lineup, with Waters. All I found back then were the crappy VHS pro-shots. Even the Nassau VHS only had a higher gen copy back then. This was before any of the 8mm films were made public, so when it came to a full length presentation, this was the absolute best you could get. I came across the high quality excerpt of 'The Happiest Days of Our Lives' from The Wall immersion box set, and it spawned a whole new rabbit hole for me because I'd then realized: "wow, then this must mean that they have the entire recital in this quality", so I set out to find as much as I could.
As a young, dumb and naive fan, I somehow acquired a small 8mm clip many years ago from somebody I had contact with back then and, not having understood the entire trading/permission/liberation idea back then (and even frowning upon it), I shared that clip online. It was perhaps a very dumb decision of me to make, but ultimately that clip being posted lead to the several hours of 8mm to surface just less than two years later, because the filmer dropped a comment on my video and the rest is history. A rough history, but a history nonetheless. I'm very glad that all of that stuff is for public eyes now, as the filmer wanted.
I would love to hear your guys' stories regarding this album. Maybe the first time you listened to it or a perhaps lower part in your life where this album saved you. I'd love to hear it!
I'm opening this thread because I'm curious if any of y'all have any stories surrounding this album that you'd like to share!
For a lot of people, this was their proper introduction to the band. That was the case for me. A lot of folks can probably resonate with the writing in the lyrics or the story.
For me — since I'm a younger fan — I only just got into this band a handful of years aago. This'll be a slightly long post but I'd rather share my story asap just so that some folks here don't need to ask for it and wait for a response. Anyway! I had no real intention of getting into them but basically, everybody knows Brick pt. 2, right? Well, the song popped into my head one day and I wanted to see if there were videos of them playing it live. I found stuff from the David era but I wanted to see it with the original lineup, with Waters. All I found back then were the crappy VHS pro-shots. Even the Nassau VHS only had a higher gen copy back then. This was before any of the 8mm films were made public, so when it came to a full length presentation, this was the absolute best you could get. I came across the high quality excerpt of 'The Happiest Days of Our Lives' from The Wall immersion box set, and it spawned a whole new rabbit hole for me because I'd then realized: "wow, then this must mean that they have the entire recital in this quality", so I set out to find as much as I could.
As a young, dumb and naive fan, I somehow acquired a small 8mm clip many years ago from somebody I had contact with back then and, not having understood the entire trading/permission/liberation idea back then (and even frowning upon it), I shared that clip online. It was perhaps a very dumb decision of me to make, but ultimately that clip being posted lead to the several hours of 8mm to surface just less than two years later, because the filmer dropped a comment on my video and the rest is history. A rough history, but a history nonetheless. I'm very glad that all of that stuff is for public eyes now, as the filmer wanted.
I would love to hear your guys' stories regarding this album. Maybe the first time you listened to it or a perhaps lower part in your life where this album saved you. I'd love to hear it!
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