Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!princeton!astrovax!sjuvax!kirsch From: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: re: THE WALL Message-ID: <2509@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:31:07 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.2509 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:31:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 06:36:52 EST References: <1196@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: kirsch@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Kirsch) Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA. Lines: 36 Summary: In article <1196@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) writes: > >> From: topaz!quint (Anne Marie Quint) > >> I thought it was from Sid Barrett's life... much of Floyd's stuff seems >> to be psychologically oriented, form the point of view of a slightly >> sick psyche... I always thought it was because Barrett went nuts. What's >> this about Waters? > >This is what I've heard as well. I specificly remember hearing that the >scene (in the film) where Pink was sitting watching tv, and then goes >berserk, smashing everything in sight, was an actually episode from >Barrett's life. > >--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) > I believe it is about Waters--his father died when Roger was very young and he never got much of a chance to meet him--this is where the whole scene in the movie where he is trying on his Father's uniform comes from. Also, his mother was very domineering and he did have problems with his wife. Who knows? Maybe it's indirectly about Syd. -- Another wunnerful letter from the semi-intelligent rotting brain of: Paul Kirsch St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, Pa { astrovax | allegra | bpa | burdvax } !sjuvax!kirsch Warning: Objects in Terminal Room are Closer than they Appear...