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    Posted: October 01 2014 at 09:55
Where were you when you first heard PF's album Wish You Were Here?

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I don't remember exactly.  I was probably around 8 years old, and it would have been on my dad's stereo in Miami Florida.  He was into the Floyd before I was, but they soon became a favorite of mine.  It was definitely before The Wall came out, because I remember already being a fan by that time.

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I think I was at my father's, a saturday or a sunday afternoo, a day where he felt like playing this record on his hi-fi, something like that.
I guess it was in the 80's, and it didn't change my life forever.
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The day, much like most of the album, is forgettable.

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Wait, I remember now.... my sister was dangling by her fingernails from the roof of our house, a large blimp was headed right for us, and I got on the roof and saved her life.  Our house was destroyed, so we went out for ice cream but got hit by a bus on the way there.  In the hospital, in critical condition, I remember hearing "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" over the hospital's PA system, and I was hooked right away.

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^For some reason, I tend to think it's not a true story.

But I could be wrong.
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i was laying in bed at night before falling asleep listening to it on my portable cd player, i remember the batteries running out partway through the first track and i had to go find a couple more, which thankfully lasted almsot all the way through the last track
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Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

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It was in San Tropez, One of These Days of Summer '68 that I was Comfortably Numb waiting for The Great Gig In The Sky. Wink

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probably in music class in 9th grade from a PF enthusiastic music teacher.
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I remember quite clearly that SOYCD part 1 and the title track were played on the radio as an appetizer, a few days before its release. The time of the day must have been between 3:00 and 4:00 PM.

I think I purchased the album some two weeks later, so I must have been at home when I first heard it in its entirety.

Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

It was in San Tropez, One of These Days of Summer '68 that I was Comfortably Numb waiting for The Great Gig In The Sky. Wink 

I wonder how many 4yo fanladdies have heard the album in advance LOL.



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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2014 at 13:42
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

The day, much like most of the album, is forgettable.

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Yeah, I don't know why this album would be viewed as earth shattering or something such that my first listen of it would be indelibly impressed in my memory.
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Sat in the passenger seat of my dad's car as he drove through Devon towards Bristol.
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Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2014 at 18:20
If I recall roughly, I was in the living-room of our old house, it was evening, and I was sober as a judge......would've been 1986.
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Points: 4671 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2014 at 18:50
Don't know specifically.  I am guessing the first time I heard the entire album was on a radio station in Denver that would play full albums on Sunday nights.  WYWH was played quite often.
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Points: 2673 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2014 at 19:34
As much as I love the album, I cannot recall the first time I heard it.

But there are others I can remember, especially one in particular. In 2009, I was living in my sister's basement in Cincinnati for a bit. I was a big Metallica and Disturbed fan. Someone had mentioned Dream Theater to me at some point, so I was browsing CD's at the store, and Octavarium caught my eye. I brought it home, uploaded to my computer and played it. I had not heard anything like it. The Root of All Evil completely blew me away, because though I liked metal, I had heard of nothing like this before. Track after track, and I was completely hooked. Within the next couple weeks, I had bought their newest album (BC & SL), and the rest of their discography and went on a crazy Dream Theater splurge. Thanks to all the covers they did, this also gave me a step into the realm of 70's prog.
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Points: 20623 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2014 at 15:43
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