Where were you when you heard Wish You Were Here?
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Topic: Where were you when you heard Wish You Were Here?
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Where were you when you heard Wish You Were Here?
Date 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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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 10:00
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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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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 10:43
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Dust in the Wind -------------  
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 12:23
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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. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 12:24
The day, much like most of the album, is forgettable. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 12:59
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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.
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 14:10
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^For some reason, I tend to think it's not a true story. But I could be wrong. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 14:23
| 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 |
Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 15:19
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Icarium wrote:Posted By: Rick Robson
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 16:03
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.  -------------  "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." LvB |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: October 01 2014 at 16:04
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probably in music class in 9th grade from a PF enthusiastic music teacher. -------------
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 06:14
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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.
I wonder how many 4yo fanladdies have heard the album in advance  .------------- 
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 13:26
Main street/Shine On blasting on the car stereo system.  ------------- |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 02 2014 at 13:42
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. |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 18:11
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Sat in the passenger seat of my dad's car as he drove through Devon towards Bristol. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date 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. |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 18:50
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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.
------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 19:02
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Western Sahara ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Metalmarsh89
Date Posted: October 04 2014 at 19:34
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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. ------------- Want to play mafia? Visit http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com" rel="nofollow - here . |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 05 2014 at 15:43
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No idea..... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 09 2014 at 10:58
| I was dead, and yet unborn. |