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Pink Floyd Style nasce da un'idea e
da un bisogno di poter aver uno spazio per esprimere la più bella
passione che mi avvolge nel mondo dei Pink Floyd, in particolar modo
a Roger Waters, compagno di vita dei miei sogni.
Il mio cammino....fino ad oggi....
Il vero contatto è nel 1986 quando da un giornale leggo l’ufficiale rottura tra Roger e Gilmour…un filo, una spina, una cassetta, delle curiosità, la mia mente si accompagna a quel giorno, accendo, apro un cofanetto, tanto prezioso di mio padre, ricordo ancora la visione di quelle cassette con l’etichetta blu e la scritta in bianco PINK FLOYD, play e inizio a sentire “The Dark Side of the Moon”, tutto mi appare malinconico ma maledettamente coinvolgente, il pensiero si fa lieve, le cose si fanno più soft, ecco senza accorgermene entro nel loro mondo. Da quel momento nulla riesce a diventare più importante di questo, nulla deve essere interrotto, nulla può farci dividere, all’improvviso sembra stranamente tutto chiaro, subito riesco a comprendere che qualcuno fa parte di te e del tuo pensiero, voli, scendi, cammini, azioni semplici ma talmente esaltate che sembra tutto fantastico, chiudo gli occhi e mi sembra di essere sola con loro, insieme ecco “Us and Them”. .La mia
idea e le notizie che sento dai giornali mi fanno credere che i Pink
erano di Gilmour, avendo ascoltato “A momentary lapse of reason”
mi fanno credere che è uno degli album più riusciti di
loro, forse mi sbagliavo in parte, ritorno indietro con la loro storia
e conosco “Wish you were here”, poi “Animals”,
“The Wall” e così tengo l’onore di incontrare
il mio Roger nel 1990 a Berlino..da lì capì che Gilmour
non poteva aver fatto tutto da solo, c’era dietro Mr.Waters tanto
criticato e odiato per il suo carattere e per la sua determinazione
fottuta…dal 1990 prendo nota di tutto, ormai divento fan ufficiale
a tutti gli effetti, man mano vado ancora più indietro, Meddle,
More,Obscured fino al completo inclusi film, video e concerti. Fino al 1994 la mia vita si svolge nella più completa normalità, scuola, feste, incontri, amicizie, ma sempre con l’occhio attento e sempre pronto a girare la visione su di loro in ogni momento .
. Una delle mie impressioni principali : un solista perso, il suo spirito lo ricopre dietro e mi accorgo che dietro la sua anima porta con sè una frase che ha del significato “fuga e morte da chi stesso si è costruito ”. Denoto comunque un Roger felice, riesco anche a farmi vedere e farmi strappare un saluto ed un sorriso, l’unica pazza che in quel momento chr alzava le mani in alto (la canzone era da poco terminata).
Un’altra cosa che ricordo di quel momento è l'allucinazione di Gilmour su quel palco in un momento storico che lo è per tutti nel momento di “Comfortably numb”mi pareva di vedere la sua chioma bionda, i suoi movimenti con la bocca e un Roger che lo guarda attentamente, un faro dietro che appare, una luce color oro che gira e guarda lo spettacolo…per dire in verità ho sentito pena per quel musicista che era al suo posto e sinceramente ho avuto delusione sulla qualità, forse perché a tutti costi ci ostiniamo sempre a dire che nessuno prenderà il posto di David, nella nostra mente è così e anche nella mia ma è tutta una follia, è tutto un sogno e dobbiamo rispettare le loro idee e convinzioni e prendere di quel che c’è di più bello, penso che tutti lo hanno percepito e appreso e forse i nostri cari Pink Floyd e non escludo nessuno che hanno fatto del loro meglio e non hanno dimenticato il loro appuntamento con le nostre password cerebrali, puntuali e acuti fino in fondo tutti e cinque con noi.
Un grande onore ed un grande ringraziamento a questi cinque personaggi che hanno fatto storia e hanno fatto sognare la mia vita dipinta di luci, verità e gioco. Grazie
Pink Floyd, grazie Roger, David, Nick, Richard e anche a te Syd.
Translated by Gerald Pink Floyd Style.com give birth to an idea and to
a need to be able to have a space to tell the most beautiful passion
that wraps myself into Pink Floyd’s world, in particular way to
Roger Waters, companion and partner of my dreams. I dedicate to Roger Waters all my love, For this star of the history
of music with which I am often in symbiosis in thinking, in being critical
and often cold and detached, problematic for a lot of people, paranoid
and pessimist.
My way...until today... .I could tell you the way I have done with them in my mind and in my spirit. My days goes by in the daily routine accompanied, in the good and the bad, by their music.
Their songs have conquered my mind and have given creativeness to the subsequent events that have surrounded me, as if I were in a film. I will strive me to tell you my name, so...anyway, I will try to introduce myself, my name is Veronica (as known as Veronica Waters) I was born in Livorno, everything is started with "The Great Gig in the Sky"
My approach with Pink Floyd has not immediately been tied by passion, everything started on September 9th 1983 (it could seems perhaps a chance date... but it was not, believe me)... some sort of joke, I was tiny and I could not understand and to appreciate it, a hand helps me to put some headphones (my father was and is still a great fan of the "Pink Machine") then I listen to an enormous and difficulty sound to perceive... high volume...it was "Another brick in the wall pt.2", I only remember feelings of fear and terror; since then I am grown in the following years with them in background... memoirs, moments passed with their melodies, I still have memory of some places that doesn’t have the same beauty if not accompanied together with their music, as if also their music did by now part of those places. The real contact is in 1986 when I read from a newspaper the official split between Roger Waters and David Gilmour... a cable, a plug, a tape, a little curiosity, my mind it is connected to that day...I turn on the light, I open a very precious dad’s chest... I still remember the vision of those tapes with blue label and the writing in white PINK FLOYD, I press play and I start to listen "Dark Side of the Moon", all appears me melancholy but accursedly involving, the mind becomes light, all the things become more soft, here, without realizing, I enter into their world... From that moment nothing becomes more important than this, nothing must have interrupted, nothing can divide us, suddenly it strangely seems everything clear, immediately I succeed in understanding that someone belongs to you and your mind, you fly, you go down, you walk...simple but so excited actions that seem all fantastic ones! I close my eyes and it seems to me to be alone with them, together, here "Us and Them."
Up to 1994 my life passes in the most complete normalcy...school, parties, meetings, friendships...but always with a careful eye and always ready to turn my look on them in every moment Another important step it was on September 17th 1994 at Modena, concert in sixth line and Gilmour nearby from me, huge stage, almost unreal, lights, space videos, a quiet David as always, serious and exact, Gilmour hard with movements but definitely in the mood, Mason concentrate and very musical, Wright on the keyboards very soft (of this last one I don't succeed in perceiving anything else). I remember the shock, I remember the stars on "Shine on you crazy diamond", I remember the red colour on "Money" and I remember that Roger instead was there, in a way or another. Two days later I went out for my town and it seemed to me that they played again, I turned around me and I still listen to them play, I believed they were hallucinations, that maybe an open window gave their music to the world, nothing...it was still my mind that it turned around them, I was still in Modena!
One of my primary impressions: a lost soloist, its spirit covers him from behind it and I realizes that, behind its soul, he brings a sentence that has some meaning "escape and death from who has built himself". I denote a happy Roger however, I also succeed in drawing attention to me and wringing from him a look and a smile, the only crazy girl that it lifted aloft her hands at that time (the song was just finished from a little). From May 10th 2002...to June 12th 2002! Another date of his tour in Rome at the Flaminio Stadium. this time I was in the first line, slightly to the right part, the concert began in the daytime, with the light of the sun and with a hour in advance, the first sensation that I warned: "Here we are again together in the same place, together to other people that understand him, his idea of making music, finally at home, finally together breathing the same air, finally for the second time Roger plays for me. for us. Another craze that I remember of that moment is a hallucination, I saw Gilmour on that stage, in a moment that for all it is historical, during "Comfortably numb" it seemed me to see its blonde hair, Those movements with his mouth and Roger that carefully looks at him...a lighthouse behind that appears, a golden coloured light that turns around and looks at the show...to be sincere I have felt mercy for that musician that was instead of Gilmour and I have sincerely remained disappointed by the quality of the execution, perhaps because at all costs we always persist to say that nobody will replace David, in our mind it is so and also mine, but it is a idiocy, it is only a dream and we have to respect their ideas and convictions and to take what there is beautiful, I think that everybody have perceived and learned it...and perhaps also our dear Pink Floyd, not excluding anyone, having done their best. they has not forgotten their appointment with our cerebral passwords , punctual and acute after all...all five guys, with us. Well, I resume the point and I conclude at the same time. 2004 goes
by in silence and here we are in early 2005...I work and I always follow
them, I inquire about all news and everything it still appears to me
“divided”... soloist albums, never-ending albums, repeated-music
tours, a desire of rest and to really look into the reality of the facts...
what to say to the end? That for me it is not yet finished, however
I can never give up by now them, in my life there will be always a corner
dedicated to them, photos and pictures. And thanks to my dad for having
made me that joke of the headphones
In this great event, organized by Bob Geldof, they also participate other music stars. I remember the shock to watch on TV Roger in the foreground, very satisfied
and relaxed, a perplexed Nick alternating boredom and fun, a concentrated
Richard and a David a little bit bothered but, to the end, “comfortable”...
http://www.pinkfloydstyle.com/incontroconrogerwaters.htm
July 2006 meeting with Roger Waters to Lucca (Italy)_:
http://www.pinkfloydstyle.com/rogerwaterstour2006.htm
A great honour and a great thanks to these five guys that have made history and have made me dream a painted life of lights, truth and pastime. Thanks Pink Floyd, thanks Roger, David, Nick, Richard...and you too, Syd. |
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