Last weekend our friends (and family) at TooBadDogs treated us to a state-of-the-art rock stadium spectacle: Roger Waters' staging of The Dark Side of The Moon.
It was very loud, with tight professionally choreographed sound, lighting, lazers, pyrotechnics, and video projection, including a swell old tube radio.
Roger himself was the rock-star of the evening, barking his dark lyrics and denounciations of G.W.Bush, but the real star of the evening was the moon:
The Dark Side of The Moon is one of the cultural foundations of my generation, so much so that we all now take it for granted. This particular event made me realize how perfect, in an artistic sense, this seemingly silly hippy set of metaphors is:
MOON; MIND; PRISM; HEARTBEAT;
Perfect in the sense of being potentuous and profound, yet completely open-ended, still to this day inviting interpretations about the interplay of these four simple symbols, loosely cobbled together by the Floyd and Hipgnosis Design.
Will future generations look back upon this lunar prism as a cultural touchstone of the late 20th century?
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guest post by Von Bark
This evolved a bit from von Bark's statement the other day that "it made sense in a hippy sort of way"
smoke'em if you got' em
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The Dark Side of The Moon is one of the cultural foundations of my generation, so much so that we all now take it for granted. This particular event made me realize how perfect, in an artistic sense, this seemingly silly hippy set of metaphors is:
MOON; MIND; PRISM; HEARTBEAT;
Perfect in the sense of being potentuous and profound, yet completely open-ended, still to this day inviting interpretations about the interplay of these four simple symbols, loosely cobbled together by the Floyd and Hipgnosis Design.
Will future generations look back upon this lunar prism as a cultural touchstone of the late 20th century?
guest post by Von Bark
- sally mckay 7-18-2007 5:58 am
This evolved a bit from von Bark's statement the other day that "it made sense in a hippy sort of way"
- L.M. 7-18-2007 8:05 am
smoke'em if you got' em
- J@simpleposie (guest) 7-18-2007 7:37 pm