I would like to know other peoples experiences of wall-building.
I used to do labouring for bricklayers.
I used to enjoy watching the wall on LSD & other drug concoctions. I used to listen to allot of Floyd, Syd Barrett was somewhat of a hero of mine, the Crazy Diamond. I smoked cannabis heavily in the past & enjoyed the music very much, the album I listened to most was "delicate sound of thunder", I used to play it constantly for years. As well as early stuff, the wall, dark side of the moon, & others. I don't listen to their stuff nowadays, it doesn't do it for me any more. I don't know why. Although I did enjoy them on Live 8, that reunion was good.
Primal Scream's Screamadelica album, especially the track
Inner Flight used to be on repeat allot in the early days of pot smoking. But again I haven't listened to their stuff in years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyMVc42oR1g
Also the Album "Connected" -
Stereo MC's
All very dated stuff, but it was good at the time.
If I had to choose music I find powerful today it has to be work by some of the Great Composers, especially Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, & Beethoven.
Something I was left with from years of using drugs, & mental illness was a very fragile ego & sense of self. Part of the recovery process has been grounding myself, keeping my "power" & learning assertiveness. Maybe even building a bit of a wall around certain things, we can always put in a door & let people in occasionally.
