The Division Bell Cd by Pink Floyd came out in 1994, which was kind of a summer reawakening for me. I had spent most of 1993 in an abusive relationship. The next guy I dated tried to hit me too. He ran to the state of Florida but I'm sure the case is still open. I spent a lot of that summer experiencong things I'd never had the freedom to experience before. I had gone straight from high school to a relationship with a controlling man. I had never been able to do what I wanted to do. I had always done what my mother said, or what Ted said. That summer, I saw the Grateful dead in michigan twice, and also experienced a Pink Floyd show at the Pontiac Silverdome. We knew we were going to the floyd and dead show for awhile so my best friend Kat spent the first 3 weeks of june playing the music of the bands we were going to see. I had no idea that these bands included a counter culture lifestyle which I would end up taking as part of my morals for the next 15 years of my life. Where were you...That summer I said goodbye to Utica, Michigan and my lovely job of delivering pizza. I ended up spending a lot of time with more then just one kind of culture. I spent some nights at the bars in downtown Detroit. Sometimes we'd hit the bars in pontiac, and I even spent one 7 night stand doing line dancing at the country bar. I had fun, but it just wasnt my scene. I had started making friends with new kinds of people. People who spent some of their recreational time smoking pot. I had known some of my friends did this when  I was in high school, but it wasn't something I had ever thought I would try. I know the moment had arrived....The funny thing is, when I think back to that summer, it is the pink floyd show that comes to mind most clearly. We had literally the highest seat in the house. The last row, in the upper last bowl of an 80,000 person venue. The silverdome had been home to the detoit lions and pistons for many years, but at this time only had concerts, truck rallys and lion games. The pistons moved to the newly built Palace Of Auburn Hills. The show was like nothing I had ever seen before. I didn't smoke any pot, but the Silverdome was so smoky with 2nd hand pot smoke that I must have picked up some sort of buzz just from that. I remember not being able to see all the way across the venue during halftime because the smoke was so thick. I had grown up listening to 'The Wall" and varius other cool records, but it was Dark Side of the Moon that seems to be the soundtrack to my childhood. My parents were definitelky not pot smokers and so this music was something that was planted in me all the way back to when I arrived in my parent's arms. As I grew up, Floyd was still the soundtrack of my life and now, into my 30's, they are reuniting for a concert for the G-8 thing. Not quite sure yet what to think of all of it, but with every Floyd concert in the past, there has always been a floyd tour. I hope, and pray, that my soul may expereince the live show that is pink floyd in its orignial state, which is not waht they were when I experienced them in 1994. For millions of years, man had lived just like the animals, then something happened, we learned to talk...

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