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[Zorra]

10. Pink Floyd is my favorite rock band.

When I was in college in the spring of 1973, a friend came over to my dorm room, totally tripping and ecstatic, with Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl, a pair of headphones, and 3 hits of really great purple microdot.

He said, "You really, really gotta take this, put these on, and listen to this record. Like really."

I did, and I can honestly say that this particular experience had an extremely profound permanent effect on my life perspective. I was already pretty radical, but that experience sent me over the edge; it was a musical and lyrical validation of so many things that I had been thinking and living for the previous seven years.

Most of the original songs that I write and perform are political, even if they don't seem so on the surface, and I have a fondness for artists that say something with both music and lyrics.

"Us And Them"

Us and Them
And after all we're only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it's only round and round and round
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you inside
Down and Out
It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
With, without
And who'll deny that's what the fightings all about
Get out of the way, it's a busy day
And I've got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died

Lyrics to Us and Them, From Dark Side of the Moon