// Did read the article. Try Roger Waters' “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking”, the album that nearly was instead of The Wall. From Wikipedia: In July 1978, W

// Did read the article. Try Roger Waters' “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking”, the album that nearly was instead of The Wall. From Wikipedia: In July 1978, Waters presented the concepts and played demos of The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking as well as what was then titled Bricks in the Wall, which became The Wall, to his bandmates in Pink Floyd, asking them to decide which should be a group album, and which should be his solo album. After a long debate, they decided that they preferred the concept of Bricks in the Wall, even though their manager at the time, Steve O'Rourke, thought that Pros and Cons was a better-sounding concept, and David Gilmour deemed Pros and Cons stronger musically. The entire story is framed in real time as a fitful dream taking place in the early morning hours of 4:30:18 am to 5:12:32 am on an unspecified day. ... Eric Clapton plays lead guitar, David Sandborn sax, and Michael Kamen piano (plus his orchestra). It's worth the time, if for no other reason than to see if your experience is the same as Rolling Stone's: Roger Waters' first official solo album will be of sustained interest mainly to postanalytic Pink Floyd fetishists and other highly evolved neurotics who persist in seeking spiritual significance amid the flotsam of English art rock. I can't imagine that anyone else will sit more than once through this strangely static, faintly hideous record, on which Waters' customary bile is, for the first time, diluted with musical bilge. No "highly evolved neurotics" here, of course.