[gianni66]

"So, ya thought ya might like to go to the show?"
When Roger wrote these words for the opening piece of his monster Wall in 1979 he guessed maybe to scare and disorient the public in front of the stage, not to hear one day (27 years later, actually) 30.000 persons singing with him "if I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!".
Probably the dramatic break between the Artist and his public which he was experiencing in those years of the late '70 has been recovered as the time passed... and today, old 50-aged fans can still fill a stadium with their young kids listening for the first time their parents's strange music.
Though the rest of the band tried for years to repropose the Pink Floyd style to a wider public, their laser shows and giant lighting stages just disapper as soon as the real genious of the greatest rock band of all the times come on the stage again. It's not a quantitative and shocking show, it's the true story of Pink Floyd through the years: original movies on the round screen, same slides used during the '70 concerts, same light effects - innovative for those years, and, above all, same spirit.
So, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Sheep, Wish You Were Here, The Fletcher Memorial Home and Mother can live together and give the sense of what Pink Floyd have been under the leadership of Roger Waters. And, of course, the recurring theme of War and Peace coming with the airplane crash of Roger's dad.
But it's the second part of the show which has been really fantastic. The complete, original representation of the masterpiece of The dark Side of the Moon, closed with Another Brick in the Wall and the always emotional Comfortably Numb. I still feel a strange sense of cold on my skin when I think to that magic hour... I cannot describe, this is the truth.
"There is no other side of the moon, really. The only face is all dark". I have tried to explain with these words the sense of all the show to my wife; maybe she has understand deeper listening to The Great Gig in the Sky and feeling for one moment the dark side of her mind.
But maybe few images can speak better.
Yes, there's Syd in the first one on the screen. It's the intro of Shine On. Just fantastic, to be lived to understand!

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[Yashodhara]

Great, great and great again! Things like "the complete, original representation of the masterpiece The Dark Side Of The Moon" do make a fan's heart beat a little faster, would have liked to see and hear that. Say, Gianni, I couldn't quite see all the musicians on the pictures, were these the same as in "In The Flesh"? I remember one young rock guitar player who was all cool and added an amazing new flavor to the music as well as this extremely talented keyboard/guitar/singer guy who was weird to say the least and did a fabulous job on "Dogs". The latter one played for Pink Floyd too, I think, maybe it was in "Pulse"? Must have been a wonderful night for you, Gianni, ...remembering games and daisy chains and laughs, got to keep the loonies on the path...

Cheers!

Edited by Yashodhara, 28 June 2006 - 08:59 PM.

[jyotirmoy]

The lunatic is on the grass

The lunatic is on the grass

Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs

Got to keep the loonies on the path

The lunatic is in the hall

The lunatics are in my hall

The paper holds their folded faces to the floor

And every day the paper boy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon

And if there is no room upon the hill

And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

The lunatic is in my head

The lunatic is in my head

You raise the blade, you make the change

You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane

You lock the door

And throw away the key

There's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear

You shout and no one seems to hear

And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

[ploma]

wow!



It's been a long time since I've seen Roger Waters playing here in Barcelona! Your description brings me back very good memories from that performance…

I'm sure you really enjoyed it!  see you,

uribaba

[bloodypeasant]

Having seen Pink Floyd at the tender age of 16 in 1974 and it being one of my most significant formative experiences - one of my greatest errors was being persuaded, 2 years ago, to see a tribute band on a pier in Weymouth, UK. I should never have done it and had to leave as I found it all so upsetting. Competent though they were for me -   "Think Floyd" were the living embodiment of Comfortably Numb. The tribute band scene in the UK is very big - is this the same in other countries? I prefer to avoid them now and be left with any memories I have rather than try to re-create them.

[gianni66]

bloodypeasant, on Jun 30 2006, 09:54 AM, said:

Having seen Pink Floyd at the tender age of 16 in 1974 and it being one of my most significant formative experiences - one of my greatest errors was being persuaded, 2 years ago, to see a tribute band on a pier in Weymouth, UK. I should never have done it and had to leave as I found it all so upsetting. Competent though they were for me -   "Think Floyd" were the living embodiment of Comfortably Numb. The tribute band scene in the UK is very big - is this the same in other countries? I prefer to avoid them now and be left with any memories I have rather than try to re-create them.

Few years ago I've seen a concert of an Italian Pink Floyd cover-band called "Big Bang", with the full Atom Heart Mother played with the orchestra. It has been one of the best concerts I've ever seen!
But I understand you: also here it seems that the young rock bands prefer to be the shadow of some great of the past rather than propose something nes, and so the scene is overfilled with tribute and cover bands of most of the '60 and '70 famous groups. few of them are really good, the majority is just rubbish which has the only effect the destroy unforgettable masterpieces...

[gianni66]

Yashodhara, on Jun 28 2006, 05:27 PM, said:

Great, great and great again! Things like "the complete, original representation of the masterpiece The Dark Side Of The Moon" do make a fan's heart beat a little faster, would have liked to see and hear that. Say, Gianni, I couldn't quite see all the musicians on the pictures, were these the same as in "In The Flesh"? I remember one young rock guitar player who was all cool and added an amazing new flavor to the music as well as this extremely talented keyboard/guitar/singer guy who was weird to say the least and did a fabulous job on "Dogs". The latter one played for Pink Floyd too, I think, maybe it was in "Pulse"? Must have been a wonderful night for you, Gianni, ...remembering games and daisy chains and laughs, got to keep the loonies on the path...

Cheers!

Actually I don't know the musicians playing with Waters in his solo tours, but I presume they are the same of In The Flesh album and tour. BTW, I have read that in some concert of the last tour Waters has announced that there will be a new drummer playing few songs, a certain Nick Mason...
I've seen the images of the concert in Israel; great, 16 years after the night in Berlin he has played against another "wall of shame", and thousands of Israeli guys have screamed with him the words which he has written and the wall: "We don't need no thought control". It's only rock'n roll, but these things can also be a sign of hope!

Now some more pics, taken respectively during: In The Flesh (opening the concert), Sheep (you can see the scene of the smoking factories chimneys on the screen), Time (it's the intro, just after the chaos of the clocks ringing all together), Us and Them (saxophone solo), and Any Colour You Like.

(well, I am trying to attach the pics but the system says that I've passed the limit of the post, so I will try in a separate post).

Bye!  Gianni

[iwanttogoback]

just happened to catch a doco here on the life of sid barrett last night. truly interesting and tragic story, and using floyd songs like 'wish you were here' and 'shine on you crazy diamond' really added to the pathos of the story.

thanks for the post gianni.

[jyotirmoy]

iwanttogoback, on Jun 30 2006, 10:10 AM, said:

just happened to catch a doco here on the life of sid barrett last night. truly interesting and tragic story, and using floyd songs like 'wish you were here' and 'shine on you crazy diamond' really added to the pathos of the story.

thanks for the post gianni.

Very pathetic... I have an album of Sid. Very talented guy but....

[YETI]

Just heard the sad news that Syd Barrett has passed away today, aged 60.

Shine On, Syd.

You'll be sadly missed.

RIP, mate.


BBC Story

[gianni66]

Dr Funkenstein, on Jul 11 2006, 05:26 PM, said:

Just heard the sad news that Syd Barrett has passed away today, aged 60.

Shine On, Syd.

You'll be sadly missed.

RIP, mate.
BBC Story

...and he has become comfortably numb...

Goodbye Syd!

[bloodypeasant]

:'(

[Satty]

You'll probably see Syd when you look up on a starry night....

......Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

.........Keep shinin' on

[dumb bacchus]

Now life devalues day by day
As friends and neighbours turn away
And there's a change that, even with regret,
cannot be undone.

- Me, The Insensitive Clod

[cyberhippie]

An intersting story about Sid!! (there are so many)

After the first concert of "the Wall" at I think Milton Keynes Bowl (fans correct me if I'm wrong)
There was of course the usual media attention, the band did a photocall with the promoters etc!!

When the photos got back to the band there was a strange figure there on the promo photos............yep you guessed it Sid, he had managed to get in on the photo shoot and no one knew he was there!

Shine on you crazy diamond,  Distorted view, see through baby blue.......................

[YETI]

Never heard that one before, ch. Good story.

He turned up at Abbey Road when they were recording 'Wish You Were Here', too. Very weird, considering two-thirds of that album is about him!

[cyberhippie]

From A Q magazine book they released on "Icons" It included the story you just mentioned, old guy shuffling around, who's that.............. it was Roger Water who clicked, I think!!

[iwanttogoback]

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He turned up at Abbey Road when they were recording 'Wish You Were Here', too. Very weird, considering two-thirds of that album is about him!

saw that on the doco - none of them recognised him for hours, and when they did they were all in tears. what a very sad story...