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Roger Waters Dark Side Tour
11 Jul 2007, 19:12
Tue 10 Jul – Roger Waters
I didn't think I was going to make it. I had a rehearsal and I thought it was going to run much longer than it did. But I got lucky and got out early and also lucky because the band didn't take the stage until 8:30 so I only missed the first 30 minutes of the show. I heard Wish You Were Here while I was walking over the hill to the venue which was dotted with dozens of people who couldn't get tickets. I missed the next song because when you crest the hill and are directly behind the wall you can't hear anything. As I was walking to the venue I met a very nice guy who reassured me that I hadn't missed much of the show at all and that there was plenty of the set left.
I got there just on time to hear Perfect Sense followed by Leaving Beirut during which I could stop myself from sobbing openly. I work day in and day out with hardcore neocons and to be surrounded by people as angry and passionate as myself about what is going on in this country just was overwhelming. Next they played sheep and they carried a huge pig balloon through the crowd. It was covered with writing saying things like torture degrades us all, habeus corpus matters, all religions divide and my favorite, on the ass of the pig, let's get rid off this asshole Impeach Bush. When they got near the end of the song and in the middle of the lawn section they let they balloon go. I ran up to take a photo of it with my phone
and I just saw a sea of glowing cell phones and I was just struck all of a sudden of how different my world is now in SO many ways from when I was 17 or 18 like most of these kids.
The second set obviously was Dark Side of The Moon. Of course it was wonderful and Dave Kilminster who did a lot of the vocals was incredible and very sexy. On Us and Them the keyboardist, Jon Carin, had a really interesting voice. I love it. The whole the was was wonderful of course. And the visuals were incredibly fun. I can only give my impressions as joyful.
For the encore they started with The Happiest Days of Our Lives followed by Another Brick In The Wall Pt II which of course was a giant sing along. Then Vera and Bring the Boys Back Home which had some GREAT pyrotechnics. And then they closed with Comfortably Numb.
After waiting for the great crush of humanity to leave I walked the lawn a little. But alas. Not ground scores for me. A lot for my son though who found a handful of glow sticks. Walked out avoiding cars and shakedown which is just no fun with a tired 8 year old. And then sat on the hood of the car for nearly an hour in a completely gridlocked parking lot. All in all I have to say it was an insanely wonderful evening.
I'm going to leave you with three videos of my favorite moments in the concert. They are from three early venues.
I didn't think I was going to make it. I had a rehearsal and I thought it was going to run much longer than it did. But I got lucky and got out early and also lucky because the band didn't take the stage until 8:30 so I only missed the first 30 minutes of the show. I heard Wish You Were Here while I was walking over the hill to the venue which was dotted with dozens of people who couldn't get tickets. I missed the next song because when you crest the hill and are directly behind the wall you can't hear anything. As I was walking to the venue I met a very nice guy who reassured me that I hadn't missed much of the show at all and that there was plenty of the set left.
I got there just on time to hear Perfect Sense followed by Leaving Beirut during which I could stop myself from sobbing openly. I work day in and day out with hardcore neocons and to be surrounded by people as angry and passionate as myself about what is going on in this country just was overwhelming. Next they played sheep and they carried a huge pig balloon through the crowd. It was covered with writing saying things like torture degrades us all, habeus corpus matters, all religions divide and my favorite, on the ass of the pig, let's get rid off this asshole Impeach Bush. When they got near the end of the song and in the middle of the lawn section they let they balloon go. I ran up to take a photo of it with my phone
and I just saw a sea of glowing cell phones and I was just struck all of a sudden of how different my world is now in SO many ways from when I was 17 or 18 like most of these kids. The second set obviously was Dark Side of The Moon. Of course it was wonderful and Dave Kilminster who did a lot of the vocals was incredible and very sexy. On Us and Them the keyboardist, Jon Carin, had a really interesting voice. I love it. The whole the was was wonderful of course. And the visuals were incredibly fun. I can only give my impressions as joyful.
For the encore they started with The Happiest Days of Our Lives followed by Another Brick In The Wall Pt II which of course was a giant sing along. Then Vera and Bring the Boys Back Home which had some GREAT pyrotechnics. And then they closed with Comfortably Numb.
After waiting for the great crush of humanity to leave I walked the lawn a little. But alas. Not ground scores for me. A lot for my son though who found a handful of glow sticks. Walked out avoiding cars and shakedown which is just no fun with a tired 8 year old. And then sat on the hood of the car for nearly an hour in a completely gridlocked parking lot. All in all I have to say it was an insanely wonderful evening.
I'm going to leave you with three videos of my favorite moments in the concert. They are from three early venues.
Comments
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DudeTheMath wrote:
What a great opportunity. I know what you mean about the difference between today and twenty years ago. I saw the flying pig at a PF concert in '87; it was the first show I'd ever seen with video screens, and now they're de rigeur for any major act (even when not appropriate; PMaz went to an Asia concert a few weeks ago where their video show was lousy and just a distraction).
Plus, of course, W just thinks he's the reincarnation of Reagan; more likely, Reagan's aides finally found someone they could manipulate. Maybe we can call W the Great Confusicator.
BTW, what sort of rehearsal? Stage, band, choral? -
bamgrrl wrote:
I also saw that '87 concert. At Foxwoods in MA. I know what you mean about the video being distracting. But when used right, like this show and I must say ABB uses it really well too.
Oh I'm in a play. I'm ALWAYS in a play. If you click the What I Do link under about me that's where I blog about my theater experiences. -
DudeTheMath wrote:
Cool! I did a lot of community theater in our little town in Michigan, when I couldn't join a chorus for three years. I think I was in all but one show those three years. I remember one pick-up rehearsal where I did the entire first half as Groucho Marx and the entire second half as Apu. The director couldn't bring herself to stop me because she just had to see if I could keep it up (yes). I hate pick-up rehearsals.
