Roger Waters
Jul. 2nd, 2007 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevins_concertsWell... Roger Waters, really. But he only did a couple of his solo songs. I guess he's really into the Floyd thing lately. He wanted to do a Floyd reunion, but Gilmour wasn't interested.
Tonight's show, was good. It was threatened by all the non-show crap, but it held up. He opened with "In the Flesh," followed by "Mother" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun." Two of my favorites. He also did the first half of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," and "Sheep." More favorites. What else... a couple of solo songs I didn't recognize, "Wish You Were Here," "Have A Cigar," "Vera Lynn," "Bring the Boys Back Home," "The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall Part 2," "Comfortably Numb," "The Final Cut," "The Fletcher Memorial Home," and Dark Side of the Moon. Yes, the whole thing. In order. Which leads into the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. From the guy in front of us, when they started "Time". "Yes! I called it!"
The light show wasn't as extravagant as his previous shows. And nowhere near a Pink Floyd show. We were high up and off to the side, so the speakers were obscuring the middle of the big screen. The film was pretty good, though. He had much of the original film they always used to show during DSoM. There was a laser that shone for about five seconds.
I was really mad because I didn't get a program. I'm going to have to do a little research to come up with the names I don't remember. Graham Broad, drummer. Snowy White, guitar. Andy Fairweather-Low, guitar. (these three are long-time Waters associates.) Dave Kilminster, guitar. vocalist/keyboardist/slide guitar. Keyboardist. Three singers. The woman who sang "The Great Gig in the Sky" brought the house down.
I was surprised at how much singing Waters did. I think he's brought his voice back a bit (it was pretty well shot for a long time). He sang several songs that he didn't originally sing, including "Have A Cigar." He also played acoustic guitar on two or three songs. "Mother" was one.
Waters was a lot more pointedly political than I expected. He had his general anti-war stance, evident in the pair of Final Cut cuts, followed by a solo pieces where the anti-war message was gotten across well. After that, he played his newest song, "Leaving Beirut." A story of an experience he had there when he was 17, mixed with complaints of Tony and George. Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong/Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise and You got freedom of speech/You got great beaches, wildernesses and malls/Don't let the might, the Christian right, fuck it all up/For you and the rest of the world
And the big inflated pig, that a couple of handlers brought through the crowd. They carried it to the top of the amphitheater, and let it go at the end of the first half of the show. We watched it slowly disappear into the night sky. It was covered with spray painted "graffiti." I wish I could remember all the messages. "Torture brings shame on all of us." "Impeach Bush." "Habeas corpus is important."
Tonight's show, was good. It was threatened by all the non-show crap, but it held up. He opened with "In the Flesh," followed by "Mother" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun." Two of my favorites. He also did the first half of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," and "Sheep." More favorites. What else... a couple of solo songs I didn't recognize, "Wish You Were Here," "Have A Cigar," "Vera Lynn," "Bring the Boys Back Home," "The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall Part 2," "Comfortably Numb," "The Final Cut," "The Fletcher Memorial Home," and Dark Side of the Moon. Yes, the whole thing. In order. Which leads into the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. From the guy in front of us, when they started "Time". "Yes! I called it!"
The light show wasn't as extravagant as his previous shows. And nowhere near a Pink Floyd show. We were high up and off to the side, so the speakers were obscuring the middle of the big screen. The film was pretty good, though. He had much of the original film they always used to show during DSoM. There was a laser that shone for about five seconds.
I was really mad because I didn't get a program. I'm going to have to do a little research to come up with the names I don't remember. Graham Broad, drummer. Snowy White, guitar. Andy Fairweather-Low, guitar. (these three are long-time Waters associates.) Dave Kilminster, guitar. vocalist/keyboardist/slide guitar. Keyboardist. Three singers. The woman who sang "The Great Gig in the Sky" brought the house down.
I was surprised at how much singing Waters did. I think he's brought his voice back a bit (it was pretty well shot for a long time). He sang several songs that he didn't originally sing, including "Have A Cigar." He also played acoustic guitar on two or three songs. "Mother" was one.
Waters was a lot more pointedly political than I expected. He had his general anti-war stance, evident in the pair of Final Cut cuts, followed by a solo pieces where the anti-war message was gotten across well. After that, he played his newest song, "Leaving Beirut." A story of an experience he had there when he was 17, mixed with complaints of Tony and George. Every time a smart bomb does its sums and gets it wrong/Someone else's child dies and equities in defence rise and You got freedom of speech/You got great beaches, wildernesses and malls/Don't let the might, the Christian right, fuck it all up/For you and the rest of the world
And the big inflated pig, that a couple of handlers brought through the crowd. They carried it to the top of the amphitheater, and let it go at the end of the first half of the show. We watched it slowly disappear into the night sky. It was covered with spray painted "graffiti." I wish I could remember all the messages. "Torture brings shame on all of us." "Impeach Bush." "Habeas corpus is important."