All the Concerts Fit to Print

Another amazing spectacle.

The four of us, me, Steve, his friends Paul and... ?, sat in the lower left bleachers, about halfway back. I was on the end looking over a concrete wall (around an entrance tunnel) toward the stage. It started raining at the moment the show started, and never let up. I sat there in my raincoat the whole time, hoping my program wasn't getting too wet.

Instead of a big round video screen on the back of the stage, there was an arch, from side to side, and one big screen under it. I grinned all the way through their opening song - "Astronomy Domine." The first set was all later songs, except the opener and closer, "Careful with that Axe, Eugene." The second set was more greatest hits - six songs from DSOM, plus "Shine On I-V", "Brick", "Numb", and the encore, "Hey You" and "Run Like Hell".

Interesting that the show didn't start until at 8:30. Must have wanted it to be dark.

One of the most visually stunning shows I've seen. They had the trademark round Pink Floyd video screen, ringed with Vari-Lites. They had two big, uh... blocks, like sports arena scoreboards, that moved back and forth and up and down. They had spotlights and Vari-Lites on them.

The show needed to be spectacular to reach all of County Stadium (58,300 people), since the stage was in the bleachers. We were in the upper deck (way back), and I was still impressed. The sound was even good, except for the quadraphonic being out of sync - the back middle speakers were just to our left. During the final song, "Run Like Hell", two singers alternated singing "run" in the chorus, but one singer was in the front channel, and the other was in the back channel. Instead of "Run! Run! Run! Run!" it sounded like Runrun... runrun... runrun...

Interesting that after the long opening of Shine On, they played all of their new album (save "One Slip", which began the encore), though not in order. And they still had a long list of great songs to play.

I took Michele, who was afraid of heights. She had a little trouble going back down the steps from our seats after the show. I don't remember who went with Bill. The show started pretty late, due to all the people still coming in at 7:00. Do stadium shows always start late?

Setlist from www.setlist.fm
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
2. Signs of Life
3. Learning to Fly
4. Yet Another Movie
5. Round and Around
6. A New Machine (Part 1)
7. Terminal Frost
8. A New Machine (Part 2)
9. Sorrow
10. The Dogs of War
11. On the Turning Away
12. One of These Days
13. Time
14. On the Run
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Welcome To the Machine
17. Us and Them
18. Money
19. Another Brick in the Wall, Part II
20. Comfortably Numb
Encore:
21. One Slip
22. Run Like Hell