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Just got back from seeing Roger Waters perform The Wall at Madison Square Garden. Short synopsis: Fan-freakin-tastic!
The show ticked every box, meeting all the expectations that one could have from a Roger Waters concert... and then some! Giant floating pig? Check! Fireworks? Check!
What else? The puppets of the schoolmaster, the mother, and the wife were stunning! The building of the wall throughout the first half was amazing! Particularly powerful when the last few bricks went in, sealing it off. The projections on the wall in act two were spectacular, especially the animations! And, of course, the utter destruction of the wall at the very end of the show was breathtaking!
We received a very special bonus treat during Mother -- using footage recorded during the 1980 live performance of The Wall at Earl's Court[*], Waters did a duet with himself. Spiffy!
Given that The Wall has only been performed live in its entirety a few dozen times, I feel very lucky to have seen this concert. Doubly so to have procured such excellent seats! Kudos to The Kiddo for pulling that off! I highly recommend this concert to anyone on my f-list; if the tour takes it near where you live, do try to get tickets! It now ranks up there with Billy Joel's Millennium Concert[**] and his Last Play At Shea as one of my three favourite concerts!
Aside from the show itself, it was also rather nice to spend an evening with The Kiddo. Growing up, we saw each other every day -- more than we even saw either of our parents. Even after we left for school, we both stayed in the NorthEast corridor and saw each other frequently. Ditto when I lived in Chicagoland and he lived in Bloomington-Normal; with us both in Illinois -- only 117 miles apart -- it was fine to drop in for a day, a weekend, or even just dinner. Since 2007, though, we have been separated by many miles. With me in Oxford and he living near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, it is a rare thing for us to be in the same place at the same time. This may have been the first evening that we have spent alone together in a couple of years. It was excellent to catch up with the man who matches my DNA closer than any other person out of the six and a half billion who co-inhabit this rock with us.
Time for bed now! Despite officially being on vacation this week, I have a T2K meeting to run in about five hours. Then the rest of the day will be spent making final preparations for P**T*** 2010! Thirty-nine hours to go -- I am so excited!!
[*] Known to many fans due to the live Is There Anybody Out There? album.
[**] Also at Madison Square Garden.
The show ticked every box, meeting all the expectations that one could have from a Roger Waters concert... and then some! Giant floating pig? Check! Fireworks? Check!
What else? The puppets of the schoolmaster, the mother, and the wife were stunning! The building of the wall throughout the first half was amazing! Particularly powerful when the last few bricks went in, sealing it off. The projections on the wall in act two were spectacular, especially the animations! And, of course, the utter destruction of the wall at the very end of the show was breathtaking!
We received a very special bonus treat during Mother -- using footage recorded during the 1980 live performance of The Wall at Earl's Court[*], Waters did a duet with himself. Spiffy!
Given that The Wall has only been performed live in its entirety a few dozen times, I feel very lucky to have seen this concert. Doubly so to have procured such excellent seats! Kudos to The Kiddo for pulling that off! I highly recommend this concert to anyone on my f-list; if the tour takes it near where you live, do try to get tickets! It now ranks up there with Billy Joel's Millennium Concert[**] and his Last Play At Shea as one of my three favourite concerts!
Aside from the show itself, it was also rather nice to spend an evening with The Kiddo. Growing up, we saw each other every day -- more than we even saw either of our parents. Even after we left for school, we both stayed in the NorthEast corridor and saw each other frequently. Ditto when I lived in Chicagoland and he lived in Bloomington-Normal; with us both in Illinois -- only 117 miles apart -- it was fine to drop in for a day, a weekend, or even just dinner. Since 2007, though, we have been separated by many miles. With me in Oxford and he living near Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, it is a rare thing for us to be in the same place at the same time. This may have been the first evening that we have spent alone together in a couple of years. It was excellent to catch up with the man who matches my DNA closer than any other person out of the six and a half billion who co-inhabit this rock with us.
Time for bed now! Despite officially being on vacation this week, I have a T2K meeting to run in about five hours. Then the rest of the day will be spent making final preparations for P**T*** 2010! Thirty-nine hours to go -- I am so excited!!
[*] Known to many fans due to the live Is There Anybody Out There? album.
[**] Also at Madison Square Garden.
