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From: Antoni Teran
The music was fantastic but was even more enjoyable as it was in perfect harmony with the video and
effects. A refined and wonderfully balanced show.
The first part is dedicated to a myriad of Pink Floyd clasics with some flash backs of Syd and old
Pink Floyd as well as solo tracks.
Mother, Wish You Were Here (sang also by the audience) were superb. Of special note was The
Fletcher Memorial Home and Leaving Beirut with surprising video and an emotional Roger Waters.
Perfect Sense set the tone for a common point or view of the show.
The second part was Dark Side Of the Moon in its entirely and non stop. Beautiful! With
such fantastic quadraphonic acoustic sound, musical greatness and emotional presence, the show was
more than great. The time went by seemingly very fast and it even seemed shorter than listening to the album.
I think everyone will specially enjoy The Great Gig in The Sky, but seeing Time, Brain Damage and
Eclipse performed was clear evidence why it is was voted the best rock album of all time (by Hi-Fi
Choice magazine). It was a live masterpiece.
Last and not least were the encores at the end with the enormously popular 'Another Brick in the Wall'
and 'Comfortably Numb'!!
The atmosphere was superb and wonderfully festive and full of camaraderie as the audience burst out in huge
ovation and applause many times during the show.
Fantastic and incredible!! 2 hours 30 minutes of such extraordinary music.
Roger Waters and ten excellent musicians (including three vocalists). Acoustic
precision as usual with Roger Waters quality out of range, every time a step higher.
It was not to be! The gig rocked and made the crowd roar in ecstasy!!! It was so much better than the previous one, the choice of songs, the pyros, the projections, the tightness of the band... but above all! The COURAGE AND SWEAT OF THIS GREAT MAN!
More than 2 & 1/2 hours and this 63? year-old rocker never tires!!! He barely surrenders bass tasks to other musicians! He could just sing relaxedly but he still does almost everything, even the base rhythm of the Time intro!
Well he sweated so very much and put all kinds of passion and conviction into each song! It was the same set list, of course, and for me the highlights were: Set Controls, Have a Cigar! (even though I miss Welcome to the Machine so much) and Sheep (which was astounding), and maybe also Leaving Beirut.
The band was impeccable, Kilminster was very good, perhaps his voice is a bit soft for some songs. Andy was great as usual (again introduced as "the one and only") I don't know what the meaning of wearing the big Texan hat in Leaving Beirut was? Perhaps for the country-ish intro? The rest we all know by now, how tight and cool they all were done.
Roger seemed to enjoy the whole thing and threw the typical gesture embraces to the crowd... smiling and finished with the soccer reference: "Vixca Barca" which delighted the audience. The way he intruduced Leaving Beirut thrilled me. After the climax of the previous song the applause was massive, and within the typical soccer anthem were roars of "oe-oe-oe oh ah, oe oa..." and he took advantage of this to be subtle and enormously funny, "for this you get a new song..."
Well, everything was superb, and the politics and the politics-tinged songs fit so well with the whole gig. By now, all the hues, criticisms and hints are such common sense that they were perfect, well received and didn't take off a bit of enjoyment from the music. Everybody booed and cheered accordingly to the different messages on pig and on the screen... of course for Roger himself, and the band, it was only thundering cheers!
Everything was beautifully done and the 17,864 people according, to a man, including the promoters, enjoyed the gig savagely!
I think this concert would be difficult to top! Roger has shown again the he should be considered the most honest and tight rocker of the XX & XXI centuries. His delivery is priceless, his humanity and conviction just make you love him to the utmost.
According to rumours, there will be a new tour again in '08, and whether I go to see again this indefatigable musician and poet or not; it remains in my soul as one of the most cherised treasures of my life
Thanks Roger. We could never pay you back for so much good. Keep well and continue to bless us with your music, words and soul.
Reg member Benito J. Perez, Valencia, Spain
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