When this video came out it caused quite a stir among Floyd and Waters fans, and with Roger Waters himself. For this video was not the typical bootleg video shot from a hidden stationary hand held camera, and shot from somewhere in the audience at the back of an auditorium. There was no camera jitter and movement, no low quality shots, no splicing or flickering evident. It was clear that this video was somewhat professionally done, and that the film was shot from three separate angles, with three separate cameras with professional pan and zoom features, and on tripods. These films are definitely professionally edited! It was obvious the photographers recording this event had the Floyd's permission. It is known that only Roger Waters has all rights and access to any and all video's shot during The Wall concerts, and he had heretofore refused to release any footage of the events. Therefore Roger was quite aroused and upset at the prospect of bootleggers getting a hold of any tapes of these shows.

It is known that Pink Floyd in cooperation with Alan Parker, had had professionals video tape all The Wall concerts so that bits and pieces might be used as added segments in the motion picture of The Wall, which was at the time, in the process of being made.

However, apparently, the road crew had gained permission to also film a few of these shows as well. And it was from three tripod's around the stage and in the mixing booth hand professional hand held cameras that these shows were filmed. It is believed that this is the source of both the Nassau and the Earls Court videos.

As Roger plays "Mother" it hits me how much this is the real Pink Floyd, the Pink Floyd of old, and how much I miss them. There is nothing like seeing and hearing these four musicians together once more. Listening to The Wall, is fantastic enough but watching it, theatrically in concert becomes addictive forcing you to sit on the edge of your seat staring into the tube.

Though today, Roger does not show is age very much, this can not be said of Gilmour. In the video Dave looks so young. Maybe it's me that's getting old, maybe it's hard to remember them so young.

"Goodbye Blue Sky" is played, the video partially obscured by the skeletal rails erected in front of the band to hold the bricks of the wall. The bricks are slowly being laid, building the wall already high on both sides of the stage. Rick plays his fantastic layered keyboards encased and surrounded by swaths of keys. "What Shall We Do Now" and "Empty Spaces" is played. After which Roger says "Thank You, Good Evening."

All during the songs we see some really great close up shots of Dave and Roger. Young Lust is played, with a very unwelcome funky style lead organ played by Surrogate band keyboardist Peter Wood. He would have ruined the song were it not for seeing Roger and David share the same microphone inches away from one another. Enough of the fucking funky organ already. Peter Wood should have been thrown off the stage and escorted out of the auditorium. He is not part of Pink Floyd and if he is going to add his un-Floyd like fucked up funky style he's going to ruin the sound!

"One of My Turns" is played, Roger is singing in front of the wall, with the Wife puppet hovering over him above the wall as it fully inflates and moves ominously forward.

One thing about this video, is that all audience noise is rarely even heard, thanks of course to the sound being taken from the mixing board. "In The Flesh" is played, as the entire wall lights up with crossed hammer graphics and all the stage personal and band in their respective uniforms. Roger, sings in his black storm trooper uniform and armband, as the huge Pig inflatable circles the crowd with it's spotlight eyes. At the end Roger says, "Thankyou," tunes his bass a bit, then asks the audience if they like the pig, as the sound drops out again. He says "he's and old pig but he's a big pig. The audience cheers, then Roger says, "here's a song for all you paranoids in the audience, it's called "Run Like Hell," and screams "run like hell, run like hell." As the song is played it's great watching Dave and Roger trade off vocals. The Surrogate band stands off to each side of each of the other members. Roger is jamming and plays his bass like a lead guitar, obviously having fun. There are really some great close ups during this song.

At the end of the song Roger says "Thankyou, we always like to do something for the disco fans. Then "Waiting for the Worms" begins. Roger plays the perfect fascist leader. At the end we see a long shot from the mixing station as Scarfe's marching hammers march across the huge wall backdrop. Then all the light is extinguished and the 'Pink' doll in front of the wall is again spotlighted as Roger sings "Stop".

Now most of the bands equipment has been cleared from in front of the stage as "The Trial" begins, and again the wall is used for the Scarfe trial animation. All the band is again behind the wall, with Roger singing the various voices of prosecutor, teacher, judge, mother, and wife. The wall finally comes down at the end in a stunning and spectacular conclusion of smoke, lighting, and strobe light effects.

Then the 'troupe' of musicians and singers, Floyd and surrogate band, stroll out on stage with acoustic instruments, and in front of the demolished wall play "Outside the Wall." Roger leads them on an off stage playing the clarinet. It is only once for minute when you hear the crowd in it's full sound in a tremendous applause, and not dampened by the mixer. After the 'bleeding hearts troupe leaves the stage, Pink Floyd strolls out one last time to take a bow. Roger says, "Thankyou" and they leave the stage. The lights come on in Earls Court and the audience begins to leave to the tune of "American Patrol" piped in through the PA.

The film ends. What a concert. What an event. I certainly wish I had been lucky enough to have been there, or seen any of The Wall shows. As I said in the review of the Nassau show, I was working in a record store at the time, south of San Francisco, and my boss went down to LA to see the show leaving me to mind the store. If I had known then what I had missed, I probably would have quit my job, and done anything to attend.