Roger Waters The Wall (Page 1 of 2)

I'll be at the same 2 shows, with Phoenix in between.

Yeah, don't remind me of San Francisco, I gave up a free ticket to that show.  I saw pictures on facebook today, there were 24 people from "A Fleeting Glimpse" a PF board, that went out to dinner last night, Dave Kilminster, who plays lead guitar showed up.

Holdem there is a pre-show meet up at Phil's BBQ before the show in San Diego, you're welcome to come by.

It's all AFG folks and some others, Simon Wimpenny will be there, if you don't know Simon, he has been to over 100 Wall shows, in the 2010 run he saw 51 of the 52 North American shows.

His blog is here: http://simonwimpenny.blogspot.com/2012/ … cisco.html

Come on buy and say hi, it's a block away from the venue.  We're getting there around 4.

Which "original" was that?

saw the show last year in the UK and I was speaking to one of the techies who told me the visuals cost around £20 million.

Well, you can see where the money was spent - its an amazing AV feast and 'that' single piece in the middle of the comfortably numb solo was worth the £100 cost of the ticket alone.

If you dont know the bit I mean, watch 2nd solo from around 5 mins and what happens at around 6:20  (although you will have to ignore Gilmour butchering the solo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYzQaCCt2o

By the way, Dave Kilminster is a MONSTER, certainly one of those uber players.  Saw him playing with Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn) 3 or 4 months ago and spent the gig with my face 3 feet from his guitar.  I was slobbering all over his Suhr Tele after about 5 mins.

'94 PF at Jack Murphy was my son's first concert too, 7 at the time.  He's more hip hop/contemporary rock (DMB, 311 and Drake his most recent concertrs) obviously, but has the good taste to list Roger's Dark Side tour as the best concert he's ever been to. My great failure in child rearing is that he hasn't yet developed a love for the blues. He'll stop and watch a couple of minutes of JB and appreciate the playing, but thats as far as it goes!

WRT to Dave Kilminster, a monster indeed. My only complaint (and its probably Rogers' direction, not his own preference) he is a bit TOO true to Gilmour's solos. I think Bramhall's takes in 2000 were a bit more free to be creative and add some of his own style. Someone mentioned being moved to tears by something in the Beacon Theatre DVD...that's only happened to me once (well, twice, since it happened live too), and that was Bramhall and Snowy White playing "Dogs". Beautiful guitar harmonies.

And lets bring Snowy White into the "other artists" discussion. His musicality and tone consistently amazes me.
And GE Smith is another one. His versatility and range is awesome. I wish he played more on the Wall. His solo on ABITW Part II is diminished by the trading lines with Harry Waters imo, I prefer the arrangements where the 3 guitars solo and the organ solos alone.

The Roger Waters shows use a very complicated syncing process that links a rigid click track with all the AV and special effects. The click track also contains a large portion of Rogers vocals as he hasnt been able to fully sing live for some years.  I saw him in Manchester about 4 years ago and 'Fletcher Memorial Home' vocals started before he had even sat down and picked up his guitar.

The rigidity prevents any improv, but I have also seen a YT interview with Dave where he does say that the solos have to be kept pretty much to the albums.

Down, Dawg, Down.  Good Dawg.  It has been known for some time that Roger does some limited lip syncing, and with a masterpiece as grand as the Wall, it is to be expected, but I assure you as my 7th row center seats showed, MOST of the show is completely live, and ALL of the music is live.  Yes there are some backing sound effects but all the music is live. The only reason that this stuff happens is because we now have the technology to pull it off as close to perfection as possible. And I can tell you from my 25 PF related shows (Either David Gilmour’s PF or Roger’s version) these two guys thrive on perfection.

Dave Kilmnister is a fantastic guitar player as well as Snowy White and GE Smith.  The show itself can almost not be called a "concert" as it really is a story told with music and visuals.

I have been to over three hundred concerts and nothing,  I repeat, nothing compares to a live Pink Floyd show. I saw my first show in 1977 when I was 19 years old. They were so impressive live that that one show hooked me for life.

So Dawg, you may not be a fan, that’s OK, I can’t stand Metallica, but to compare Roger Waters to Britney Spears is just wrong.