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The Roger Waters Concert
Oct. 7th, 2006 10:48 amOooh, my second almost-Pink Floyd concert this year! This one was at the Hollywood Bowl. The night was cool and dampish and big ol' full moon seemed like a very special effectof the show. *g*
Whereas Gilmour had the great laser lights dazzling the audience, Waters had none of that and instead opted for the visuals to be shown on a screen behind the band onstage. As you can imagine, there was a lot of political content, but there was also so many photos and film clips of Waters when he was younger, I thought I was watching some old home movies. Which reminds me that Waters looks enough like Richard Gere that it was constantly jarring to me.
Songs both he and Gilmour played were Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Breathe, Comfortably Numb. Waters played a lot of The Wall, with Brick being one of the encores. Noteworthy effects would be the inflatible pig covered with graffitti (including a plea for us to vote on Nov 7 and "impeach Bush Now" was scrawled across the pig's ass) and the pyramid image from Dark Side of the Moon with the rainbow spectrum emminating from it hoisted via a crane to be well above the top of the Bowl's shell. Oh, and he had a quite a bit of fire effects on stage. Big honkin' pilars of flames, the kind where you can feel the heat on your face even if you're in the back row. A few modest but perfect fire works ended the concert.
They played all of Dark Side of the Moon for the second half of the concert. For me, I think the concert really hit on all cylinders for Us and Them. It was the light, the imagines and the music, they just really impressed the heck out of me.
The most annoying part of the concert was the guy that sat next to me. Jeez! He was as hyper as a five year old that had to go to the toilet!
The second most annoying part was the subtext of...let me put this kindly...American not being very good for the World. I hear that a lot lately and it's beginning to annoy the hell out of me. Bush is...well, if I print my true feelings I'll probably end up on somebody's list somewhere. I know exactly what Bush is, okay? I despair over the half of my country that supports him and his agenda, and I mourn the loss of the ideals that made the US a place of possibilities and hope. Yes, Bush is screwing up the world but the mid-term elections are coming up and we've got another chance to derail this monstrosity. Fingers crossed, eh?
I know it's all a mess but when the criticism is phrased in a certain way, it just irritates me because I've been trying to fix this for the last 6 years on many different fronts. Trust me, this is not the news flash you think it is. This was almost as annoying as the last Paul McCartney concert I went to YEARS ago where, in the name of education, they slipped in some film of a elephant being electrocuted. I would give a great deal of money to have that image deleted from my brain and I have such anger that McCartney sandbagged me with it.
But I digress...apparently quite a bit. Must be the residue of the Mr. Hyper's happy fumes.
Anyway, it was a good concert. I'll sum up my feelings of the comparison by saying Gilmour gave me a feast of sound and visuals and was an absolute master musician, while Waters gave me a good concert with a lot of political subtext...and seemed to be trying very hard to sell himself as an Artiste. I'm glad I went to both but I was personally more satisfied by Gilmour's concert.
Whereas Gilmour had the great laser lights dazzling the audience, Waters had none of that and instead opted for the visuals to be shown on a screen behind the band onstage. As you can imagine, there was a lot of political content, but there was also so many photos and film clips of Waters when he was younger, I thought I was watching some old home movies. Which reminds me that Waters looks enough like Richard Gere that it was constantly jarring to me.
Songs both he and Gilmour played were Shine on You Crazy Diamond, Breathe, Comfortably Numb. Waters played a lot of The Wall, with Brick being one of the encores. Noteworthy effects would be the inflatible pig covered with graffitti (including a plea for us to vote on Nov 7 and "impeach Bush Now" was scrawled across the pig's ass) and the pyramid image from Dark Side of the Moon with the rainbow spectrum emminating from it hoisted via a crane to be well above the top of the Bowl's shell. Oh, and he had a quite a bit of fire effects on stage. Big honkin' pilars of flames, the kind where you can feel the heat on your face even if you're in the back row. A few modest but perfect fire works ended the concert.
They played all of Dark Side of the Moon for the second half of the concert. For me, I think the concert really hit on all cylinders for Us and Them. It was the light, the imagines and the music, they just really impressed the heck out of me.
The most annoying part of the concert was the guy that sat next to me. Jeez! He was as hyper as a five year old that had to go to the toilet!
The second most annoying part was the subtext of...let me put this kindly...American not being very good for the World. I hear that a lot lately and it's beginning to annoy the hell out of me. Bush is...well, if I print my true feelings I'll probably end up on somebody's list somewhere. I know exactly what Bush is, okay? I despair over the half of my country that supports him and his agenda, and I mourn the loss of the ideals that made the US a place of possibilities and hope. Yes, Bush is screwing up the world but the mid-term elections are coming up and we've got another chance to derail this monstrosity. Fingers crossed, eh?
I know it's all a mess but when the criticism is phrased in a certain way, it just irritates me because I've been trying to fix this for the last 6 years on many different fronts. Trust me, this is not the news flash you think it is. This was almost as annoying as the last Paul McCartney concert I went to YEARS ago where, in the name of education, they slipped in some film of a elephant being electrocuted. I would give a great deal of money to have that image deleted from my brain and I have such anger that McCartney sandbagged me with it.
But I digress...apparently quite a bit. Must be the residue of the Mr. Hyper's happy fumes.
Anyway, it was a good concert. I'll sum up my feelings of the comparison by saying Gilmour gave me a feast of sound and visuals and was an absolute master musician, while Waters gave me a good concert with a lot of political subtext...and seemed to be trying very hard to sell himself as an Artiste. I'm glad I went to both but I was personally more satisfied by Gilmour's concert.
