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Originally Posted by W.M.DEEEZ
Waters is damaged goods...as such, he is one of my favorite cynics. I think of him in the same vane as Pete Townshend...another nut/genius.
I've seen Waters, as well as Gilmour's Floyd...
Funny, Waters brings 3 guitarists on the road, but they can't make the sound we're looking for. As with most of the bands we've been going to see for decades, when they can't coexist anymore, we suffer.
We go to the shows, partly out of tradition, partly to try to grasp a piece of our memories that we aren't quite ready to let go of.
We always leave with the feeling that the show was great, but...
In Waters we find biting lyrics, that are delivered from the heart. He never mails it in, and we can...quite frankly...feel his angst.
I saw them (the real Floyd) twice in 77, (July 1 & 4) and he (Waters) was disgusted with the NYC union lighting crew. They wouldn't allow the band's boys to do the show, and he wasn't about to let us leave without knowing that it was made a mess by these union idiots.
That's why we love Waters... everything is an issue.
Great review Floyd...glad you had a good time. I saw him outdoors about 5 years ago, and it poured. They went offstage mid song, when the rain started coming down sideways. After about 1 1/2 hour wait, they came back out, and picked up from the note they left off at. Again...I loved the show, but yearned for that sound that was missing.
Can't they all get along?
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Thanks, oh, and since I was still so burnt I forgot to add that the final song was Comfortable Numb...how fitting..drats I never got the chance to see the the Floyd intact...tho~ I feel like I've had the experiences I desired...fucking A...to be alive and to hear the masters still doing their thing is way past good enough for me, even in parts.
Tho~ Dave's missing guitar licks was obvious they did very well...Roger being the perfectionist he is you know your getting it played as close as possible to the original experience...or maybe he's saying, "I'll have it played the goddamned thing the way I want"...that's more likely...lol
Especially exciting was seeing the guy who's brilliant mind created this mind-fuck-in-your-face assault on the sheeps "realities"...which is pretty true to the day's fucked up situation...there were so many shocked people there...fuck 'em...lol...the thing they hate most is that:
"It all makes perfect sense"