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Alcohol: $0.00
Coffee: $50.00
Concert ticket: $417.00
Food: $300.00
Fuel: $200.00
Hotel: $500.00
Masseuse: $150.00*
Merchandise: $80.00
Speeding ticket: $80.00
Stimulant's: $150.00*
Total: $1927.00
*medicinal
Seeing Roger Waters The Wall 2012: priceless
Great seats a sensation shocking emersive 9 rows from the stage, a little left of centre (coincidentally the same was noted in my 1967 school report card) and very excellent 5 star surround sound system turned up to 11. A mind blowing production containing the usual Pink Floyd fare: dazzling light show on stage and on us (at times you felt like an escaped prisoner), stunning full on pyrotechnics, crashing plane, and that was all in the first 2 minutes. Great 10 Metre tall inflatable puppets at times dangling right above us, the massive movie quality projections blasting across the full 70 Metre wide 11 Metre high wall and the music ah the music, oh and don't forget the flying pig buzzing about. Political Roger has updated the wall for 2012 with a dizzying array of anti corporate, anti government, anti poverty and anti war messages. Some of the original film animations were used and many new and improved ones to. Some using major bank, car, computer and oil company logos, major currency and religimus symbols, with a few hammer & sickles and swastika's thrown in for luck, all falling from the projected bombers. all the hot button issues were pushed. Slogans included were: i Believe, i Follow, i Greed, i Lead, i Learn, i Profit, i Protect, i Resist, i Want, trust us, buy this, do that. All the iconic 20th century pictures of Mao, Stalin, Che, Ghandi, Mandala (what no Bieber) the pained faces of famine ravaged children, bandaged bomb victims, mass graves many with photo shopped ubiquitous white ear bud leads. During the interval sobering Images and bio's of the fallen from the many war's and acts of terrorism old and new were playing across the wall, at times there was hardly a dry eye in the house, I got sob confetti in my eye sob. (This from a ghost that in 1983 inexplicably burst into tears watching David Bowie performing space oddity on his serious moonlight tour, I still blame 60 oz's of Jack Daniels) Now 68 Roger's in good form, great (grate) voice, plenty of emotion, didn't phone it in. During in the flesh he whipped out a machine gun concealed beneath the folds of his leather coat and with a wry smile strafed the audience, he looked like he was enjoying it way to much, I took two to the chest, but was saved by my zpz overnight sensation tee. The completed wall was used to great effect throughout, with many of the images seemingly 3D, and Roger interacting with it by shooting pictures of random war mongers (you know who you are) off the wall, punching or banging his head against the wall and initiating some more eye popping footage. Sections of the wall opened up revealing the hotel room or the individual musicians, it was all very very impressive. Most of the show was like being in a 12,000 strong multi national choir/karaoke night come multi media event, everyone knew and sang all the lyrics and spoke all the background tv chatter etc word for word, their was a guy behind me providing harmonies in french! Fantastic sound and good use of the swirling surround sound effects. All the lads were on fire, Snowy White and his legendary 1959 Les Paul Goldtop (allegedly stolen from Snowy by Earl Slick at a blues festival in 1999. In 2003 while Slick was performing on Bowies Reality tour Snowy casually entered stage left strolled accross and took his guitar off its stand and exited stage right, seen but unrecognised only by the drummer and audience) The lefty Dave Kilminster, almost mimicking David Gilmour note for note with little embellishment. A great intimate acoustic duet with Snowy and G E Smith on 12 string. Most of the band have been performing Floyd with Roger on and off for years, the tour at this point is a year and a half old, so thier carving style is well rehearsed.
Roger played a moving sob sob version of Mother on his Martin accoustic accompanying a black and white movie (tour de Frank style) of a very young looking quote "poor miserable little fucked up Roger" playing bass at a 1980 wall concert in Earls Court. There was a really nice vibe to the whole event, which ended with the band playing the final derge; out side the wall, Roger on trumpet and yet another confetti shower. Pompous prog rock is alive and well.
Before the lights went down every one was dressed sharp and acting cool, as the lights went down, I noticed those around me discreetly putting on thier glasses, I suspect the average age was around 45 to 50, row 9 only safety glasses required.
I laughed I cried I kissed NZ$1927.00 goodbye, and it was worth every cent.
Every gun that is made,
every warship launched,
every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sence
a theft
from those who hunger and are not fed
those who are cold and are not clothed
Dwight D Eisenhower.
I liked Ike
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Thanks for the music Frank.
Well I'm about to get sick from watching my TV
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