Roger Waters. Dark Side of the Moon. Nissan Pavillion, September 23. Who wants to go?

Cafe Society
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Lawn seats are $30. I’m going, and bringing Dominic with me. It should be an amazing show. From what I have read, the first half of the show will be mostly Pink Floyd favorites, and the second half will be Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. The guy who designed the tour is the same guy who designed all the Pink Floyd tours, so I think the production value is likely to be similar.

Anyone in the MidAtlantic area wanna go? So far it’s me, my son, my boyfriend, and my soon-to-be-ex-husband, but a bigger group would only be more fun, yes?

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Wow, thirty bucks? That’s incredible. Sure wish I could go. I envy you mightily.

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Argh. Wish I could, but I’m on a sailboat in the Greek Isles on that date. (No, really.)

Ah well, I’ve got DSotM on my iPod…

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Well I’m travelling from Atlanta to go to it. They are going to be in a number of different places on different dates. You might want to check and see if any others are viable.

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Not me, although I’ll be going September 30 in Indianapolis. It oughtta be pretty awesome, and it’s only the third concert I’ve ever gone to. Anyone in for Indy?

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September 6th at the PNC Art Center in Holmdel, NJ.
I am going to the ticket office tomorrow to get some lawn seats. $37.50 per.

Jim

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So… is Roger Waters going to sing all the songs? I don’t know how well that would work.

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David Gilmour sang all the songs during the Division Bell tour (including all the old classic Floyd stuff they did), and it worked out fine. Might sound a little different, but probably still excellent.

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Except that Waters’ voice is completely shot these days. Listen to the reunion from last summer, or his “In the Flesh” live album of a few years back. Virtually unlistenable when he has to sing, IMHO.

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Yes, but David Gilmour sang much of the old Pink Floyd stuff anyway (e.g., Rog only sings lead on two songs from Dark Side of the Moon.) Also, Gilmour tends to avoid PF songs that had a strong Waters influence aside from the big hits such as Another Brick in the Wall.

From what I’ve seen of other Roger Waters concerts, he doesn’t try and tackle Gilmour’s bits but rather gets other members of his band to do them.

Waters sounds ok doing Waters stuff such as the verse in Comfortably Numb, but his voice is too uniquely fucked to be able to be able to carry off the other parts IMHO.

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Here’s a review of Roger’s Hyde Park concert of 3 July.

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Now that it’s closer to the concert I figured I’d pop back in and see if anyone else was interested in going. There will be four of us as it is, with lawn seats, but the more the merrier, right? (I got permission to bump this thread, btw. I know it’s a couple of months old, but it seemed easier than starting a new one that said the same thing.)