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ya - also remember hearing of Rush playing around here at high schools - I've posted this vid link here and there on this forum before - if u have not seen it and are an avid Rush fan, it's pure gold
ya - also remember hearing of Rush playing around here at high schools - I've posted this vid link here and there on this forum before - if u have not seen it and are an avid Rush fan, it's pure gold
Even though when I saw Pink Floyd it was without Waters (MLOR- saw both the RFK show, and, I believe it was their opening show of the tour, at Capitol Center, first of four nights!), it was absolutely THE best blend of sound and light! The tone David Gilmour got from his strat was otherworldly! And he had his mix LOUD when he solo'd, which was fine by me.
I can still see those laser-beam eyes!
As a very young music-lover, I played my Aunt's Guess Who records almost endlessly at my grandmother's. Fond memories indeed.
My uncle grew up a HUGE Joe Perry fan and had every attempt to catch Aerosmith screwed up by something. He finally scores tickets to a show in Portland, ME, doesn’t catch wind that Perry has left the band and is wondering WTF is going on when he sees some other guy there, only to be followed by Tyler coming out onstage and passing out immediately.
Tyler wrote about that show in his autobiography, I think it might have been in Walk This Way as well, there’s also a write-up about it here- https://wblm.com/blimp-time-hop-79-aerosmith-show-cut-short-at-cccc/
Even though when I saw Pink Floyd it was without Waters (MLOR- saw both the RFK show, and, I believe it was their opening show of the tour, at Capitol Center, first of four nights!), it was absolutely THE best blend of sound and light! The tone David Gilmour got from his strat was otherworldly! And he had his mix LOUD when he solo'd, which was fine by me.
Fun fact: That performance was SO LARGE (one truck just to carry the floors for the stage!) that it took so long to set up, that they toured with TWO identical shows, leap-frogging across the world!
And Floyd sold out the first 2 of the 4 nights at the Capitol Center, but Waters didn't sell out his one.
That was my best concert.
Oh, and the "Pig" got stuck as it was inflating up in the rafters, and everyone was looking up, watching the crew try to kick it out of its confines. And then it suddenly freed itself, and it was like 10,000 people suddenly fell back in amazement. Quite an experience when you're tripping!
wow! awesome 1st 5
Oh yeah, the sound of that concert!! I had forgotten how they used surround; a mini PA at the back and sides of the arena/stadium. When that airplane sound came through, you just instinctively looked up because it sounded so real, panning from the back, thru the sides, then to the front. Like I said, THE best concert I'd ever been to, the sound and lights being unmatched at the time. It wasn't until I saw Muse's latest that I could say any other concert was better.Hahahaha my dad caught both the ‘88 shows in Mass, on the 2nd night one of the wires for the pig snapped and it dipped into the audience, who began pulling it down as one of the cable operators held on for dear life while bouncing back and forth like a buoy in a storm.
What’s crazier than having two stages to leap frog on the MLOR tour, they had 3 stages for the Division Bell tour that were doing the same thing. The incident above is also why they stuck the pigs on the side of the stage. Even crazier, they paid around $100K for this one flying lighting rig that was a huge amalgamation of truss and lights, during rehearsals no one onstage felt comfortable underneath it hovering above their heads, looking like it was going to come down, so they scrapped it and if I remember right, gave them away for free. Same thing with the actual Divison Bell heads; they ended up on the roof of the EMI building only to be tossed in the trash at one point. Gilmour eventually got a hold of them and they’re in his barn now.
I’ve seen PULSE tripping balls many times, it’s part of ritual for me, I couldn’t imagine what it’d be like actually being there tripping balls. They nailed the 5.1 mix so well on that DVD that the first time I heard it, the low end was actually spot on with what was happening at the concert. You wouldn’t think there’d be a lot of sub movement at a Floyd show but hahahaha….not the case. First time I heard it on a good 5.1 system I was taken right back to being at the show. And yep, Gilmour was fucking CRANKED through the PA. It was entirely what made me say “Holy shit, I need to play guitar”
nice! wish I'd kept my stubs
never seen U2 - on my list
