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To: Darkwolf377

COLD! LOL...I love the Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of Reason....I was able to see both tours..one in Giants Stadium and the other at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami...visually...the best shows I have and probably will ever see.


5 posted on 02/09/2006 10:11:41 AM PST by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: My Favorite Headache

I caught both DSOTM concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland, summer 1973. It's an inside/outside concert park, and PF placed 5 huge speaker banks around the audience. One at the very back, two L/R in the middle, and two L/R at front, a surround sound experience. For several of the instrumental pieces they "spun" the sound around the speaker banks. Pretty strange effect, especially since it was outside.

Unfortuately this also made some of the drug tripping hippies a bit crazy, and there ensued a mini-riot with Merriweather security (I recall the zonked-out folks ripping up the new sod and throwing it at the guards). It only stopped when Waters halted the concert and refused to continue until they stopped.


14 posted on 02/09/2006 10:29:27 AM PST by angkor
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I've enjoyed parts of all their albums, and Gilmour's solo records. He's got such a great sound. I was never as into Waters, though--he's shrill. The shrillness worked up to and including The Wall, which is just oerwhelming in its variety and production, not to mention the writing and performing.

The Final Cut is a dreary album, though.

Personally, Van Morrison's vocals on the live Comfortably Numb have nudged the original aside for me.

45 posted on 02/09/2006 2:35:59 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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