Epic. FREAKING EPIC is the only way I can describe last night's Roger Waters: The Wall Live show. I'll just go over my personal highlights. But first, I'm kicking myself because I didn't take my camera along and only have a couple of shots off my crappy phone camera of ... THE PIG. This is the best of them:
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK. TRUST US. He flew so close to us, too! I didn't take any more because my phone doesn't even have flash, and I knew they'd look like crap. But anyway...
All of it, from the animations, including some by graffiti artist Banksy as well as the original Gerald Scarfe stuff we've come to know was incredible flashing across the wall, which acted as a screen. The live puppets and inflatables. The School Master, Wife, Mother, they were all there. You could see them, even, lurking at the sides of the stage.
And the sound was incredible, just surrounded you with all the auditory effects.
Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. 2) was a highlight. The children shaking their fists at the menacing School Master chanting "HEY, TEACHER, LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE!" Great moment, and the first highlight for me.
During
Mother - Waters: "Mother, should I trust the government?" The crowd: NOOOOOOOOOO! It was an amazing moment. Also the words BIG
BRMOTHER IS WATCHING YOU on the wall. He sang this as a black and white performance of his younger self was projected, in kind of a duet with himself.
The wall is built throughout the first act, subtly, brick by brick. I'd look one minute and then look back and it's even more complete until
The Last Few Bricks and
Goodbye Cruel World saw it complete.
I teared up at a few of the photos and messages / stories of fallen loved ones that people sent in through Roger's website that were shown on the wall during the 30 minute intermission. It was so powerful.
Hey You Is performed completely behind the wall. Then the wall opens to reveal Waters sitting watching images flash by on a TV in a hotel room setting for
Nobody Home.
Another really touching moment for me was during
Vera, when, in video shown on the wall, was a little girl sitting in class at school, and through the door walks her soldier father. Full of emotion she races to embrace him. Then
Bring The Boys Back Home.
During
Comfortably Numb was the most kick ass, greatest guitar solo I'll ever see performed atop a wall. The audience swayed and sang along: "I... have become comfortably numb...", it was fantastic.
In The Flesh saw Roger come out dressed like a dictator in a trench coat and sunglasses, and a "Big Brother" type camera watched our every move. Audience members responded with the cross-armed salute.
Then during
The Trial when chants of "TEAR DOWN THE WALL!" from all over the arena saw the bricks falling, tumbling, with a tremendous crash and boom.
The band is then revealed,
Outside The Wall, as a rag tag Salvation Army type outfit, and with a few words from Roger, the experience came to an end. And it's a concert experience I won't soon forget.
The Wall has as much to say to today's generation as it did when it was originally released in 1979. It's still an amazing piece of work.
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