Pink Floyd - Mother

This post was originally supposed to be about the new Japandroids album "Celebration Rock." That however, will have to wait until next week because on Saturday June 23rd, 2012 I got to see Roger Waters perform "The Wall". This isn't the first time that he's brought the wall to Toronto, but the Rogers Centre is the biggest venue he's played. I can't see how you could fit 40,000 people in a smaller venue.

To try and describe how the stage was set up is kind of hard if you've never been inside a baseball stadium. So I'll include this photo from where I was sitting. The stage literally stretched all the way from left field to right field.

One of the coolest parts of the show was the usage of the actual wall. Instead of having giant video screens surrounding the stage, they used the wall as a giant projection screen. As the wall was slowly built throughout the first half of the show, the projectors used more and more of the wall to display the video. Once the wall was complete, you could see why no extra screens were required. It had the most jumbo-est of jumbo screens. The only downside to having the massive wall built was that you couldn't seethe actual band that was playing the music. Roger Waters was out front but the restof the band was hidden. It didn't really matter though. You would've been distracted from the awesome spectacle taking place before your eyes.

There were a few standout moments from the show. One of my favourites being when a children's choir from Regent Park came out to assist with the chorus of "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2). But the standout moment in my eyes was when Roger Waters sung a duet with Roger Waters. Thats right. He had a duet with himself. Projected onto the wall was a Pink Floyd performance in 1980. There a younger version of Roger Waters sung the song "Mother." All while present Roger Waters sung along. This is as close to time travel as we can get right now. Take it or leave it. I thought it was awesome.

Especially after the line "Mama can I trust the government?"

On the wall they projected the words "NO FUCKING WAY"

Anyways, if you want to know what the album is like, Rolling Stone magazine rated it #87 on the top 500 albums of all time. I would probably rate it higher. So here's a sample from the original 1979 pressing of "The Wall". It still sounds better than something you could produce on Pro Tools today. So I'll give it 5/5 stars? 

I need to come up with a different system.

Buy Pink Floyd's "The Wall" here:

http://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/wa/link?path=pinkfloyd

or buy it from their website:

http://www.pinkfloyd.com/store.php