![]() ![]() Then multiple walls starting to rise up from the same grid once again showing the album cover for Animals, accompanied with a little pig floating. When the show’s intermission wrapped up, what looked to be an ordinary lighting grid came down and then smoke pillars starting to rise up from it. ![]() For example, during “Time,” animated clocks were flying through the screen. Fans aren’t standing up and getting into the groove of their favorite songs - most folks are sitting down, taking in all the visual effects and music being performed. When I was at “The Wall” five years ago at Wrigley Field, it was pretty much the same vibe. I’ve been to tons of rock concerts, but nothing remains as surreal as a Roger Waters show. This, my friends, wasn’t a usual rock show. Waters is doing his famous bass riffs for “One of These Days,” and when the ending solo kicks in, a grocery store appears where a cloaked man is going down aisle to aisle cutting between footage of him carrying an axe (the only lyrics to that song are “One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces,” so you know it makes sense in an interpretation of the song. It’s unsettling and it’s as if the audience had just found themselves in the middle of a horror movie. The building is discolored, lights are flashing through the hallway, and the camera is slowly tracking forward. ![]() There’s a long hallway with the door at the end of it. Waters and his touring band open up with the great “Eclipse off of Dark Side of the Moon.” The orb continues to travel above a metropolitan city, and then the famous factory from the “Animals” album appears. The beach scene gets swallowed up and we’re now hanging out in an orb floating through space. Then an odd thing happens - as the woman is harmonizing in the background, the clouds slowly become red and it seems like the sky is about to fall apart. ![]() Thunder’s rolling out in the distance, clouds are gray, but the water’s calm. With his current band (similar but not exactly the same as his US + Them tour) - guitarists Jonathan Wilson and Dave Kilminster, drummer Joey Waronker, guitarist/bassist Gus Seyffert, keyboardist/guitarist Jon Carin, organist Robert Walter, saxophonist Seamus Blake and backing singers Amanda Belair and Shanay Johnson - Waters delivered 20 Pink Floyd classics as well as a few solo songs across two sets, opening with "Comfortably Numb" and including "Another Brick in the Wall," "Have a Cigar," "Wish You Were Here," "Shine on You You Crazy Diamond," "Sheep," "Run Like Hell," "Money," "Us and Them," "Two Suns in the Sunset" and more. He also played a new song, "The Bar," which closed out the show before "Outside the Wall" played them off.“Together we stand, divided we fall” - Roger Waters from “Hey You” off of Pink Floyd’s album, “The Wall,” in 1979.Ĩ p.m., as people are finding their way to their seats, the projector turns on and we find a woman sitting on the beach. Never one to shy away from politics, Waters acknowledged his often controversial stances with a message that opened the show: “If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politics people,’ you might do well to fuck off to the bar right now.” This tour marks the first time Waters has played in the round, while still bringing the audio-visual spectacle the former Pink Floyd frontman is known for. After a couple years of pandemic delays, Roger Waters finally kicked off his "This is Not a Drill" tour on Wednesday night (7/7) at Pittsburgh's PPG Paints Arena. ![]()
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