Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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I know there are a few oul afficionados of Pink Floyd here on Doverforum. Yours truly is as well, a veteran of many a Pink Floyd concert in the old days. So I couldnt miss this one and with Jan T's help I took my oul weary rockin' bones to the O2 Arena (The Dome) for tuesday nights show/concert of The Wall...Jeez it is truly an assault on the senses, nobody sleeps at this show I can tell you.
Roger Waters one time rock of Pink Floyd, has regurgitated his show thirty years on and it is every bit as good as the first time around.
Rumour has it I was around for the original but I deny it vehemently....ahem cough!!
The auditorium with ten minutes to go before lift off...huge crowd and still packing them in..
Then it bursts into unholy life and all hell breaks loose
The section with the facist leader..ooh not nice, putting allsort of societies elements up against the Wall.
The wicked school teacher..putting yet more bricks in the wall
"we dont need no education"
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great the surprize event when they put there differences to one side and all got on stage at one of the days
im a great fan
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#3
Wow !!
Those images are amazing.
I remember buying the (original) album and my younger brother said it was the most depressing album he had ever heard.
I still think it's great, though the message "We don't need no education" is so totally wrong.
Roger
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roger
i think they had a wider message than that
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes there are lots of wide and probably even dangerous opinions in it but it expresses the wider views of society including those of rabid fascists etc
crazy..truly gone fishing...
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paulb
but getting all the old members on stage with all there past differences won't ever happen again and must have been great for those attening that night
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The Wall was first released in November 1979 - how do I know? Well I was on honeymoon at the time in Holland....
A good album but not a patch on Wish You Was Here or Dark Side of the Moon...
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all good barryw
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Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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I actually lost interest in Pink Floyd after Dark Side of the Moon, preferring the earlier work.
The story goes that Roger Waters wrote 'The Wall' after spitting in a fans face, in an attempt to understand the influences that drove him to such an act. Strange then that it does not include a song called "I'm Sorry I spat In Your Face".
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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looked like a great show, i think that "dark side of the moon" was by far their best and could never reach the same heights after that.
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I'm with Chris about earlier stuff, but that's true of lots of musicians and artists! I remember Marc Bolan as a waif-like figure strumming guitar and singing folky type songs in corners of dark rooms in London when I lived there about 125 years ago, and how lovely the songs were, and how slightly other-worldy. And then he morphed into a pop-singing monster when the telly discovered him !
Great pics, by the way!!!!
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Piper at the Gates of Dawn is my favourite of their early stuff, though again not up to DSOTM or WYWH.
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bern
i remember marc bolan with tyronassauras rex(later t rex) at the "green man" leytonstone.
really heavy stuff then they decided to exploit the glam rock scene, very successfully too.
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paulb
nice to bump into this morning(well you nearly ran me over lol)
the pink floyd same as others part of there glamour was to be different, and rebels
but even the fluffy bay city rollers lead singer hit someone with a microphone
so lets try to stick to the positives pink floyd gave everyone
and still do
nd welcome the 02 performance and great pics by paulb
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Nice photos Boss, hope you had a good time. eee it takes ya back don't it.
But what about the light side of the moon.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Try again.
OH dear I'm having probs.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
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Can any one help?
I'm told my upload is successful but it does not appear in my list.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Ian ah yes...
certainly takes ye back..where the thirty years went in the meantime is anyone's guess.
Re your picture: The codes look right Ian so not sure whats happened there. Have another try...or if all else fails sent it over to me.
Keef yes good to bump into you earlier on my motorised vehicle..you didnt see my coming up on you!lol
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One last one from the night just to make sure the pix are uploading ok following Ian's effort there..
all working..any similiarities with the Nurmberg rally are not to be discounted!
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fantastic night i bet.
but not trying to distract from it
but it was me who saw you before you ran me over
holding up all the traffic while we chatted
some power this doverforum owner has
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