It took me a short piece to remember about this blog because there was so often to work after seeing, Roger Waters perform "The Wall". A friend of mine and I went to see this performance and let's just say "it met and surpassed all expectations." I think there are those who are wondering what a minister is doing going to essentially, a Pink Floyd concert.
I am so done with these kind of arguments that I simply don't like what people believe most that sort of stuff anymore.so on to former things.
What was amazing is that my friend, Jeff and I were seated in the nose-bleed seats about an hour and 15 minutes early. Out of the dark a gentlewoman that in an employee of the United Center asked if we would wish a free upgrade. Upon accepting it we were escorted to center ice very faithful to the stage.it was epic! The music got going and on went the concert with Roger Waters performing "The Fence" from first to finish. He did the CD version, not the film version (there is a difference).
Roger Waters wasted no clock in fashioning this a very politically driven performance. He would use much symbolism and pictures of fallen soldiers from many different wars. I remember on the song "Mother" when he sang the line "Mother should we believe the regime?" and in big red letters it read, NO STINKIN WAY!" Let's just say the word "STINKIN" was replaced with another word. As the concert continued though the stage crew was bringing out bricks to this massive wall being built. By the sentence they got to the song "Goodbye Cruel World" the fence was built. This wall spanned the breadth of the arena and had to be all of 50 to 60 feet tall. If you recognise the level of the wall, you live there is a meaning behind why the fence was built.
After intermission they continued on with the wall eventually crumbling down which in and of itself was awful to see. This huge wall falling down without it going into the crowd. From start to stop this concert was over and total eye-candy. From a huge flying pig with symbols on it that is causing our globe to decline to the moving 40' tall school teacher and the MASSIVE projection system.I am confident in saying, "This was the best concert I get always been to and will likely ever see."
One of the big things that stood out to me though was the haunting music of "Goodbye Blue Sky" and what is now the fence has turned into a giant video screen. While the medicine was playing, in classic Pink Floyd animation.big war planes were starting to fly onto the scene. When the planes opened their bomb doors, they were not dropping bombs but rather Soviet symbols, Shell oil symbols, and even crosses. This really got me thinking that in fact religion is the worst weapon of mass destruction ever made. It was cleared that Roger Waters had no clock for religion, government, capitalism or Shell gas stations. I can only beg that someday before he passes that he would really and really get the true God and not all these other religions.
If you always get the opportunity to see this concert, I would say you it is a must see. From the tech end of things my friend, Jeff and I were awestruck. The content was very cool, it was very "V for Vendetta" style message. Outside of a mush of beer down my support and the wafts of marijuana (yes some were dumb enough to try and smoke it in the concert) it was Really VERY thought provoking and challenging. This concert truly embraced all forms of media to reach this concert not only a concert but an experience.
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