Quote Originally Posted by The Figment
Wow...Floyd at Shoreline??? No Shit?! Almost as good as a Shoreline Dead Show!!
Ahh Figment...I miss seeing the Dead at Shoreline. Alpine Valley in Wisconsin, and Autzen Stadium in Oregon were great venues for the Dead but Shorleline was always "home" to me. So many good memories...

Anyhow, it's Roger Waters at Shoreline, not Floyd. I've seen both on their last tours and there's a big difference.

I saw Floyd at the Oakland Coliseum last time they came around in '95. Unbelievable show, best I ever went to. There was like 80,000 people but our seats were 13th row, dead center. We stood in line for 18hrs to get those seats. Anyhow, Floyd had the whole production. In addition to the music(always awesome) the show itself was fantastic. Lasers, pyrotechnics, etc etc. It really blew me away.

When Waters came around in 2000 I saw him at Shoreline. Of course the music was great, but there was pretty much no "show" at all. Just him and the band on the stage, sometimes with a movie playing behind him. It was almost like he was saying "I've got the music, I don't need any special effects to have a good concert.". Don't get me wrong, it was a great concert, Roger Waters playing mostly old Floyd tunes can't be bad. It just wasn't what most folks were expecting.

On the other hand, when I saw Waters back in 1985, for the Pro's and Con's Tour, the show was billed as a "multimedia extravaganza in quadrophonic sound" and it lived up to it. I think back then he was trying to make a statement that he was Pink Floyd so naturally the show came along with him.

It will be interesting to see what his show is like this time around, especially since he's doing the entire Dark Side. The fact that he's doing the entire Dark Side has me a bit curious in itself. I mean, except for the last song, Gilmour did pretty much all the singing on Dark Side. Will Waters handle the vocals? Or, like he did on the last tour, will he have someone else sing Gilmour's parts? Makes you wonder, doesn't it.

Should be a great show no matter what. :thumbsup: