Roger Waters - The Wall Live in Berlin

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Robert M This is one of the best recorded concerts I've ever seen on a DVD and although it's not the Pink Floyd lineup, the music is amazing, especially for the size of the crowd (they quit selling tickets at 250,000 people and just let everyone else come in). Also, doing it at Berlin in 1990 was incredible, watching them build the wall and then tear it down. The symbolism was not lost on the crowd. All in all - if you liked The Wall album, you will love this concert. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/09/24 Full Review Audience Member I consider myself a huge Pink Floyd fan but never cared for Waters solo stuff. The Wall is an amazing album and I would imagine it would be an awesome concert. Still this isn't all that but is kind of necessary to watch if you are a Floyd or Wall fan. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member A bit redundant by today's standards, especially if you've seen Roger's infinitely superior tour that is running as of writing, but back in the day this was the shit. Still an enjoyable concert but not a scratch on the new tour. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Beyond any fragment of a doubt the most extravagant concert ever mounted in the history of the world. However it all meshed marvelously together to add a whole new dimension to the music we all (or at least most of us) know and love. Even those who have seen the movie will be astounded at the new magic brought to the material by over 300,000 fans, and a collection of guest artists including Tim Curry, Sinead O'Conner, Cyndi Lauper, Van Morrison, the Scorpions, and many others. Among the most significant is the marching band of the combined Soviet Forces in Germany, who add a whole new dimension to the Fascist Rally late in the 2nd act. Anyways a spectacle of this nature had never been done before, and likely is never to be done again, mostly because it was a HUGE loss of money for the producers. If you're a Pink Floyd fan, or if you're simply a fan of performance art, treat yourself to this amazing show. and don't watch it on youtube, that terrible video quality doesn't even come close to doing this concert justice. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member [font=Arial][font=Arial]Yesterday I had a recurrence of that strange eye problem – all of a sudden I looked up from my guitar to find that I couldn’t make out the faces of the people on the TV. Gradually, the space invader widened until it went away, just like before. (Just in time for me to be able to drive to football, too.) No real sinus pressure in this case, so, I’m a little worried. Funnily enough, due to an unusual problem at the company where I work, I’ve been cut off from medical aid for the last week, which means I have to wait to see a doctor. It’s all a bit weird.[/font][/font] [font=Arial][font=Arial]What I did see this weekend was a documentary about raising and releasing tigers in South Africa, and the first half an hour of Independence Day. Is half an hour enough time to give a film a rating? In this case, I think it is. But first, cats.[/font][/font] [font=Arial][font=Arial]The Discovery Channel showed a documentary called Living with Tigers on Saturday. John Varty and his assistants had the idea that importing tigers from Asia and training them to hunt African animals might be the best chance for their survival as a species. Their mission has been met with a fierce wave of criticism, but I see the goal as worth the means. Anyway, though I didn’t enjoy Varty “introducing” African species into the tiger enclosure one by one (read: organised massacre), it was just something that had to be done if the tigers were to become self-sufficient.[/font][/font] [font=Arial][font=Arial]Tigers hunting (their methods differ quite a lot from African cats) on the relatively open African plains was something to behold…and they were horribly successful. In one hunt, in full frenzy, the tigers killed seven animals, much more than they could eat. Ironically, it was the ostrich that really scared the crap out of the huge cats – they skulked under the acacia trees until Varty killed an ostrich for them to investigate. After that, the birds were just another kind of prey.[/font][/font] [font=Arial][font=Arial]Varty appears to have been successful, even though his project’s methods are still open to debate. It might not be long until game drives in Southern African parks take in tigers as part of the natural ecosystem. I could even see Rebecca travelling for that… [/font][/font] [center][img]http://discoverychannel.ca/livingwithtigers/images/jumping_tiger_large.jpg[/img] [/center] [font=Arial][font=Arial]Independence Day is a contemptible pile of shit. Selah.[/font][/font] [font=Arial][font=Arial]On Friday I sold some CDs (a first for me), and bought some new items, including The Wall Live in Berlin – Special Edition. The irony and success of that concert are really quite astounding: Roger’s tale of turning his back on his origins and true self, building The Wall, inventing a fascist “empire”, eventually facing its consequences... That it was in Berlin in 1990 was ironic enough, but that it should be staged on the ground over Hitler’s death bunker, while featuring the combined East German and Russian marching band, is quite unbelievable. [/font][/font] [font=Arial]Possibly the most ironic feature was that Roger was the least showman-like of all the performers. It could have been a deliberate ploy to show just how much The Wall was a mental construction that was never properly realised in the flesh (unlikely, since Roger was clearly upset with Sinead O’Connor for “not being professional enough” after the show); or was it merely that he no longer felt connected to this phase of his life? Either way, he made a pretty unconvincing despot/freakout. And, should Bob Geldof have portrayed Roger as such a wild, crazed person when Real Roger breaks windows with a half-assed, underhanded swing of a guitar? (I mean, honestly – if you’re going to be breaking a window pane in front of 400 000 people with your favourite axe, at least take a big swing with it!) I could go on for a long time about the merits of The Wall as a complex work of art – how the band’s music meshed with the emotional content of the words, how the words invoked imagery so well, how the artwork meshed with the other components…but that might mean I sound as creepy and self-indulgent as about half the world’s population find The Wall to be. So I won’t. [/font] [center][img]http://www.ingsoc.com/waters/pictures/concert/wall/wall25.jpg[/img] [/center] Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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