Roger Waters performs "Vera" in Vancouver
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The intermission is over at B.C. Place, and Roger Waters is performing "Vera". Meanwhile, images of children breaking down at the sight of their dads returning from war flash on the fully constructed wall.
Heavy stuff.
Steve Newton is filing items of interest from the Roger Waters concert at B.C. Place. Read his full review tomorrow morning.
Comments
4 Comments
Todd Sullivan
May 26, 2012 at 11:40pm
Hope you're enjoying the show -- I saw it last time it rolled through Vancouver and it was AWESOME. But I feel the need to point out that it's a Roger Waters show and not a Pink Floyd show (or, if it is a Pink Floyd show, I'm incredibly sad that I'm not there to see it, and I'm wondering how they brought Rick Wright back from the great beyond).
Jamie Horsley
May 27, 2012 at 12:52am
Uhh, I think someone at the Straight has had a momentary lapse of reason. I believe the last full length Pink Floyd performance was Live 8 in 2005. The last surviving members of Pink Floyd, (David Gilmour and Nick Mason) joined Roger Waters on stage briefly at a London performance of The Wall last year. But unfortunately, Vancouver wasn't lucky enough to see them all together last night.
Martin Dunphy
May 27, 2012 at 1:08am
The headline is fixed. Thanks, guy(s) (and/or gal).
Gary Dunham
May 28, 2012 at 12:59pm
Quite the spectacle! I laughed. I cried. I paid $40 for a T-Shirt. But, that aside, OMG what a show. Clearly, Roger Waters LOVES performing those songs before a large adoring crowd & that's certainly what he got on Saturday night. And for a man of 68 he is as spry as a person half his age, fist-pumping & sprinting back & forth across the stage more than a few times. One further comment about the sound in BC Place - I have seen a few big stadium-sized rock shows in the cavernous dome (The Who, The Rolling Stones, U2, etc.) and the sound has been consistently disappointing. Brutal in fact. However, Roger's team of sound engineers more than conquered the echoey expanses of Vancouver's football stadium as the sound was rich, enveloping and, at times, ear splitting. In a word . . . AWESOME! :-)