An afternoon with Roger Waters
Posted by: markfs on 31 May 2006
Hi all,
I’ve just spent the afternoon, by kind invite from a friend of a friend, at bray film studios in Windsor, where Rog n Co were on the last day of the rehearsals.
I’m still pinching myself. If you are going to any of the concerts you are in for a real treat, they were as tight as a drum!
We were half an hour late! Missed most of the first part. Had to pick my friend up from the Lloyds building and traffic out of London was a nightmare. At least the congestion charge is doing what it promised!!!
We walked in halfway through “the fletcher memorial home”
We missed shine on you crazy diamond, and one or two others. Damn traffic!
“Sheep” was a highlight, played extremely well, stonking! With various footage on a huge screen, including the pig moored between the chimneys of Battersea, it all went together really well.
(I think animals is a very underrated album by most people, it’s great, I’m listening to it now.)
This was followed by a ten minute break, then the big screen was lowered to reveal the familiar round screen and a full length performance of the dark side of the moon was launched into! From start to finish! Together with all the floyd graphics on the round screen. It was amazing!
Oh, and nick mason joined the band on drums for this, there were two kits on stage.
I feel like the luckiest boy alive, one of the bands who I’ve always had true admiration for, and two of the main guys are standing ten feet in front of my face, belting out all the music I really love.
The atmosphere of the place was great too, really intimate, with only about 50 to 70 people there, but not enough people to raise the applause needed at the end of the set. A standing ovation was called for.
The mult-channel sound was superb, even in a film studio atmosphere, with bells and tills and clocks and synthesizer throughout DSOTM sounding from all directions.
Nick mason was there to rehearse because he will be playing drums at the magny-cours concert, that will be a good weekend. Floyd on Friday night, then some F1 sat & sun. Niiiiice!
I took some photo’s and will post them tomorrow.
Regards
I’ve just spent the afternoon, by kind invite from a friend of a friend, at bray film studios in Windsor, where Rog n Co were on the last day of the rehearsals.
I’m still pinching myself. If you are going to any of the concerts you are in for a real treat, they were as tight as a drum!
We were half an hour late! Missed most of the first part. Had to pick my friend up from the Lloyds building and traffic out of London was a nightmare. At least the congestion charge is doing what it promised!!!
We walked in halfway through “the fletcher memorial home”
We missed shine on you crazy diamond, and one or two others. Damn traffic!
“Sheep” was a highlight, played extremely well, stonking! With various footage on a huge screen, including the pig moored between the chimneys of Battersea, it all went together really well.
(I think animals is a very underrated album by most people, it’s great, I’m listening to it now.)
This was followed by a ten minute break, then the big screen was lowered to reveal the familiar round screen and a full length performance of the dark side of the moon was launched into! From start to finish! Together with all the floyd graphics on the round screen. It was amazing!
Oh, and nick mason joined the band on drums for this, there were two kits on stage.
I feel like the luckiest boy alive, one of the bands who I’ve always had true admiration for, and two of the main guys are standing ten feet in front of my face, belting out all the music I really love.
The atmosphere of the place was great too, really intimate, with only about 50 to 70 people there, but not enough people to raise the applause needed at the end of the set. A standing ovation was called for.
The mult-channel sound was superb, even in a film studio atmosphere, with bells and tills and clocks and synthesizer throughout DSOTM sounding from all directions.
Nick mason was there to rehearse because he will be playing drums at the magny-cours concert, that will be a good weekend. Floyd on Friday night, then some F1 sat & sun. Niiiiice!
I took some photo’s and will post them tomorrow.
Regards
You lucky, lucky, lucky, ************
So you now have a new Best Friend, eh?!
So you now have a new Best Friend, eh?!
Thanks fella’s, I do feel very lucky, very humbled by the whole experience.
I do now have a very good friend, he will be king in my eyes if he fulfils the promise of getting us VIP tickets for the magny-cours concert.
Here’s some pics.
I thought I took more photo’s than this, I was also given a friendly warning by someone that to take photo’s, sitting in the front row, while they were playing was not the done thing.
Wouldn’t think a few pics would ruin the programme sales!
I can’t remember all the names on stage, the name of the lead axeman escapes me, but he was absolutely brilliant!
Can’t remember the drummer or saxplayers either, and it was the wife of the saxplayer that got our names on the list in the first place!
Apart from these, there was Snowy White, Andy Fairwether-low, Nick Mason for the second half, our Rog, Waters son Harry (sporting a huge ginger beard) on keyboards, Jon Carin & three excellent backing singers, one of which performed all of the warbling on great gig in the sky, spine tingling stuff
Just after the first half, screen rolled down to reveal familiar round screen, ready for DSOTM
Got this live one, shot from between my knees, as they were thundering through comfortably numb. They played a few from the wall for the encore.
Just after it all finished.
Roger Waters, Harry Waters, Andy fairwether-low, snowy white, Saxplayer.
Me, still quite bewildered from walking out of a fairly ordinary afternoon straight into a full-blown floyd concert.
And, not wanting to get back in the car.
Haven't included the pics of the people i went with, because they all threw sickies to get there(you never know who could be watching), and i cant get mspaint to work!
But a good time was had by all.
Regards,
Mark
Gonna have to try something to get these pictures to work.
I do now have a very good friend, he will be king in my eyes if he fulfils the promise of getting us VIP tickets for the magny-cours concert.
Here’s some pics.
I thought I took more photo’s than this, I was also given a friendly warning by someone that to take photo’s, sitting in the front row, while they were playing was not the done thing.
Wouldn’t think a few pics would ruin the programme sales!
I can’t remember all the names on stage, the name of the lead axeman escapes me, but he was absolutely brilliant!
Can’t remember the drummer or saxplayers either, and it was the wife of the saxplayer that got our names on the list in the first place!
Apart from these, there was Snowy White, Andy Fairwether-low, Nick Mason for the second half, our Rog, Waters son Harry (sporting a huge ginger beard) on keyboards, Jon Carin & three excellent backing singers, one of which performed all of the warbling on great gig in the sky, spine tingling stuff
Just after the first half, screen rolled down to reveal familiar round screen, ready for DSOTM
Got this live one, shot from between my knees, as they were thundering through comfortably numb. They played a few from the wall for the encore.
Just after it all finished.
Roger Waters, Harry Waters, Andy fairwether-low, snowy white, Saxplayer.
Me, still quite bewildered from walking out of a fairly ordinary afternoon straight into a full-blown floyd concert.
And, not wanting to get back in the car.
Haven't included the pics of the people i went with, because they all threw sickies to get there(you never know who could be watching), and i cant get mspaint to work!
But a good time was had by all.
Regards,
Mark
Gonna have to try something to get these pictures to work.
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I know you're a huge floyd fan TMP, you would have LOVED it.
I know you're a huge floyd fan TMP, you would have LOVED it.
Hey fella's, I know you don't mean it 
I know you're only expressing yer love
Seriously though, floyd is a huge thing to most fans, including me, of which there are many in our land, and i've thought about how much of a micro percentage those 60 odd people on weds represented of floyd fans.
Same as my first post, i'm still pinching myself.
I'm still all of a buzz about it.
I wish all you fans could have been with me, we might have even roused a standing ovation between us!
Mike, what site did you post the pics on?
Regards
I know you're only expressing yer love
Seriously though, floyd is a huge thing to most fans, including me, of which there are many in our land, and i've thought about how much of a micro percentage those 60 odd people on weds represented of floyd fans.
Same as my first post, i'm still pinching myself.
I'm still all of a buzz about it.
I wish all you fans could have been with me, we might have even roused a standing ovation between us!
Mike, what site did you post the pics on?
Regards