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Here is a review of the opening night (Tampa) by Keith Joy...

CALLING ALL ROGER WATERS FANS.......FROM TAMPA, FLORIDA, HOME OF THE BEGINING
OF THE FIRST GREAT MUSICAL TOURING ACT OF THE NEW MILLENIUM



FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE NOT SEEN ROGER LATELY, HE LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE
ACTOR RICHARD GERE: ALL GREY HAIR, MODERATELY SHORT. HE ALSO WEARS PLAIN,
BLACK, UNASSUMING GARMENTS. THE CONCERT STARTED PROMPTLY AT EIGHT PM, WITH
NO OPENING ACT.

I arrived about thirty minutes early, alone. I traded forty dollars cash and
my twenty-seventh row ticket (which cost me fifty dollars) for a seat in the
tenth row....the usual selection of tee shirts were available in the twenty
to thirty dollar range, and programs were eighteen dollars....I bought my
program on the way out

The band was:

Roger
Andy Fairweather-Lowe........played guitar or bass, whichever one Roger
wasn't playing....a funny thing: he played without a pick!

Doyle Bramhall........guitar (he was the only bandmember not wearing plain,
black clothes.....he had rhinestones all over his britches)

Snowy White......guitar (all three guitarists played solos)
Andy Wallace.......keyboards
Jon Carin.......keyboards, and a little bit of guitar
Graham Bond.....drums
PP Arnold......vocals
Katie Kissoon.....vocals
Susannah Melvoin.....vocals

The first song was In The Flesh, followed by Another Brick in The Wall.
Roger played bass. Then he switched to acoustic guitar and played Mother.
Then they played a brief version of Fletcher Memorial Home followed by Southha
mpton Dock. I was disappointed that this did not segue into The Final Cut.

Sometimes Roger played bass, sometimes guitar, and sometimes nothing, but he
mostly played bass. He sang all of the songs, except as noted below....he
really is a decent bass player, I guess that I assumed that he wouldn't be
after Gilmour's nasty comments a few years ago. Roger is definitely a
simple, unassuming bass player....not exactly Geedy Lee or Chris Squire, but
that's okay since Roger didn't play any cover songs.

I can't remember the order of songs thereafter, but they include, and I think
that I got them all here,

From Animals::::::::::

Pigs on the Wing, Part One
Dogs (Yes! They played the whole, long version!) this was sung by the
keyboardist, Jon Karin

From A Suacerful of Secrets::::::::::

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

From Meddle::::::::

Nothing! Sorry......

From Wish You were Here::::::

Welcome to the Machine

Shine on, You Crazy Diamond

and some rarely heard track that is slowly fading into obscurity,

Wish You were Here (accompanied by beautiful, rolling aqua-marine dry ice fog)

From Dark Side of the Moon::::::

Breathe

On the Run

Time

Money, sung by Doyle Bramhall, one of the guitarists

Brain Damage/Eclipse (last song before encore)

From The Wall:::::

Comfortably Numb (first encore) also sung by Doyle

From Pros and Cons of Hitchiking:::::::::

A track that I am ashamed to say that I do not recognize, as I have never
owned the album....at least I think that it must be from Pros, since I did
not recognize it.....one clue, they showed photographs of native Americans
during the song.....what say you, webmaster? (I say 'EVERY STRANGER'S EYES'!)

From Radio KAOS::::::::::

NOTHING! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I really wanted to hear Home; the lion within
me almost roared.....

From Amused to Death (all songs segued)::::::

What God Wants, Part One

Perfect Sense Parts one and two

It's a Miracle

The Bravery of Being out of Range

Amused to Death, including the outro interview with Alf Razzell (second to
last song before encore)

Previously unreleashed (the last song)::::::::::

One Small Candle (a song about a poem that Roger was sent by a survivor of
torture from Argentina, also with elements of a story about a soldier in the
Kosovo War. Or something like that. Webmaster, try to post the lyrics for
this powerful anthem...Introducing the song, Roger talked about the
Initiative Against Torture, a part of Amnesty International, and said
"...this really is our last song tonight, so thank you, and good night.")





While music played, on the gargantuan video screen:


During the end of Amused to Death Bill Hubbard's name was shown (as it
appears?) on the memorial to the missing at Aras Alf Razzell mentions on the
album....it looked kind of like the Vietnam Wall Memorial in Washington,
D.C......lots and lots of names

Amused to Death also showed a stupefied gorilla watching tv, seeing many
fantastic images.....

Shine on...showed mainly old photographs of pre-Gilmour Pink Floyd, mostly
pictures of Sid Barrett

The Bravery of Being out of Range showed a bunch of guys at a bar drinking
and reveling at a sports game they watched on tv...... then the tv showed
scenes from a war, and they kept on drinking, cheering, high-fiving, etc.etc.



There was a small living room in the scenery on stage, with a large tv that
showed what appeared to be an early (but not the original, 1930) version of
"All Quiet on the Western Front." Roger played for about an hour and a half,
then announced a twenty minute intermission.....after intermission, the tv
was playing "2001: A Space Odyssey." During the extra-long keyboard solo in D
ogs Roger, the three guitarists, and the backing vocalists all sat "in the
living room," chatting and playing cards.

One of the biggest of the many highlights for the evening was PP Arnold's
stunning solo during Perfect Sense. She sounds just as good if not better
than the backing vocalist from Dark Side of the Moon......that is her singing
on Amused to Death.

All in all, this was one of the greatest concerts that I have ever
seen......I heartily advise you fans to go see Roger, since he isn't getting
any younger....also, be advised, every year that our
instant-gratification-at-all-costs culture "progresses" into the age of MTV
makes it harder and harder for real, live musical instrument players to ply
their crafts....especially big-name stars like Mr. Waters.

Thank you, webmaster, for letting me send this letter out to all those
millions of kids in the sun! Please keep up the good work.....long live
Roger Waters, and God bless Bill Hubbard.

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Paul Amer's review of the Charlotte gig...

Let me start by saying I am a big Pink Floyd fan (original band) and going into
the concert somewhat of a Roger Waters fan. I was not expecting too much from
the evening but a friend got free tickets and I figured if nothing else it would
be interesting.

I am not going to review the concert song by song but will say it was riveting
from the first note to the last. The standouts were Dogs and Set the Controls
for the Heart of the Sun. Roger's solo stuff was as good as the Floyd songs he
played, in some cases better. One side note, if you go to an outdoor venue, get
a seat under the pavilion (its worth the extra couple of bucks) to get the full
effect of the quad surround sound - amazing!!! At times people were looking
around to find out where the sound of the barking dogs were coming from. It was
extra nice because I had box seats and didn't have to deal with the usual rock
concert assholes.

Previously the only show I attended to rise to this level was the Who's
quadraphenia tour, this was better. I saw Floyd in Texas in 1994 an there is no
comaparison. The only thing I can say is GO, even if you have to beg, borrow or
steal!! This show was 2 hours and 45 minutes long which excludes the
intermission and it seemed to go buy in 10 minutes, what a night!!!

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Steven Miedke's impressions of the gig...

This past sat. night I saw Rodger Waters, and was blown away! I've seen David Gilmore Solo and with the new floyd, and let me tell you Rodger was much better!

I could help be amaized by his guitar player, he was left handed and played a left handed guitar strung upside down! I couldn't beleave it, This kid didn't miss a lick!! He played every solo better than I've ever seen David Gilmore, and I'm a big fan. Last time I saw Pink Floyd, David Gilmore didn't even play the solos, he had some other person play them. Please if you have any information on Rodger Waters new band or know of a place that I might finde out please let me know.

Thank you

This is how Thunder saw it...

at the Idaho Center

In The Flesh

The Happiest Days of Our Lives ( I think, somebody correct me here)?

Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

Mother

Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert

Pigs on the Wing, Part 1

Dogs

Welcome to the Machine

Wish You Were Here

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun

Breathe

Time

5:06 A.M. (Every Stranger's Eyes)

Perfect Sense, Part 1

Perfect Sense, Part 2

The Bravery of Being Out of Range

It's A Miracle*

Amused to Death

Money ( it was in there somewhere)

Brain Damage

Eclipse

Comfortably Numb

(I can only assume, we left after Comfortably Numb)

Each Small Candle

* (good song, had the name of Bill Hubbard on the Vietnam Memorial (I think that’s the wall right?). At our show, this is where the cameras (two of them) were out of ssyynncc. Therefore, Bill H:ubbard’s name looked like Bill Bill Hubbard. Notice the second Bill.)

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Here's Eric Wilkinson's review... 

I don't care if it's Engelbert Humperdink, if you ever get a chance to see a concert at this venue, don't miss it! The stage sits on a 400 foot cliff, presiding over the magnificent Colombia River Gorge. It is a miniature version of the Grand Canyon, and only slightly less inspiring.

The show began with something I have never experienced at any rock show. Moments before the opening notes of "In The Flesh", a massive Lear Jet roared overhead about 200-feet off the ground. The timing was impeccable as the jet engines segued perfectly into Roger's trembling verse, "So ya thought ya might like to go to the show..." Absolutely ASTOUNDING.

The musicianship throughout was impeccable, although at times I felt like I could be listening to a Pink Floyd tribute band. I had heard the flashy young lead guitar player/singer was a refugee or descendant from the Thin Lizzy lineage. Is this true? I kept watching the young man and thinking how incredible it must be to have grown up playing this music along with the records in your bedroom and now be playing it with the Genius behind it all in front of 30,000 screaming fanatics. Amazing. I wished Roger had played more from KAOS and Hitchiking and less from "Amused to Death." The show seemed to get a bit long in the tooth toward the end with one semi-obscure "Amused" song after another. Although, Roger's unbridled exuberance during "Perfect Sense" was infectious and contagious. He was running around and pumping his fist like someone 30 years his junior. And the "new" song they played was very good. Much more like Floyd than the more contemporary Waters stuff.

What made the show "special", however, was when a tearful(!) Roger Waters paused before the last song to tell the audience, "I felt like perhaps we had grown apart from our audience since the Pink Floyd days. Tonight, you have proven we have not. Thank you."

Roger Waters is one of the premeire showmen, musicians and composers of the past century. A rare and prolific combination. I feel incredibly fortunate to have experienced his musical presence.

Rev. Eric Wilkinson

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Allen Uhl has this to say...

Last night I attended a Roger Waters concert at the World Music Theater in
Tinley Park (Chicago) Illinois.

I had been looking forward to this event for months as I am a serious Roger
Waters and Pink Floyd fan. My brother had seen the tour in L.A. and told me
how good it was. In my mind Roger and Pink Floyd are head and shoulders above
any other musical entity.

I was looking forward to enjoying the show while bonding with my wife as this
was her first Pink Floyd concert. She too enjoys Pink Floyd as I had turned
her on to their music a few years ago.

As I had paid for the most expensive seat in the house I had expected to sit
and enjoy the show. However those fans in my section started the concert by
standing for the first song. This I excepted. An hour later the fans were
still standing. My wife, being of short stature, could not see from her seat
or from a standing position. Consequently she remained seated unable to see
the show while having a view limited to the derriere of the people in front
of us. Furthermore there were people trying to take our seats and those seats
around us were occupied by several different people throughout the evening
most of which I tend to believe did not have the appropriate tickets. I too
had to stand to see anything of the show, while wishing I could enjoy it from
my chair.

The money is not the important issue here. I am heartbroken that I was denied
the opportunity to observe the greatest musician of our time.

After an hour we left the theater and missed over half of a great show.

I can only hope that I will get another chance to see Roger Waters in
concert.

Thank you for reading this letter

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I was fortunate enough to see both shows at the garden, and if there were
more you can bet I would be there. July 9- Between the two shows musically
this was the tightest, the band and Roger were on fire. From the opening
number straight through the show was flawless, a real joy to listen to. Roger
was receptive to the audience but was still a little distant. Having waited
12 plus years to see Roger I was able to get my first taste at Jones beach
Amp last summer. G-d shined on me giving me two more shows to see in one
week. I purchased the seats and my buddies rented a limo and we went in
style. A few cocktails and away we went. July 11- This show was a little
loser than Tuesday but the audience was spectacular. Never have I been to a
show with so much enthusiasm. This being the first show put on sale which
sold out in 40 min. I had a smile on my face from start to finish. Trained
into the city this time and met a friend from south jersey who trained it in
as well. Roger was very into the croud he was playing with the people and
pumping his fists to the music with the crowd. A couple of musical flaws but
nothing to get crazy about. During the acoustic into to Wish you were here, a
tech came out to fix a drum problem, While doing so he knocked over two or
three guitars into the dry Ice covered stage. Roger kindly laughed it off as
he continued to play. The crowd especially showed there colors during
Perfect Sense as they sang the national anthem with bone-crunching volume and
feeling. Can't you see, It all makes perfect sence-This verse was
magnificent. If I I had to find fault with the shows," which I don't want
to" I would have liked to have heard more sole material. All in all they were
two of the greatest shows I have ever seen.

Adam

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