ECHO, Echo, echo...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:36:04PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > That'll keep you going for the show.
> 
> I think it's "through", not "for".  :)

TTBOMK (not that karaoke lyrics are always accurate either :-), that is
both the way I've heard it, and they way I've sung it (for, I mean).  I
remember it, because it struck me as British.

> > ...I have become comfortably numb.
> 
> Yeah, but you couldn't attach the guitar solo that can make me weep like
> someone at the opera.  Fortunately, I have several versions here to choose
> from.  :)  I bloody wish they'd make good on their promise to release the
> -video- of the '81 live tour.  

And speaking of live tours...

I saw them on the Divison Bell tour, what was that, 89?  They played
The Big Sombrero -- the *original* Tampa Stadium, our NFL pitch.
78-someodd thousand seats.  Sold it out, of course.  Amongst their
lighting was a set of 6 or 8 trackspots... made out of 10K's, pointing
straight up into the powered mirrors.  Long about the halfway point in
Numb, I noticed that these lights (which were off at the time) were all
pointed right behind the sound tower, in a long 'tail' it had, made of
the same awning fabric as it's roof.

And the top of the thing was *opening*.

No one else was looking, of course

And, slowly, something started to *rise up* out of that cover.

And Gilmour got to the guitar solo.

And when he played "dah dah dah *dwang*"...


80 kilowatts of light slammed into 

a thirty foot diameter mirror ball, spinning slowly in the exact
center of the stadium.


It was absolutely, positively, and without doubt, *the* most
breathtaking piece of live-concert staging I have *ever* seen or heard
about, Garth Brooks high-wire act and Janet's right tit
notwithstanding.

The crowd, needless to say, went mad.

I'm quite certain no one of us who saw that (concert,tour) will ever
forget it.

Cheers,
- jr "   " a
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