I've just finished watching an episode of "The 7 Ages of Rock" and it was awesome.
I've been watching this show a bit, but this ep really just hit my sweet spot.
It was about glam rock and it revolved around Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground and David Bowie's influence on rock.
The thing that amazed me was Pink Floyd's tour of "The Wall". It was a concept show where for the first half of the show they had roadies build a GIGANTIC wall in front of the band and at the very end when there was only one brick left they sung "Goodbye Cruel World". It was just so theatrical and awesome, but then to top it all off they came back for Act II and they started off singing "Comfortably Numb" on top of the wall. As the show progressed the wall became a giant projection screen where an animated film was played through out the rest of the concert. The images in this vaguely reminded me of Salvador Dali's work. To finish it all off the wall came crashing down at the very very end.
How unreal is that for a concert?
Unfortunately the show ran at a loss and was only performed in four venues.
Wouldn't you love to have been one of those people who saw it? I mean, I'm not a huge Pink Floyd fan, but wow that was just too cool.
I really admire the people who can come up with this. That takes guts to try and pull that off.
Anyways, I just wanted to voice my thoughts on that. I'll be back later
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