Saturday, 6 November 2010
ROGER WATERS-Live at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto - September 18, 2010
ROGER WATERS
Toronto 2010 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; September 18, 2010. Very good audience recording.
When Roger Waters took The Wall on the road this year, it was a special event. The Wall may be different without Dave Gilmour’s blistering guitar but the show must go on. At this point of the Waters-Gilmour breakup/partnership, it’s doubtful if anyone was hoping that Waters would fall flat on his face doing The Wall. Fans are only too happy that Waters is still playing The Wall - this being the 30th anniversary of the show’s debut in Toronto.
This is what Bryan Borzykowski reported in metronews.ca: “It was the mind-blowing visuals that really struck me. Waters used the wall as a giant screen to display bizarre animations and photos and the more the wall got built up the more ambitious the displays got. It felt like I was watching a movie directed by a Las Vegas veteran (I mean that in the best possible way).
“I’ve seen epic shows before. There was Pink Floyd’s brilliant light show on the Division Bell tour; U2’s flying lemon during PopMart; Madonna’s always over-the-top spectacle; but this was different… This took the best parts of those performances - minus Madge’s scantily clad dancers - and took it to James Cameron-like extravagance.”
The Wall is generally seen as how a young man distances himself from the world. In the tour notes, Waters said: “I started to think that maybe there is something in the story of The Wall, which is about this one guy… that could be seen as an allegory for the way nations behave towards one another, or religions behave towards one another.”
Perhaps Hazel Sheffield of the UK Telegraph has a point when she noted: “If tonight’s audience is representative, the anniversary tour is for reliving prog rock’s most ambitious avenue with die-hard fans, rather than for any possible notion of repackaging Floyd for a new generation.”
But as Waters told Rolling Stone magazine: “You can’t ask people to go to the circus and just have fleas in the middle - you’ve got to have elephants and tigers.” The Wall was meant to be a spectacle - otherwise might as well play it as a acoustic set - and so it is.
Lineage: Audio Technica SP-CMC-8 (mounted on baseball cap) > Zoom H4N 24/96 w/ Auto Level and Mic input w/ Limit2 > Adobe Soundbooth (Secret Nerdsauce Effect, Downsample to 16/44 Wav) > Audacity Export to Flac > Flac (Level 8, 16-bit, 44.1-Khz)
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