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ended last night waiting thirty years to see and enjoy live The Wall, and the result was something beyond the spectacular. To begin with the sound that was heard last night in a abarrotadisimo Palacio de Deportes Comunidad de Madrid. Almost reminded of a movie theater with 5.1 surround and stereo had not ever heard in this hall in a mega rock. Guitar Duels sounded quite clean and furious. Roger Waters's voice with perfect diction and the effects and recordings were of an almost incredible realism.
showed last night that Roger Waters has taken advantage of technological breakthroughs of recent years to update this show that in the eighties almost ruined Pink Floyd. The items then are still here, like cardboard bricks they grow slowly throughout the show, also giant puppets and inflatables for the mother and teacher to take center stage at the beginning of the concert and the artist's animation sequences Gerald Scarfe projected on the wall and the giant circular screen ... Yes all this is, but multiplied a thousand with a set of lights and sound very last generation. Come on, it seems the future rather than present or past.
Vera and Bring the boys back home became the scene in a wailing wall on which were projected images of soldiers reencountering with loved ones, war children starving and antiwar messages. Only you can say against the sections where the orchestra sounds were canned. Of course, with the highest quality digital recording. Roger Waters
only once dared to ride The Wall Live. In 1990. To commemorate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz in the German city. Some 300,000 people attended this event in which invited Waters stars as Van Morrison, Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Paul Carrack. The rest of the millions and millions of fans who had bought and had even reached the obsession with one of the legendary albums Pink Floyd had not had the opportunity to attend a live performance of The Wall. For the English public, the wait ended yesterday in the first Roger Waters concert in Spain has offered in his world tour, which began in Toronto on September 15, 2010, continued with more than 50 concerts in the United States and has provided other 60 in Europe, among them, one in Madrid (today) and two in Barcelona. A concert also updated with critical conflicts such as Afghanistan and Iraq, police brutality or events such as the murder of a young Brazilian in the London Underground. With the memory of the fallen in the Great Wars and a very special Federico García Lorca.?
When attacked Confortably Numb Waters last night, with the wall fully built, the public was almost ecstatic with the three guitar solos from a height of fifty feet, overhanging bricks, the two guitarists in the band launched into the track with fury and virtuosity despligue.
Run like hell In the audience was more participatory Waters palms along the wall while spitting criticism of information overload and the noise generated by Internet and social networks, but also showing that Wikileaks leaked video in which Several civilians are gunned down by a plane estadonidense the war in Afghanistan.
Legend has it that the original germ of the idea of \u200b\u200bEl Muro (The Wall) is summarized in a spit. As explained by Waters during the In the Flesh tour with Pink Floyd in 1977, a group of fans sat in the front row this mess that the music was angry and eventually one of them spit in the face. Waters then began fantasizing about the idea of \u200b\u200balienation and to build a wall behind which he and his colleagues could take shelter from the elements of the public. That germ
eventually led to a double album recorded between April and November 1979 under the direction of producer Bob Ezrin. It was a huge symphony, opera rock in which Roger Waters script gave vent to all their fears and autopsicoanalizaba through its protagonist Pink, a rock star disturbed by the weight of fame and excessive consumption of drugs and many saw a tribute to founder Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, who left the group in 1968 and had to be admitted to a mental institution with the brain destroyed by LSD.
Castration for an education too narrowly, childhood traumas, neglect of the father killed in World War II, the impossibility of love and emotional upheavals, the suffocating pressure that crushes the rock star, abuse drug ... They are the bricks that the musician Pink imaginary places one above another to be isolated in a world that, far from protecting you from outside attacks, isolate him in a spiral of self destruction, noise and craziness. Paradoxically, all these ingredients mixed with a masterful score resulted in one of the biggest commercial successes of Pink Floyd since the inception of the band in 1965. Last night was now clear for the score and the traumas and events described in The Wall continue to be cutting edge.?
With this valuable material in hand, it was no wonder that Pink Floyd would embark on a tour that would match that which had been released on disc. Pink Floyd devised a giant installation at the time meant to carry out that idea that Waters had been after the spitting episode. So between 1980 and 1981, a few cities like New York, Los Angeles (the concert last night reminded Rogers), London and Dortmund saw this mammoth production in which a wall 70 meters long live rose and was hiding the musicians , which eventually were hidden behind it.?
What can be considered as the beginning of the macroproducciones intended to surprise the audience of rock in the big stadiums was an economic disaster for Pink Floyd, measuring and ultimately evil forces had to cancel that tour he was on the verge of leaving them in bankruptcy. Waters recovered last night's dream / nightmare with a cum laude, rather than a outstanding high.
The apotheosis came at the end of The Trial by Waters plays all the roles of those involved in the trial, singing live on a playback orchestra again before a dozen stagehands completely tear down the Wall. It all ends with a shower of red confetti and the band playing an acoustic version with accordion and banjo including Goodbye cruel world in which Waters dares to trumpet. Finally one night and a memorable concert.
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