If you come across any material
relating to the 2002 tour, please send it to me for
publication. Naturally, you will be given full
acknowledgment. I will be needing photos from each gig, set
lists, reviews, ticket stubs, MP3's and anything else you
can think of! Please send all material to
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It was a miracle...
I was eleven the last time I saw Roger in
Paris... 18 years after, it was a great pleasure to
see him live again. Bercy was sold out with 15 000
people, in 1984 there was only half of that
number... Like 18 years ago I was with my father,
Gérard, a great Roger's fan. He has seen PF
a lot of times on several tours in 70's. The last
time he saw the complete band, it was for the Wall
live in London. In 1984, he brought me to see Roger
Waters and David Gilmour in their solo tours. My
first shows. I was certainly the youngest in the
audience in this time ! In my childhood, P.F. was
the only music I could hear ;-): I'm born with them
!
We didn't hope to see Rog a new time live. I
bought tickets the first day then we have good
places. A lot of european people were in Bercy:
english, italian, deutch... Just 1 date for "In the
flesh tour" in France... The audience was very
various with young and older people. It's good to
know that people remember Roger and not only
PF.
The show was perfect. Roger seems to be happy to
play here.The first part was classical. On "The
happiest days of our lives was fantastic", I was
down-under ! The end of "Shine on..." was not the
good than on the DVD version, I thought a moment
they would stop the song ! The only negative point
is that Chester Kamen is not a great singer... I
was waiting for Time and Graham Broad's solo.
Excellent ! Not disapointed. Nothing special on the
others songs. It was so fantastic to here them
again.
The second part with songs of Roger's solo
career was for me the best part. For the first time
(and last !) we could hear live songs from Amused
to death. Great emotion. On "Perfect Sense" Rog
came near people for singing with us. On
"Comfortably numb" audience stand up to sing with
the band and some people rushed near the stage.
Kamen and White climbed on the top of the stage...
very good ! One of the best moment... They played
"Flickering flame" in encore. I would have prefer
"Each small candle", but...
For me it was a very good show. Roger's voice is
always ok and the bands seems to be always motivate
on the end of the tour. Bercy's sound was clean and
not too loud. We could appreciate all
effects...
Thanks Rog. I think it was certainly the last
time we could see him live, then I'm a little bit
sad...
Thanks to Benoit
Nayrac
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A very good show and the trip from Malta to
Paris was well worth it! The band played extremely
well and Rogers singing was simply excellent.
I do not recall any hitches whatsoever except that
Roger skipped the first lineof Mother. The show was
relatively weak in terms of light effects but the
sound was brilliant. The audience was a good mix of
young and old alike and they warmed up very easily
especially whenever Roger moved closer to the edge
of the stage. Its difficult to say what the
highlight was but Perfect Sense must have elicited
the greatest applause together with Comfortably
Numb. Towards the end of the show, when Roger was
singing CN, people were allowed to leave their
seats and approach the stage. A good number tried
to get as close to their hero as possible and it
was all very emotional. I really liked Flickering
Flame because unlike the version found in the new
solo-years album, a lot of backing vocals were
added making it sound much better. The show was
being covered live by RTL2 105.9FM.
The only negative aspects of the show: too many
people smoking around me extremely difficult
to breathe some good air! Also, the official
merchandise was quite expensive. But then, it
cant be all perfect can it?
Thanks to Martin
(Malta)
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"I met Roger Waters. On June 19, 2002, I
flew from Philadelphia, PA to Paris, France
strictly to see Mr. Waters play. Though the whole
trip would end up costing a tad over $2,000, it was
well worth it because of what transpired.
It happened like this. Me and my buddy Tim were
walking around the Palais Omnisport (venue) in
hopes of finding out where to enter the building at
about 6:30 (2 hours before showtime). About fifteen
people were sitting outside of a gate in the back
of the venue waiting for Roger to show up. One
person who spoke broken English showed me quite an
impressive collection of signed albums including
The Final Cut, The Wall, Animals, and such. He said
that he was waiting there for four hours for Roger
to come. Well, we waited for about twenty minutes
when the band drove in. No Roger. About fifteen
minutes after that, Roger came down in a van and
drove into the Omnisport. I snapped about six
pictures of him in the van, and was completely
overwhelmed.
Anyway, the van drives about 100 feet into the
venue and stops. I thought it was cool that we saw
him in the van, and was content with that. All of
the sudden, he starts walking towards us!!!! Long
story short, he came up to the gate and signed an
item for about 15 of us.? UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! I could
not stop shaking. I had just flown from
Philadelphia to Paris to see the concert and ended
up meeting my idol. Unreal.
Anyways, needless to say the concert was
magnificent. My only complaints were that the
French are very reserved, no one was standing or
singing or anything. Everyone just sat in their
seats. Two, Chester Kamen is not a very good
singer. Three, Chester completely changed guitar
solos to WYWH, some parts of Shine On, and various
other songs. While I love a little change in the
solos here and there, the solo change in WYWH just
made the song feel different. But I am done
complaining, the show was AWESOME. Roger was his
brilliant self. Sang Every Strangers Eyes with no
lip synching. Flickering Flame was great, really
poured himself into it. Oh, our seats were 10 rows
from center stage, terrific seats. After Brain
Damage/Eclipse, we rushed the stage and were about
5 feet from Mr. Waters. All in all, an INCREDIBLE
trip. Well worth the money and then some."
Thanks to phatbo269@bolt.com
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(Above) Thanks to 'Bruno'
sivea@worldnet.fr
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