Having
travelled for 12 hours by bus from Curitiba to Rio,
me (43) & wife (33) & son (14) agreed that
we could not loose the simplest detail of this
show. Arriving right when the gates were being open
(6 pm), we crossed/ran over most of those 2000
people that were already awating and were lucky to
take a place right in front of the stage (some 5-8
m from the place of guitarists Chester Kamen &
Snowy White, and some 8-10 m from Roger's place),
where we stayed for 3 hours until the show begun.
In such a position we were able to see every
datail and face expressions of the performers, but
of couse, it was Roger that hipnotyzed us most of
the time (behind us, some 40000 people who were not
so lucky). It is interesting that in such position
you have the opportunity to try to attract the
attention of your idol, and Roger particularly
demonstrated so much attention and kindness to his
brazilian fans.
Many could be said of the setlist & the
performance itself but I prefer to leave this to
the specialized press that certainly will make
their own comments. On the setlist, i would say
that is was exactly the same as the previous shows
in Chile/Argentina, with Each Small Candle at the
end. However, its those details above mentioned
that i would like to make my comments.
It was interesting that as the show was going to
the end, during the Brain Damage solos, Roger went
to his right corner of the stage and, in the dark
with no light & no microphone, he cried a
"thank you" for the closest fans. Then moved slowly
to other 4 places until until his left corner and
repeated his action, demonstrating great kindness
& love to the audience.
We waved our hands many times as we tryed to
attrach Roger's attention, but it was my right
neighbour that was more lucky: he raised a white
t-shirt with the words "Roger, The God of The
Gods". He made it for some 10 minutes that Roger
finally could read it (sure he read it) and then he
pointed to the guy and smiled. Very
interesting.
On
Roger's left side of the stage someone cast a kind
of a collar on the stage, that he took and put on
himself and played the rest of the show with that
collar. When the show was over and Roger was
walking to the back of the stage, he took his
collar and turned to the guy that sent the collar
and pressed the collar to his heart, demonstrating
his affections.
As Roger sung "mother should i trust the
government" he made a face expression indicating
clearly that you "should not trust". During "Every
Strange's Eyes", Rogers face expressions was so
intense that sometimes appeared that he was about
to cry.
Some errors occurs while performing and that is
not noticeable by most people. Kamen played a wrong
chord during "The bravery of being out of range"
and Roger started to sing the 2nd part of "Brain
Damage" in the wrong part. At least this proves the
he is as "mortal" as we are... However, clearly
noticeable is that the sax didnt made any sound on
the first appearance of Mr.Norbert, but he made the
crowd go crazy on "Money".
Having watched all fof the biggest international
artists that played in Brazil for the last 20 years
I can say that, whithout any risk of being wrong,
this is the most impressive and sensational
performance that i have seen. Maybe because the
artist was so close this time, but certainly
because Roger gives you a differente impression
than other artists: that he is not interested in
being an eternal idol or getting mountains of
money, he got deep feelings as we, from the closest
audience, could check while he was playing.
Many thanks to j.n.hoffmann
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Me, my wife, my sister in law and her boyfriend arrived at
the show venue before 3 hours it started to get better places
to watch it. We sat on the (hot) floor and stayed there, around
10 meters from the stage set. I couldnt say anything, I was
so filled with emotion at that moment, looking at everything
and trying to believe I was there waiting to see ROGER personally.
The temperature was very high, something about 35 C, and the
pre-show music played Genesis and Eric Clapton songs until the
beginning of the Waters show. The place was at maximum capacity
(about 30.000 in attendance), but everybody was so polite, and
calm, there were loud speakers and sound equipment over all
the place, up, down, left and right becoming a sound evolution
of feeling. Really there was absolute histerya when we saw Roger
coming in at the sound of IN THE FLESH. I couldn't believe I
was seeing the man who I never thought I could see live.
Roger followed your custom set list. IN THE FLESH The sound
very high and pure, and SNOWY and CHESTER's guitars were unbelievable.
At the end Roger said in Portuguese: "OBRIGADO - thanks for
coming (in English), and he repeated OBRIGADO (thank you) several
times during the show. When he came on the stage set he was
wearing his traditional black coat, but soon he took off, because
the high temperature in RIO.
THE HAPPIEST../ANOTHER BRICK The crowd went mad, this is the
most known PINK FLOYD song in Brazil, everybody jumping and
screaming..fantastic!!!
MOTHER- We could appreciate the nice voice of KATE KISOON
(In this moment I remembered a friend because he told me at
one time that KATE was a personal friend of him in Holland.
GET YOUR FILTHY / SOUTHAMPTON DOCK Super sound!!!! The Final
Cut is one of the my favourite albums. I sang together with
Roger and my eyes were wet, but my feeling was only happiness.and
what happiness!!!!
I was paying attention to the crowd, and some guys who were
near me, and I could hear them saying: I CANT BELIEVE IM SEEING
ROGER, and other saying NOW I CAN ALREADY DIE!!! ..and another
THE SLIDES AND PROJECTIONS ARE FANTASTIC!!!!
PIGS ON THE WING/DOGS - This was the most spectacular part
of the show for me, it was very good to see the PIG flying on
the screen, and after the best song of the show DOGS, Roger
playing cards with the other members of the band while his son
HARRY and ANDY WALLACE were making the long solo keyboard.
WISH YOU WERE HERE SEQUENCE - The crowd was so excited because
its a very known piece of the Floyd career , SHINE ON part 1,
Welcome To The Machine (the projection of the video clip like
we know, that mechanical monster, and that head cut by a knife,
after which, we could hear that sound from the beginning of
WYWH, and everybody was screaming and singing the song... VERY
COOL.
Finally they played SHINE ON part 2 to finish the first half
of the show. N, and we heard nothing of his solo sax, but...
everybody understood and applaused him anyway. And I can't forget
the shining mirrored star circling high above the set during
this song. After Roger thanked the audience and stopped for
a twenty minute break.
Returning he again thanked the audience for their patience,
and the crowd responded by chanting a brazilian "OLE, OLE, OLE,
OLE, ROGER, ROGER"in unison.
The second half began with SET THE CONTROLS (for me a great
piece but the people here in Brazil didn't know this song very
well like we PF fans.) The general audience loved the next song
sequence because DARK SIDE is a phenomenon in Brazil, everybody
has a copy in their houses. There was a special feeling and
everybody sang BREATHE IN THE AIR, TIME (Graham Broad showed
how to play drums!), and MONEY.
Afterward ROGER did a sequence of his solo carrer playing
EVERY STRANGERS EYES (Andy Fairweather Low is GREAT!), PERFECT
SENSE 1 & 2 (I heard one guy saying: I came here only to listen
PP ARNOLD singing, she is the best!), BRAVERY OF BEING..., ITS
A MIRACLE (everybody put their hands on the air when ROGER sang
"A BRAZILIAN GREW A TREE", and finally AMUSED TO DEATH.
I must to say that so many people there didn't like this piece
because they don't know ROGER SOLO CARRER, but even so, they
gave applause in the end. Everybody loved the BRAIN DAMAGE,
ECLIPSE sequence (everybody knows these songs), and ROGER committed
a mistake singing YOU LOCK THE DOOR before the right time, ....he
stopped for a moment and then went on singing, and when he sang
YOU LOCK THE DOOR again in the right time, everybody applauded
showing Brazilian politeness. After, ROGER was so excited like
us, as he received a souvenir from somebody in the audience
(a neck lace) and he wore it for a short while.
This segueyed into COMFORTABLY NUMB and there was a delirium
around the place, chiefly when the two guitar players were playing
the solo on the high riser of the set. During all this time
we were dumb struck seeing all the projections on the screen,
and lights and sounds coming from, behind, left and right (THUNDERS,
BARKING, EXPLOSIONS, etc), simply the BEST.
Roger introduced all the members before the encore of EACH
SMALL CANDLE. He sang it in a different way, making his voice
more thin. This made the song all the more beautiful and special.
Well, after this, ROGER went out at the door and left us all
very satisfied and hoping some day to watch another show again,
because this was not simply a rock show, THIS IS THE GREATEST
SHOW ON EARTH! I dont want to any other shows now, only if it
is PINK FLOYD coming, or ROGER again.
Many thanks to Charles Portilho Website
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Stacks of pictures to be had
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Rog catches A Fleeting Glimpse!
Many More
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Review
A abertura da turnê brasileira do ex-baixista e principal
compositor do Pink Floyd Roger Waters clonou os grandes sucessos
de sua ex-banda, tocando exatamente como os originais, incluindo
os antológicos solos de David Gilmour, reproduzidos
por dois guitarristas. Ao se manter fiel aos originais, Waters
se tornou um cover de si mesmo e sabe-se lá se por
ato falho, a música de abertura, 'In the flesh', tem
alguns versos bem significativos a respeito: 'Pink não
está bem/ Ele ficou no hotel/ E nos mandou como uma
banda substituta/ E vamos descobrir qual realmente é
a de vocês, fãs.'
Os 35 mil fãs de várias gerações
que lotaram a Praça da Apoteose, no Rio, na noite de
sábado, mostraram que a deles é ouvir as músicas
do Pink Floyd. Pouco importa que Gilmour, Rick Wright e Nick
Mason estivessem ausentes. Roger Waters saciou a secura que
todos tinham de ouvir o repertório do Floyd tocado
num palco brasileiro, senão por todos, ao menos pelo
autor da maioria das músicas. Num espetáculo
suntuoso, com uma banda de 10 músicos, projeções
espetaculares e o propalado som quadrafônico, Waters
tocou 18 músicas do Pink Floyd, cobrindo principalmente
o período que vai de 'Dark side of the moon' (1974)
a 'The final cut' (1983), com uma única recorrência
ao começo da banda, 'Set the controls for the heart
of the sun', que o público ouviu com atenção
e viu fotos antigas da banda e as projeções
de bolhas e tinta escorrendo usadas nos shows psicodélicos
da época.
A música de Roger representa outra era do rock. Eles
tocavam para platéias sentadas que ouviam em silêncio,
'viajando' no som com o que se dizia serem drogas expansoras
da mente, a maconha e o LSD. O conceito foi preservado por
Waters, que mostrou canções de até 17
minutos cheias de climas, com longas partes instrumentais
intimistas, aparentemente inadequadas para um show gigantesco,
mas a multidão entrou no clima. Isso foi facilitado
pelas belas projeções e pelo som quadrafônico,
que envolvia a platéia jogando efeitos pelos quatro
cantos da Apoteose: explosões ensurdecedoras, diálogos,
risadas sinistras como a do louco em 'Brain damage', os relógios
de 'Time', a caixa registradora de 'Money', o helicóptero
de 'The happiest day of our lives'.

Waters fez um primeiro set de 70 minutos que só teve
músicas do Pink Floyd. O primeiro bloco foi da ópera
rock 'The wall' (1979) com 'In the flesh - part 2', 'The happiest
day of our lives', 'Another brick in the wall - Part 2' e
'Mother'. A terceira, um dos grandes sucessos mundiais do
PF tirou o público do chão e levantou as arquibancadas,
mas teve coro até para a menos conhecida 'Mother' ,
uma longa peça em que Waters exorciza as mães
possessivas. Os telões mostraram cenas do filme 'The
Wall', de Alan Parker, e animações de Gerald
Scarfe usadas na turnê da época.
A seguir duas músicas de 'The final cut', 'Southampton
dock' e a oportuna 'Get your filthy hands off my desert',
que fala da ganância dos políticos e da guerra
no Afeganistão, não esta, mas a invasão
soviética de 1979. O bloco de 'Animals' (1977) começou
com 'Pigs on the wings' e emendou com 'Dogs', a mais longa
da noite, cheia de climas e solos a cargo dos guitarristas
Chester Kamen e Snowy White. Ao longo do show ficou claro
que Waters teve que apelar a dois múisicos pra substituir
o super Gilmour mas faltou alma aos solos fielmente reproduzidos,
como bem sentiu outro grande guitarrista presente, o nosso
Pepeu Gomes.
Kamen cantou a parte de Gilmour na canção,
o que fez em várias outras músicas, com Waters
reservando-se as partes que ele mesmo cantava. Os latidos
de cachorros no sistema quadrafônico davam a idéia
de que a Apoteose estava cercada por uma matilha. O bloco
de 'Wish you were here' (1975) teve quatro músicas,
'Shine on you crazy diamond' partes um e dois (tocadas em
separado), 'Welcome to the machine' e um dos pontos altos
da noite, 'Wish you were here', em que Waters foi acompanhado
por um coral de milhares de vozes.
Waters anunciou um intervalo de 20 minutos que durou meia
hora. Na volta, para um set de 80 minutos, começou
com a citada 'Set the controls' e o bloco mais aplaudido da
noite, de 'Dark side of the moon' (março de 1973).
Um coração batendo anunciou 'Breathe' e o povo
delirou quando entrou a banda e o solo com slide de Gilmour,
digo, Kamen, que também, assume o vocal (de Gilmour
no original) com as três maravilhosas vocalistas Kathie
Kissoon, PP Arnold e Linda Lewis. Delírio total em
'Time', com Kamen cantando na segunda parte e 'Money', que
ele cantou inteira. Destaque para os solos, divividos entre
Kamen e White, iguais aos de Gilmour, mas quem não
tem cão...
Daí foi a hora da carreira solo de Waters com cinco
músicas muito bem recebidas pela platéia e que
podiam muito bem ter sido gravadas pelo Floyd. '5.06 AM every
strangers eyes' cativou pela bela melodia com projeções
de caminhões e índios no telão. 'Perfect
sense part 1 & 2' levou o povo ao delírio e sua
letra também é oportuna: 'Os alemães
mataram os judeus/ Os judeus mataram os árabes/Os árabes
mataram os reféns/(...)/ O homem é uma ferramenta
nas mãos do Deus Todo Poderoso/Eles lhe dão
o comando de um submarino nuclear/ E o mandam de volta em
busca do Jardim do Eden.' Katie Kissoon cantou uma parte,
foi muiito aplaudida, e o telão mostrou imagens espaciais
e um grande submarino. Um coro angelical marcou 'It's a miracle'
e 'Amused to death' projetou nomes de mortos em guerras no
telão em um arranjo grandioso. Na reta final mais duas
pérolas de 'Dark side', 'Brain damage', que fala de
um louco na cabeça de cada um, e a risada insana dele
viajou pela apoteose. 'Eclipse' com, belos vocais do trio
feminino. A festa acabou com 'Comfortably numb', de 'The Wall',
com Waters cantando a parte do médico e deixando a
Kamen a parte de Pink (Gilmour) no momento em que o astro
de rock se transforma num ídolo fascista. White e Kamen
dividiramm o longo de Gilmour, um dos mais primorosos da história
do rock.
No bis, uma canção de Waters para a Anistia
Internacional, 'Each small candle', sobre a violência
da guerra e violação de direitos humanos. A
Apoteose se transformou num oceano de isqueiros como se fossem
as pequenas velas da canção. Um belo final.
Waters se vai e no telão fica a vela com arame farpado,
símbolo da organização que defende os
direitos fundamentais no planeta.
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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 need photos from each gig, set
lists, reviews, ticket stubs, MP3's and anything else you can think
of! Please send all material to
col@pinkfloydz.com
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