Pink Floyd gigs

the number of tickets doesnt make sense as i know i’ve seen pink floyd around 20 odd times but what the hell

seeing them in italy was a laugh – i’d gone out as it was my birthday, floyd were playing and a mate was working for mtv italy at the time – ie i wanted to see floyd, it was my birthday and i knew i could crash at a friends….

i got nicked by the caribinari just as i walked in for having 3 ready rolled spliffs in my jacket – arse – but they let me go after about 20 minutes and i managed to get beer and spliff inside

i’d got tickets for 5 of the earls court gigs but it was a bit of an arse when the seats collapsed at the far end of the arena on about the 3rd night – cue early departure to the pub…

overiding memory of the wembley stadium gigs is being with 3 friends getting completely smashed on red wine and herbal cigarettes in the middle of the pitch and marvelling at the 360 degree surround sound they did – it was weird… maybe that was the spliff but it was very impressive

knebworth was probably the worst – because of the weather they didnt use the huge backdrop they normally used

Pink Floyd – A bit of The Wall – 1981

I was going through all my old gig tickets, passes, laminates, wristbands etc to scan them and i found my original piece of the wall. I had gone to the last night of the 20 date world tour and when the gig finished everyone grabbed pieces of the wall – its cardboard:

(actually what happened was that i had taken my 13 yr old brother and as we were leaving across the bridge at earls court tube station my brother asked a guy who had a huge piece if we could have a bit – the guy duly ripped off a piece)

the previous nights ticket is going for 74 dollars on ebay – i wonder what i’d get if i framed the 2 things – offers over 10 grand please 😉

uk vs u.s. ?

yesterday i can be honest and say its one of 3 times ive really been touched by an artists death – the previous 2 were elvis and john lennon

(i hadnt really connected with led zep when bonham died ditto with ac dc when bon scott died and again when randy roads got killed)

so when i heard yesterday morning via nme online first then a flurry of rss feeds i went to google

what amazed me was that yesterday afternoon every fan site and news agency had the news, david gilmours had a front page thing about it but roger waters was plugging his tour and neither the uk or the us official sites had fuck all

today obviously the official sites have got off their arses but even then you can see the difference in attitude:

pinkfloyd.co.uk:

pinkfloyd.com:

Rick Wright – R.I.P.

Arguably my favourite band of all time and Dark Side was the first album I heard and then owned…

I was lucky to see Pink Floyd live around 20 times since I saw the last gig of The Wall tour at Earls Court in 1981 – that gig ended up being the last gig they all played together until Live 8.

28th July 1943 – 15th September 2008