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  1. I've read that their current set is heavy on the new disc and not much from the 70's until the encores!

    Saw them 4 times, each and every show was awesome!!!

    :thumbsup:

    I've seen the set list for the current tour - I'm giving this one a miss, not much for me there, which is a shame as they're one of the best live. I first saw them in 1981 and last saw them in 2011... :unsure:

  2. Last concert was Robert Plant last; prior to that I saw Dutch prog-rockers 'Focus' in Cardiff two weeks ago. It's the first time I'd ever seen them and they blew me away - fantastic musicians and a great set. Thijs van Leer and drummer Pierre van der Linden are from the celebrated 70's line-up and the current guitarist & bass guitarist are worthy replacements. I can't wait to see them again.

  3. Last word on this, how many visuals were at the Live 8 reunion gig? Not much. How many of those hundreds of thousands of fans in Hyde Park were there to hear them play? Most, if not all. End of story.

    Absolutely. That's why I went. :D

  4. What size audience was he playing to?

    The show I saw was just a few thousand as he wanted to play theatres with the best acoustics. He did play much larger venues elsewhere, including three nights at the Albert Hall as well as outdoor shows. Obviously it's not on the scale of a Pink Floyd stadium tour, but the point stands that for those of us who are genuine Floyd fans, we don't need all the bells and whistles. Maybe the casual fan does.

  5. Exactly. I have seen footage and friends have seen them in concert. They have no on stage charisma. They said they might as well not even be on the stage..

    I don't think they would selll half the tickets they did without the light show. They would not be able to hold peoples attention with just them on the stage.

    I have seen Floyd live a number of times. Yes, they had great lightshows, inflatables and all the rest of it, but it was always about the music as far as I was concerned.

    I also saw David Gilmour on the last tour, when he played with many of the musicians who played with Floyd as well as Richard Wright. Had Nick Mason been there it would have been a Pink Floyd show. David had a minimal lighting rig (albeit with one laser at the end), no projections, no flying aircraft or inflatable pigs. Just great musicians making wonderful music to a very appreciative audience, who's attention was very much kept.

  6. I first saw them in October 1985 on the Fables tour at London's Hammersmith Palais. I remember them doing a few covers that night - Rader Love, Toys In The Attic, What's New Pussycat?. Seen them 6 times in total, last time in 2005. Always great live.

  7. For me Floyd are up there as one of the all time greats; they are not overrated, they thoroughly deserve their popularity. To me they are the biggest 'underground' band of the lot - never really hogged the limelight, didn't release singles for years etc, but grew and grew a massive audience not because they were superstars but on the strength of the music and their live performances. I know they're not to everyone's taste but the same can be said about anyone. I was lucky enough to see them live 4 times, including watching the very moving Live 8 performance from about 10 rows back. Since then we've sadly lost Syd and Richard and along with the latter any chance of further Floyd activity. Anyone who's seen them live will know just how much their music means to so many people.

  8. Here's a Brian Johnson quote from the latest edition of Classic Rock:

    "We always like to put something special on and this year is no exception. We've just spent nearly 4.5 million dollars on this new production. That's the most anybody has ever spent in the history of rock'n'roll. It's very, very special. And I can't wait to see it in actual form, in physical form. I've seen all the drawings and all the things and it's just unbelievable..."

    Sounds good! For those who've missed out on UK tickets, there are rumours that they'll be doing larger shows later on - lets hope so!

  9. No way!?!?!? That's fantastic - I was just listening to "Sweet Child" last night. I can't name any woman with a sweeter voice than Jacqui. I'd love to see them, if they were to come to the NY area?

    As far as I know they are doing an UK tour only, then Jacqui's back to her own 'Jacqui McShee's Pentangle' which has no other original members - but who knows what'll happen further on? They seemed to be in good spirits last night so hopefully more people will get the opportunity - I hope you get lucky, they are a wonderful live act.

  10. To wit:

    Zeppelin never really hit it big until they came to the U.S. Neither did bands like: The Who, The Rolling Stones, and I dare say the Beatles.

    Statements like this over-simplify the situation. Zeppelin toured the USA from the earliest days and so their rise in popularity always had something to do with the fact that they were willing to tour there regularly. It's not as if they were nothing and then became something only after touring the USA. Of course, if you do break America - as they did - then that takes you into a different league altogether.

    The Beatles had been huge for a year in the UK before they went to the USA. Many acts remain huge here without being popular stateside - look at Oasis, probably the biggest UK band since the 1970's and they don't mean much over the pond. I have no doubt Zeppelin would have been huge anyway (they were the main attraction at the 1970 Bath Festival and drew 200,000 punters. Every UK show since sold out and they could have played to farmore people than they did here). That's not to downplay the role USA had in establishing the band's popularity - that's what made them the world's biggest band, but they would have been huge in the UK anyway.

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