"Blimus" as the Too Fat Lardies are want to say.... that was a bit of a cracker!
I refer of course to the near legendary Pink Floyd guitarists recent run of dates at the Albert Hall, and which I was fortunate enough to get tickets at for the very first night of the run... both me and the current Mrs Steve the Wargamer.
Last time I saw David would have been with the Floyd on the Division Bell tour, when they played the, now sadly departed, Earls Court.. the current Mrs Steve the Wargamer was 6 months pregnant at that one (with my eldest) which ages us no end! October 1994 and it seems like yesterday - the bass used to reverberate through Earls Court, and at this concert it was so pronounced it started the spud jumping round...
Anyway - jump forward 21 years and David has a new solo album out [clicky], and announced a tour to promote it, and I almost bit his arm off when the tickets came out - in fact I bought them last year...
I love the Albert Hall - there's hardly anywhere you don't get an excellent view - view from our seats is as follows... it looks like the picture is foggy - it isn't, just dim lighting and a lot of dry ice...
Sold out crowd, which according to Wikipedia is just under 5,500
...and the concert?? Superb! His guitar playing is as good as it has ever been - he has a particular style which is just so clean and tight you could almost use it as a tooth pick.. wonderful. Icing on the cake was the inestimable Crosby and Nash on backing vocals for at least three songs - is it me or does David Crosby look more like Einstein with every passing year?
Highlights of the show though were "Sorrow" and especially "Run Like Hell" (love that jerky/metronomic guitar part) - the energy level just ratcheted up out of sight at that moment and the entire Albert Hall were on their feet dancing - superb... and then they turned the lasers on... wow... looked like a net between the circle balcony and the stage and like you could walk across them... absolutely brilliant night.
Set list as follows (from here - clicky):
I refer of course to the near legendary Pink Floyd guitarists recent run of dates at the Albert Hall, and which I was fortunate enough to get tickets at for the very first night of the run... both me and the current Mrs Steve the Wargamer.
Last time I saw David would have been with the Floyd on the Division Bell tour, when they played the, now sadly departed, Earls Court.. the current Mrs Steve the Wargamer was 6 months pregnant at that one (with my eldest) which ages us no end! October 1994 and it seems like yesterday - the bass used to reverberate through Earls Court, and at this concert it was so pronounced it started the spud jumping round...
Anyway - jump forward 21 years and David has a new solo album out [clicky], and announced a tour to promote it, and I almost bit his arm off when the tickets came out - in fact I bought them last year...
I love the Albert Hall - there's hardly anywhere you don't get an excellent view - view from our seats is as follows... it looks like the picture is foggy - it isn't, just dim lighting and a lot of dry ice...
Sold out crowd, which according to Wikipedia is just under 5,500
...and the concert?? Superb! His guitar playing is as good as it has ever been - he has a particular style which is just so clean and tight you could almost use it as a tooth pick.. wonderful. Icing on the cake was the inestimable Crosby and Nash on backing vocals for at least three songs - is it me or does David Crosby look more like Einstein with every passing year?
Highlights of the show though were "Sorrow" and especially "Run Like Hell" (love that jerky/metronomic guitar part) - the energy level just ratcheted up out of sight at that moment and the entire Albert Hall were on their feet dancing - superb... and then they turned the lasers on... wow... looked like a net between the circle balcony and the stage and like you could walk across them... absolutely brilliant night.
Set list as follows (from here - clicky):