Roger Waters | The Wall Live | Seattle, WA | 5/24/2012
Roger Waters' "The Wall" | Seattle, WA

Photos and Review by Matthew Brady

Someone whispered, “Is it over?” “No,” the longtime Pink Floydian next to me responded, “they still have to tear down the wall.”

On Thursday May 24th, at Seattle’s Key Arena, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd most definitely tore down the wall.  He took the stage in a nazi-esque trenchcoat, the opening track to The Wall double album launching pyrotechnics and guitarotechnics as he triumphantly pranced the stage.  Brick by brick, the wall grew into an arena sized screen.  Images of helicopters, coiled razor wire, and melting psychedelia flashed rapidly as Roger Waters belted out, mostly in key, some of Pink Floyd’s biggest hits.  On “Comfortably Numb,” Waters slammed his fists into the flat grey of the massive screen, and hundreds of psychedelic bricks exploded out.  On “Bring the Boys Back Home,” he played scenes of Iraq vets seeing their children for the first time after returning home, proclaiming, “Every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”  If you like Pink Floyd, and a don’t mind a fairly persistent haze of pot smoke (let alone contribute to said haze), this was the perfect show.
But maybe you don’t like Pink Floydian Gibson Les Paul “shredding.”  Or think that the final song from The Wall, “The Trial,” and the accompanying imagery from the 1982 British Film The Wall, (watch it here), are really just bizarre as shit.
Either way, I had a blast, if you want fireworks, flying pigs, fifty foot tall puppets, and a more Pink Floyd than your eardrums are used to, then check out The Walllive before they tear it down again.Photos by Matthew Brady
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The Wall Tour Dates
May 31, 2012 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre
June 03, 2012 St Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
June 05, 2012 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
June 6, 2012 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
June 08, 2012 Chicago, IL Wrigley Field
June 10, 2012 Louisville, KY KFC Yum! Center
June 11, 2012 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
June 13, 2012 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
June 15, 2012 Ft Lauderdale, FL BankAtlantic Center
June 16, 2012 Orlando, FL Amway Center
June 19, 2012 Nashville, TN Bridgestone Arena
June 21, 2012 Buffalo, NY First Niagara Center
June 23, 2012 Toronto, ON Rogers Centre
June 25, 2012 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place
June 26, 2012 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
June 28, 2012 Albany, NY Times Union Center
June 29, 2012 Hartford, CT XL Center
July 01, 2012 Boston, MA TBA
July 03, 2012 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center
July 6, 2012 New York, NY TBA
July 09, 2012 Raleigh, NC RBC Center
July 10, 2012 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena
July 12, 2012 Washington, DC Verizon Center
July 14, 2012 Philadelphia, PA Citizens Bank Park

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