Ep.25 - Troubled Waters, Burning Curtains: Staging The Wall, 1978-1981
Fingal's Cave - A Podcast for all dedicated Pink Floyd FansShow Notes
In today's episode we talk about a very special time for Pink Floyd between 1978 -1981 and the staging of THE WALL live shows. This would be the last time until 2005 where the main four members played live as a band, so it is an important, if melancholic period.
Together with Kyle and Phil (Salathé) we discuss the circumstances surrounding the album THE WALL, the so-called ‘Performance Manuscript’ and of course many shows from the tour itself.
In particular we discuss the tour rehearsals, the start of the tour in Los Angeles on February 7th 1980, the video recordings of the concert in New York at the Nassau Coliseum, in London at Earl’s Court, and of course about the great shows in Dortmund, a typical German city in the middle of the Ruhr area. We also take a brief look at the last run of wall shows in June of 1981.
In a little more than 2 hours you will learn many insights, mishaps, surprises and hopefully yet unknown things about the Wall live!
Credit goes to RarePinkFloyd for providing research materials for this episode. You can view his wonderful website here; http://www.rarepinkfloyd.fr/
Credit also goes to Vernon Fitch and Richard Mahon’s incredible book, “Comfortably Numb: A History of The Wall 1978-1981”, which you can purchase here; http://www.pfapublishing.com/
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