Guess who FINALLY got to see Roger Waters of Pink Floyd perform the ENTIRE Wall album last weekend?! This biznitch. And about 20,000 other people that night. I have been waiting for almost a year to see Roger in concert and it did NOT disappoint!
I would like to thank my friend Justin who so graciously invited us (me, Krystal and Larkin) and also took care of booking the tickets and took the concert photos below!
Justin and I have been friends going on about 13 years now and have been to a 1.238 billion concerts together. Justin, or Juice as we like to call him (not sure how that came about really), is a high school teacher, therefore, he gets 60 some odd days, in a row, to sleep in, go to concerts, watch TV, travel...basically live as I would if I had won the lottery. We are very thankful that he chose to include us in the first half of his Summer Concert Series...it was a BLAST!
When I was a wee lass, I used to get up on Saturday mornings, sort through my parents albums (Frisbees as I believe they are called today. OR giant beverage coasters) and in between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Stevie Wonder was a curious bit of music played by a curious little British band called Pink Floyd. I grew upin a communist home without a television, so on Saturday mornings it was Legos, Lincon Logs and music.
Seeing as I was only about 8 years old at the time, I had no clue who any of the bands I listened to were, what they were about, and really, what 8 year old cares about that shit anyway?! So I say that is how you determine if you have a bad ass band or not...if an 8 year old continues to pick out your album weekend after weekend, you just might have something going for ya!
If you have never seen the movie "The Wall" some of the pictures may not make sense to you. So, you can either go watch it right now and then come back, OR you can just enjoy the pictures and trust me when I say that he did a SPOT on job recreating his movie from long ago.
The basic premise of the stage set up is that there is a wall, said wall is built up and up and up throughout the show and at the end said wall comes crashing down.
On a side note, I almost had to punch a lady in her vagina at the concert. I am truly not a very loud person. I have a good time, but as far as trying to be the center of attention (despite what you may glean from this blog) I don't seek to be in the spotlight. That being said, I was leaning over to speak to Larkin during the beginning of the concert to explain a little about what was happening during the show and the lady next to me, who was falling asleep whilst waiting for the concert to start, leans over to me and says, "I paid a lot of money for these tickets and I would really like to listen to the show" NOW, this is not an unfair request...I do apologize if my talking was interrupting your listening pleasure, HOWEVER, this is not a movie theater, church or a fucking funeral, this is a LOUD ASS CONCERT. I really must state again that I was not screaming or being unreasonable in my speaking and was absolutely flabbergasted at this lady. So, in true passive aggressive fashion, I pointed my thumb back at the lady and yelled down to Larkin, Krystal and Justin that "THIS LADY HAS ASKED THAT WE SHUT UP!" And then proceeded to sing my little heart out, as one usually does in a concert. Thankfully she didn't ask me to stop singing or dancing or she would have been high fived in the face with my elbow. Not really, I am not a fighter. But I did ask that Krystal switch seats with me after intermission...to which grumpy concert lady was late getting back to...and since it was all dark and stuff, I again, in extreme passive aggressive fashion, tripped her. Twice.
Larkin: "Did you REALLY just trip her?!? Me: WHO? ME?
I would like to thank my friend Justin who so graciously invited us (me, Krystal and Larkin) and also took care of booking the tickets and took the concert photos below!
Justin and I have been friends going on about 13 years now and have been to a 1.238 billion concerts together. Justin, or Juice as we like to call him (not sure how that came about really), is a high school teacher, therefore, he gets 60 some odd days, in a row, to sleep in, go to concerts, watch TV, travel...basically live as I would if I had won the lottery. We are very thankful that he chose to include us in the first half of his Summer Concert Series...it was a BLAST!
When I was a wee lass, I used to get up on Saturday mornings, sort through my parents albums (Frisbees as I believe they are called today. OR giant beverage coasters) and in between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Stevie Wonder was a curious bit of music played by a curious little British band called Pink Floyd. I grew up
Seeing as I was only about 8 years old at the time, I had no clue who any of the bands I listened to were, what they were about, and really, what 8 year old cares about that shit anyway?! So I say that is how you determine if you have a bad ass band or not...if an 8 year old continues to pick out your album weekend after weekend, you just might have something going for ya!
If you have never seen the movie "The Wall" some of the pictures may not make sense to you. So, you can either go watch it right now and then come back, OR you can just enjoy the pictures and trust me when I say that he did a SPOT on job recreating his movie from long ago.
The basic premise of the stage set up is that there is a wall, said wall is built up and up and up throughout the show and at the end said wall comes crashing down.
On a side note, I almost had to punch a lady in her vagina at the concert. I am truly not a very loud person. I have a good time, but as far as trying to be the center of attention (despite what you may glean from this blog) I don't seek to be in the spotlight. That being said, I was leaning over to speak to Larkin during the beginning of the concert to explain a little about what was happening during the show and the lady next to me, who was falling asleep whilst waiting for the concert to start, leans over to me and says, "I paid a lot of money for these tickets and I would really like to listen to the show" NOW, this is not an unfair request...I do apologize if my talking was interrupting your listening pleasure, HOWEVER, this is not a movie theater, church or a fucking funeral, this is a LOUD ASS CONCERT. I really must state again that I was not screaming or being unreasonable in my speaking and was absolutely flabbergasted at this lady. So, in true passive aggressive fashion, I pointed my thumb back at the lady and yelled down to Larkin, Krystal and Justin that "THIS LADY HAS ASKED THAT WE SHUT UP!" And then proceeded to sing my little heart out, as one usually does in a concert. Thankfully she didn't ask me to stop singing or dancing or she would have been high fived in the face with my elbow. Not really, I am not a fighter. But I did ask that Krystal switch seats with me after intermission...to which grumpy concert lady was late getting back to...and since it was all dark and stuff, I again, in extreme passive aggressive fashion, tripped her. Twice.
Larkin: "Did you REALLY just trip her?!? Me: WHO? ME?
Giggles ensued.
Our first pictures shows what the wall looks like upon entrance
Just a little blip of all the semi trucks they use to move the set from city to city
At the end of the night when they were backing the trucks up to the bays and loading up. It was an art form.
Opening of show...FIREWORKS!
Another Brick in the Wall - Part II
The wall almost built all the way up
Mr. Roger Waters
Falling...
Falling...
Falling...
Fallen
PIT STOP!!!
We ate and drank at a place called Shipyard Brew Pub. Spectacular place!!
A must stop if you are in the Orlando area!
Another Pit Stop!!!
We ate and drank here in St. Augustine, Florida
RANDOMS:
From yesterday. Larkin took a picture of this car, which was packed to the BRIM with cans that this lady was taking for recycling.
Mostly Icehouse. All the way hilarious.
Michelle and Larkin's rendition of what happens when you get into the bath salts:
