TRUST US

The Roger Waters concert Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park was almost too spectacular to put into words. Fighter planes crashing into the stage and exploding, flying pigs, enormous hideous teachers towering over little children, Waters dressed as a Nazi and firing a machine gun into the audience, and a notable anti-corporate fascist state, anti-war theme. During the intermission literally hundreds of photos of humans killed in war since 1900 were projected onto the massive Wall with their birth date, death date and short biography. The pictures and stories were sent in by fans from all over the world. It was truly touching and personalized the human result of endless war.

Waters dedicated the show to  Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man shot in the head seven times at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by the London Metropolitan police after he was misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day’s failed bombing attempts. These events took place two weeks after the London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which 52 people were killed. On the day of the shooting, the police were hunting four men believed to be involved in the failed bombing attempts the day before. Intelligence had linked the men to a block of flats in Tulse Hill, south London, the same building in which Menezes was living. Police put the communal entrance under surveillance, and on the morning of the shooting, saw Menezes leave the building. Plain clothes officers, armed with pistols, followed him as he took a bus to Brixton tube station, before boarding another to Stockwell tube station because the tube station at Brixton was closed. Specialist firearms officers were called to Stockwell. Just after Menezes entered a train, several officers wrestled him to the ground and fired seven bullets into his head at point blank range. The train was still at the platform with its doors open, having just been evacuated by officers.

File:Menezes.jpg

NO ONE WAS EVER CHARGED OR HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS WRONGFUL DEATH.

The entire show was visually overwhelming and a powerful statement. Roger Waters is the ultimate showman. He said that he hated performing live in his youth. He seems to have grown into it. He plays the evil dictator with panash.

The band he assembled was stellar. David Gilmour is irreplaceable, but the combination of G.E. Smith, David Kilminster, and Snowy White on guitar and Robbie Wyckoff handling Gilmour’s vocals was just fine as you will see in the videos taken by my son Kevin. The stage and Wall was immense, taking up the entire outfield. The gates opened at 7:00 for the 8:45 show. We arrived at 7:15. I wanted to soak in as much as possible, plus I wanted a Tony Lukes cheesesteak before the show. We chowed down on fine Philly fare and then bought four overpriced concert shirts. I wore my BurningPlatform.com shirt to the show. I didn’t run into anyone else with a TBP shirt.

The show opens with Outside the Wall and I was immediately amused by the graphic on the wall. It said:

If at first you don’t succeed, call in an airstrike.

I knew I was going to like this show. While the show progresses the roadies are building the wall.

The local children brought on stage to perform Another Brick in the Wall with Waters and fight back against the 50 foot teacher were thanked by Waters in one of his more sedate moments.

http://youtu.be/NNBFKXM0hEw

The show is a combination of concert and movie. The visuals and symbolism are stunning.

The Wall becomes a canvas for Waters’ art and visionary view of the world.

Waters is able to get his anti-war message across through the use of music, images, film, quotes and cartoons. His use of film showing soldiers hugging their children, interspersed with the words of a general and pictures of starving children is powerful, as you can see.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

 Goodbye Blue Sky is a haunting song with visuals of birds flying and being replaced with thousands of bombers dropping blood red symbols like dollar signs, the hammer & sickle, Chinese star, Shell Oil sign, Mercedes sign, crosses and the Jewish star. The message was that our corporate fascist military state kills for profit.

One of the highlights of the concert for me was Waters performing a duet with himself from 1980 on the song Mother. As you can see from the video, people are losing faith in governments across the globe. The crowd was a mixture of old farts like myself, people in their 20’s and 30’s, and teens dragged to the concert by their old man. When Waters sings the line, “Do you trust the government?”, the stadium erupted with a thunderous NOOOOO!!!! See for yourself.

The guitar work by GE Smith on Comfortably Numb and Hey You is phenomenal. Waters doesn’t have much to do except strike the Wall near the end of this piece with the predictable outcome. 

http://youtu.be/GGS63DEPAGo

The imposing fully built Wall stays in place for all of Act 2, which opens with Hey You. 

http://youtu.be/Ct37LF6wgBY

 At the end of the concert during the finale of Outside the Wall, the entire wall comes crashing down. The message I took away from the concert was that our civilization is under the control of corporate fascist warmongers. Profits at any human price is the mantra. The fact that Waters is still free to use his artistry to reaveal the truth to 40,000 people gives me hope. The fact that I can write about it and have thousands read the message gives me hope. The fact that my three Millenial sons get the message about government tyranny and corporate malfeasance gives me hope. If enough people see the light and begin to resist, we can tear down that wall.

Most of the videos and pictures were taken by my sons Kevin & Jimmy. Michael, my youngest, is now a Pink Floyd superfan.

Here is a link to the complete setlist, with accompanying videos:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/roger-waters/2012/citizens-bank-park-philadelphia-pa-5bdcb77c.html

 

94
Leave a Reply

avatar
  Subscribe  
Notify of
SSS

“These people haven’t seen a low-down, in-the-mud, bare-knuckle fist-fight. There hasn’t been one in a long, long time.”
—-AWD

“AWD – no major 3 day brawls lately.”
—-llpoh

Where the hell have you two been lately? I handed Admin his ass TWICE in just the past month alone over fracking for natural gas and cost overruns at nuclear power plants. It was a gloves off, bareknuckle fight from start to finish. Blood all over. A virtuoso performance unmatched in the annals of TBP history.

Avalon was so embarrassed she almost didn’t let Admin go to this concert. I called her up and convinced her that he needed to go. It would help with his recuperation.

Zarathustra

Why does Waters have a microphone pointed at his dick?

AWD

SSS and Admin tussling

comment image

llpoh
llpoh

SSS – that wasn’t a fight, that was a slaughter and so it doesn’t really count. Admin did lots of cheating of course – called in his wannabes, and gamed the thumb buttons per his usual technique (check out the thumbs down on some of my world class pics above for clear evidence of that!), but it was all in vain, as you were never even tested. But point taken.

PlatoPlubius

Please! If that was Lloph or IIoph…I’m not sure if you were doppleganged! But Who the fuck cares! Swimming with crocs sounds like fun! Especially one that is as old as your ass! I wouldn’t want to break your hip or something.

PlatoPlubius

Big Dogs….More like Old Dogs…Running around Queefing big talk about their business accomplishments and yada yada yada….Then post a few gay ass pics from their family reunion and try to pin it on other TBP posters….LAME….But whatever gets a few more hits for Admin, I’m all for it!!!!

llpoh
llpoh

Platoplubius

comment image

llpoh
llpoh

Plato’s high school yearbook photo:

comment image

llpoh
llpoh

Yikes – if he is that big maybe I should reconsider my strategy.

llpoh
llpoh

Avalon seeing the Admin after getting new contacts:

comment image

llpoh
llpoh

Damn, that sucks. Anyone know how to make sure pics don’t come out that size?

SSS

So sorry. My bad. I posted the wrong pic of Admin before Avalon started cutting his hair. Don’t know how it happened, but here’s the actual pic.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8CcfJVxGzBdNu5ZVMVkbLzDKwMZTp5bTIH_J0cIg_p-A1FfS6sQ

SSS

“Waters dedicated the show to Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man shot in the head seven times at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by the London Metropolitan police after he was misidentified as one of the fugitives involved in the previous day’s failed bombing attempts. These events took place two weeks after the London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which 52 people were killed.”
—-Admin’s Wiki-based, WIKI MIND YOU, comments on the Pink Floyd concert he attended

What a hypocrite. Admin blasts me repeatedly for posting “Wiki History” and then turns around and does the same damn thing. I don’t know how he looks at himself in the mirror every morning.

BTW, Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian national who got popped by the London Metro Police, was in the country illegally. Serves him right.

SSS

AWD and llpoh

Funny pic battles with Admin won’t cut it. Here’s the approved solution.

#. Challenge his “facts” with real facts. Always works. Always.

&. Point out his hypocritical tactics. Always works. Always.

*. Move to a later time zone and post your comments after he goes to bed. He will read them in the morning, get really upset, complain to Avalon about the eggs over easy, fight with her, and grumble about the commute to work, Always works. Always.

Follow these 10 simple rules, and you’re good to go.

Zarathustra

What’s with the male fixation on female boobage? They’re just fat stuffed bags of skin. Now ass on the other hand…I get that.

Novista

Funny you should mention that, llpoh

But then you missed the tutorial.

Scrappy

You guys seem to be fair minded…

Here you go, expand your mind…

http://theautomaticearth.org/Finance/super-rich-stash-at-least-21-trillion-in-secret-tax-havens.html

Please read the coments, the one that the ponzi is beyond your presentaion thus far, is not your fault , but MUST BE CONSIDERED.

Hell, these theives will never even pay each other.

NO HONOR AMONG THEIVES>

Woof!

FBD
FBD

llpoh asked, “Damn, that sucks. Anyone know how to make sure pics don’t come out that size?”

EVERY picture on the google images tab will give you the size of the picture. Then when you click on the picture, on the right hand side google will give you the size again under the heading “full size image”

There will be two numbers. The first number is the number of pixels LONG … I usually ignore that. The second number is the number of pixels WIDE … that’s the number you need to be aware of.

The largest number to keep the picture from overflowing is about 500.

For example, I googled “pussy” and below is the 3rd pic on the first row. The “full size image” is 540 x 405. See how nicely pussy fits here in the alotted space? Like a hand in a glove!

comment image

Now … what to do if the second number is greater than 500? Just click on “more sizes” which is directly under the “full size image”. In many cases you’ll actually see several other image sizes. Just pick one where the number is 500 or less. But sometimes there will be no other size options, in which case, you’re fucked. Pick something else, or be a pussy and copy it anyway.

FBD
FBD

llpoh

For example, the large pic you posted. Right click on it. Under “properties” you will see that that pic’s dimensions are 1708×2304.

2304 is much larger than 500.

Here it is at 225×300.

comment image

You’re welcome.

FBD
FBD

Well, for some reason it didn’t link. That happens from time to time and I have no idea why.

But here is the link.
comment image

comment image

Novista

FBD, it’s just WordPress, not a bug, an anomaly occasionally.

Admin, you really did take my tutorial down too soon. Poor llpoh.

Scrappy

First of all love Pink Floyd. The Wall and Animals are my favorites, but Dark Side of the Moon, ansd of course Wish you were here are right up there as well, the others are ok…

Great anologies and observations by you and Floyd on the present moment.

Going back to your Fourth Turning theme, what generaion / saculum is today?

Liberty?

You have to read the book backwords on pages 559-263.

Any thoughts Jim?

Scrappy

I meant 259-263, but backwards! 🙂

Scrappy

Or new world? Will the cycle be cut short like the civil war Sacculum?

Will it be a new combination?

Scrappy
Mike

We used to watch the Pink Floyd laser show at the Ft Worth planetarium all the time in High School. The acoustics in a planetarium are awesome, and they cranked it up. Good times!

Anonymous
Anonymous

Panache. . .

Roger Waters is an exceptiinally talented musician and preachy douche at the same time. Arrogance personified.

Discover more from The Burning Platform

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading