David Gilmour in Concert

[Red Dog]

I went to see the living legend himself, Pink Floyd[/b]'s Mr. David Gilmour at the Oakland Paramount Sunday night. Unbelievebly good show, and it was great that he had Rick Wright on keyboards as well. That's half of Pink Floyd[/b] right there!

Gilmour was in top form and it went above and beyond my expectations for such a small venue. The sound was fantastic (the drum bass was so deep and powerful I had to pull my left nut out of my sock after the show) and in the second half when he played Pink Floyd[/b] tracks, they did some really nice laser and light effects. Like I said, I wasn't expecting it to be that good for such a small place (roughly 3000 seats), but it was pretty damn awesome.

He opened up the show with:

Breathe
Time
Breathe Reprise

Then he proceeded to play his entire new album, "On An Island" in sequence:

Castellorizon
On An Island
The Blue
Take A Breath
Red Sky At Night
This Heaven
Then I Close My Eyes
Smile
A Pocketful of Stones
Where We Start

After a brief intermission:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Wots....Uh The Deal
Dominoes (Syd Barrett track)
Coming Back To Life
High Hopes
Echoes (the entire 20+min song!)
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb

Here's a couple of crappy phone camera shots I managed to grab. The pics obviously don't do the show any justice. It doesn't look like it, but I was very close to the stage. I had great seats.








I would find it really hard to believe that any of you here would not have dug that show. David Gilmour is one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived, and he kicked serious ass that night. A life experience for me.

[paperdragon]

Wish I could have been there, right behind you, yelling "play freebird" between each song.

I really do wish I could have seen this. I still got my "Nice Pair" LP
the other early LP's disappeared over the years.

[Tomokato]

Sounds like a great show. No Fat Old Sun though. I had a couple bootlegs of him playing that from his acoustic tour a few years ago.

[gots0]

Glad you had a good time. Its always nice to see a band you like, and they really kick ass on that night.

[Red Dog]

Yeah guys, it really was an incredible show. Very, very good.

It was also nice to see there was a good mix of an older and younger crowd. The guys behind me looked to be in their late teens and early twenties and were really into the show. Saw alot of younger folks milling about. What's funny about that first pic there is you can see smoke in between the yellow lasers....and there wasn't any smoke machine on! Ha ha ha! Man, there was so much pot being smoked there it was insane! It was all around me....the people in front of me were smoking, the people in back of me, the people to the right....shit I think even the band got a contact high!

[Red Dog]

Here's a quick video clip someone nabbed during "Echoes" on Sunday night. This shows where I was at during the show (I know because the guy taking this footage was right in front of me).

wes-jackson.com/creedscorner/music/echoes.mpg
(If the video happens to come out choppy at first, let it load completely and then play it a second time. Then it should play all the way through OK).

And here's a couple of better pics someone else took (with a much better camera than mine obviously):








BTW Tomokato, Gilmour did play "Fat Old Sun" on the following night (along with "Arnold Layne"). I know, 'cause I have the bootleg from Monday's show already! I'll be getting the one I was at shortly.

[inkaphilliac]

Hey Red, do you have your tix for Roger Waters?

[Red Dog]

inkaphilliac said:

Hey Red, do you have your tix for Roger Waters?

No, I didn't get any.