September 20th

September 20th, 2010

Dion and I went to go see Roger Waters perform the Wall last night. It was the first U.S. tour date. The last time a member of Pink Floyd performed The Wall in the U.S. was in February of 1980. I was less than a year old. Dion was 9.

It was a great show, and though anyone I had contact with that day can tell you that I dragged my feet about going (I am just so far behind at work right now, and it seemed a bit irresponsible... but when we bought the tickets last spring I had no way of knowing what life would be like this week), I am glad that I went.

There are more pictures here.

As a side note: I gladly add this concert to the list of aging Rock Stars that I am glad to say that I have seen perform before they die. Yep, I know that sounds kind of morbid. But, there are so many people who are gone and I will never see, I keep track of the people I see that are aging...

So this list now includes Roger Waters twice (we also saw him perform Dark Side of the Moon when we lived in Texas), Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead (with Jerry Garcia), Ray Manzerek and Robbie Kreieger (of The Doors), and Tom Petty. I have seen lots of other people perform (don't get me started on female performers, specifically folk singers, that I am collecting. I am sure that Dion's list is longer than mine (especially since he saw Pink Floyd perform twice without Roger Waters in the 80's and he saw Queen perform a few years ago... and you know he is older than me and stuff...)

I am sure that there will be videos on You Tube at some point, but we need to go through and see which ones are good enough to be worth posting (thank you Roger Waters for having your only rule be small cameras... we have LOTS of video). they will be on Dion's account - skylinedriveinmovies - when they go up.