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Faceplams: In the end it seems that it's just a acoustic version of the record performed by Roger Waters and his actual live band.
Pretty funny to see the whole outcrying revolving around it when Pink Floyd itself did just doing another cash grab box set.
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In the end it seems that it's just a acoustic version of the record performed by Roger Waters and his actual live band.
Pretty funny to see the whole outcrying revolving around it when Pink Floyd itself did just doing another cash grab box set.
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Yep...
Also: why he has to preach his anti-capitalism babble? it gets silly...
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The strings are the real winner on DSOTM Redux. Some killer writing and playing from Gabe Noel.
The rest... eh, I dunno. It's a bit one note and easy-listening. Say what you want about RW doing this whole concept, but he could have done something actually challenging with it instead of reading letters over a muted and crescendo-less rendition of Great Gig.
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Speaking of Dark Side, it's on Apple Music with a Dolby Atmos mix, sounds pretty open so far. The animated album art is a nice touch as well.
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Nick Mason turns 80 years old tomorrow
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David Gilmour: Luck and Strange
New album coming out September 6th.
Black Cat
Luck and Strange
The Piper's Call
A Single Spark
Vita Brevis
Between Two Points
Dark and Velvet Nights
Sings
Scattered
BONUS TRACKS
Yes, I Have Ghosts
Luck and Strange (original Barn Jam)
A Single Spark (Orchestral)
Scattered (Orchestral)
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https://www.loudersound.com/news/dav...in-eight-years
David Gilmour London shows announced! What do we think the chances are he'll come to the US at some point? I read that he's not very keen on touring these days. The site says "These will be the only UK dates" which could imply there are plans for other dates?
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If there are any more shows, they're probably going to be very limited both in size and in number of cities visited. Maybe some other, shorter theatre residencies around November? I caught one of his two arena shows in Toronto back in 2016, which was awesome, but I really don't see any desire on his part to go back to that scale of touring. Given his recent comments about lack of enthusiasm for playing the classic 70s Floyd stuff, he wouldn't be able to please that size of crowd anyhow.
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Yeah, I saw that, too. I live in LA, so there’s a good chance he’d come here if he came to North America at all. So it’s a question of whether I drop a couple thousand dollars to see a London show or just wait and see.
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David certainly does not make it easy to see him live.
On top of touring roughly once in every 10 years, his current schedule looks like this:
Sep 27 - Oct 3 -- 6 shows in Rome, Italy (the only shows in mainland Europe)
Oct 9 - 15 -- 6 shows at Royal Albert Hall, London, UK (the only shows in UK)
...that's it. I didn't have my hopes up anyway, but this is his shortest tour ever (and will remain so even if he adds a couple more residencies like this for NY/LA areas in US, if any)
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HOLLYWOOD BOWL, LOS ANGELES (October 29th, 30th)
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK (November 4th, 5th)
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I got three tickets for Royal Albert Hall during the presale. £150 each and we're up in the gods...I mean, I can afford it (and justify it as a birthday gift for my dad) but at this point he is only playing to rich people. Which is horrible.
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To be fair, is that different from any major artist? Ticket prices have gone up considerably in the last 10 or so years, which means just about any big stadium show I've been to in recent memory is somewhere around $100 for cheap seats.
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Not for me. I've been to see the Royal Philharmonic at the exact same venue as Gilmour multiple times. Been in the forward 5 rows each time and never topped £75 a ticket.
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Would be interesting to compare NIN and Gilmour prices at the same venues (Hollywood Bowl and RAH)
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I wasn't talking about the venue. I was talking about ticket prices for similarly big artists, regardless of the venue.
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I don't want to argue semantics over who, or what, constitutes similarly big. But the Royal Philharmonic are pretty darned prestigious, and playing at the RAH at much cheaper prices. I've never in my life known a ticket be anywhere close to £150, especially for cheap seats.
I mean maybe Beyonce and Tay Tay or whoever, I don't know. Point is, it's bloody expensive and it clearly doesn't need to be.
(By the way, the only fees ticketmaster added were £2.50. This is my first time booking through them but I always read their fees are absurdly high. Is that something thry only do in the States?)
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My point is it's not meaningful to compare prices for one show at a venue to another show at the same venue. The Hollywood Bowl, where David is playing in LA, has small weeknight orchestra concerts that go for $25-$50 for decent seats, but then those same seats for something like Bruce Springsteen would be $300-$400. But wherever else Bruce plays around the country would have comparable prices. So saying "I've been to this venue before and didn't pay these prices" isn't really meaningful.
So yes, tickets are expensive, but they're not more expensive than other artists of the same caliber/popularity/tour-so-seldom/etc. as David Gilmour. So it's not necessarily fair to call out this show in particular for being expensive.
And that's great your TM fees were so small! Yeah, it's a bitch here in the US. I've stopped even looking at fees and just look at the final price, but they're usually somewhere between $25 and $50 per ticket.
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I got a ticket for Saturday night at MSG. Haven't booked flights or anything just yet, but it was a decently located single seat for uh, a lot...
USD $356.50
plus fees:
USD $83.90 (Service Fee)
Total was $440.40 which is 4.7x as much as I paid for a similarly located ticket in 2016 here in Toronto for his last tour.
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JESUS, dude. THAT fucking blows...i mean, i'm really happy you got a seat, but, DAMN.
I'm STILL kicking myself for not catching Pink Floyd in 94 on The Division Bell, and missing the somewhat regular "Roger Waters Presents" shows in that selfsame decade, in the "$20 for a ticket and $20 for a shirt" era but, at the TIME, i was most definitely like, "ok, neither of these is the ACTUAL fucking band.
I regret that.
SO. I'm sure most serious PF fans are already aware of this, but it sure was a trip.
I think it was one big marketing stunt, ultimately, but it's still cool.
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I got tickets for really solid seats at the first LA show for $300 each (plus the shitty fees). But I also looked at the cheap seats, and they're $75, which feels incredibly reasonable to me for this kind of show.
I'm beyond excited. Seeing Joni Mitchell and David Gilmour for the first time within 10 days of each other is going to be a yearmaker.
By the way, I haven't listened to a ton of David's solo work. What album(s) does he tend to focus on when he plays live (apart from the new one, of course)?
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Just the new one and you're good to go.
He's not touring that much to show a more elaborate pattern... in 2006 he played new album On An Island in full, and no songs from his two old records (from 78 and 84). On 2015/16 tour he did about 8 songs from Rattle That Lock, 2 from OAI and once again none from first two.
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Yeah, while the first two solo records are okay (both have a few decent songs each) you can skip them if you're cram-listening, DG hasn't revisited them in his shows for like 40 years. I think he may revive some stuff from On An Island or Rattle That Lock. Probably don't expect to hear his sax solo ("Red Sky at Night") from the former though, lol.
@elevenism I still regret skipping the 2006 shows, and missing my last chance to see David & Richard together, but I was flat fucking broke in 2006. Now I can drop silly fucking money on a ticket... wish I'd just taken out a loan, haha.
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