Roger Waters Live Tomorrow Night

Roger Waters is kicking off his North American tour tomorrow September 6th in New Jersey at the PNC Bank Arts Center. I will be attending this show and the excitement is slowly building. For this show Waters will be performing "Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety. Supposably we are going to recieve some nice surprises with this show such as quadrophonic sound and some terrific stage design.

While I am very excited there is a part of me that is a bit cynical about the show for several reasons. Awhile back I posted something about my reservations regarding this show and in case you didn't read it I will post it right here. Before you read my previous post I just want to note two things, one, by Thursday or Friday I should finally have a review of Bad Company's "Run With the Pack" requested by Layla, and secondly, by Thursday I should have a review of the Waters concert. Here is what I had to say in my previous post:

Well yesterday I purchased tickets to see Roger Waters at the PNC Bank Arts Center in September. I'm not a huge Waters fan but he is playing "Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety and I just can't pass that up. Today I was listening to my bootleg of the Gilmour show I saw and was thinking that Roger Waters will never be able to live up to that show. What could be even worse is the question of "How can Roger Waters really replay "Dark Side of the Moon"?" Nearly the whole album is Gilmour on vocals and also some Wright who will not be present with Waters but was with Gilmour on tour, I'm not quite sure if anybody can re-create the incredible guitar work of Gilmour due to the fact that his solos are unique and I've never heard anybody sound quite like him. The only two songs on "Dark Side of the Moon" where Waters is actually on vocals is "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" and even though he is on vocals he is sharing the vocals with Gilmour, they are both doing the harmonies. I will never take away the artistic and creative talent of Roger Waters because he is the man that creates this incredible music, but I do not think that he himself can re-create it without David Gilmour. Of course I hope that it sounds great but I'm finding it hard to believe that it will sound anything like the actual recording. All I can hope is that this show will be great and one that it will live up to the Gilmour show.