Back in september I went on vacation and while I was on vacation I saw Roger Waters in concert in Mannassas, Va. After I got home I found these video clips from the concert I atteneded. Here are the links to some of them. It was the best concert I have ever been to.
Roger Waters
September 23rd, 2006
Nissan Pavilion
Bristow, Virginia

I pulled into the Nissan Pavilion parking lot about an hour before showtime and the place was already packed beyond expectations. During my long walk to the entrance gate, I noticed license plates from nearly every state on the East coast, which complemented the wall to wall tailgate parties filled with fans from every possible generation. This was more than just a rock concert for most people - it was the concert event of the decade.

The Dark Side Of The Moon is one of the best selling and most acclaimed rock and roll albums of all time, produced by one of the greatest bands in history, Pink Floyd. Tonight it would be performed in its entirety by one of that band's founding members and chief architects, Roger Waters. This had been done once before, in 1994, by a Waters-less Pink Floyd, and it was captured magnificently on the recently released Pulse DVD. Waters performance would be quite different.

The enormity of a Pink Floyd show during their prime will probably never be matched again - unless of course if Waters were to rejoin the band, but the music of Pink Floyd has certainly flourished in Waters' able hands, as this tour, and the equally brilliant In The Flesh tour of 2000, so remarkably attest. Waters seems to cherish and respect the music and legacy of Pink Floyd a little bit more than Gilmour and company, and his performances come across as more poignant and personal. He also has no problem putting on a good old fashioned mind-blower of a stage show too.

My wife and I took our seats in the 25,000 person capacity Nissan Pavilion at about 7:45 pm and were soon overwhelmed by the electricity and excitement that filled the air. Our seats were about two-thirds of the way back and dead center in the reserved seating area. Gazing behind us, the sea of people crowding the lawn seating area indicated an obvious sold out show. The stage was centered by one of the biggest single video screens I have ever seen, and it was displaying, with amazingly sharp detail, a giant still life picture of a whiskey bottle and shot glass in front of a vintage radio.

At about 8:00 pm, the still life comes to life as a giant hand pours a shot of whiskey and then returns the glass half full. The owner of the hand, who is yet unseen, exhales streams of cigarette smoke across the screen, and occasionally reaches up to change the radio station. Real smoke effects create a great 3D visual to enhance the screen images. The man eventually settles on the jazz standard "My Funny Valentine", which took us up to the real start of the show. It was all very surreal.

Finally, at about 8:20 pm, the menacing opening chords of "In The Flesh" tore through the pavilion, as the screen is filled with The Wall's giant marching hammers, and dozens of shooting flames nearly reach the stage roof. Waters' took it to the opposite extreme next when he sat down, acoustic guitar in hand, for a moving performance of his famous Wall ballad, "Mother". Next, the psychedelic sounds of "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" took us all the way back in the Pink Floyd catalog to 1968's A Soucerful Of Secrets, and bombarded our senses with both stunning visual imagery and the hypnotic mood music that this song exudes.

The entire first set was virtually non-stop highlights, but the back-to-back performances of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Have a Cigar" were especially powerful. "Shine On" featured several great images of Syd Barrett, and essentially served as a touching tribute to the late great Pink Floyd co-founder. Ian Ritchie's saxophone solo was also spot on and sounded incredible. "Wish You Were Here" just wasn't the same with Water's handling the lead vocals, and he probably should have handed it over to Kilminster or Carin.

Dave Kilminster was the only notable replacement from Waters' In The Flesh tour, replacing Doyle Bramhall II on lead guitar and vocals. Where I thought that Bramhall's brilliant guitar and lead vocals were one of the highlights of that tour, at least on the In The Flesh Live DVD, I only found Kilminster to be adequate. For the most part, his guitar playing was impressive and he reproduced Gilmour's solo quite well, but his lead vocals were not particularly satisfying. Snowy White's guitar playing was not as faithful to the originals, and not nearly as flashy as Kilminster, but he was equally as impressive.

I'm not the biggest fan of The Final Cut album, but Waters sounded superb on two of that albums finest ballads, "Southampton Dock" and "The Fletcher Memorial Home". "Perfect Sense, Parts 1 and 2" was the only solo song Waters played this night, and it shined as brightly as the Floyd material. It was certainly received as well too. "Leaving Beirut" is a new song which Waters explains was based on what happened to him when he was a teenager traveling through Lebanon when his car died stranding him with no money and nowhere to go. Eventually an Arab family took him in, gave him food and shelter, and treated him like an honored guest.

The song is also one of the most in-your-face anti-war songs that Waters has ever written - particularly anti-Bush and anti-Blair. The lyrics were even put right up on the big screen in the form of giant dialog bubbles.

Oh George! Oh George!
That Texas education must have fucked you up when you were very small.

Not in my name, Tony, you great war leader you
Terror is still terror, whosoever gets to frame the rules.

It makes for a scathing summation to the string of anti-war songs that began with "Southampton Dock" in the first set, and carried on with such songs as "Us and Them" and "Bring the Boys Back Home" during the rest of the show. Considering our current state of affairs, these songs couldn't be more relevant today, whether you agree with Waters politics or not. I didn't hear any boos from where I was sitting, but at some of the U.S. shows there was quite a bit of booing during this song.

The first set ended gloriously with the Animals classic, "Sheep". During this killer performance, a giant inflatable pig was flown out over the crowd, making its way out to the lawn seats, and eventually cut loose to fly off into the night sky. It was quite a site to see the giant thing flying off, hundreds of feet in the air, but it was equally fun to read all of the graffiti that was spray painted on the pig, as it was hovering overhead. Some of the slogans included "Kafka Rules OK! "; "Don't be led to the slaughter, Vote Democratic Nov. 2 "; and "Impeach Bush Now" - written right across the pig's ass. Even though, I don't particularly subscribe to many of Waters philosophies, it was all pretty amusing.

After a 15-minute intermission the pavilion lights dimmed again and famous heartbeat sounds of "Speak To Me" filled the air. From start to finish, the performance of The Dark Side Of The Moon was simply amazing, so I will only comment on a few individual aspects of the performance. First of all, the accompanying screen projections and 3D affects were incredible and added significantly to the overall experience. The quadraphonic sound system employed on this tour made for the ultimate listening experience as music and sound affects seemed to surround and envelope you.

"Breath" sounded phenomenal, but once again Kilminster's vocals didn't live up Gilmour's original masterpiece. He sounded a little better on "Money", which is a little less demanding vocal-wise. Carol Kenyon's powerful, note-for-note rendition of "Great Gig In The Sky" was nothing short of stunning. What a pair of lungs on that lady! John Carin took the lead vocals on "Us and Them" and he sounded excellent. Maybe he should have handled all of the Gilmour parts. The finale of "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" was one of the absolute highlights of the entire show. The band all came together for a well deserved bow before leaving the stage.

After a few minutes of wild cheering, Waters and the band returned for an encore set that exclusively featured songs from The Wall. "Bring the Boys Back Home" was especially powerful this night, as it seemed like the entire crowd was singing along loudly. "Comfortably Numb" magnificently brought the show to a close, in the only way a Pink Floyd/Roger Waters concert could. The perfect ending to one of the best concerts I have ever seen.

Set One
In the Flesh
Mother
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-3)
Have a Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Southampton Dock
The Fletcher Memorial Home
Perfect Sense, Parts 1 and 2
Leaving Beirut
Sheep

Set Two (The Dark Side of the Moon)
Speak to Me
Breathe
On the Run
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Encore
The Happiest Days of Our Lives
Another Brick in the Wall, Part II
Vera
Bring the Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb

The Band:
Andy Fairweather-Low - Guitar
Snowy White - Guitar
Dave Kilminster - Guitar/Vocals
Jon Carin - Keyboards/Vocals
Harry Waters - Keyboards
Graham Broad - Drums
Ian Ritchie - Saxophone
Katie Kissoon - Vocals
PP Arnold - Vocals
Carol Kenyon - Vocals
Roger Waters performing Comfortably Numb part. 1
Roger Waters performing Comfortably Numb part. 2
Roger Waters performing Another Brick In The Wall II
Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb
Roger waters doing Breathe
And one of my favorites
Roger Waters - Brain Damage
Brain Damage
(Waters) 3:50

The lunatic is on the grass.
The lunatic is on the grass.
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs.
Got to keep the loonies on the path.

The lunatic is in the hall.
The lunatics are in my hall.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

The lunatic is in my head.
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear.
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

"I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's marvelous! HaHaHa!"

denzel and morgan freeman impression

Jamie Kennedy's Rollin with Saget

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Bill Maher God Skit

Bill Maher

Not much going on here. This past year I have traveled to Charotte, WV and DC. It was the first time I had been to DC. It was awesome. First night we were stopped by the presidential motorcade. We were less than 200 ft. from the limo. Never thought I would ever be that close the President. DC was beautiful. Should have known but we did not have enough time for all we wanted to do. We did go to the Washington moment, WWII Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Wall and the Korean memorial. Pictures are up on my gallery page. you can email me for a login and password if you don't already have one.

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I know, I know I have not posted in a while but there have been other things on my list. I have been working on a lot. I did have a good Thanksgiving and Christmas. This has been another long year and there has been good and bad. This year I have lost two close friends this year. Tommy is now free from alcohol and Cindy no longer needs her insulin pump. Some of the others that were lost this year and will be missed are Ray Charles, Christopher Reeve, Ronald Reagan, Rodney Dangerfield, Marlon Brando, Julia Child, Jerry Orbach, Reggie White, Fay Wray, Tony Randall, Alan King, Pat Tillman, Jack Paar. Plus many of our U.S. Servicemen. This year I had a tenant move out but thankfully I had a new one move in shortly after. I have been trying to do some work or have some done on all three properties this year. I have had a septic system installed on my land. Rebuilt a retaining wall at my rental house along with some tree work. New roof put on my mothers house as well as trying to get the inside repainted. I also volunteered one day for relief work in the peeks creek community as there was a real bad natural disaster where 15 homes and 5 lives were lost. Let's us hope that 2005 will be better than any year so far. Please continue to support our troops and remember those who have lost everything in Asia. God Bless in 2005.

I have had a bad week. Not much sleep, constant pain, bullshit stress building. Friday I tried to sleep all day as I had to work Friday night. I could not sleep due to normal back and body pain plus shoulder cramping. I got up at 10 and tried to get dressed to go but my shoulder started going into spasms. I continued to try to get dressed to go into work and finally came to the conclusion that I could not go. I called my boss and was given and bunch of bullshit about laying out of work and calling at the last minute. Well I am sorry for that but I have not called into work in over a year. I have only been out 4 days in the 2 + years I have been there. Then Monday I missed placed my wallet. With my whole paycheck in cash, My buddys cash, all my cc's, my DL and SS card. I was so pissed at this I through my cell phone down the stairs and broke it. Bye bye 200 for the phone.

not much new here. I have been working my regular 40. I have been trying to get my rental in shape since I have had change of tenants. I the deck was in real bad shape and needed a new paint job. I am just about 75% done with that. I have also been working on a few other things at the rental. Not much else new here in BFE. Just SSDD. Will write more when I can.

Yes Yes I know i have not written in a while. I have been busy working. I did take a vacation to West Virgina in the first part of September. I went up to see some friends of mine. Orignially I was supposed to go and meet a girl while I was up there but as the days got closer I just did not think we were right for each other and did not meet her. I kinda feel like a bastard for not even meeting her but I can not change that now. I have since met another girl online and have gone out to see her a few times. I don't know if she is meant to be but don't want to be an asshole to her either. I am still working full time and have had extra jobs to do on my rental. I tore down a retaining wall that was about to fail and built a new one with some help of two of my friends. I am also repainting the porch and deck as they really need it before they start to rot. I am replacing all the screens and changing the shower head as well. I think that is all I will have to do for now but I know the roof is only a few years away from needing replacing. Other than that not much else is new just doing the same shit just different day. Well peice out I am just about done with work for another day.

Well not much new here. I have been working and sleeping and not much else. Wish I wasn't so tired. I recently reinstalled my OS on both my desktop and my laptop. I hope I did not lose anything. lol I installed a new hard drive in my desktop. I added a WD 200GB HD to help out the WD 80GB HD and the WD 20GB HD since they were full. Now I have a total of 300GB which should hold me for a little while. I hope. Well not much else new here. Will try to write more soon.

I know I have not been posting like I guess I should but ohh well. I have been busy working and trying to get some things done around the house. It just seems that I don't have the energy to get anything done. I am still trying to get the inside of the house repainted and the lawn keeps growing with all the rain we have been getting. A couple of weeks ago we had a tree split and land across the driveway and I got it cleared from the drive and had to wait about two weeks before I could get the rest of it taken care of. Well the tree is now back in the burn pile witch is another thing I have to do is get all of that stuff burned off. This past weekend I did take a mini break and went to Charlotte to see a friend for the 4th. I spent just under 48 hours there but still had a good time. John, Mary Shannon and I went to a birthday party for a friend of theirs on Saturday and then Sunday morning we went out for brunch at Pewter Rose. That evening the three of us meet up with some of their other friends and went to the community college parking deck to watch the fireworks that the city was doing. Charlotte put on a pretty good show. I was impressed at some of the things that they can do with fireworks. I came back home on Monday and went right back to work and now I am taking my next two days off trying to get some things done at the house. Who knows if it will happen but it's got to be done sometime.

rerolpxE tenretnI tfosorciM - Ziggum.com - Welcome To The World Wide Wholly S#*tYa ya I know I haven't posted anything in a while. My web site has been down for a while due to the fact that the friend that has been hosting it for me has changed jobs and had to move all the sites he was hosting. It is back up now. I have been working and had several things going on as well. I have had a septic tank install on the land that I have north of town. I received bids and oversaw the construction of a new roof on my mother's home. I took a week off of work and took a trip to West Virginia to see some friends. (pics will soon be posted on my site) I also had to be on call for the hotel that I work at for a couple of weeks while my boss made a trip back to the homeland. Hope to blog later. I will be updating my site soon.

Well I am a student again. I am just taking the basics for now. To get them over with. Working third shift with not much to do at work except just being there and to make sure nobody burns the place down should leave some good study time. I am just taking just one class for the first semester. It seems I need to freshen up on my algerba. Never like it much anyway but got to get it over with.

GoogleHappy New Year!. I have been busy working. Holidays were good. Need to get ready for a new year and a new school year.

rerolpxE tenretnI tfosorciM - Ziggum.com - Welcome To The World Wide Wholly S#*t I know i know I have been a slacker on my page lately. Oh well what are you going to do it's MY page. LOL. hopefully something coming soon. Maybe.

Ziggum.com - Welcome To The World Wide Wholly S#*tOn this day when we stop to honor all those who have served this country by putting their lives on the line so that we may be free. I would like to leave this note:

I am not writing here to debate the point if the war in Iraq is justified right now. I do believe the world is a better place since Saddam is no longer in control of a country. I also believe that one life lost in this conflict is one too many. Every soldier is special to someone and should be special to every one in this country. They are out there putting their life on the line every day and night for us. They go anywhere, anytime our leaders tell them at a moments notice. They do this job well and need the support of everyone at home from our leaders down to the little children living in anytown, USA. We have gone too far at this point to back out of Iraq. We started it we have to finish it! We need to tell our elected officials that they need to make sure that these brave men and women have everything they need from intelligence, supplies, equipment to troops. Yes I said it if we need more troops to prevent more lives from being lost. Then they need to be there. Hopefully we can have some help from other country such as Great Brittan. No matter who comes to the aid of our service members their needs to be more. I believe the hostilities are getting way to out control and need to be stopped now. I am not a military official nor have access to classified material but I see the main thing we need there now is more feet on the ground. We need to make sure our leaders know that these men and women need to be taken care of. They need the best medical attention in the field and at home active or retired. They need to be taken care of financially. They donÂ’t need to know that while they are miles from home that their families are at risk from losing their homes because of a sudden lack of a major if not the only bread winner. We need to make sure everyone comes home and has a home to come home to.

Last night I went over to Tony's and hung out for a while with him and Tim, we built a fire and chilled for a while. Today I put up a shelf in my closet and did some work on my web site. Tonight I have to go back to work. Thats the way it goes I guess.

GoogleTony, Tim and I went out last night to see Scary Movie 3 it was pretty good. It had a lot of spoofs on events from the last year. Before the movie we dined with Wendy were Tony had the new jerky burger. Afterwards we cruised town to see that again there was nothing going on. That's Franklin.