In case anyone's interested on who are the musicians: Andy Bown - bass guitar and lipsync Snowy White - lead guitar Peter Wood - hammond organ Willie Wilson - drums Roger was singing from backstage, but all instruments are played by the surrogate band. They were wearing masks of the real Floyd members, and when "The Thin Ice" starts, the real band appears on stage, and all eight (plus the four backing vocalists) conclude the show
@@brankostanojevic7421 No, they are not. The opening were played by the accompanying musicians Andy Bown, Snowy White, Willie Willson and Peter Woods wearing masks of the Floyd members. It's the "surrogate band". Roger Waters is singing behind the scene.
Gilmore used to busk outside the concerts in the 70s and no body new who he was it was a joke they had they were not really that kind of rockstar but they are
@@Ansonius77 you must be talking about the Is There Anybody Out There? soundboard, in which this upload uses. The audio from the original VHS rip has him saying the "I think the band is about ready to go" before he gets cutoff halfway through the sentence
You guys are right when you say that the band playing on stage in this video is not Pink Floyd, but you have to consider this: we're talking about The Wall Live, a theatrical show. The band playing there is "The Surrogate Band", the same as you hear on "In The Flesh". They open the show in this song wearing PF masks to make an interpretation of the real band. The guys on stage are Andy Brown as Roger, Snowy White as David, Peter Wood as Rick and Willie Wilson as Nick. Of course after this song, the real band takes the stage to play the rest of the show, with the other guys playing as backing performers.
Gilmour has said that the band has often discussed they are "faceless" to their audience that they could hire other musicians to do live shows and they would probably get away with it.
During the 77 tour, at the start of the show a bass player would come out (a tiny speck to most of the audience in the stadiums they were playing) and start playing the intro to 'Sheep'. The audience would go mental screaming for Roger, but it was actually Snowy White. Roger just sang on that one, unlike in 74, 75. Roger, in his bad mental state and medical drug fuelled ego trip go a bit annoyed that they gave him the same manic response as him - didn't matter if he was playing up there at all. So, in The Wall, the band come on and the audience thinks it's Pink Floyd* but it's actually the backing band with the singer miming and Roger singing off-stage. Then, later in the show they play 'In the Flesh' without the question mark- the real Floyd. As with lots of aspects of Pink Floyd, it's all very meta and the irony of the Wall album, the Final Cut and much more significantly the first two Gilmour-led albums containing a whole host of session musicians and in the case of the Gilmour band, a load of faceless songwriters helping out in lieu of their actual fully fledged songwriter being there. He was absent! which is the theme of the classic Floyd stuff. Then there's the songs that Nick Mason felt he couldn't play at all being played by session musicians. Mother, Two Suns In the Sunset, I think part of Atom Heart Mother iirc and well, *all* of Momentary Lapse of Reason (not that it matters on that one). Plus of course, thier original muse, songwriter and lead guitarist not being there for nearly the entire duration of the band being together! This inspired the whole 'big' period Dark Side - The Wall, really. So yeah, really profound statement and really astute of Roger to spot it and put it into a show/music. *- except for the guitarists in the audience, of course! that ain't Dave Gilmour guitar.
Waters wanted oneof the biggest bands in history, The Beach Boys, to sing, OMG, the backing vocals, amazingly, they actually agreed, until they caught on to the 'themes' of The Wall, then they quickly pulled out and got inspired enough to go on their own world tour. LOL! Mega-rock largesse gone nuts! And so true to The Wall!
I was obsessed with the studio version of this album. Then my Freshman year of college somebody gave me the live version. Now I can't even listen to the studio version anymore. My children will hear the live album and nothing else!
This show has the best version of Run Like Hell. I love this concert so much - pure genius. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to be part of the experience.
the version you hear is actually is from the wall live album "is there anybody out there 1980-1981" which alot of the songs are frankensteins of different shows and rehearsals what domokon did was overlay the album onto the bootleg video tapes of the wall tour (august 7-9 1980)
Roger I send you my love didn't recognise your face but I recognised your voice beautiful one great performance I can hear it in the background outside my house and sirens maybe it's too exciting ja ?
LMAO !!! At the start the announcers like-- "One thing i would like to point out,...upon completion of the showBWAAAAAAAANNNGGGGGG !!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome !!
If there is a ghost in my house it either likes or dislikes this version of this song. The first time I played it in the house was when we moved in about 5 years ago. The volume on the stereo went to max by itself. Cut to about 4 1/2 years later, hadn't played the song since the last incident and had forgotten about it. This time our VCR (this thing that plays giant videotapes) turned on by itself and began playing the tape that was in it.
JM is correct. The first performers to appear on the stage in the original "Wall" concerts were not the actual members of Pink Floyd; they were the backup musicians in Floyd masks. What's more, if you want to see what the masks looked like, they are on the cover of the live CD of this concert, the one that came out a few years ago called "Is There Anybody out There?"
Watching on German T.V., "The Wall" perfomed in Berlin in 1990 was a seriously interesting television viewing. Seeing the Scorpions perform this song (In The Flesh) in Berlin for me was the highlight. Seeing Sinead O'Connor perform the song "Mother" was the low-point.
@TheOwlsOfGaHoole I think I was reading Rolling Stone magazine, and it said "While watching high definition footage of David Gilmour playing the solo to Comfortably Numb back in 1980, footage that will soon one day be availible to fans"....
And Roger hasn't forgotten that! He's kicked off nearly every solo show (ecept Pros & Cons, and KAOS On the Road, in which case he did it later.) My favorite variation is that he now uses the German "Eins! Svie! Drie! HAMMER!" from "Waiting For the Worms" to kick off "ITF". It works perfectly. And audience members LOVE it when the spotlight shines on them as Roger sings "Get him up against the wall!" They go fucking nuts! (Kinda like the 2008 Houston show when I managed to touch the flying pig!)
the dvd is called "the wall live at earls court 1980" but it's a bootleg dvd.I bought it two years ago from a store in Athens,Greece.you have to look to stores that sell bootleg recordings
Actually there many proshots in the full version of the documentary Behind the wall. This video shows a few proshots that were from the short version of the documentary.
@argoninja2112 The Wall shows were all direct results of the "In The Flesh Tour 77". Primarily Roger trying to sing Pigs on the Wing to a stadium of screaming people. This song alone here has many of the elements. The Emcee making firework references, the loud volume, and the fact he is already the " rotting rock star. ( Pink is sitting on the left side) Also the fact that these "players" are what the band felt they were becoming. The "Surrogate band" Pure Genius
I was at one of these Earls Court gigs and I remember thinking how f'king LOUD that surrogate band were. We kinda knew it wasn't Floyd though, we thought it was probably the roadies.!
For those of you who are confused: during performances of The Wall, Pink Floyd had a different band perform the song In The Flesh, wearing masks and dressing up to look like Pink Floyd. They did it in reference to the lines in the song: "Tell me is something eluding you sunshine Is this not what you expected to see? If you want to find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise" And also the reference of a "surrogate band" in the song's reprise.
More specifically, it's part of the album's story. It's a satirical move, to play into the story being that The Wall is the story of a rock star going insane and becoming someone unlike himself because of self-isolation, psychosis, and drug abuse. So it's being reflected here, by having a "fake" band play the songs that the main character of the album's fictional story "pink", has become.
@MoveOverCasanova No, it's just the audio from the video was so poor that he updated it with the audio from the live album. It's just really out of sync.
Well, I think the thing was that, playing in stadiums, as they did on their previous two US tours in 75 and 77, Roger felt that much of the audience was so far away, that they would have no idea who the musicians onstage were, because you couldn't see their faces. So they made life masks of each of the four members of Pink Floyd, and had the Surrogate Band, as they were known, wear them. For this song, it's the Surrogate Band playing, with Roger hidden backstage singing.
i wonder how much different it must have been to hear this music before the movie was out. This concert was 81, The Wall the movie came out in 82. Must have been weird to hear it without the visualization of Pink (Geldof) and the hammer army, and a bunch of other stuff too :p
lol, he's right though. Watch the documentary "Behind The Wall". Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters say themselves "We were so faceless…that you could practically send out an entirely different band to play Pink Floyd shows." And that's exactly what they did for the In The Flesh? And The Wall tours…they had a group of musicians play the intro (although now Waters just does it himself.) Dude, it's even on the Wikipedia page for The Wall…Just Google it.
no.i've got the whole show on dvd,the only songs the surrogate band plays is "in the flesh?" and "in the flesh" at the second part of the show with pink floyd standing beside them
You sir are correct. if you read the notes of this particular performance The Floyd actually had a surrogate band, just for this song. if you continue watching the video they actually play this concert. I bought this CD and on the cover is the 4 masks that were cast.
@TacomaPaul im seeing roger at the honda center, annaheim dec.13, its gonna rock!!! by the way out of this whole tour, david gilmour is gonna suprise everyone and show up at one of the shows!!! keep your fingers crossed. >:-D
yeah, you're right! :D and for those who still don't believe, take a look at the drummer. he's not Nick Mason, Nick is kind of a "lazy-bones" when drumming. it's his style... all of the band on stage is synching. the real Pink Floyd plays the live song, but behind that curtain
_The idea to include live concert footage of any significant length for The Wall film was dropped shortly before the final shows took place. There are conflicting statements regarding the professionally filmed footage. It had been widely believed that 'the wrong type of film' had been used and the results were dark and murky. Mark Fisher, partly responsible for designing the show said the footage was: 'very dark and horrible and boring and should be burned'._
@DyingPulseProduction Nope, it's Andy Bown (the second bassist who toured with them). Roger was singing from off-stage. Bown (and the other "surrogate band "members) wore PInk Floyd masks as a sort of vindication of Roger's statement that once a band gets as famous as Pink Floyd as an entity, it almost doesn't matter who's on the stage anymore, because people are there for the spectacle and the experience, rather than connecting with the artist personally through their music.
They replaced themselves with other musicans in this song. They were sometimes called "The Faceless Band" because nobody ever knew what they looked like. So they wantes to test the crows to see if they actually knew it wasn't them playing. Genius.
I wonder that too. Each of the surrogates were well-rehearsed for the whole show; they did supporting parts when they weren't pretending to be Pink Floyd. But I don't care how MUCH you rehearse; NOBODY can sing like Roger at his best! So Andy Bown (as "Roger) MUST have been lyp-synching to Roger singing backstage. I also like how the surrogate Floyd had very little equipment visible on stage.
If I could have seen any band or show, it would be Pink Floyd. Only being 13, I don't think that would be quite possible. Unless, Roger decides to do another Wall tour.
In case anyone's interested on who are the musicians:
Andy Bown - bass guitar and lipsync
Snowy White - lead guitar
Peter Wood - hammond organ
Willie Wilson - drums
Roger was singing from backstage, but all instruments are played by the surrogate band. They were wearing masks of the real Floyd members, and when "The Thin Ice" starts, the real band appears on stage, and all eight (plus the four backing vocalists) conclude the show
RIP Peter
where can i see the full concert?
@@diegom.2026 didnt peter wood suicide?
@@martinl.lazarinejr.2781 sadly yes
@@martinl.lazarinejr.2781 no, the family says he fell while feeding his dogs, sadly the Way he dead
i love that they just cut off the introducer.
Right as he says "I would like to point out, upon exclusion of the building" too!
Thats an act. They did it on every wall show in the 80s
i know, but that doesnt change how much i love it.
Fucking genius how they did that. If you have the live album you can tell it was intentional and fucking AMAZING. "Master of ceremonies"
Hola como estamos con la musica
I love how he is mid conversation and catches audience by surprise. So fucking epic
The most psychologically intense rock album? I can not think of another.
I can only think of OK Computer, gives me The Wall vibes for some reason.
That must have been a head trip for some in the audience, if they realized the guys playing here were not Pink Floyd.
And the masks look creepy. Like they are wearing someone else's skin.
But They Are !
They Are only wearing masks.
@@brankostanojevic7421 No, they are not. The opening were played by the accompanying musicians Andy Bown, Snowy White, Willie Willson and Peter Woods wearing masks of the Floyd members. It's the "surrogate band". Roger Waters is singing behind the scene.
Gilmore used to busk outside the concerts in the 70s and no body new who he was it was a joke they had they were not really that kind of rockstar but they are
*One thing I would like to point out, upon conclusion of the sho-*
Actually, the audio is from another night. From the raw footage he says *I think the band is about ready to go, so-*
@@scootywoot499 he says that first, then says something about not yet....then says the "one thing" line after....it's on the CD as well
@@Ansonius77 you must be talking about the Is There Anybody Out There? soundboard, in which this upload uses. The audio from the original VHS rip has him saying the "I think the band is about ready to go" before he gets cutoff halfway through the sentence
Lol
You guys are right when you say that the band playing on stage in this video is not Pink Floyd, but you have to consider this: we're talking about The Wall Live, a theatrical show. The band playing there is "The Surrogate Band", the same as you hear on "In The Flesh". They open the show in this song wearing PF masks to make an interpretation of the real band. The guys on stage are Andy Brown as Roger, Snowy White as David, Peter Wood as Rick and Willie Wilson as Nick.
Of course after this song, the real band takes the stage to play the rest of the show, with the other guys playing as backing performers.
So how come they're there? why couldn't Pink Floyd play it?
+tardisfloyd Is part of the show
cuz they are the surrogate band
Gilmour has said that the band has often discussed they are "faceless" to their audience that they could hire other musicians to do live shows and they would probably get away with it.
During the 77 tour, at the start of the show a bass player would come out (a tiny speck to most of the audience in the stadiums they were playing) and start playing the intro to 'Sheep'. The audience would go mental screaming for Roger, but it was actually Snowy White. Roger just sang on that one, unlike in 74, 75.
Roger, in his bad mental state and medical drug fuelled ego trip go a bit annoyed that they gave him the same manic response as him - didn't matter if he was playing up there at all.
So, in The Wall, the band come on and the audience thinks it's Pink Floyd* but it's actually the backing band with the singer miming and Roger singing off-stage. Then, later in the show they play 'In the Flesh' without the question mark- the real Floyd.
As with lots of aspects of Pink Floyd, it's all very meta and the irony of the Wall album, the Final Cut and much more significantly the first two Gilmour-led albums containing a whole host of session musicians and in the case of the Gilmour band, a load of faceless songwriters helping out in lieu of their actual fully fledged songwriter being there. He was absent! which is the theme of the classic Floyd stuff.
Then there's the songs that Nick Mason felt he couldn't play at all being played by session musicians. Mother, Two Suns In the Sunset, I think part of Atom Heart Mother iirc and well, *all* of Momentary Lapse of Reason (not that it matters on that one).
Plus of course, thier original muse, songwriter and lead guitarist not being there for nearly the entire duration of the band being together! This inspired the whole 'big' period Dark Side - The Wall, really.
So yeah, really profound statement and really astute of Roger to spot it and put it into a show/music.
*- except for the guitarists in the audience, of course! that ain't Dave Gilmour guitar.
Now THAT'S how you open a god damn Rock & Roll show!
Best intro song ever!
tom sawyer
I love that casually gliding Ju 87 in the end, i also love the fact that it's there
Articounias they brought the stuka
It is a mask, but who really gives a shit.
The music speaks for itself., I am still recovering from this tour 28 years later. Awesome.
I give a shit. It's pretty amazing satire, really fits into the context of the album's story, and it's just a clever and brilliant move.
What a way to say goodbye to the 70s
For real
Good Riddance ‘70s and welcome to the ‘80s!
If you like music in any way shape or form, listen to this.
Waters wanted oneof the biggest bands in history, The Beach Boys, to sing, OMG, the backing vocals, amazingly, they actually agreed, until they caught on to the 'themes' of The Wall, then they quickly pulled out and got inspired enough to go on their own world tour. LOL! Mega-rock largesse gone nuts! And so true to The Wall!
I soo wish i woulda been born decades earlier, to witness this show. ….In The Flesh!!
I was obsessed with the studio version of this album. Then my Freshman year of college somebody gave me the live version. Now I can't even listen to the studio version anymore. My children will hear the live album and nothing else!
Lmao@2v_5r84
I can't wait to see this remade. Finally. I just wish Mason and Gilmour would join Waters on stage.
*12 years later*
I couldn’t imagine seeing that live back in 79...wow
The greatest opening to a concert. Long Live Pink Floyd!!!
This show has the best version of Run Like Hell. I love this concert so much - pure genius. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to be part of the experience.
the version you hear is actually is from the wall live album "is there anybody out there 1980-1981" which alot of the songs are frankensteins of different shows and rehearsals what domokon did was overlay the album onto the bootleg video tapes of the wall tour (august 7-9 1980)
ahh. the masks on the cover of the album "the wall live 1980-1981". i finally understand. i didn't see that at first
Roger I send you my love didn't recognise your face but I recognised your voice beautiful one great performance I can hear it in the background outside my house and sirens maybe it's too exciting ja ?
And upon conclusion of the show BOOM!!!!
how can you not love it?
LMAO !!!
At the start the announcers like-- "One thing i would like to point out,...upon completion of the showBWAAAAAAAANNNGGGGGG !!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome !!
If there is a ghost in my house it either likes or dislikes this version of this song. The first time I played it in the house was when we moved in about 5 years ago. The volume on the stereo went to max by itself. Cut to about 4 1/2 years later, hadn't played the song since the last incident and had forgotten about it. This time our VCR (this thing that plays giant videotapes) turned on by itself and began playing the tape that was in it.
At 2:57 you can hear the baby cry of happiness.
that was an amazing performance!!!!
also the sound quality is poor,the video you're watching has updated audio from the live cd
I posted me jamming to this song! My favorite version..... Love it! Love it! Love it!
I was only a year old when this happened. This is when a time machine becomes useful. To see this and Queen Live Killers
I LOVE PINK FLOYD, they are genious, some of the deepest minds and greatests musitians of all time
@MissLauraDevine Live in Vancouver! Went to the Dark Side of the Moon show and it was a mind-blowing experience
Roger here at Tacoma Dome... Dec.11th !!! 2nd to last show of tour !!! Gonna be awesome !
JM is correct. The first performers to appear on the stage in the original "Wall" concerts were not the actual members of Pink Floyd; they were the backup musicians in Floyd masks. What's more, if you want to see what the masks looked like, they are on the cover of the live CD of this concert, the one that came out a few years ago called "Is There Anybody out There?"
best rendition of any song.. EVER
Watching on German T.V., "The Wall" perfomed in Berlin in 1990 was a seriously interesting television viewing. Seeing the Scorpions perform this song (In The Flesh) in Berlin for me was the highlight. Seeing Sinead O'Connor perform the song "Mother" was the low-point.
i like how one of their props is an entire band
@TheOwlsOfGaHoole I think I was reading Rolling Stone magazine, and it said "While watching high definition footage of David Gilmour playing the solo to Comfortably Numb back in 1980, footage that will soon one day be availible to fans"....
There are more comments confirming to people that they aren't Pink Floyd than actual comments asking/complaining that they aren't Pink Floyd
@brokenimages I know, its so cool that they put together a various of musicians, made them put on Pink Floyd life masks and perform the first song :D
And Roger hasn't forgotten that! He's kicked off nearly every solo show (ecept Pros & Cons, and KAOS On the Road, in which case he did it later.)
My favorite variation is that he now uses the German "Eins! Svie! Drie! HAMMER!" from "Waiting For the Worms" to kick off "ITF". It works perfectly. And audience members LOVE it when the spotlight shines on them as Roger sings "Get him up against the wall!" They go fucking nuts! (Kinda like the 2008 Houston show when I managed to touch the flying pig!)
great song and great concert!!
Simplesmente a melhor banda de todos os lendarios do pink floyd
the dvd is called "the wall live at earls court 1980" but it's a bootleg dvd.I bought it two years ago from a store in Athens,Greece.you have to look to stores that sell bootleg recordings
Yeah he played on Comfortably Numb and Another Brick In The Wall Part 2.
Snowy and his Goldtop!!!!
bloody brilliant
Chulada, Pink Floyd Forever and ever
Wow, eargasmic...
Yo nací el día anterior a este show. 😊
I've always loved the airplane crashing at the end. ❤
I was just thinking that myself! lmao! Been watching live versions of the Wall and have come to love In the Flesh? :)
0:22-0:24: ...God DAMN.
i dream of seeing exactly what we are seeing here.....it is my biggest dream in my life
Actually there many proshots in the full version of the documentary Behind the wall. This video shows a few proshots that were from the short version of the documentary.
@argoninja2112 The Wall shows were all direct results of the "In The Flesh Tour 77". Primarily Roger trying to sing Pigs on the Wing to a stadium of screaming people. This song alone here has many of the elements. The Emcee making firework references, the loud volume, and the fact he is already the " rotting rock star. ( Pink is sitting on the left side) Also the fact that these "players" are what the band felt they were becoming. The "Surrogate band" Pure Genius
Это как взрыв бомбы !!!
Потрясающе !!!
How the heck they can play with masks??? 1000000000/10
MrPoltergeist the same way blind musicians and professionals who don’t have to look at their hands do.
The real band is playing these guys are just acting
@@Salu_TV They're really playing their instruments, only "Roger" is lyp-synching to the voice of the real Roger who's singing backstage.
If you look closely you can see holes for the eyes in the masks.
I like how people thumb up your question, but don't even answer it...
una obra maestra! grande floyd
Greeting from Algeria....Guelma
The greatest song unsong.
I was at one of these Earls Court gigs and I remember thinking how f'king LOUD that surrogate band were. We kinda knew it wasn't Floyd though, we thought it was probably the roadies.!
For those of you who are confused: during performances of The Wall, Pink Floyd had a different band perform the song In The Flesh, wearing masks and dressing up to look like Pink Floyd. They did it in reference to the lines in the song:
"Tell me is something eluding you sunshine
Is this not what you expected to see?
If you want to find out what's behind these cold eyes
You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise"
And also the reference of a "surrogate band" in the song's reprise.
More specifically, it's part of the album's story. It's a satirical move, to play into the story being that The Wall is the story of a rock star going insane and becoming someone unlike himself because of self-isolation, psychosis, and drug abuse. So it's being reflected here, by having a "fake" band play the songs that the main character of the album's fictional story "pink", has become.
@MoveOverCasanova No, it's just the audio from the video was so poor that he updated it with the audio from the live album. It's just really out of sync.
Gonna see the show next year, can't fcking wait!!
Well, I think the thing was that, playing in stadiums, as they did on their previous two US tours in 75 and 77, Roger felt that much of the audience was so far away, that they would have no idea who the musicians onstage were, because you couldn't see their faces.
So they made life masks of each of the four members of Pink Floyd, and had the Surrogate Band, as they were known, wear them. For this song, it's the Surrogate Band playing, with Roger hidden backstage singing.
1980 something that I love
i get the joke even if those who have given you a thumbs down don't. good one, gold.
i wonder how much different it must have been to hear this music before the movie was out. This concert was 81, The Wall the movie came out in 82. Must have been weird to hear it without the visualization of Pink (Geldof) and the hammer army, and a bunch of other stuff too :p
Wish I were there.
I love this song
OMG, thank you for that. Damn, that creeped me out a little with the rubber mask.
Classic of our lives!!!
Wow, really? Thats like, the best thing I have ever herd! He better come to Washington!
which ones pink?
+Johnny t And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it riding the gravy train...
He stayed back at the hotel..
Lol
pink isn't well
This song is so badass. This is how you kick off a rock show.
lol, he's right though.
Watch the documentary "Behind The Wall". Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters say themselves "We were so faceless…that you could practically send out an entirely different band to play Pink Floyd shows." And that's exactly what they did for the In The Flesh? And The Wall tours…they had a group of musicians play the intro (although now Waters just does it himself.)
Dude, it's even on the Wikipedia page for The Wall…Just Google it.
no.i've got the whole show on dvd,the only songs the surrogate band plays is "in the flesh?" and "in the flesh" at the second part of the show with pink floyd standing beside them
You sir are correct. if you read the notes of this particular performance The Floyd actually had a surrogate band, just for this song. if you continue watching the video they actually play this concert. I bought this CD and on the cover is the 4 masks that were cast.
Correct. I've seen another time more all video and you're in the right.
@TacomaPaul im seeing roger at the honda center, annaheim dec.13, its gonna rock!!! by the way out of this whole tour, david gilmour is gonna suprise everyone and show up at one of the shows!!! keep your fingers crossed. >:-D
i love this fucking riff!!!!!!!!
こっから始まる全編のビデオを持っていたなぁ。
あれ、何だったけ?感動ものだったのに。どこ行った?
一応Richard Wrightも参加してたはず。
また見たいなぁ。全部デジタル化してくれよ、誰でもいいから。
did they intentionally cut off the announcer?
Yes
Holy shit! Those first two notes kick my ass!
yeah, you're right! :D
and for those who still don't believe, take a look at the drummer. he's not Nick Mason, Nick is kind of a "lazy-bones" when drumming. it's his style...
all of the band on stage is synching. the real Pink Floyd plays the live song, but behind that curtain
I was fooled the first time I watched this. I didn’t realize it was a ‘surrogate band’ until after the song was over. Brilliant!
Gonna see him in DC!!
_The idea to include live concert footage of any significant length for The Wall film was dropped shortly before the final shows took place. There are conflicting statements regarding the professionally filmed footage. It had been widely believed that 'the wrong type of film' had been used and the results were dark and murky. Mark Fisher, partly responsible for designing the show said the footage was: 'very dark and horrible and boring and should be burned'._
damn right! rest in peace syd.
@DyingPulseProduction Nope, it's Andy Bown (the second bassist who toured with them). Roger was singing from off-stage. Bown (and the other "surrogate band "members) wore PInk Floyd masks as a sort of vindication of Roger's statement that once a band gets as famous as Pink Floyd as an entity, it almost doesn't matter who's on the stage anymore, because people are there for the spectacle and the experience, rather than connecting with the artist personally through their music.
Awesome. Thanks :)
fuckin' amazing song. pink floyd rocks!
i like how the music cuts him off from the intro speech.
now thats a good way to open a rock show. thats just awesome
They replaced themselves with other musicans in this song. They were sometimes called "The Faceless Band" because nobody ever knew what they looked like. So they wantes to test the crows to see if they actually knew it wasn't them playing. Genius.
I wonder that too. Each of the surrogates were well-rehearsed for the whole show; they did supporting parts when they weren't pretending to be Pink Floyd. But I don't care how MUCH you rehearse; NOBODY can sing like Roger at his best! So Andy Bown (as "Roger) MUST have been lyp-synching to Roger singing backstage.
I also like how the surrogate Floyd had very little equipment visible on stage.
If I could have seen any band or show, it would be Pink Floyd. Only being 13, I don't think that would be quite possible. Unless, Roger decides to do another Wall tour.
i'd have given AMYTHING to have been there!!!!!!!