| Waters, Roger - Montreal (CBG) (DVD-9) |
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| Recorded at the Forum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Great audience recording. From the info file: Roger Waters The Forum Montreal, Quebec, Canada November 06, 1987 video: (CBG) Ricoh R-600 (same specs as Sony CCD-V5) 8mm camcorder (w/ 2X teleconverter lens) master 8mm analog tape; NTSC, 4:3 PAR, 29.97 fps; transferred to harddrive via a firewire using a Sony TRV-330 8mm digital camera w/ Time Base Correction; video capture, editing, and 2-pass VBR encoding done with Sony Vegas Pro 12 at 8.3K max, 5.2K avg, 1K min; authored to DVD in Sony DVD Architect Pro 6. audio: acquired from Yeeshkul - audience recording of unknown lineage; LPCM 1536 bit All video editing, audio synching and DVD authoring by Silver Stallion. running time: 2 hrs 40 mins 1. Radio Waves 2. Welcome To The Machine 3. Who Needs Information 4. Money 5. In The Flesh Pt 2 6. Have A Cigar 7. Pigs (Three Different Ones) 8. Wish You Were Here 9. Mother 10. Molly's Song 11. Me Or Him 12. The Powers That Be 13. Going To Live In LA 14. Sunset Strip 15. Fish Report with A Beat 16. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert 17. Southampton Dock 18. Arnold Layne 19. If 20. 5:06AM (Every Strangers Eyes) 21. Not Now John 22. Another Brick In The Wall Pt1 23. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 24. Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2 25. Nobody Home 26. Home 27. Four Minutes 28. The Tide Is Turning 29. Breathe 30. Brain Damage 31. Eclipse 32. Another Brick Jam Roger Waters - vocals, bass guitar and acoustic guitar Andy Fairweather-Low - guitar, bass guitar and backing vocals Jay Stapley - lead guitar and backing vocals Paul Carrack - keyboards and vocals Graham Broad - drums and percussion Mel Collins - saxophone Doreen Chanter - backing vocals Katie Kissoon - backing vocals cbg's notes: I only have one request, that you don't take these files and post them on other torrent sites. I have many shows to upload. I will upload, let them get seeded by others and after a majority have downloaded the files completely, remove my files so I can seed something new. I prefer to manage my own shows on DIME and The Traders Den. I will upload to other sites when I wish to for select shows. Thanks for honoring my wishes in advance. This is “CBG Classic Master Video Series Vol. 30”. I delayed this due to the database issues at TTD. I also switched the order back and forth to do this release this weekend. Also, I was made aware that a really generated copy of my Roger show (this same video) was posted previously on torrent sites way in the past. I did see it and what probably happened is that one of Pierre's friends gave it out that had access to it. Pierre was the only one who had a copy of this since that night in Montreal. This is the first time I am releasing this show. When Pink Floyd and Roger Waters decided to start touring in the fall of 1987, it was kind of magical for Pink Floyd fans. Roger was around in 1984-85 with the Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking tour, which was very small at its inception when Eric Clapton was on guitar for the first 19 shows. Roger did nine shows in Europe which I did not know about back then with no internet, and then 10 shows in the Northeast and Midwest in the United States. I was lucky enough to see one of those in New Jersey at Brendan Byrne Arena. He did come back without Eric Clapton in 1985 for some more shows, but that was it for him. So I was very excited for the new tours in 1987 with Roger Waters in support of a new album Radio KAOS and Pink Floyd with the new album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Roger was starting this tour in the Northeast. Right near my home at the time in Providence, RI. As it turns out, this would only be a US Tour with only two final shows in London to follow. It was also a time when the Motley Crue Girls Girls Girls tour was around with Whitesnake opening. I wasn’t filming yet. My first show filming was to come on Oct 10, 1987 with Lynyrd Skynyrd at the New Haven Coliseum (CBG Classic Master Video Series Vol.5). So when Pink Floyd came around, I was audio taping only. I went to see Whitesnake / Motley Crue on Aug 13 in Worcester at the Centrum. Unknown to me was Roger rehearsing in Providence for his tour. That same night that I was at Motley Crue, Roger let about 200 people that were hanging around the Providence Civic Center into the building to watch a complete dress rehearsal of the show for free. I was so bummed to hear that the next night from fans out front who were lucky to be there and let in when I went to opening night in Providence on Aug 14th. I saw Roger the next night in Hartford also, 12th row on the floor. When he came around two weeks later, I caught the show at Madison Square Garden where he brought Claire Torry out for a special encore of 'The Great Gig in the Sky' that brought the roof down. Then two nights later I saw the show in a pavilion in Saratoga, NY where Roger spoke about owning a horse in England that won that day, since we were at the Saratoga horse racing track. In the fall, he came back around the Northeast and played Portland, ME, a small place I didn’t know of at the time, but wish I did. But I was seeing Aerosmith that night in New Haven. Then on Nov 4th he played the Meadowlands Arena but I had just filmed Aerosmith on successive Monday and Tuesday nights and needed to work the next day for both. Those were the 2nd and 3rd shows I filmed. So traveling down to NJ 2 1/2 hours for a third show in a row was not doable. But Roger was playing Montreal on a Friday night of that week. So I took the day off and traveled up north. I had to attempt filming this show. I met Pierre who went to the show with me but did not film. He wss a big Roger Waters fan also. He filmed the last show of the tour with Eric Clapton in Montreal in 1984. So he was excited about seeing this show and not needing to film. I would be filming this time. I remember thinking that I needed to travel all the way up to Montreal to try and film this show because I didn’t think I could get it into a venue around me. I remember him telling me they are all old men that just take your tickets and you can walk right in with it in a bag. I wanted to play it safe, so I strapped the camera to my back; but he was right, no search, just tear the ticket and let you go. We went to his usual place straight on in the upper level, but I moved slightly to the right so I could get mostly around the Montreal Canadians square jumbotron scoreboard that hung in the middle of the arena. I didn’t want it blocking the whole round screen that Roger had because like Pink Floyd shows of the past, it was so integral to the show. It slightly obstructs the screen in the upper left corner, but it was the best we could do to position ourselves in seats that weren’t ours. From the opening notes I was so psyched to be finally filming this show and getting an opportunity to do it. This was just the 4th show I had ever filmed (after filming Lynyrd Skynyrd and two Aerosmith shows). The Skynyrd was in New Haven, CT and I filmed it from the left side near the stage with the camera lens. I then filmed Aerosmith in the small (8,000 seat) Springfield Civic Center on the side and used the camera lens only. The next night I did Dokken and Aersomith in New Haven on the side close to the stage, again with the camera lens. For this show, I bought a 2x teleconverter lens to film because the Montreal Forum was bigger than New Haven and I wanted to be able to get closer to the band with my zooming. Well, this was the first time I ever used a 2x lens. It is also the first time I filmed from the back of the arena in the 2nd level. So I was the furthest I had ever been and I had a 2x lens that made every movement seem more intensified when I was zoomed in. So there is more motion in this show than normal. But I had to start somewhere using a 2x lens and develop my craft. As it is, I was able to get twice as close as I would have been able to with just the camera lens. So to me, it was worth it. I had seen the show a few times and knew it quite well. So when Brain Damage / Eclipse ended I knew the show was over. I broke down the camera, lens off, mic off and wrapped it in a coat. The crowd was cheering loudly. It was very loud. Then the house lights came on. In America, when that happens, everyone stops cheering and begins to file out of the arena. Not in Montreal though. This was sort of crazy. People stood and clapped and pounded the seats and wouldn’t leave. This went on for like 10 minutes. So we just sat there and watched it. I decided to start the camera back up and film the crowd some with just the camera lens. I panned the crowd and zoomed in and the crowd just kept cheering. Amazing! This would never happen in America. The lights dimmed and the crowd goes bonkers. This was the true meaning of the crowd bringing the band back for an encore. An unplanned encore!!! Other than seeing the J. Geils Band on the Love Stinks tour back in 1980 at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center where the crowd brought back the band themselves eight times! Yes eight … with some of the times having two or three songs in the encore, and the lights going on and then back off a couple times…this was the only other time that this happened at a show I was at. This was not staged. It didn’t happen anywhere else that I went to in the USA for the KAOS tour. The crowd wouldn’t leave and they made it known to the band backstage with their clapping and stomping. Roger even remarked about it when he came out saying 'You talked us into it.' So I quickly reassembled the camera back together (you can see me screwing the 2x lens back on the camera) and filmed the true encore. It was so special to me as this was the first rare thing I ever filmed. Roger said they didn’t know any more songs, so they were just going to do a little more of Another Brick. How freakin’ cool was that?!! From the beginning, it was a jamming version … and he let the whole crowd sing the chorus. The crowd was so loud singing that song. I was getting goose pimples on my arms and felt my head tingling. I was blown away by this and lucky enough to film it. As if recording the whole show wasn’t enough, this one song made it so worth it to travel all the way to Montreal six hours to film this show. A show on the KAOS tour. In the house Pierre built. What a night! In retrospect, I should have went with Pierre the next night to Quebec City to film the show too since it was a Saturday night, but I didn’t. Because the only other time Roger did this was in Quebec City the next night. This doesn’t appear on Setlist.FM, but it happened. Pierre went and filmed the show the next night in Quebec City and said that it took like 15 minutes and they finally came back onstage and did Another Brick. But he was all packed up and walking through the concourse around the arena by then and didn’t bother to set back up. He just went back inside and watched it. But I got it. And now you all can see it too after all these years. I would see this show one more time at the Worcester Centrum, MA Nov 16th for the last show of the US Tour. A nice bookend to the tour that started back on August 14th in Providence, RI. Roger’s son was there too and the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Harry and they put that on the screen in green text (Happy Birthday Harry!!!) as it was happening. I also sat next to a guy who drove a truck for the band on the tour. He was watching the show for the first time. Kind of a thank you gift by Roger. He was amazed I was recording audio and I showed the deck and mic to him and he was very cool and didn’t say anything. As a special treat on this show, and since Roger has never released a KAOS proshot video of this tour, this might be the best we are ever going to get. So, we found a great audio someone did that was dedicated to doing audio up front by the speaker stack. But then I had an idea. With today's technology, and Silver Stallion's talent, I proposed a challenge to him. I collected audio since 1980 and religiously recorded those westwood one or superstars in concert or King Biscuit concert series syndicated radio shows each weekend and had recorded the Roger Waters Quebec City Colisee show from the night after Montreal back in 1988 off the radio, Since then I downloaded a direct album copy of the show with no radio ambience (like most Roger fans). Then, and this befuddles me, I discovered last year there was another radio broadcast in London from the first of two shows he played there. I NEVER knew this! I don't know why, this is something I would have traded for or recorded if it was out there. The best thing about it was that all of the songs from the Radio KAOS album are performed live on this broadcast including a few other songs. The Quebec City radio show had a lot of the Pink Floyd songs on it and together, all of the songs were covered except for 'To Live In LA' (my favorite song from this tour and a song that was just a b-side to the single from the album and not on the official album) and 'Not Now John' which makes sence since the word 'F#*k' is used in the lyrics of the song a few times. The other songs not covered were the video Billy finds from Abby Road Studios from the Syd Barrett Pink Floyd era 'Arnold Layne' and of course the last encore 'Another Brick Jam' which was a special case encore. So I asked Silver Stallion to try and synch the two different radio broadcasts from Quebec City and London to the Montreal video as a second audio source. There were a couple instances were the band was at liberty to play as they wanted and it is reflected in the synch, but remarkably, the radio sources match amazingly well. Silver Stallion did a great job matching each song throughout the show. The funny thing was, there were a few songs repeated in both broadcasts and the London versions from a show two weeks after the Montreal show actually synched better than the show that was the next night in Quebec City. But all in all, you have audio #1, which is the complete audience recording someone made next to the speaker stack up front and then audio #2, which is for the most part, a radio broadcast synch. A real treat! This was something I always wanted to do but never could get it to synch manually mixing it 'on the fly' with two analog sources back in 88-89. But with the computer technology now, it can be achieved. A lot of tedious stretching and shifting of the analog audio...and it worked great. Thanks to Silver Stallion for the effort you put into doing this for me and everyone who will enjoy it. If you are a purist, and it bothers you somehow that this was done, then either pass on downloading it or just play audio #1 on your dvd player. To everyone who wants this, enjoy the live radio broadcast to Quebec City and London (Ha!) of Roger Waters K.A.O.S. from the Montreal Forum!!! |