Don't know how many of you are into Pink Floyd but one of the legendary members of this group is playing Mumbai tomorrow

http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=11&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=20665

I was surfing for business news on business-standard and was stunned to see this article.

Man, those who go to see this concert won't need any integration if they decide to come here.

Saw Waters last year at the ACC. Not too many desis there- perhaps a handful.
A real mind-blowing experience.

Roger is pencilled in again this year for TO.

A good part of my University days was spent listening to Pink Floyd ! Their music was so distinctive and their highly developed philosophical lyrics were unforgettable. Animals, The Dark side of the Moon, The Final Cut (especially the Post War Dream song) - I can never forget those albums.

Thanks for the link and nice to hear of them, I can still smell those days of musical experimentation !

For those Pink Floyd fans out there.

Here's a review I saw on the net on their concert in TO.

Roger Waters Spaces Out Toronto


Turn on, tune in, space out! That's the message the back screen on the stage seemed to send as an arm kept turning on the radio, tuning in and choosing a song as the person puffed on a cigarette and swigged some booze (Johnny Walker's Black Label, I think it was) and Roger Waters, one of the principals of Pink Floyd, strolled onto the stage to strike the first chord, a signal it seemed for the audience at the ACC to light up and pervade the auditorium with the sweet smell of vegetation (you know the kind I am 'reefering' to), and the concert exploded into a surreal realm as Roger along with his band entranced the public with their phenomenal performance!

The first set consisting of new and older familiar material like 'Mother', 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', 'Have A Cigar', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Great Gig In The Sky' with a spaceperson floating high in the auditorium followed by the customary pig also floating, but this time with 'Impeach Bush Now' emblazoned on its behind, really spaced out the people, extracting from them loud exclamations of approval! In between all this, Roger sang a new composition entitled 'Leaving Beirut', about an Arab family who looked after him during his trip there when he was 17, backed with comic type illustrated panels and speech blurbs on the humongous screen behind. As he sang the lyrics 'education f%#ked you up', the crowd roared with enthusiasm reminding them of the lyrics in 'Another Brick In The Wall.'

Then followed a short interval and the band came back on treating the admiring attendees to the ultra-super highlight of the evening: a superb live rendition of the greatest rock album of all time- Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side Of The Moon'- backed with surrealistically psychedelic and fast moving images on the mother of a screen behind them. I don't know what is on the dark side of the moon, but that spaced out and flawless execution of the album really sent me there! One of the lady singers (I am sorry I couldn't catch her name) belted out her guts in amazingly high-pitched notes with real emotion (Grace Slick - take a bow) prompting thunderous applause from the enrapt audience! This was as good as it gets!

Then for the encore set, what other than the much anticipated 'Another Brick in the Wall' with the legendary lyrics "We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control…" followed by yet another vintage Floyd tune 'Comfortably numb' with the backdrop screen showing a person taking deep, deep drags!

The awesome, dynamite, awe-inspiring, phenomenal, fantabulous, spaced-out, far-out, way-out, out of this world, concert on September 20, 2006, was a real mind- numbing experience!