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The wall was performed live in only 4 cities (LA, NYC, London, Berlin) because it was too big and expensive to move. My dad saw it and to this day it’s one of his favorite experiences. They literally built a styrofoam wall in front of the band as they played until at one point you can’t even see them.

Well anyway about 15 years ago I’m showing the old man YouTube for the first time. And I ask him, is there any old memories we should go look up, he says, see if there’s any videos from The Wall. And there is! An entire bootleg of the concert from 1981. It was magical, I gave my dad a Time Machine.

Thanks YouTube!

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I unfortunately didn't have the opportunity to watch Pink Floyd play live.

I did watch Roger Waters play The Wall twice though. Complete with styrofoam wall and an airplane flying overhead and crashing onto it.

Incredible concert! Hence the second time. :)

One of my two most vivid memories is seeing pink Floyd live while on acid.

I'm not advocating for drug use unless you can get a time machine and go see them at the height of their fame. And then I am immediately advocating for you to be on acid.

And end up like Syd Barrett or Pep Mangione? No thanks.

> They literally built a styrofoam wall

Hope they know the difference between inches and feet [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/zg5Ovdu6bOE?feature=shared

Christmas is coming, I suggest gifting him The Wall: Live in Berlin 1990 on DVD if you can find it. Or just forwarding him this URL: https://youtu.be/SU2m7uOiAZI

One of my favourite live performances of music of all time. Playing at the Real wall to several hundred thousand people. Just amazing stuff.

> One of my favourite live performances of music of all time.

As a broke college kid, my friends and I all camped out for tickets (remember those days) to the Division Bell tour in 1994. We got phenomenal seats, and the show is definitely the bet live performances I have seen. The second act as a complete play through of Dark Side. Lots of great memories from that entire night including sitting in traffic to get to the venue. Getting lost in the parking lot in pouring down rain to the point of asking the cops for directions to where we parked.

I got into Floyd from my dad, and he never got to see them live. The closest he got was 15 years later when we went to see Aussie Floyd. It was the closest thing to the real thing I had ever seen and told him it was a really damn good 2nd place.

> They literally built a styrofoam wall on front of the band as they played until at one point you can’t even see them.

I never had the chance to go to a Pink Floyd concert, but I saw Roger Waters a few years ago and the huge wall was there too, along with a helicopter if I remember well.

I saw the show in London. As a show it was brilliant and an unforgettable night. As live music performances better around then were The Cure and Mike Oldfield.

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