After seeing Pink Floyd live in Boston, I became somewhat obsessed. As you know, I had been a fan of Pink Floyd music since The Academy Days. Now, I wanted to explore the rest of their albums.
I also saw them live again in Chicago at Soldier Field. WXKE was having a concert bus trip. For $100 you got a ticket and a ride on big bus to and from the show. The $100 seems cheap compared to ticket prices these days. I would highly recommend this option. It was a great evening. Three buses left town in the afternoon and headed for Chicago. About halfway we got off the highway and pulled up to a little liquor store in the middle of nowhere. Three buses of Pink Floyd fans disembarked, formed a line and wiped out that little stores inventory of beer and more. I bet that was a record setting day for that little store. They never saw it coming and probably have this record on the books and still no idea why.
The show was just as amazing. The changed the set list a little. They didn’t play Poles Apart like they did in Boston. That was one of my favorites but it didn’t take away from the rest of the show. Another difference I noticed was that the lasers that were beaming into space around wide open Foxboro, were contained inside the stadium in downtown Chicago. I suppose they couldn’t have them shining into the neighboring buildings or the busy airports of the area.
When the live CD, Pulse came out, I was eager to check it out. I hoped that it would capture the shows I had seen. I must admit that I was a little disappointed. They did the entire Dark Side Of The Moon as a big section of the show instead of the stuff we saw. Still they managed to include a lot of great songs but they skipped some good ones.