Giants Stadium

CBG Classic Master Video Series Vol.16

* Battery changes occur between songs 9-10 on disc 1 and songs 18-19 on disc 2.

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This is “CBG Classic Master Video Series Vol.16”.

1987 was a great year for Pink Floyd fans. Three of the original band mates David Gilmour kept together and led decided to make a new album and tour for the first time since 1981. If you could call the 80-81 tours actual tours. They only played 2 venues in 1980, LA and NY, and then 2 venues in 1981, London and Dortmund. So it was really since 1977. This was going to be a tour without Roger Waters, who had only toured once for a very short tour in 1984 & 1985, only hitting major cities primarily in the Northeast and Midwest and a few cities in Europe. So the anticipation was really high for this tour. As luck would have it, Roger decides to tour also at the same time. Both starting their tours in the fall in the northeast, Roger in August and Pink Floyd in September. So if you were a Floyd fan, you definitely got your fill at the end of 1987.

Unfortunately, by the time I started filming, both Roger and Pink Floyd had been through the northeast. So I only got a chance to see the shows, and I went to several of both bands. But the great thing about the northeast, they always got a second swing through the area of a band. Especially from a band of the likes of Pink Floyd that sold out in minutes all of the shows. 3 nights at MSG, gone. Philly, Boston gone in minutes. So the demand was always there and always is in the Northeast. When tickets went on sale for 2 Giants Stadium shows in 1988 to close out the major US tour, I had to go attempt it. They ended up coming back again to the USA for a few shows in Cleveland, Detroit and Nassau Coliseum, NY in August where they would record a live album and video in Long Island called “The Delicate Sound of Thunder”.

This was the best light show to date that I ever saw in a concert. And by then I had seen a lot of cool light shows. They had some real inventive moving light pods, telecoping light devices, video screens that blended beautifully with the music, laser light beams through the air and projected onto a screen, the floating inflatable pig, Yea, the PIG!, pyrotechnics and flames and they used all of it so effectively to build to a crescendo at the end of the show. For those of us that didn’t get the opportunity to see them in the stadium tour they did in 1977, I am sure this production in 1988 was above and beyond what they did in 1977, although I would bet that some of the key common elements have always been there in their shows. I am not an expert historian on this subject matter. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express before this show! And I have the video to prove it. I don’t remember what I did to get into this show, but I do remember the crowds and security being more mellow at the Pink Floyd shows. Maybe the band and management said to security to cool it on the people in the pre-show walkthrough?!

I filmed this show on the 2nd mezzanine at Giants Stadium in the first row. I started a few rows up under the overhang of the third level protected from the rain by the overhang and all of the people in the section hadn't arrived yet. So the people sitting were sparse. And if anyone remembers that stadium, these sections were only like 10-12 rows deep. The security/ushers used to stand at the entrance behind you for the shows. So when there aren't many people seated and you hold a camcorder to your face, the ushers can see you really easily. Plus they were seating people around me too, coming from behind me. So after realizing that it was going to be a total mess to film with the people in front of me and their heads getting in the way of my view as I tried to hold the big camcorder up to my face, and security and ushers behind me coming down without me being able to see them, I decided to move down closer. I just made the decision after the first song because of how much trouble I had filming with heads in front of me and ushers around me. If I didn't make the decision then, the whole video would have been trash. I ended up in the front row of the section and got lucky as no one came for that seat or the one next to me. I think the reason the front seats in row 1 were empty was because it was raining and those seats were not really protected from the rain from the third level above me as it was blowing towards the side I was on. Actually it was more swirling as the Giants Stadium winds did in that stadium for football. Somehow, I was also able to bring in a small umbrella to the show because it was raining. No security person asked me to leave it at the gate. It was a little tote umbrella. The great thing about the 2nd mezzanine was you are covered by the 300 massive level above you. That is why I went there in the first place, to be able to film in the rain. Well, in the 1st row of the section, the rain was blowing in onto me and so I took out the umbrella and covered myself with it in the two seats and filmed the show under the dome of the umbrella. I was completely covered and hidden from any security or ushers that would or could look down on me. They would only see the umbrella if they did. And I was protected from the rain too. The funny thing was, I do remember lifting the umbrella in between the encores and the 2nd set just to look around and it was packed. But to me it seamed like I reduced the feel of the entire stadium down to the two seats I had covered with the umbrella over me...almost like I was in a tunnel filming between the railing and the concrete wall of the 2nd mezzanine and the space above me of the umbrella dome. That was the only time I ever filmed like that. But it was effective to get the entire show (minus the first song before I moved) that otherwise, if I was not covered, I would not have filmed it in the rain in that first row, getting my $1400 camcorder wet for a 3 hour show.

So, for your viewing pleasure, here is night one of Pink Floyd at Giants Stadium, across the Hudson River, two months before the Delicate Sound of Thunder hit at Nassau Coliseum. CBG5150 Posted to DIME 2014-06-29.

Dodano:  23.9.2015