“It was odd because Pink Floyd always tried to avoid the spotlight, so no one really knew who was in the band, except for the real diehards. “In 1999, he hadn’t done a show in 10 years and nobody knew what to do with it,” Khalaf recalls. Tour manager/front-of-house engineer Trip Khalaf has been mixing for Waters since 1999, watching the artist become more comfortable in the limelight. Taking care of David Gilmour’s vocal parts is second lead singer Robbie Wyckoff.įOH engineer/tour manager Trip Khalaf (right) with crew chief/system engineer Robert Wiebel Smith and Snowy White background vocalists Mark Lennon, Michael Lennon, Kipp Lennon and Jon Joyce keyboardists Harry Waters-Waters’ son-and Jon Carin drummer Graham Broad and, of course, Waters on bass. It’s a visually stunning experience with top-notch sound, helped out by the incredible backing band: guitarists Dave Kilminster, G.E. Each box also displays occasionally chaotic video images, some of which include pictures of armed forces casualties, snippets from the original The Wall video, and B-52 bombers dropping crosses, stars of David, Islamic crescents and logos of Shell Oil and Mercedes Benz. As each box is put into its place, the audience’s view of the band and Waters is slowly blurred out. Of course, the wall comes crashing down at the end of the second-half. While this may seem like a purely philosophical topic, Waters also brings it into physical reality: By the time the first-half of his performance is complete, a 36-foot wall made of cardboard boxes has been erected onstage. The double-disc album-played in its entirety on this tour-concentrates on the walls people build around themselves for survival.
Fast-forward to today, and the same political issues, fear and stress on global matters that formed the basis of that album are still quite relevant-and Waters demonstrates this in his jaw-dropping, two-hour (with half-hour intermission) show. It’s been 30 years since Roger Waters penned Pink Floyd’s mind-blowing album The Wall. Roger Waters (far right) performing with the rest of “The Wall” band
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