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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: David Gilmour (concert review)
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Date: Sun, 27-May-84 02:53:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 27 02:53:42 1984
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Gilmour played Boston Friday and Saturday.  I saw the Saturday (5/26) show
and was impressed.  The 40-year-old member of the dormant (allegedly
temporarily) Pink Floyd showed the talent that made his place in that
band.  He played every song off of "About Face" and several choice
selections from "Gilmour" (his only other solo album, released about
5-6 years ago).  He also played "Money" (of DSM fame) and "Run Like
Hell" and "Comfortably Numb" from "The Wall."  The renditions were
reasonable, assuming one was allowing leeway for not having Roger
Waters present.  The instrumental intesity on "Comforatbly Numb" was
staggering, although the vocals were not as good as one would hope.
The crowd appeared to be mainly old Pink Floyd fans (judging from 
tee-shirts and reactions to the PF songs) searching for some of
the Pink Floyd magic.  I, for one, was not disappointed with the
performace, except for the usual obnoxious things about concerts
(people screaming during the playing, music so loud it's driven into
distortion... I'd forgotten why I stopped going to rock concerts).
Anyone who liked Pink Floyd or likes either of Gilmour's albums
should be more than satisfied with his concert (assuming it comes
to your area...)
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh