Gilmour's Luck & Strange Tour

[lapseofreason]

I went to the last night at the RAH. What a great show! Loved it, including the songs that I didn't know, and the lighting was spectacular. It was the first time I'd seen him since Earls Court in 1980 and, in a way, it felt like I was saying goodbye to him. My only gripe was the seating at the RAH. We'd paid £250+ for good seating on the floor. This is the photo I took when we arrived and I said to my friend that we'd have a great view of the show.


Or so I thought! Look at the seats. They aren't staggered Left and Right as you'd see in most venues or cinemas, they are in straight lines. They were also on the flat and not banked so you couldn't see over the person in front of you. When the show started, there was a largish man sitting about 6 rows in front of me. This meant that the man sitting behind him had to lean to his left to see round him. The man sitting behind HIM had to lean even further to the left to see around both of them. And so on, back to me, by which time my views to the stage were blocked both to the left and to the right. For the first 20 minutes, I barely caught glimpses of David on stage and that was only by (almost) resting my head on the shoulder of the guy sitting to my left. At no time did I get a view of the whole band. Things improved when they started projecting the band onto the overhead screen but it was so frustrating, having paid so much, to be able to see so little. Very poor on the part of the RAH.

That aside, magnificent show! I hope someone captured it on video.

You caught me on your picture! Bald guy on the left with green backpack.
I'm 1,9m tall and a bloke more or less my height but twice broader sat in front of me. He blocked completely my view of Romany and Guy on stage

[PhxHorn]

Getting ready for Intuit Dome on Oct 25, 2024. I'm getting emails telling me I need to install the Intuit Dome app on my phone, so I went to Google Play to download the app. Google Play told me I need to create a new password, which took 20 minutes since it kept locking up. Once I had the Intuit Dome app installed, I had to create either a Gameface ID or Identity Pass to enter the venue. Apparently Gameface is a facial recognition thing, so I picked Identity Pass and saved it to my Google Wallet. But my concert tickets were with Ticketmaster, and I had to somehow link that with the Intuit Dome app. Ticketmaster decided my password had expired and it was time to change it. After doing so, it decided that my browser activity was suspicious and locked me out. I logged into Ticketmaster via my desktop PC and changed my password, then uninstalled the Ticketmaster app on my phone, re-installed it, and it still didn't want to let me into the app. Finally I typed the Ticketmaster url into my phone browser and logged in, and it grudgingly opened my account and transferred my tickets to the Intuit Dome app without my clicking anything. All that took me a full hour, and I know what I'm doing with apps and computers. Yikes! If anyone is going, take some time and get your apps together in advance!

So I think I just might be able to get into the show. If we're really lucky, I might have a recording when it's over. I was thinking of trying to film the show, but I want to enjoy this one. If there is enough cell phone footage I'll see if I can assemble a multicam. If you intend to film, you might keep screen brightness turned down to avoid annoying your neighbors, turn down the exposure one F-stop so the faces aren't washed out, and use higher resolution while filming horizontally. Hopefully we'll have a nice record of this show when it's all over. 🙂

[NuffM]

Getting ready for Intuit Dome on Oct 25, 2024. I'm getting emails telling me I need to install the Intuit Dome app on my phone, so I went to Google Play to download the app. Google Play told me I need to create a new password, which took 20 minutes since it kept locking up. Once I had the Intuit Dome app installed, I had to create either a Gameface ID or Identity Pass to enter the venue. Apparently Gameface is a facial recognition thing, so I picked Identity Pass and saved it to my Google Wallet. But my concert tickets were with Ticketmaster, and I had to somehow link that with the Intuit Dome app. Ticketmaster decided my password had expired and it was time to change it. After doing so, it decided that my browser activity was suspicious and locked me out. I logged into Ticketmaster via my desktop PC and changed my password, then uninstalled the Ticketmaster app on my phone, re-installed it, and it still didn't want to let me into the app. Finally I typed the Ticketmaster url into my phone browser and logged in, and it grudgingly opened my account and transferred my tickets to the Intuit Dome app without my clicking anything. All that took me a full hour, and I know what I'm doing with apps and computers. Yikes! If anyone is going, take some time and get your apps together in advance

Long gone are the days of just purchasing a physical ticket and the deal being done.

[Simond]

I got both clips in the highest possible quality. Will post them soon as part of my YouTube collection.

Hi Alan,

I've been away for a few days. Just wondered if I missed this while I was away? If not, no rush, I'll keep an eye out for it in due course.

Cheers,
Simon

[Alan]

You missed nothing! I'm working on finalizing the metadata for the videos from the Brighton and Rome shows, will post them soon.

[Gilmour Is God]

Being one of the lucky few who went to all 6 shows, I personally rank them (from memory, haven't listened back to my recordings yet):

1. 11th (some great character to it and fantastic performances overall)
2. 9th
3. 14th
4. 15th
5. 10th
6. 12th (he struggled to sing and play here I thought)

It's hard to rank inbetween the best and worst, as I thought they were all pretty solid, but that's what I currently have. I'm including my experience of the concert itself there as well, as although the 10th's performance was better than the 9th's, it was otherworldly seeing the first one from the right centre of the 8th row in the arena. Most likely my best recording out of the 6 as well, the sound was jaw-dropping.

“He struggled to sing and play on the 12th” - You must have been at a different gig than me!!! You should listen to the show again then give another judgement!!!

[Vyrnnus]

Yeah, he sung and played fine on the 12th.

[jimfisheye]

Any recommendation for a best show to listen to?
I randomly downloaded Brighton 2024-09-21 the other day. I was struck how suddenly old Dave's voice sounded. Saw him on the Rattle That Lock tour. He sounded just fine and his guitar sounded great. He sounded really tired here and the guitar was merely good. Can someone tell me this was an outlier and recommend the show to rock my world?

[starship]

October 14th is the best show overall from the RAH run from my point of view, with only In Any Tongue totally messed up at the beginning of the solo. However best versions of Marooned and CN of the RAH run that day.
On the 15th, Scattered is something else !

[rontoon]

Any recommendation for a best show to listen to?
I randomly downloaded Brighton 2024-09-21 the other day. I was struck how suddenly old Dave's voice sounded. Saw him on the Rattle That Lock tour. He sounded just fine and his guitar sounded great. He sounded really tired here and the guitar was merely good. Can someone tell me this was an outlier and recommend the show to rock my world?

October 14th

[jimfisheye]

October 14th

That was such a quick definitive response. Great to hear and relieved that the 9-21 sound wasn't a new norm! Dave's guitar sounded absolutely great!

I put the KM-140 recording in the front L/R, the distorted one in the rear L/R, and the Neonknight one in the top front L/R in my 7.1.4 system. Seemed like the thing to do. I recommend it even. (Maybe try the Neonknight recorder in the sides in 7.1 or phantom centered in the sides in 5.1 or 4.0.)

Now we just need a video.

[rontoon]

Following your lead and doing the same multichannel mix!

[jimfisheye]

On the distorted source: 5.3k -5.5db .37oct, 3.9k -1.3db .46oct
It was edgy and that was my eq reaction.

[jimfisheye]

You'll have to split and nudge a few times throughout too. Not just line up the ends. More wambly than usual for digital clocks. You'll see.

[PhxHorn]

Intuit Dome 2024-10-10 coming tomorrow. Sounds like a good recording from the spot-checking I'm doing now, though there are some woo-woos from the girl behind me. Dave sang and played well. Guy Pratt admonished the audience not to film too much, and to turn off our flashlights, so there really didn't seem to be a lot of filming except for the Floyd hits. I do see one source on Youtube already with a bunch of tunes, and I filmed about 30 minutes worth, so maybe we can get a multicam out of this.

While heading back to LAX from my hotel, somebody didn't like my Uber driver's lane change, and deliberately rammed us from behind and then sped off. My recording rig was in the trunk, but despite severe damage to the rear of the car, everything survived and we were uninjured, and I was able to make my plane.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Is there some great videos for the RAH ? I have seen "Between Two Points" on a youtube account and it does not seem to be a the screen which is filmed, but the stage; the camera has some great close-ups ?

I remember Simon Hop The Pond videos (how I was "sur le cul" to watch at home David Gilmour in 2002, Roger Waters rehearsals, etc...)

Do you plan to do some matrix of some shows ?
I remember Jimfisheye amazing work using great recordings of Nick Mason's first shows from his first tour.
I'm glad several songs from an IEM surfaced. For the previous Rattle That Lock tour one IEM surfaced through a silver RoIO and MOB did a great matrix of this IEM with an audience REC.

[svaerige]

For the previous Rattle That Lock tour one IEM surfaced through a silver RoIO and MOB did a great matrix of this IEM with an audience REC.

"a great matrix" - do you seriously think so ?

the audience completely ruined all the charm of listening IEM

somebody's are talking non-stop

endless baby crying (what kind of idiots even think about taking their kids to rock concerts ?)

as for me - it's just a gruesome experience

[Rupert Pupkin]

the Rattle That Lock IEM + AUD was a good complement of the IEM only IMHO; because it added to the feeling of "being there". Like, let's say, HRV "In The Flesh '99 tour" for Roger Waters which initially was a line-feed source; and MOB did a great matrix of it. But I like to have both : the line-feed only and the matrix; (and a line-feed is not the same thing than IEM)
IEM is not exactly a SBD; depending which IEM it is you can have some click-tracks (Roger Waters tour; some weird vocals...) (which is fortunately not the case with David Gilmour's IEM from Roma (the 3 tracks are amazing; especially "Marooned" and I'm happy to have it as IEM only)

But perhaps so far, all the Roma audience recording have too much audience talking and that there is no audience recording "clean" enough from non-stop-talking to be used.

[daemonspudguy]

I think one of Roger's solo tours had an IEM leak from one of the guitarists so the guitars and also IIRC Roger's vocals were kinda distant because of that.

[Ello_Guvner]

Now we just need a video.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eQP...vOGKpxBJ4/view

Original YouTube upload here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXs...l=KieranGuitar

[PhxHorn]

I'm working on a matrix of the two Intuit Dome sources from October 25, 2024. When that's done in a couple days, I'll start working on a multicam of that show. I've already scoured Youtube, Facebook, and Reddit for videos and there is enough to do a nice job for that show. That'll take two or three weeks.