Unique 1980-1981 the Wall performances

[j.vavala513@gmail.com]

So I am making myself a pair of the Wall playlists/compilations and I wanted to see if anyone cared to offer a little help.

I am making one with all the best non-album material I can gather from the sets of demos, soundtrack album, the Final Cut related songs, and such (Movie version of What Shall We Do Now, the Thin Ice Reprise, Sexual Revolution, Teacher Teacher, none disco ABITW, etc)

But mainly I’m looking for help with unique performances from the original wall tour. Stuff like the long “Last Few Bricks”, i believe Dave handles some of Roger’s vocals on “Hey You” at one show, etc.

if anyone has anything I should check out, please do tell.

ive never really gotten into this tour as I’m a big fan of the improvisational Pink Floyd of the late 60-early 70s. But I’m giving this a shot.

[GiveBirthToSmile]

The Hey You with David vocals is from feb 8th, it's a great version
The Trial from feb 7th is a unique performance because Roger doesn't use the prerecorded vocals
Early February 1980 shows were great, Thin Ice has an extended beautiful piano intro by Rick

[GiveBirthToSmile]

Also in 1981 rehearsals, David does a quick improvised solo before the "I've become comfortably numb" line it's so unique

[PainoMan]

What recording is that 1981 rehearsal from? The Archive doesn't list any recordings for 1981 rehearsals.

[ILuvHoney]

The archive wrongly lists it as 1 August 1980, but in fact it is from 1981, as proven by the projections during Goodbye Blue Sky, which were not yet drawn during the 1980 shows.

[Journey Man]

You might want to include Empty Spaces from 1980-02-07 Los Angeles where Roger shouts out to stop the show to extinguish a stage curtain fire. It’s certainly a unique event although the track is pretty standard.

[NuffM]

February 7th 1980 for unique renditions of
- Mother, with Roger singing along with David
- WSWDN of course for the emergency halt
- Last Few Bricks of course for the long jam
- Nobody Home and Comfortably Numb because the clicktrack was going through the PA
- Stop and The Trial due to the fact that they had not introduced the idea of playback vocals for that song yet. David sang the mother's part live.

February 8th 1980 for unique renditions of
- Happiest Days/Brick 2 due to the fact that not only did the clicktracks screw up in Happiest Days and we get a longer transition, but David and Roger had to sing the kids' choir live, like in the Paramount rehearsal tape
- Mother, for the same reasons
- Last Few Bricks, same reason but not quite as long
- Hey You of course for David's contribution to the final verse
- Flesh 2 due to the fact that there is no "aaaahhh" section between the main theme and the verse. Instead, Roger just starts it as if it was Flesh 1
- Waiting For The Worms with Roger reciting the entire first speech with no megaphone playback, and no second speech at all
- Stop again for the same reason, and The Trial again for mostly the same reasons but in addition to the ones listed, David now also completely blows out his voice on the "BAAAAAAABBBE" part before singing the mother's verse again. David also carries Roger for the judge's verse. This show has a lot of moments with David doing Roger's parts because Roger ruined his voice night prior. Don't Leave Me Now from this show is a painful one.

I will write up more when a time window opens up for me, but this covers the unique things I can remember from the first two shows. Something also worth noting is that Rick's piano intro to Thin Ice is extended for the entirety of the US '80 legs, and Gary Yudman did not make his MC debut until New York.

[j.vavala513@gmail.com]

Thank you so much everyone!

[MGoBlue1989]

February 7th 1980 for unique renditions of
- Mother, with Roger singing along with David
- WSWDN of course for the emergency halt
- Last Few Bricks of course for the long jam
- Nobody Home and Comfortably Numb because the clicktrack was going through the PA
- Stop and The Trial due to the fact that they had not introduced the idea of playback vocals for that song yet. David sang the mother's part live.

February 8th 1980 for unique renditions of
- Happiest Days/Brick 2 due to the fact that not only did the clicktracks screw up in Happiest Days and we get a longer transition, but David and Roger had to sing the kids' choir live, like in the Paramount rehearsal tape
- Mother, for the same reasons
- Last Few Bricks, same reason but not quite as long
- Hey You of course for David's contribution to the final verse
- Flesh 2 due to the fact that there is no "aaaahhh" section between the main theme and the verse. Instead, Roger just starts it as if it was Flesh 1
- Waiting For The Worms with Roger reciting the entire first speech with no megaphone playback, and no second speech at all
- Stop again for the same reason, and The Trial again for mostly the same reasons but in addition to the ones listed, David now also completely blows out his voice on the "BAAAAAAABBBE" part before singing the mother's verse again. David also carries Roger for the judge's verse. This show has a lot of moments with David doing Roger's parts because Roger ruined his voice night prior. Don't Leave Me Now from this show is a painful one.

I will write up more when a time window opens up for me, but this covers the unique things I can remember from the first two shows. Something also worth noting is that Rick's piano intro to Thin Ice is extended for the entirety of the US '80 legs, and Gary Yudman did not make his MC debut until New York.

I haven't listened to these shows in quite some time. I remember thinking they were good but I'd heard that album so many times I stopped *listening* and was only hearing it play in the background. It's posts like this and above, that make me want to dust these off and revisit an old friend.

[DaveTheRave]

Gary Yudman did not make his MC debut until New York.

The woman who starts off the show in LA is definitely different than Gary. But I recall she was really annoying.

[NuffM]

The woman who starts off the show in LA is definitely different than Gary. But I recall she was really annoying.

Cynthia Fox

[Demamo]

It's so unfortunate there is so little variation in these two years of live shows.

[stonytokes]

It's so unfortunate there is so little variation in these two years of live shows.

It's for this reason that I prefer listening to the earliest shows before all the players settled into their routines.

[thespitwasduringmoney]

this isn’t really anything “unique” persay but i really like in the August 9th performance how Roger sings the last verse of Happiest Days:

”YYYEAH, but in the Town it was well known…”

[NuffM]

this isn’t really anything “unique” persay but i really like in the August 9th performance how Roger sings the last verse of Happiest Days:

”YYYEAH, but in the Town it was well known…”

Pretty unique, seeing as he only did it twice. The other time being two nights prior; but that's more of a "yeeEWWW".

Here's a clip of the one you mentioned: https://streamable.com/32lpwd

[Anredeon]

Ah, this is what I also love about this forum, the passion..