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Roger Waters: The Wall Live concert at Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia

by Chris Kelleher on November 10, 2010

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Roger Waters - The Wall Live

Last night I went and saw Roger Waters (from Pink Floyd) performing his masterpiece “The Wall”, The Wall Live in concert at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. This has been called “one of the most ambitious and complex rock shows ever staged”, having an estimated staging cost of over $60 million.

It is no surprise why The Wall is the third best selling album of all time in the US and is a visually compelling movie.

The Hooters, a local band from Philly, were also special guests at the concert. They had performed with Roger Waters and Pink Floyd in 1990 at The Wall, Live in Berlin

Here are some pictures that I took at the concert. While audio/video recording wasn’t allowed, photography was welcomed at the concert. They just requested no flash photography because of interference with the projection of images onto the wall (and a flash won’t do any good anyway!).

I usually highlight my favorites, but there are just too many to choose from… I started with over 700 images that I took during the concert just to get it down to the 126 that I selected to post.

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Runaway flying concert pig found in pieces

by Chris Kelleher on April 30, 2008

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I thought that this was a funny story. Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd fame, was playing a concert at the Coachella music festival in Southern California, when his famous giant inflatable Pig made a break for it and floated away. The Pig is from one of his songs of the same name, on Pink Floyd’s 1977 anti-captialist Animals album. The album was inspired by George Orwell’s book Animal Farm.

I saw this Pig at Veteran’s Stadium during Pink Floyd’s 1994 Division Bell concert, and it is huge. The one from the concert that was lost was as tall as a 2 story house, and as wide as 2 buses. It’s funny since I’m listening to all Pink Floyd at work today.

INDIO, Calif. – When things go bad for a huge inflatable pig, don’t expect it to be pretty.

A helium-filled swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters’ headlining set Sunday at the Coachella music festival in the Southern California desert, has been found in pieces.

Two couples found tattered halves of the pig in their yards, a few miles from the festival grounds.

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Chris Cornell at the Electric Factory

by Chris Kelleher on July 30, 2007

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Bridget and I went to see Chris Cornell in concert last night at the Electric Factory. He played some classic Soundgarden stuff that Bridget likes, along with lots of newer Audioslave and solo stuff that I enjoyed.

Here’s the set list from the concert:

Silence the Voices
Original Fire
Let Me Drown
Outshined
Show me How to Live
Like A stone
Arm Around Your Love
Seasons
What you are
No Such Thing
Rusty Cage
Cant Change Me
I am the Highway
Roads We Choose
Doesnt Remind Me
Cochise
Ty Cobb
Spoonman

Encores:

You Know my Name
Out of Exile
Be Yourself
Black Hole Sun

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Bob Marley Festival in Wilmington

by Chris Kelleher on July 29, 2007

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We went to the People’s Festival tribute to Bob Marley yesterday with Jenn, Steve and Madeline, Brianna and Erin, and Leslie and Colin and their kids.

Here are some pictures of the festival: