Roger Water's The Wall Live

A mate of mine raved about the show.  He also said he paid AU$900 for a pair of premium tickets.  Yes, that's not a typo.  So for that type of coin I would hope he enjoyed it.

This was my very first concert, attended the May 2012 performance in Denver. It was an extremely amazing experience for me, being a huge Pink Floyd fan and all. The rendition of "Bring The Boys Back Home" actually brought my mother (yeah, she came with me, not as big of a Floyd fan but still knows all the words to Comfortably Numb) to tears. I mean... it's spectacular for the money. I loved it so much. 

I've read many things about Snowy White playing Gilmour's parts and so on... but as far as I know, the lead guitar player was Dave Kilminster, and indeed he did a fantastic job. I didn't really miss Gilmour (though of course I would love to have seen him live too)... as a matter of fact, I missed Gilmour's vocals more than his guitars (the other singer wasn't so good).

   Last year (July 2011) I went to watch 'The Wall Live' in my hometown which is Athens, Greece.
The prices weren't sooo expensive I think. For the arena the general entrance was 60 euro if I remember well.
 The problem was that I'm not living in Greece anymore, so the whole cost was 60+ 160 euros for the airplane tickets. 240 euros in total. In probably insane, I know. Especially when I had watched Pink floyd live back in 1988, and Roger Waters performing 'Dark side of the Moon' + many other Pink Floyd songs a few years back.
   The thing that bothered me though was that was ONLY The Wall. No other songs! In 'The Dark Side of the Moon' concert was different. The band went on stage, played 1.5 hours a great collection of P.F songs (they played even 'Set the controls for the heart of the sun!), they had a 15 minutes break, and returned and played 'The Dark Side of the Moon'. Last year nothing. Only The Wall. Which means 1.5 hours with the 10 minute break.
Further than that, the show was super! Amazing sound (as usual), super visual effects, and in general a very expensive production! The 2 shows in Athens were filmed and they will be released in dvd. I have no idea when it will happen though!

HI,

Your absolutely right i got them mixed up. 

I have seen this concert too, maybe three years ago. And although Waters is a pro palestine, more than 50,000 people attended that show in israel. Awsome show!! snowy white was the lead guitarist.  

Too expensive, I'd pay that much if it was the Floyd. I can't afford to go to many concerts so I just go see the sh*tty bands play at the Seattle bars for $5-15. 

^ Tickets to concerts of local artists, especially prog, jazz, jazz-rock, are not expensive, often about $20 in small clubs, so welcome to Russia. 

The prices are unbelievably high but what concert's isn't these days? With music sales down, the artists make most of their money by touring. The Wall show was budgeted at a cost of around $60,000,000.00. That said, it won't be cheap. I caught the tour in Houston, Texas. It was the best thing I have ever seen in concert. Next year's first show of the U.S. leg is in Houston again. I already bought two tickets (the first time I went by myself but for the second time I decided to bring my wife along). It is that good.