danielcaux wrote:1. You call a 250.000 people concert a "fiasco"?
Yes, I know it was plagued with problems,...
2. but it got made afterall, right? and I didn't like much the guests performances either (although I do love Sinead's version of Mother, even better than the original), but all those different "flavors" of music/people playing was a big part of the whole "comunal" spirit of the event: celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall both physically and psicologically.
1. "...plagued with problems..." = "fiasco."
The word "fiasco" isn't used to refer to the number of the crowd or success of the album or anything. The actual show itself as it happened is not what's on the dvd. There is a VOIO of the show as it was broadcast by television (before all the post-production salvaging...which is considerable,) find a copy of it and you'll see what a fiasco the concert itself really was.
2. Yes, eventually it was salvaged into a marketable product (whose profits, by the way, are collected by the Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief,) but by focusing so much on the Berlin Wall thing, the piece loses much of it's initial meaning, imo.
Roger stated that he was staging the show as a celebration of the individual victory over the state, or something like that; but to me, The Wall is a story of an individual's victory over
himself.
It's a totally different thing...and I think the Berlin association kind of locks it into a specific place and time.
Idisaffect wrote:danielcaux wrote: The Wall is about tolerance, comunication, empathy, it's about creating bonds between human beings, and that was the feeling the concert left in everybody, such a diverse array of performers, personalities, generations all in one place, side by side, hand in hand sending one big message; it was like Roger's mini-version of a Live Aid concert, no wonder he chose The Tide is Turning as the closing track.
It seems that some of you have missed the whole point of the event, it was not supposed to be just another accurate rendition of a regular 80-81 Wall concert, it was a celebration, a party over the ashes of the Berlin Wall.
Which he packaged and sold as a product in the shops. I'm sure it was amazing to be there but as a cd/video it is pretty much useless. Low point.
See the parenthetical statement in point two above.
As an aside back to danielcaux: I didn't miss the point of the show at all. The show was designed to raise money for the Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief.
I certainly didn't raise the full 5 million pounds that Group Captain Chesire was hoping for, though I'm sure it's helped the fund get closer.