nosaj wrote: 1. Right, I remember posting that you can't improvise the Wall, but you said they did when maybe the fire broke out, or was it some other technical difficulty (I meant with all the other stuff - projectors and bricks and what not, improvising would not be so easy). I have since heard it, I think. So, I'm replying to this post, because somebody new has posted questions about the Wall rehersals...this way they know to contact you, I think simpledumbpilot or somebody already offered to help.
2. I've heard that the FC was made up of Wall rejects to some extent. Is this true? What is a complete list of Wall songs - demo or otherwise...
...You know, like a list of all known recordings for the Wall 1978-1982 (film and everything).
Okay...I have numbered nosaj's questions for easier answering.
1. As far as improvisation of The Wall...at one point in time, what is now called The Last Few Bricks was a bit of an improvisation...but one that was kind of worked out in advance so that everyone knew where everone else was going. I've heard that early on, it included bits of Any Colour You Like. But as the "tour" went on, it got more and more of a shape that was followed.
The only real places for improvisation with the context of The Wall are in the extended solos...for example...Bricks One and Two, Comfortably Numb...etc. etc.
When the fire broke out, what they did was stop the show until the fire was put out...and then resume the show more or less where they left off. It's on Azimuth Co-Ordinator Volume Three if you can find it.
2. Any attempt at a complete list of Wall songs is going to be incomplete guess work until someone comes up with a copy of Roger's original acoustic guitar and voice home made demos. The ones floating around known as Under Construction and/or Building The Wall are NOT these demos...they are a dry run of the album involving Gilmour AND Mason, so they wouldn't be the one's Waters brought in to the band...so, already changes have been made from the original demos.
The Final Cut is NOT composed SOLELY of Wall rejects. Some of the songs (Your Possible Pasts and The Gunners Dream have been indicated by Karl Dallas) that were thrown off The Wall were resurrected for The Final Cut, but most of the album was new material at the time.
I've always thought it would be interesting to take The Wall...and at the point where Brick One begins to fade, instead of the helicopter, fade up Your Possible Pasts and let the storyline tell us a bit about this teacher by following with One of the Few, The Hero's Return, The Gunner's Dream and Paranoid Eyes...then bring up the helicopter of The Happiest Days Of Our Lives and let us see what this teacher's experiences are bringing to his methods of teaching.
Sure, it would complicate the storyline...but it would also present a more three dimensional rendering of the schoolmaster's character.
David Smith wrote:Question, when pink is singing Run Like Hell and Waiting For The Worms do you interpret him as singing them or singing something else but thinking about singing them?
You are asking for my opinion here, so that's what I will give. Pink is hallucinating at this point in the story, anyway...I think what we hear on the album is what's going on in his head, NOT what's coming out of his mouth at the show.
It has also been suggested that Run Like Hell is not necessarily a part of the Pink concert, but the after show party and backstage adventure's rendered more sinister by Pink's drugged hallucination.
Waiting For The Worms has been described (by Roger) as the drug wearing off, leaving Pink flip-flopping between persona's. The first line, "Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall" even suggests that this is Pink backstage.
Just some thoughts.