Thank you for posting this. I have been fortunate enough to hang out with Vernon for a few drinks and talking some Floyd history with him is awesome. When I first met him, I bought his Wall book and the first thing he showed me was your picture from the Montreal show. I was amazed when I saw it.
I was at that '75 Hamilton concert . . . Traveled all over U.S. & Canada on that tour . . . The giant new Score Board in the Hamilton Stadium got blown up accidentally by left over explosives, well after the show was over . . . Thanks to a stadium janitor wandering into an area he wasn't supposed to be in, and carelessly tossing a lit cigarette butt! . . . We were in the back stage area near the Floyd band members when that explosion shook the ground . . . The band was laughing! No injuries
Hey I was there in 1977...I was 18 yrs and 4 days old...had just move to Montreal...Against all odds, my friend Frank and I managed to get tickets from scalpers...(30$ a piece) for nosebleeders tickets, but we somehow we made our way on the 'parterre'... What a show...what an experience...Frankie left this world almost 20 years ago, but every time I hear Wish You Were Here, I think about this night at the Big O, way back in 1977....Thanks for postinf this video.
@WrayLS oh, and when they lifted the kid up, did he look drunk? Roger said in an interview that the kid was acting obnoxious and waving his arms and screaming o.O
Just like the rodger waters of 66-67 when he was jealous of syd barretts looks and syd being the man. So he got caught red handed by the band putting lsd in syd's tea before a couple of shows----True----waters showed at montreal that hes a jealous bastard. syd barrett was pink floyd and all waters did was play a bass guitar as syd told him thats all he could do.He had no looks and no charisma
I hitchhiked from Malone NY with 2 friends for this show. We were about in middle-left field from the perspective of the stage. I also believe they turned up the EQs at one point which sounded like a jet engine full throttle This was an effort to get people to shut up. I think they were doing Wish You Were Here and could not hear the monitors. For a Wednesday ,it was an amazing event. The buzz outside all afternoon was great. We hitchhikes back home the next day with no problems.
wow I was just a few months old when that concert took place, it is awesome that you were part of such an ironic moment in Rock history, where the concept of "The Wall" took place, thanks for sharing.
I was there thay night...amazingly enough, I remember part of it...Tickets were $10, we bought ours from scalpers...at $30 !!!! I remember something happening...probably the spitting incident...I was really close to the stage too. Thanks for posting!!!
@Gilmourinski Actually this incident occurred on the last show of the Animals (In The Flesh) tour in 77. Dogs was recorded in 76 so it could not have inspired him, however, it's been suggested the incident inspired The Wall to a large degree. Thank God for that stupid kid. lol.
sorry buddy i was just a few row behind you on the Roger Rick side of the stage and the spitting happened at intermission not during the end of the first set There was no roadies holding him up and there was no crescendo every one had left the stage except Roger and he diddled around the stage at the back of Ricks organ but you got the jest it makes a nice story even if it not true he spit beer at the kid that he had taken from the beer bottle on Ricks organ
WrayLS, I was at the July 4, 1977, show at Madison Square Garden, NYC, two nights before. It was firecrackers galore and Roger was really getting pissed. Then some asshole threw an M-80 and BOOM! Roger stopped the show, grabbed the mike and yelled, "You stupid motherfucker! Why doesn't anybody else in here with fireworks just fuck off and let the rest of us get on with it." No wonder he was spitting mad in Montreal.
Man..great video!! I enjoyed this video a lot!! Sounds like you had some pretty cool experiences back then :)
I use to sneak my Pentax P3 into concerts back in the 80's, I would sneak the camera in via my girlfriend and sister in law's purses. I would assemble it at my seat. Fleetwood Mac security almost took it off of me in '88'. Close call!!!
At 6 PM, 30 000 people were inside already but the band was obviously not going to play until 8 PM came around. Now you have 30 000 people, anxiously waiting what has been advertised as the show of their lives, and they've got 2 hours in front of them of "doing nothing". What do they do?
In the end, how can you expect from a full stadium all of them going to listen in silence to your songs?
Thank you very much for sharing your experience at this event. Your contribution telling all about the concert and sharing your pics is priceless! Thank you very very much :D
VERY interesting. I first heard about the whole incident in the Comfortably Numb book (not the one in the the video. The Inside Story of Pink Floyd). I read it a year ago and I had been a fan since the Echoes compilation came out (I'm a younger fan, 19). I learned a lot, mostly about how Roger was a bully. I still think he's a really creative guy and a wonderful bassist.
Great story..I had always heard the spitting incident as a guy climbing up a net or something in between the audience and the band and Roger spitting on him..glad to hear a more accurate account of the event...thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video. I'm a huge Floyd fan and in my opinion I think the in the flesh tour was probably one of their best tours. The only problem with the tour was that they didn't do anymore songs than the wish you were here album and animals album unless they did an encore. But it was a great tour and you saw one of the greatest in the flesh shows
nice!wish i could of been there but i wasnt born at the time lol, i saw Waters for the 5th time sunday and record the entire show in HD ,check out my profile.
Fascinating video. As a Floyd maniac I'm always thirsting for more stories about the Floyd and this video certainly quenches some of my thirst. I just saw Roger Waters' The Wall show in Ottawa last night and it was quite spectacular, but my life will never be complete until I get to see David Gilmour live. Or better yet, Gilmour, Waters and Mason on stage together.. just a dream
hi, you photos, stubs, and your story is amazing. i just had 1 question, do you have any idea of who this man who was spat on was? What he did after? were he went. i find if very strange that no one has come forward yet.
That Ivor Wynne show is also worth mentioning. That show has always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd bootleg recordings. The best recording, in my opinion, from the "Wish.." tour...period.
The recordings from the Animals tour, meanwhile, are just depressing to listen to. I don't blame Roger one bit for breaking down like that. Those audiences were absolutely out of control.
Cool video my friend. I really like Pink Floyd and think the current tour of The Wall that Waters is doing is nothing short of amazing. I have been trying to learn more about Floyd in the 70's. In particular what Roger was like. What I don't understand is how come he would get so upset about people yelling and screaming at rock concerts. I mean, it's a rock concert.
Roger was missing the old days - when the audience sat quietly and absorbed every nuance. He didn't like the BIG shows and by the end of the tour, he'd had enough. And it showed.
@WrayLS Kids today have no idea about audiences in the '60s and early '70s. The kids at Woodstock sat very quietly and listened even when The Who was playing.
@Roger8176 Because some people, like myself, actually go to concerts for the music instead going to yell and scream like a drunk asshole during the songs. I can't stand those people.
Wow thats an amazing story, your a lucky man to see that show, not to mention seeing Pink Floyd twice. Are you or have you seen Roger Waters latest tour of The Wall? I saw him in chicago a few weeks ago and it was unbelievable, if you get the opportunity definitely go... Although the ticket will cost you about 240 dollars more than the 77 Montreal show hahaha.
I still have a UNIQUE original poster for this show, it was hung at the main entrance of the Olympic Stadium and it's unique ! Some 24"x36" poster were made for promoting the show, but only 3 of the size of mine (3 feets by 5 feets approx). The first one was crushed on place by some people, the second one was kept by a security guy but his house went on fire some years later and mine, the third one, was also took by a security guy (my uncle) and he gave it to me 10 years ago... Bye !
now that's an interesting story with some excellent stuff to back it up.i treasure my concert memories also,i only wish there had been more.i've got to get myself a camera!
Roger wasn't setting the kid up, he was talking to the pig. Listen to the audio from the concert. "Come back pig! Come back! All is forgiven! Come on boy! Only a few yards!". When Roger was yelling this the inflatable pig was making its way back to the stage. Pig itself was a character and trouble maker during the tour.
The idea of roadies hosting the kid up so Roger could spit on him is ridiculous.
What you saw was probably the roadies trying to get the kid OFF the stage net.
@Xiolablu3 Just because he was there doesn't mean he saw the whole picture. It wasn't like he was in the front row. What looked like "hoisting up" the kid could've been "trying to pull him off the stage". Even Nick Mason has a different version of the story and he was on stage! Nick claims Rog spat on the kid for yelling "play Careful With That Axe Roger!"
Roger's version is that the kid was a pest throughout the show and near the end of the first half decided to climb onto the stage.
@ELO1138 All of those things are true, the kid WAS being an asshole, the kid WAS trying to climb onstage, and he WAS shouting for them to play certain songs.
They are not different versions, Roger thought he was a pest for shouting for other songs and climbing onto the stage, generally being a dick
@Xiolablu3 Right I agree that the kid was climbing onto the stage and was being an ass.
But the way the gentleman in this video made it seem like Rog pointed him out and the roadies nabbed him, hoisiting up him so Rog can spit on him. That's the part of the story I find a bit far fetched and untrue. "Setting him up" as he puts it.
Love Roger Waters - and hate that the spitting incident happened. I especially hate the underhanded way he set the kid up for the coup de grâce. That being said, the kid was obviously behaving like an ass, and had it coming. I mean, it's Pink Floyd, show some respect!
Great video, and you have an enviable collection of photos from a timeless era, and one fantastic rock show. Thanks for sharing! :)
I wish I'd stumbled on this sooner, but since you kept it up, I am from Minnesota my whole life, major Floyd fan for half of the 40 years I'd say, not as early as 1975 of course, but later in the 70s I became a huge fan. Now I think they are likely the best band ever to grace music history. They are such a driving force of change in one case or facet. Roger explains that the crowds were not taking in the music but talking and chatting or yelling during performances and that's his basic gripe
You own one of the best rock and roll stories off all time
Question-when you said the "come on boy, come on boy" thing, are you meaning that you think that Roger was setting this kid up so he could spit on him?
@WrayLS In one interview Roger said something to the effect that this kid was either requesting a song during a performance or heckling to some degree before the fateful spit
i noticed the guitars in the background... do you imitate Gilmour or Waters guitar work? also is it true that Roger Waters liked to have a quiet crowd?
Funny I must have read that somewhere too because I have that bootleg and knew the song and you can tell hes egging the kid on. The fact that there was a guy with a full size reel to reel is the stuff of comedy. Sounds like it was a free for all back in the day. Glad your camera made it during the rush to the front of the stage,(Did you have sprinting shoes?) And I am waiting to see someone online claim to be the spitee.
The inflatable fridge that burst open...those were octopus legs, they were purple....saw the beast in Miliwaukee...wich is Algonkwon for "The good land!"
Great!!!! I really don't like Roger in any way, I think he's disagreeable, arrogant, he really didn't like the big concerts. And that spitten... Disgusting. I'm agree with you.
Hey I'm from Hamilton as well! I never knew they played at Ivor Wynne Stadium. My dad would have been a teenager when you went to your first concert and he regrets not seeing them live.
Yes, over 15 years later. In August, 1992, Metallica singer James Hetfield got torched like the olympic flame. Then an hour or two later Axl Rose upstaged him with the microphone malfunction and he and rest of Guns and Roses stormed off the stage and a riot ensued. Only the Emerson Lake and Palmer which took place a month after Pink Floyd got through unscathed and had the orchestra with them.
ACCTUALLY he didn't plan that, you're just over thinking this. If you have watched any of the PF interviews you would know Roger regretted doing that and it was only from his annoyance not from previous intention xD but it is such a Roger thing to do anyway :P
Even though he says he regrets it...I don't think he really regrets it. Personally I think its awesome that he spat in that punk kids face. What else could he have done? Punched the kid in the face? It was the only way he could assault the audience.
@kasimovaya What you mean? superior? He isnt trying to be superior. And even if he was...how is saying he regret spitting on the kid him trying to be superior? Roger is just a firey musician. I think its fine that he spat in that kids face. Whats everyones problem about it?
@MoveOverCasanova you're very stupid indeed. please make someone explain dogs to you. because he doesn't mean a fan like a spectator at a concert. He means a fan like an implement used to induce an airflow for the purpose of cooling or refreshing oneself. And spitting in a fan would be like shooting yourself in the foot.
@MoveOverCasanova I know what the song is about, and I know that if not all, then the vast majority of Pink Floyd songs was written with one single meaning. It's like all the people that thinks that comfortably numb is about drugs and when someone tells them that it isn't they say "well art is up for discussion and doesn't have one single meaning" well most songs does(!) Also Waters is pretty open about what his songs are about, ex. the DSM documentary he talks about several songs exact meaning.
i said it was ambiguous, not is has a million meanings ---
i did have my roger waters lyrics lessons and i love them,
and btw i do not find it all too bad that he spat at somebody -- that does not really say too much about him, does it ---
and surely e.g. comfortably numb is also about drugs to that extent as drugs are part of the "is there anybody in there" situation,-- at least that´s how i understand it
@MoveOverCasanova Roger was upset with himself so much so that the WALL came about as direct result. SO..... Even losing Syd Barrett had an effect of great music about him and loss in general. Things would be different had those bad events never happened as well as what may have happened had they not, or?!?!
@MoveOverCasanova I understand his feeling on it, later in recent years, for Radio KAOS and the like, he commented that people were not buying tickets or albums, that they did poorly, and bemoaning the commercial lack of success, but with In the Flesh solo, he did amazingly well in recent years, so with PF again hung up, he is getting more and more fans to shows he hosts
@MetallicBill well waters had to learn it the hard way that people want floyd, not Waters -- and his recent sucess has come only because he has succumbed to that fact and plays almost 100% floyd stuff --- and i must say that i even prefer non waters floyd ala momentary lapse to waters solo stuff which is just overambitioned crap to me,- momentary lapse tour was easy good fun and i got not bored during the first half of new stuff
@MoveOverCasanova I never diss Roger, won't happen, he's very much a part of Pink Floyd, being there in the band before Gilmour, but they all grew up within earshot of each other, and they kept at it for a long time given the friction. Rogers writing, singing and playing style are 50% Floyd if not more so, and Dave's material sounds like Floyd as far as my ears detect, as well. So I'm happy with both of them appeasing fans in some way!
to come to an end, it is exactely this "i am waters and i am 50% or more of floyd" attitude that causes only mischief --- you cannot catch the magic of a band that easily, the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. nothing against waters, but sure his ego got in the way of the band so that it actually only made 2 really great records instead of carrying on and improving,- but that´s the way it had to be
@MoveOverCasanova Dude, all over YouTube people are up in arms over Waters, Wright, Gilmour or Barrett. The band put all this behind them, for the most part. The thing I'm concerned with is that people get a good idea what really happened with the band and what constitutes the formula that makes PF so great, that is all the elements as you say, the sum that make the whole
The book is called Comfortably Numb-A History of "The Wall": Pink Floyd 1978-1981 by Vernon Fitch and Richard Mahon. Easy to find on google via PFA Publishing
"Correct" me? How is THAT possible when I was there - and you are WRONG?
Listen to the bootleg! You can hear Roger calling the kid up to the stage during PIGS 3 - just like I said, right where I said. He sets the kid up with a friendly invitation ("Come back kid - all is forgiven!") then as soon as he got close enough...splat. Saying it happened during another song is complete rubbish.
well now that i listen to the end of pigs3 again, i do realize that it was there not potw2.
i always thought he spit right before his firework ordeal. sorry about that. but listen closely to potw2 anyway and theres some type of spitting noise right when he stops to yell.
I would pay a lot and a lot of money to see them on stage!! Do you konow the Autralian Pink Floyd?? I'm too young.. so i havent had a chance to see the real ones but theyre good!
I guess the man who wrote that newspaper ad is the same guy who suggested the "a collection of great dance songs" for the 1983 PF compilation....in other words: a moron
thanks a billion on this
71snoop 1 week ago
If I was the kid Roger Waters spat at I wouldn't be happy with him but I'd still be a Pink Floyd fanatic.
JReed1985 3 weeks ago
god you are so lucky
ilikemusicandoreos 1 month ago
Thank you for posting this. I have been fortunate enough to hang out with Vernon for a few drinks and talking some Floyd history with him is awesome. When I first met him, I bought his Wall book and the first thing he showed me was your picture from the Montreal show. I was amazed when I saw it.
BrettIRB 1 month ago
@BrettIRB Wow. That's pretty cool. Thanks!
WrayLS 1 month ago
YOU LUCKY MAN!! I would kill to see pink floyd in the 70s!
666MattsGuitar666 2 months ago
Nice dog.
Norocmorth 2 months ago
i hitchiked to mtl (verdun) METALLICA
TheLr747 3 months ago
@at90percent i started listening to the floyd when i was 9 and i'm now 13 so some kids hav good taste in music and i hate pop
Thepinkfloydmaster 3 months ago
I was at that '75 Hamilton concert . . . Traveled all over U.S. & Canada on that tour . . . The giant new Score Board in the Hamilton Stadium got blown up accidentally by left over explosives, well after the show was over . . . Thanks to a stadium janitor wandering into an area he wasn't supposed to be in, and carelessly tossing a lit cigarette butt! . . . We were in the back stage area near the Floyd band members when that explosion shook the ground . . . The band was laughing! No injuries
ClearSoulProductions 5 months ago
Hey I was there in 1977...I was 18 yrs and 4 days old...had just move to Montreal...Against all odds, my friend Frank and I managed to get tickets from scalpers...(30$ a piece) for nosebleeders tickets, but we somehow we made our way on the 'parterre'... What a show...what an experience...Frankie left this world almost 20 years ago, but every time I hear Wish You Were Here, I think about this night at the Big O, way back in 1977....Thanks for postinf this video.
Iamthewalrusgoogoo 5 months ago
Awesome video, made my day...
Perpetualmusik 5 months ago
Thanks for your story. Always wanted somebody tells me abour it. You did. Большое спасибо.
stasyanT 6 months ago
@TheMeddlepink Why be sorry? I agree - he's a genius...but back then, he was not a very nice person.
WrayLS 7 months ago
@WrayLS I have a question, that photo you showed us off Roger in the book, was that him spitting?
musicdork4ever 7 months ago
@WrayLS oh, and when they lifted the kid up, did he look drunk? Roger said in an interview that the kid was acting obnoxious and waving his arms and screaming o.O
musicdork4ever 7 months ago
Just like the rodger waters of 66-67 when he was jealous of syd barretts looks and syd being the man. So he got caught red handed by the band putting lsd in syd's tea before a couple of shows----True----waters showed at montreal that hes a jealous bastard. syd barrett was pink floyd and all waters did was play a bass guitar as syd told him thats all he could do.He had no looks and no charisma
john1bundyboy 8 months ago
Thanks. That is cool stuff
ccare1969 8 months ago
ora capisco perché ti ha sputato in faccia...
Bellorco 8 months ago
I hitchhiked from Malone NY with 2 friends for this show. We were about in middle-left field from the perspective of the stage. I also believe they turned up the EQs at one point which sounded like a jet engine full throttle This was an effort to get people to shut up. I think they were doing Wish You Were Here and could not hear the monitors. For a Wednesday ,it was an amazing event. The buzz outside all afternoon was great. We hitchhikes back home the next day with no problems.
brianmann01 9 months ago
wow I was just a few months old when that concert took place, it is awesome that you were part of such an ironic moment in Rock history, where the concept of "The Wall" took place, thanks for sharing.
rick4777 10 months ago
Thank-you so much for sharing your memories. I would have given anything to see Pink Floyd if I had had the chance.
NathanF11989 10 months ago
I was there thay night...amazingly enough, I remember part of it...Tickets were $10, we bought ours from scalpers...at $30 !!!! I remember something happening...probably the spitting incident...I was really close to the stage too. Thanks for posting!!!
Iamthewalrusgoogoo 10 months ago
Nasty!
gamvidys 11 months ago
WOW, i been a fan of pink floyd, they came to mexico in 1994, then roger waters di in 2006 and just did with the wall in december, it was great!!!!!!
pepebarbasagain 11 months ago
Wow this is a great video you made here, all of your stuff is awesome and rare! totally adding to my favs and five stars ***** for the video
ThePinkFloydPortal 11 months ago
hey thanks for the info pretty awesome that you have a youtube account!!!keep it up!
slipknot56000 11 months ago
why exactly did Waters spit on the fan?
TVPrankCalls 1 year ago
@TVPrankCalls he said he threw a beer at roger or something
Norocmorth 2 months ago
I always thought this incident inspired Waters to write "Who was trained not to spit in the fan.." from Dogs..
Gilmourinski 1 year ago
@Gilmourinski Actually this incident occurred on the last show of the Animals (In The Flesh) tour in 77. Dogs was recorded in 76 so it could not have inspired him, however, it's been suggested the incident inspired The Wall to a large degree. Thank God for that stupid kid. lol.
NYdrone 9 months ago
Great yarn. Thanks for sharing.
nagaslrac 1 year ago
i love the way your dressed like david gilmour epic win sir... epic win!
seanmjh 1 year ago
Great story! Appreciate your doing your part to archive such an important concert.
theresidentalien 1 year ago
this is so cool i love images 10$ now its hundreds.you got picss in their book wow thats great!!
LetArtsLive 1 year ago
A QUEST, A QUEST FOR THE FLOYD
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ClassicRockDVD 1 year ago
Awesome video man. I love the tidbit about you saying
"its a flying pig...people were into that" haha...oh man that made me laugh
museandmuse 1 year ago 3
sorry buddy i was just a few row behind you on the Roger Rick side of the stage and the spitting happened at intermission not during the end of the first set There was no roadies holding him up and there was no crescendo every one had left the stage except Roger and he diddled around the stage at the back of Ricks organ but you got the jest it makes a nice story even if it not true he spit beer at the kid that he had taken from the beer bottle on Ricks organ
kingstonchef 1 year ago
WrayLS, I was at the July 4, 1977, show at Madison Square Garden, NYC, two nights before. It was firecrackers galore and Roger was really getting pissed. Then some asshole threw an M-80 and BOOM! Roger stopped the show, grabbed the mike and yelled, "You stupid motherfucker! Why doesn't anybody else in here with fireworks just fuck off and let the rest of us get on with it." No wonder he was spitting mad in Montreal.
boxfitter 1 year ago
Cool story, bro.
FishieJoseph 1 year ago 2
Man..great video!! I enjoyed this video a lot!! Sounds like you had some pretty cool experiences back then :)
I use to sneak my Pentax P3 into concerts back in the 80's, I would sneak the camera in via my girlfriend and sister in law's purses. I would assemble it at my seat. Fleetwood Mac security almost took it off of me in '88'. Close call!!!
Great video and photos, Wray!!!!
Cheers..
64m >:-)
64mung 1 year ago
BE AWARE OF CARMA...
KelvongKlein 1 year ago
At 6 PM, 30 000 people were inside already but the band was obviously not going to play until 8 PM came around. Now you have 30 000 people, anxiously waiting what has been advertised as the show of their lives, and they've got 2 hours in front of them of "doing nothing". What do they do?
In the end, how can you expect from a full stadium all of them going to listen in silence to your songs?
MrScarleteagle 1 year ago
your the coolest man i know
Fretlessjay 1 year ago
Thank you very much for sharing your experience at this event. Your contribution telling all about the concert and sharing your pics is priceless! Thank you very very much :D
sigelflower 1 year ago
you do not understand how cool you are for this WHOLE SHOW!!!
BORNTORUNANDALIVEMAN 1 year ago
VERY interesting. I first heard about the whole incident in the Comfortably Numb book (not the one in the the video. The Inside Story of Pink Floyd). I read it a year ago and I had been a fan since the Echoes compilation came out (I'm a younger fan, 19). I learned a lot, mostly about how Roger was a bully. I still think he's a really creative guy and a wonderful bassist.
Jethrofinger 1 year ago
on another video, someone claimed that when the firecracker went off, that it was rick wright who said "I want to listen to it" from the stage?
can you confirm this???
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
Great story..I had always heard the spitting incident as a guy climbing up a net or something in between the audience and the band and Roger spitting on him..glad to hear a more accurate account of the event...thanks for sharing!
piperathegates2112 1 year ago
Thanks for the video. I'm a huge Floyd fan and in my opinion I think the in the flesh tour was probably one of their best tours. The only problem with the tour was that they didn't do anymore songs than the wish you were here album and animals album unless they did an encore. But it was a great tour and you saw one of the greatest in the flesh shows
mrjersey1316 1 year ago
Great baptism for the fan !!! who can refuse a blessing spit in the face from roger
miguelech 1 year ago
Awesome vid man!!! I appreciate hearing these stories!
SmittyBaGitty 1 year ago
thank you very much for this great story!
juuupiii 1 year ago
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great video....history in the making and you were an eye witness!!! thanks for sharing this.
jester044 1 year ago
great video....history in the making and you were an eye witness!!! thanks for sharing this.
jester044 1 year ago
nice!wish i could of been there but i wasnt born at the time lol, i saw Waters for the 5th time sunday and record the entire show in HD ,check out my profile.
QcWoopAss 1 year ago
Fascinating video. As a Floyd maniac I'm always thirsting for more stories about the Floyd and this video certainly quenches some of my thirst. I just saw Roger Waters' The Wall show in Ottawa last night and it was quite spectacular, but my life will never be complete until I get to see David Gilmour live. Or better yet, Gilmour, Waters and Mason on stage together.. just a dream
rahooligan 1 year ago
hi, you photos, stubs, and your story is amazing. i just had 1 question, do you have any idea of who this man who was spat on was? What he did after? were he went. i find if very strange that no one has come forward yet.
jschack57 1 year ago
That Ivor Wynne show is also worth mentioning. That show has always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd bootleg recordings. The best recording, in my opinion, from the "Wish.." tour...period.
The recordings from the Animals tour, meanwhile, are just depressing to listen to. I don't blame Roger one bit for breaking down like that. Those audiences were absolutely out of control.
fennitch 1 year ago
Cool video my friend. I really like Pink Floyd and think the current tour of The Wall that Waters is doing is nothing short of amazing. I have been trying to learn more about Floyd in the 70's. In particular what Roger was like. What I don't understand is how come he would get so upset about people yelling and screaming at rock concerts. I mean, it's a rock concert.
Roger8176 1 year ago 5
Exactly. Well said.
Roger was missing the old days - when the audience sat quietly and absorbed every nuance. He didn't like the BIG shows and by the end of the tour, he'd had enough. And it showed.
WrayLS 1 year ago 4
@WrayLS Kids today have no idea about audiences in the '60s and early '70s. The kids at Woodstock sat very quietly and listened even when The Who was playing.
at90percent 3 months ago
@Roger8176 Because some people, like myself, actually go to concerts for the music instead going to yell and scream like a drunk asshole during the songs. I can't stand those people.
zledhalen 1 month ago
Wow thats an amazing story, your a lucky man to see that show, not to mention seeing Pink Floyd twice. Are you or have you seen Roger Waters latest tour of The Wall? I saw him in chicago a few weeks ago and it was unbelievable, if you get the opportunity definitely go... Although the ticket will cost you about 240 dollars more than the 77 Montreal show hahaha.
Rush1013 1 year ago
Enlightening
BessieMorrison 1 year ago
We're pretty lucky that the one guy with the best story about such an important concert happens to have a camera and a YouTube channel.
fukyous 1 year ago 19
@fukyous Thanks so much.
WrayLS 1 year ago 3
@WrayLS NO thank YOU. I wish I was there. I saw Roger for DSOTM a few years back. Not the same at all.
RaptureFilmz 6 months ago
@WrayLS your first concert was a wish you were here tour i believe?
Thepinkfloydmaster 3 months ago
thanks that was great. what is your website again please?? have tried so many different variations of what you say but no luck.
TheJim1010 1 year ago
thanks that was great. what is your website again please?? have tried so many different variations of what you say but no luck.
TheJim1010 1 year ago 2
Hey - thanks for the note. It's davisvilleproductions . com. Check out my links page. Cheers.
WrayLS 1 year ago
Thanks !
I still have a UNIQUE original poster for this show, it was hung at the main entrance of the Olympic Stadium and it's unique ! Some 24"x36" poster were made for promoting the show, but only 3 of the size of mine (3 feets by 5 feets approx). The first one was crushed on place by some people, the second one was kept by a security guy but his house went on fire some years later and mine, the third one, was also took by a security guy (my uncle) and he gave it to me 10 years ago... Bye !
stephanevallieres 1 year ago
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flyingpig217 1 year ago
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flyingpig217 1 year ago
I hope he still has it so we can see it.
flyingpig217 1 year ago
now that's an interesting story with some excellent stuff to back it up.i treasure my concert memories also,i only wish there had been more.i've got to get myself a camera!
dimebagdave77 1 year ago
GREAT JOB!!
rrigon 1 year ago
Roger wasn't setting the kid up, he was talking to the pig. Listen to the audio from the concert. "Come back pig! Come back! All is forgiven! Come on boy! Only a few yards!". When Roger was yelling this the inflatable pig was making its way back to the stage. Pig itself was a character and trouble maker during the tour.
The idea of roadies hosting the kid up so Roger could spit on him is ridiculous.
What you saw was probably the roadies trying to get the kid OFF the stage net.
ELO1138 1 year ago
@ELO1138 Why are you arguing with a guy who was there and saw the whole thing?
Xiolablu3 1 year ago
@Xiolablu3 Just because he was there doesn't mean he saw the whole picture. It wasn't like he was in the front row. What looked like "hoisting up" the kid could've been "trying to pull him off the stage". Even Nick Mason has a different version of the story and he was on stage! Nick claims Rog spat on the kid for yelling "play Careful With That Axe Roger!"
Roger's version is that the kid was a pest throughout the show and near the end of the first half decided to climb onto the stage.
ELO1138 1 year ago
@ELO1138 All of those things are true, the kid WAS being an asshole, the kid WAS trying to climb onstage, and he WAS shouting for them to play certain songs.
They are not different versions, Roger thought he was a pest for shouting for other songs and climbing onto the stage, generally being a dick
Xiolablu3 1 year ago
@Xiolablu3 Right I agree that the kid was climbing onto the stage and was being an ass.
But the way the gentleman in this video made it seem like Rog pointed him out and the roadies nabbed him, hoisiting up him so Rog can spit on him. That's the part of the story I find a bit far fetched and untrue. "Setting him up" as he puts it.
ELO1138 1 year ago
Love Roger Waters - and hate that the spitting incident happened. I especially hate the underhanded way he set the kid up for the coup de grâce. That being said, the kid was obviously behaving like an ass, and had it coming. I mean, it's Pink Floyd, show some respect!
Great video, and you have an enviable collection of photos from a timeless era, and one fantastic rock show. Thanks for sharing! :)
MitchMansfield 1 year ago
I wish I'd stumbled on this sooner, but since you kept it up, I am from Minnesota my whole life, major Floyd fan for half of the 40 years I'd say, not as early as 1975 of course, but later in the 70s I became a huge fan. Now I think they are likely the best band ever to grace music history. They are such a driving force of change in one case or facet. Roger explains that the crowds were not taking in the music but talking and chatting or yelling during performances and that's his basic gripe
MetallicBill 1 year ago
You're awesome! Much love to you
MorganWellinger 1 year ago
woot! i live in hamilton and iv been to haliburton, i go to my cottage there!!
ilikepickles47 1 year ago
You own one of the best rock and roll stories off all time
Question-when you said the "come on boy, come on boy" thing, are you meaning that you think that Roger was setting this kid up so he could spit on him?
clerksfan89 1 year ago
@clerksfan89
YES - Roger was setting the kid up. "All is forgiven!" - then he hoarked in his face.
WrayLS 1 year ago
@WrayLS In one interview Roger said something to the effect that this kid was either requesting a song during a performance or heckling to some degree before the fateful spit
MetallicBill 1 year ago
What Inaccuracies are they referring too on "fleeting glimpses" website?
screamwriter1 1 year ago
thanks so much for sharing this! What a unique experience! One of the coolest concert memories i've ever heard! Cheers!
lifesonfan 1 year ago
you're cool man
MarcBeckK 1 year ago
i noticed the guitars in the background... do you imitate Gilmour or Waters guitar work? also is it true that Roger Waters liked to have a quiet crowd?
ThePigfloyd 1 year ago
@ThePigfloyd During the piece, yes. That's what all this fuss is about.
MetallicBill 1 year ago
8.50$ >.< i paid 92$ lastime The 23rd of may 1994 The show was totally worth it
Nice peice of history here thanks a lot for sharing
QcLoneWolf 1 year ago
I'm 15 years old and am seeing Roger Waters perform the Wall in December! I loved your account of this, thanks for sharing :)
beskandalous 1 year ago
man you are so lucky id love to go see pink floyd.
Killswitch8852 1 year ago
Very cool, man. Thanks for sharing.
MuddyG 1 year ago
Funny I must have read that somewhere too because I have that bootleg and knew the song and you can tell hes egging the kid on. The fact that there was a guy with a full size reel to reel is the stuff of comedy. Sounds like it was a free for all back in the day. Glad your camera made it during the rush to the front of the stage,(Did you have sprinting shoes?) And I am waiting to see someone online claim to be the spitee.
screamwriter1 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing this. This is what makes you-tube great.
screamwriter1 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing all your cool stuff and your great story. This is what Youtube was made for!! Great stuff like this.
pazzensutra 1 year ago
The inflatable fridge that burst open...those were octopus legs, they were purple....saw the beast in Miliwaukee...wich is Algonkwon for "The good land!"
toolooselitrek 1 year ago
Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing. I saw them at the Boston Garden that tour - always loved the Animals album, one of thier best.
Rockmorz 1 year ago
I wonder if anyone knows what happened to that kid
donstuie 1 year ago
Dude, this rules, thanks. I always wondered what happened, exactly. thanks, I'm checking out your pictures, they look great.
metalfiend124 1 year ago
Can I inherit your stuff?
ScumbagKorain 1 year ago
Witness to history for sure, thanks for posting!
giraldillo 1 year ago
Too bad you didn't take the picture while Roger was spitting in that idiot's face.
Truly an amazing experience. Thank god for that beer-throwing moron, because he basically sparked the idea for the best album ever made.
PanekPL 1 year ago
If you managed to photograph the moment when Rog spat that kid, it would undoubtedly be the most epic of all epic moments in Rock and Roll history.
BadManneredCat 1 year ago
Great!!!! I really don't like Roger in any way, I think he's disagreeable, arrogant, he really didn't like the big concerts. And that spitten... Disgusting. I'm agree with you.
ibanahole 1 year ago
The explanation is clear and interesting... you are part of Pink Floyd history, congratulations!!!
Which is the link? I can`t hardly understand the right URL... please help!
cfcc05 1 year ago
Which is the link? I can`t hardly understand the right URL... please help!
cfcc05 1 year ago
You look like the actor Jon Voight.
Zodist 1 year ago
10 dollars. I bet some people would pay millions today for assist to that show.
Crisrockin 1 year ago
That's an interesting account of the Montreal incident. I've never really heard or read much about how it went down. Thanks for sharing.
666slink 1 year ago
By the way, you're awesome!
UR55378008 1 year ago 3
You're awesomer.
WrayLS 1 year ago 4
Hey I'm from Hamilton as well! I never knew they played at Ivor Wynne Stadium. My dad would have been a teenager when you went to your first concert and he regrets not seeing them live.
UR55378008 1 year ago
Wow! Wish I were there!
RupertDCD27 1 year ago 2
Awesome man!
MorganWellinger 1 year ago 5
that is amazing, you're so lucky you got to experience that! I'm so jealous!
fantassssyy 1 year ago 4
Didnt Metallica's James Hetfield get burned at the same arena?
Johnnyeggz 1 year ago
Yes, over 15 years later. In August, 1992, Metallica singer James Hetfield got torched like the olympic flame. Then an hour or two later Axl Rose upstaged him with the microphone malfunction and he and rest of Guns and Roses stormed off the stage and a riot ensued. Only the Emerson Lake and Palmer which took place a month after Pink Floyd got through unscathed and had the orchestra with them.
floydgenesisnut 1 year ago
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this "INCIDENT" was obviously roger was scheming up before,
because he sings "who was trained not to spit in the FAN" already on the ALBUM they toured and played in montreal 1977!
MoveOverCasanova 2 years ago
Reading that, I felt my IQ drop.
WrayLS 2 years ago 6
why? isn´t it quite obvious?
MoveOverCasanova 2 years ago
ACCTUALLY he didn't plan that, you're just over thinking this. If you have watched any of the PF interviews you would know Roger regretted doing that and it was only from his annoyance not from previous intention xD but it is such a Roger thing to do anyway :P
kasimovaya 1 year ago 2
Even though he says he regrets it...I don't think he really regrets it. Personally I think its awesome that he spat in that punk kids face. What else could he have done? Punched the kid in the face? It was the only way he could assault the audience.
coopa97434 1 year ago
True.. he might be saying he regrets it so people can think of him as being superior again lol. ahh Roger...
kasimovaya 1 year ago
@kasimovaya What you mean? superior? He isnt trying to be superior. And even if he was...how is saying he regret spitting on the kid him trying to be superior? Roger is just a firey musician. I think its fine that he spat in that kids face. Whats everyones problem about it?
coopa97434 1 year ago
@coopa97434 i dont have a problem about it... he just has a great ego xD, but i dont have a problem with it, thats why i love him!
kasimovaya 1 year ago
I think that's a coincidence, for spitting in the fan meant something else. He did write In The Flesh? about it, though.
arnosluismans 1 year ago 2
@arnosluismans
but what then means "spit in the fan" - spitting in a ventilator?
i stick to my version, as waters negative attitude against his audience was almost obsessive those days, but however,- i can understand him!
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova you're very stupid indeed. please make someone explain dogs to you. because he doesn't mean a fan like a spectator at a concert. He means a fan like an implement used to induce an airflow for the purpose of cooling or refreshing oneself. And spitting in a fan would be like shooting yourself in the foot.
MarcBeckK 1 year ago
@MarcBeckK
have you ever heard of "ambiguous meaning" -- or did roger tell you personally what he meant "precisely"))
the final section of dogs is mainly a complaint about social control, corruption, disillusion something like that..
.....so it all fits to what i said in the first place --
but i really don´t care too much about that spitting incident
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova I know what the song is about, and I know that if not all, then the vast majority of Pink Floyd songs was written with one single meaning. It's like all the people that thinks that comfortably numb is about drugs and when someone tells them that it isn't they say "well art is up for discussion and doesn't have one single meaning" well most songs does(!) Also Waters is pretty open about what his songs are about, ex. the DSM documentary he talks about several songs exact meaning.
MarcBeckK 1 year ago
@MarcBeckK
i said it was ambiguous, not is has a million meanings ---
i did have my roger waters lyrics lessons and i love them,
and btw i do not find it all too bad that he spat at somebody -- that does not really say too much about him, does it ---
and surely e.g. comfortably numb is also about drugs to that extent as drugs are part of the "is there anybody in there" situation,-- at least that´s how i understand it
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova Roger was upset with himself so much so that the WALL came about as direct result. SO..... Even losing Syd Barrett had an effect of great music about him and loss in general. Things would be different had those bad events never happened as well as what may have happened had they not, or?!?!
MetallicBill 1 year ago
@MetallicBill
yes waters was really going troppo, and with "animals" it began becoming obvious --- he somehow took it all a bit too serious
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova I understand his feeling on it, later in recent years, for Radio KAOS and the like, he commented that people were not buying tickets or albums, that they did poorly, and bemoaning the commercial lack of success, but with In the Flesh solo, he did amazingly well in recent years, so with PF again hung up, he is getting more and more fans to shows he hosts
MetallicBill 1 year ago
@MetallicBill well waters had to learn it the hard way that people want floyd, not Waters -- and his recent sucess has come only because he has succumbed to that fact and plays almost 100% floyd stuff --- and i must say that i even prefer non waters floyd ala momentary lapse to waters solo stuff which is just overambitioned crap to me,- momentary lapse tour was easy good fun and i got not bored during the first half of new stuff
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova I never diss Roger, won't happen, he's very much a part of Pink Floyd, being there in the band before Gilmour, but they all grew up within earshot of each other, and they kept at it for a long time given the friction. Rogers writing, singing and playing style are 50% Floyd if not more so, and Dave's material sounds like Floyd as far as my ears detect, as well. So I'm happy with both of them appeasing fans in some way!
MetallicBill 1 year ago
@MetallicBill
to come to an end, it is exactely this "i am waters and i am 50% or more of floyd" attitude that causes only mischief --- you cannot catch the magic of a band that easily, the whole is much more than the sum of the parts. nothing against waters, but sure his ego got in the way of the band so that it actually only made 2 really great records instead of carrying on and improving,- but that´s the way it had to be
MoveOverCasanova 1 year ago
@MoveOverCasanova Dude, all over YouTube people are up in arms over Waters, Wright, Gilmour or Barrett. The band put all this behind them, for the most part. The thing I'm concerned with is that people get a good idea what really happened with the band and what constitutes the formula that makes PF so great, that is all the elements as you say, the sum that make the whole
MetallicBill 1 year ago
Great video ! And amazing article on your website, thanks. It's good for learn english (I'm french), and ervey floyd story is a good story !
AGMLBN 2 years ago 5
Great to hear an eyewitness account of one of the pivotal moments in rock history
donstuie 2 years ago 7
great! loved it
galocan1 2 years ago 6
VERT NICE VIDEO
its so cool that you know all this about Pink Floyd and very cool photos too.
xxmag12 2 years ago 9
great story thanks for sharing.
tks234 2 years ago 11
You Are amazing :D
ricardotorress43 2 years ago 7
The book is called Comfortably Numb-A History of "The Wall": Pink Floyd 1978-1981 by Vernon Fitch and Richard Mahon. Easy to find on google via PFA Publishing
richm66 2 years ago 7
I want to get that book! Where can i get it?!?
fifmister7 2 years ago 2
Scary to think it but vid posts like this will form a large part of future generations history.Thank you for this Wray.
Chubcatcher 2 years ago 3
I just watched an interview where Rogers talked about spitting and regretted for himself
froglobster 2 years ago 2
Absolutely 1st class, thanks so much for sharing!
GroovesXtraRare 2 years ago 5
you should be considered part of Pink Floyd history. With the pictures and the info. that's incredible!!
WheelChairBndit 2 years ago 6
eh mec, tu te rends compte que tu étais là, à l'origine de The Wall !!???
PepperUTube 2 years ago
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thats awesome that you were there..
you said that he spit in "pigs(three different ones) but it was durring pigs on the wing part two...just to correct you a little.
SBDMusic 2 years ago
"Correct" me? How is THAT possible when I was there - and you are WRONG?
Listen to the bootleg! You can hear Roger calling the kid up to the stage during PIGS 3 - just like I said, right where I said. He sets the kid up with a friendly invitation ("Come back kid - all is forgiven!") then as soon as he got close enough...splat. Saying it happened during another song is complete rubbish.
Sheesh!
WrayLS 2 years ago 7
well now that i listen to the end of pigs3 again, i do realize that it was there not potw2.
i always thought he spit right before his firework ordeal. sorry about that. but listen closely to potw2 anyway and theres some type of spitting noise right when he stops to yell.
SBDMusic 2 years ago 4
my favourite tour was the 77 tour then 75
was lucky to see Floyd in 94 2 of the 3 shows in Toronto
thanks for shareing your story
2braindamage 2 years ago 3
I would pay a lot and a lot of money to see them on stage!! Do you konow the Autralian Pink Floyd?? I'm too young.. so i havent had a chance to see the real ones but theyre good!
hoooooaaaaa 2 years ago
10 dollars! I'd pay a lot more than that to go to a Pink Floyd performance...
EnderpgGmail 2 years ago 4
we're talking about 1977, use your brain man..
VanMocen 2 years ago 3
who was the guy who roger spat on. what was his name
chrismarshall1950 2 years ago
great story. thanks for sharing
cchight 2 years ago 5
man oh man... thats... nasty
popwarskatemore7 2 years ago 3
Swine flu!!
I'll get my coat
Xenostrobe 2 years ago 2
That boy could still be out there somewhere, or perhaps he died from some nasty virus.
Xenostrobe 2 years ago
The Spitting Incident... hahaa... oh dear, that's a whole concept album right there surely.
Now tells about boring Global Warming or something...
Xenostrobe 2 years ago 2
We've heard about that experience in books, but never in such detail...thank you for sharing the experience with us!
dlaflamme2 2 years ago 4
I guess the man who wrote that newspaper ad is the same guy who suggested the "a collection of great dance songs" for the 1983 PF compilation....in other words: a moron
Malvezzi87 2 years ago 3
ya hamilton lol i wasnt around im only 14 but i head about it was crazy , and thats y there is never gunan be anoterh concert in the stadium
CrazyRockerGuy 2 years ago 2
That's awesome. You witnessed the origins of The Wall.
OldBlackChevyTruck 2 years ago 5