Roger Waters the Wall

Premessa: avendo già il DVD "The wall Live in Berlin" pensavo che questo nuovo BD fosse l'ennesimo concerto del mitico bassista e cantante dei Pink Floyd, invece mi sono dovuto ricredere... è più di un concerto. Difatti è un film-documentario in cui, oltre alla registrazione di uno dei suoi concerti del "The Wall live Tour", Waters racconta -e si racconta- durante un viaggio in auto tra Francia e Italia, la genesi dell'album. Ed anche il concerto stesso non ha niente a che vedere con quanto già visto: scenografie e coreografie spettacolari, realizzate utilizzando le più moderne tecnologie.Detto questo, voglio venire incontro agli utenti italiani per scogliere un dubbio. Meglio la versione disco singolo a poco meno di 9€ o la versione doppio disco che al momento si trova ad un prezzo decisamente esagerato (anche 120€...)? Assai meglio la versione doppio disco. Perché nel secondo disco, oltre a svariati altri extra, cè una chicca (comunque già vista) che i fan dei Pink Floyd apprezzeranno: durante il concerto tenutosi allo O2 Arena di Londra, nel bellissimo brano "Comfortably numb" appare all'improvviso David Gilmour a duettare con Roger Waters. Immaginatevi il pubblico...Ma giustamente, questa chicca non giustifica l'elevato costo del cofanetto digibook, anche se sono presenti una mini-locandina del fim, 4 foto-cartoline e un libretto di foto e credits. E allora?E allora NON comprate la versione italiana singolo disco a 9€ circa (ASIN B016DP1FN6) ma comprate la versione tedesca doppio disco a 28€ circa (ASIN B0150QGREQ). Vi posso garantire, per averla io stesso qui acquistata, che è la stessa versione in digibook, quella con la copertina rossa traforata che si trova facendo la ricerca utilizzando "Roger Waters the wall". Fate invece la ricerca con il codice ASIN "B0150QGREQ" e non preoccupatevi del fatto che sia una versione tedesca. In verità di tedesco ha solo il retro-copertina (tra l'altro rimovibile) con le specifiche dei dischi, ma entrambi i dischi stessi hanno menu e sottotitoli anche in inglese e italiano mentre ovviamente l'audio del concerto è in inglese... quindi nessun problema di navigazione.Sul concerto nulla da dire... l'audio è disponibile in Dolby Atmos e PCM 2.0 e la qualità video ottima. Mi resta solo una considerazione da fare: guardando vari spezzoni del concerto non ho potuto fare a meno di notare la varietà di età del pubblico (20-50 anni) a testimonianza che quando la musica è bella, è apprezzata adesso come lo era 40 anni fa.

DEN HÄR VIDEON VAR MER ÄN UNDERBAR....DET VAR SOM EN SLAGS FORTSÄTTNING AV FILMEN "THE WALL" . BÅDE DOKUMENTÄR BITEN,NÄR ROGER BESÖKTE SIN FARS GRAV....OCH ANDRA PLATSER VAR SUPERBRA.....MEN,DET GRYMMASTE VAR JU KONSERTERNA !!! JAG LÄNGTAR TILL ATT FÅ VARA PÅ MIN FÖRSTA ROGER WATERS KONSERT - APRIL 2023

Es tut mir noch heute sehr leid, dass Pink Floyd in der ursprünglichen Formation vor 1980 sich getrennt hat, und vielleicht denken viele wie ich früher, dass Roger Waters der "bad Guy" in der Story ist, aber wie auch immer es sein mag (und ich verehre auch die anderen Band-Mitglieder), er ist "Mister Pink Floyd". Ohne seinen Einfluss wäre Pink Floyd nicht das geworden was es - auch wenn längst in veränderter oder geteilter Form - immer noch ist (ob Waters, Gilmour oder Mason, auch als Solo-Künstler, sie sind und bleiben für mich "Pink Floyd", natürlich muss man Syd Barrett dabei auch in einem Atemzug nennen). Das Erlebnis beim Anschauen und Anhören dieser Blu-ray ist toll, ich vergleiche so etwas immer mit dem Erlebnis beim früheren Anhören des LP-Albums von 1979 (das ich besitze und auch regelmäßig auf dem alten analogen Plattenspieler abspiele), und der "Thrill" ist derselbe, das hat mit Technik oder Wiedergabe-Qualität nichts zu tun.Man mag die eingestreuten Szenen, in denen es um die Trauer über den Tod von Waters' Vater geht, so oder so empfinden, sie sind sehr privat, aber ich finde dass sie bei einer objektiven Beurteilung dieses Kunstwerks durchaus außer Wertung gelassen werden können. Sie sind dennoch sehr interessant, weil sie tiefe Einblicke in das "Innere" von Roger Waters gewähren, und das ist schon fast etwas intimes. Wer mag, kann es auch für eine eher versöhnliche Beurteilung der Rolle von Waters in dem Prozess verwenden, der zum Zerfall der ursprünglichen "Formation" geführt hat.

El rato siempre lo merece

By now, many reviews have been written on this product. A number of reviewers who have criticized it (albeit in a very minor way) for not being a "complete" concert, or for not having the option of viewing/listening to the live show straight through (i.e., without any of the vignettes of Roger on the road), are, (with all due respect), missing the point. This is NOT just another concert. It is much more than a band getting up on stage and playing a set or two of music. This is musical theater in its grandest form. The portions of the show filmed outside of the stadium are an integral part of the production. Importantly, they do not take up very much time, but they do contribute significantly to the whole. If this were a recording of four guys playing on a small stage in a club, and the camera continually drifted away from the players to show trippy visuals or landscapes (like too many concert videos have done), I'd say thumbs down all the way, but that is NOT what this is. This production was MAMMOTH in size and scope; simply filming the band singing and playing the songs the whole time would have miserably failed to capture its essence. One reviewer who had attended the show in the tenth row and again in the middle of the stadium, (I should have been so lucky to have attended it just once, anywhere in the venue!), wrote that the film did not succeed in replicating the experience of the show and all that it had to offer, because it kept moving from the stage, to the POV of Roger looking out at the crowd, to a vignette on the road, etc., instead of staying in the middle of the stadium focused on the stage. (S/he opined that the middle of the venue was a better spot to be than up close.) Not having seen the show, I won't argue the point. The film did, in my opinion, give the viewer/listener a means of experiencing the production about as well as any film possibly could have done!One might criticize this film (and the live show) as pretentious, over-the-top, depressing, or any number of other things, but it is undeniably a HUGE artistic production and accomplishment. If you enjoy(ed) the album (i.e., Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'), then I highly recommend this film. You not only get to hear the music performed nearly flawlessly by its principal creator and a hand-picked bunch of cracking musicians, but you get to view a spectacle of truly epic proportions to boot. This necessarily means that you don't get to watch the musicians the whole time (like you would on most great concert video recordings... remember that this is NOT just a concert). In my opinion, this is NOT a flaw of the film, but rather an asset. While watching players play is usually the "raison de etre", this is not the case here... the players become more and more hidden by the wall being built as the show progresses, and this is a major part of the production. No stage production of this magnitude exists anywhere else, and it literally has to be seen to be believed! In this case (and perhaps only in this case), the "show" eclipses the players (intentionally and very successfully). The size and scale of the show is absolutely enormous, and for this reason, among others, the production (including the shots on the road and elsewhere) is worthy of a film (hence the film).Last but not least, the quality of everything is superb... the video production, the editing, the sound, the mixing, the musicianship, the stage production... everything. The content is a little dark, (to say the least, hence the R rating), but if you are not put off by it (most fans of The Wall clearly are not), then it's well worth the ride.