I saw this show in NY. What floored me most was how much space the stage took up. Thousands of seats had to be removed. The show was enormous & loud. I've never seen anything like it since.

I was at the tour at Nassau Coliseum on February 20, 1980. I have to think my long lost friend June, whose mom, bless her soul, at worked at Gimbels (remember them?) in my old neighborhood inNortheast Philadelphia (where Marc Brickman, who was the lighting designer for this tour and some 30 years designed the lighting for Roger Waters Wall tours as well as the Rascals once upon a dream tour, is also from). I was very grateful that I was able to get tickets through her mom to see this show, which I would have never been able to get. This was my number one concert of all time, even surpassing Roger Waters will tours despite how great the advanced sound and visuals were.

The Wall's live band was tight as hell. The Floyd had Snowy White on 2nd guitar. He performed some great leads on the Earls Court shows

43 years ago… It’s almost unbelievable how they managed everything to sync and work. I wish I saw one of these shows live… 😢❤️

Saw the Wall 2-26-80. 43 years ago today. Changed my life.

I like that the FBI warning about distribution was included on the KZfaq upload lol

I was so very fortunate to see the opening night of The Wall -five consecutive sold out performances- at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, New York, on February, 24th, 1980.

I had to chuckle when Roger Waters said he would never attempt anything like this again. Little did he know then that technology would advance enough to make it possible, 30 years later, to turn an even grander version of this show into the highest grossing solo tour of all time.

The Wall is Roger’s artistic vision. One can only marvel at the extraordinary scope of his vision both sonically with the record and then to conceptualise such an enormous stage show.

I was fortunate to be at one of the Earls Court August 1980 shows.

Great great great documentary! Loved it! All the behind the scenes stuff! Wish it was longer!

It’s hard to believe that this was 40 years ago. I was in 8th grade, when this album came out. It had teachers in a panic. At the end of 8th grade, our class was allowed to have a party, and bring in records to play. However, the teacher immediately followed that, by saying that this album was forbidden. Yes, it was a Catholic grimmer school. You only forbid, what you truly fear.

I would of loved to seen this show live. The closest venue for me at the time was Nassau Colosseum in February 1980. My Parents introduced me to Pink Floyd music in the 70s and early 80s. Unfortunately, when the February 1980 shows played.... I was only 7 years old. I missed it by a few years! I didn't get to see PF until 1988 with the Gilmour led era. Waters and Gilmour have to dig out the live footage and give it a 4k release would be spectacular! Even if Waters thinks it's sub par. Great video! Thanks for sharing!

The logistics and painstaking production to put on a show like this were amazing 35 years ago. Now, improved technology has thankfully allowed this production to tour many locations all over the world many times. I saw The Wall concert almost 3 years ago and it is just a stunning visual and musical experience. It is as if this concept of show was way ahead of it's time back in 1980. It is now done properly and with much more efficiency. Great documentary!!

Thanks man and Pink Floyd will always be my number 1 favourite band bar none.

THIS IS AWESOME!!! THANK YOU, MUDMAN!!!

I wish I could have seen the wall I love pink Floyd

I was there at Earls Court on Wednesday 6th August 1980. Never forgotten that night

There's this funny anecdote about the rehearsals for the "Animals" tour, which again was a whole show onto its own. During soundchecks David Gilmour remarked that one of his Hiwatt amps didn't sound right, so he told his Roadie to check it, he couldn't find a fault but regardless Gilmour told him to take the amp away and take another Hiwatt from the band's storage to replace it. The roadie unplugged the amp, took it away, waited a few minutes before returning with the same amp, only to find how good Gilmour's hearing is...

Saw the 2nd show at Nassau Colloseum 1980 . A highlite of my life.

Amazing record! Thanks for sharing!

Thank for great Documentary! Love PF forever! 👏👍🤟❤

20:56 "We've got a bit of a hum for now, so that's fine." *IN ROGER'S HEAD* "A hum?! A fucking hum?! That's not good enough! Fix the fucking hum or I'll kill you all!!!" *IN REALITY* "...okay."

ok, I admit it, I've still got that sleeping bag

I had a buddy that was a rigger,did alot of big bands.He loved climbing on that shit.He also like mountain climbing w/o any proper gear.I trip out standing on a step ladder!

Right on. Thanks for sharing.

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

its really hard to realize exactly what goes on to create such events, what a lot of work by talented perople, great job!

Hah! That show in NY that he was talking about where a projector failed is the one I was at! For a tech-geek college freshman it doesn't get any better than that. The other thing I loved was that I was in the cheap seats, in the end zone as far as you could get from the stage, and yet... During the solo in Comfortably Numb, with no light in the theater other than 10 kilowatts of narrow spotlight behind Gilmour, that light was aimed straight at us. We had the best seats in the house! Also that location made it easy to watch the tech booth (which was the size of a small venue).

"Rock and Roll is still alive and well in England". To think this was just a few weeks before the passing of John Bonham and the end of Zeppelin, and the end of Floyd with Roger.

Ahhhh.... The forever evaded jewel for fans. 🤔 That would be a full two hours (at least) of the behind the scenes of this tour. Would've been great with a live version of the show. All the best performances mixed into a full documentary and released in various audio formats. Oh, I guess I dream too big.... 😅To me, a Pink Floyd version of The Song Remains The Same..... Heaven 💖✌️☮️

I wish I was there

is there a high quality video recording of any of The Wall shows?? Of all the genius PF did over the years their video documentation of the 1970's tours was a clusterfuck.

I saw this show at Earls court in London in August 1980

Truly a masterpiece.

Love the rehearsal version of "Another Brick" Part II at 21:56. Is there any recording available that comes close to this?

Indeed Lorenzo. I'd pay a lot more to see that show.... brilliant.

long live the Floyd !!!!!!

Today, we have relatively compact neat line array sound systems that delivery incredible clarity, fidelity and SPL. Looking at my photos of four Wall concerts I attended in 1980 and 1981 at Earls Court, it's incredible to think of the vast but relatively inefficient piles of bass bins, mids and compression horns that constituted large scale sound systems in the 70s and early 80s. There was a very distinct honkiness and spectral patchiness to the sound. Yes, it was very loud, but no one knew any better. None-the-less, it was supremely enjoyable.

Watching this doc I kept thinking "This is Spinal Tap".

Ahh yes, brag time: Had great seats at the 1st show in LA at Sports Arena, a pretty good show. I had already seen them in Waterbury CT @ the Palace '73 when the first half of show before intermission was all classics - Careful, Domine, Interstellar, Echoes etc, and then the 2nd half debuted Dark Side with the heartbeat in surround....THAT show was epic. By the time the Wall came out we were jaded. I had seen ALL the best from AC/DC to ZZ Zappa Top/Queen/Bowie/ELP/Crimson/Eagles/Purple/Sabbath/Who/Boss 3 times/StevieRay. All the big hair jerks on Sunset blvd VH/QR/Ratt/RacerX etc were our nightly beer entertainment after work at Starwood or Gazzaris or Roxy/Rainbow joints, on and on, but still I'm glad in an egotistical way that I can brag about it more than it being all that. Sorry kids, if you aren't a boomer you missed the good stuff. No brag, just fact. lol 🎸

Legend has it, that the bloke @17:40 is still looking for his sleeping bag

12:42 - Chunky electronics! Rock on analogue!

17:30 actually, a concertgoer attempting to crash the barrier is what gave birth to The Wall, so perhaps the GLC would have a point if they sweated the Pink Floyd about the distance between the front row and the crash barrier.

I was at the very final show, sitting in the fifth row in Earls Court in June 1981. I've always found it hard to believe that there aren't 100s of hours of quality footage documenting the shows.

24:09 Roger and David rehearsing "young lust" it's fuckin' great to see!! xD

Amazing album and movie🍿

Cheers Mudman

@14:05 - The ultimate search for that Acoustic Sweet Spot.. 🙏👍

But Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to play on every album. (But lended his vocals to only one line of one song)

I was there on Sunday, in one of 7 concerts in a row. In Dortmund. I guess it was in 1981 (or 1980 not 100% sure). the crazy thing is, 4 years later I met a girl with who I am still together until this day, we are together for 38 years now and we are still not married. she is my soul twin, I am in such a lucky situation that I have found true love. and the thing is, after we have been together for 25 years, we figured out, that both of us were there. we were at the same concert. and we haven't met yet. that happened 4 years later. what a strange coincidence.

I personally would not want a big wall thing between the band and me, I want to see the band The entire time

What a lovely rendition of “Nobody Home” melody by their sound check engineer.

I hope the guy got his sleeping bag back, I still have mine from 1970 ( Cubs camp in Bromsgrove)

Although not as a dramatic...BUT if you love old Floyd, go see Nick Mason's "Saucerful of Secrets" as they are on tour.....it's a helluva show and they play stuff that Floyd NEVER did live. Well worth the money I assure YOU. I saw them about a year ago....I'd go AGAIN in a heartbeat....

I was 3 when this epic show went down. This is insane though.

At the same time Simon & Garfunkel captivated half a million people at Central Park NY, just their two voices and one acoustic guitar

I was there!

this video can see how Dave and Roger were far apart.

Interesting documentary! Oh by the way, I like your "obscure" name :D

Fifty pounds to see "the wall?" that's a bargain as ever there was one.

21:55 this jam was the best part of the vid!

I'd love to see the napkin that this stage production was all originally hashed out on.

And now you know why “This Is Spinal Tap” was made.

Hard to believe this was pulled off especially since materials back then were heavy and technology of the day was fairly limited compared with what we have now. No Bluetooth, no led lighting, no smartphones etc.....

The poor sleeping bag man. I wonder if he ever got it back, and if he's still alive

does anyone know why they had 2 drummers for this concert / tour? I thought Nick Mason was their only drummer but in this footasger there are 2 drumkits and 2 drummers

This INTRO is PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!

I & my company printed the original Brick In The Wall t-shirts that were sold at the concerts 😎👍

I've watched this several times over the years and never get used to the corny narration at the beginning.

I like how during the 80s they looked like they were in their 50s and they were really in there 30s lmao. it always trips me out lmao

ya when i uploaded it i had to do it in 2 parts :(

YOU CANT HAVE YOUR SLEEPING BAG IF YOU GONNA EAT YOUR PUDDING

I was there as a 16 year old in 1980 - lot of pot being smoked around me !....how things have changed.

Hopefully one day roger can release the concert cleaned up from video we know he owns the rights to it

These dudes are all in their 60s & 70s now.

amazing one of biggest rocks acts ever..yet there's virtually nil live concert footage of them at all.

sick

I can't tell if the awkwardness of the narrative is poorly-translated English, or early AI.

I was at first show in LA I believe Feb 5 1980...acid,alcohol and reefer madness.

PINK FLOYD Leggenda ☆☆☆☆☆

I remember a local radio station was giving away tickets and expenses paid to the London show if you could name a montage of songs by, oddly enough, Journey. I knew all the songs but never called to enter the contest. Oh well 🤷‍♂

I was at one of the Nassau Coliseum shows ..... pretty sure we got high that night

10:14 Apples that weigh 2 lbs ?!? Maybe now (2023) with GMF they can do a lot of things that weren't possible in 1980. Back then, a 2 lbs apple was a freak of nature.

para.min.a.melhor.banda.de.todos.ostempos.

"Rocky the Rigger"!!!👍👍👍👍

Bob Ezrin is a genius

I was there. Not at the concert but I know I wasn't here.

Shame that they only performed this at about 4 places or so. I have the NY show via a boot....it's fantastic and well-recorded.

Hey! didn't know you had Bruce Jenner as your sound mixer guy! 11:07

where are the forklifts for the load in?? had they not been invented yet? Glad I do this stuff now! lol still eirie how similar everything still is...

They should have recorded them setting up first show & this last show. I'm sure they would had it down pat after 29 shows.

If Roger eliminated 80% of the stage show...they could have booked Royal Albert Hall and produce the best concert film known to man.

Mudman, for the win.

18:25: Mr James May? Maybe!

1980 London seems a Universe away from now.

imagine these people finding out this is only for 30 shows.

Is 'The Wall' the top selling title of all time, or is 'The Darkside Of The Moon' the top selling title of all time, of PF history? Which was more successful?? These documentaries need to get it straight! They either were equally successful or one of those albums out sold and was more popular in comparison. Pink Floyd either way is still the best rock n roll band of all time.

They had most definitely already made an impact with Dark Side of the Moon....

Saw the movie with friends when it came out. We took acid before. Sid where are you now