Randall Pink Floyd

Most of the excitement of my weekend revolved around Friday night. I met up with M.K.A. and Katie at Oakland Gyros for dinner. I was so excited for a Gyro. And as always it was just fantastic. Here is a photo I took on the way to Gyros. After dinner I headed down to the Riverside Theater. I was going to see the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular. It was actually pretty cool. I was worried that it wouldn't live up to my expectations, but it actually did. I showed up a little late and by the time I got my ticket the show had already started. I just slipped into the back and remainder there without moving up much at all. The first half of the show was the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" Album, beginning to end. This is the very end of the first half. They had three screens at the front of the room which either showed images from videos or laser images. Bubs, I thought of you a number of times, because often the laser images where just interpretive figures of the songs lyrics, much like your Dave Matthews interpretive dance that you break out on only special occasions. This was the end of the first half.

The second half had some greatest hits and some of "The Wall". Now for an extra $2 you could get the "special" glasses. I would say that they were worth it. As you can probably tell in this video clip which was shot through the glasses.

Here is sort of a funny story about the night that makes me seem like the big idiot that I am. As I mentioned I went to Oakland Gyros before the show. And earlier in the evening I bought some gum to take care of the gyro breath. While I did enjoy the show, it was ridiculously loud. And since there is a history within my family with hearing loss, I knew I had to do something about this. I have the brilliant idea to chew up a couple pieces of gum and toss them in my ears. Yes, a dumb idea, but it did work. Then again I was walking around with gum in my ears. After the show I was walking back to my car and started pulling the gum out of my ears. As you may have guessed, the gum stuck to my ears and I the more I pulled on the gum, the more of a mess I made between my hands and my ears. I am sure you can imagine the stringy gum everywhere. That was pretty much the case.
This was the last song, I am not even sure what song it is, but the light show is again pretty cool.

Was it worth it? Sure, I am not a huge Pink Floyd fan. But it was fun to see and I would definitely go see it again. I will say if you are a Pink Floyd fan, that yes it is an absolute must see. It is $25 bucks at the box office the day of the show, and it has the feel of a real concert. Basically it is like going to a concert with everything but the band on stage, and the studio recordings pumped out at maximum volume.