Madison Square Garden
I sat with a friend in some amazing center/left floor seats for this show, Night 2 in NYC.
Among other things, the movies during “Wish You Were Here” were especially captivating up close. Vivid recollections remain of looking up at Gilmour playing the Fender lap steel guitar while the lights flashed and smoke billowed up during the intense jam with Rick Wright’s synthesizer leads during the second part of Shine On.
Before the show I had a good look at Wright's keyboard rig. I saw he appeared to have two of the same moog synths side by side on top, and a total of 26 keyboards.
Recently a good quality audience recording of this show (called “Audiophile Edition”) was posted online. You can hear the fireworks going off as the show opens and then well into Sheep and during quiet segments of the show. Aside from that problem though, the recording is kind of, like woahhh …, freakishly, religiously incredible. Gilmour plays some of the most classic rock guitar to be found anywhere. Welcome to the (1977 time travel) machine.