Learning from PJ: Philly #4 Daughter Tag

phungi

Listening to Philly 4 this morning on the way to work, and on the Daughter tag (Another Brick in the Wall) Ed says "Pink Floyd played here... wrote a song about it"

Even though I lived in Philly most of my life, and have been to the Spectrum hundreds of times, I didn't know what he was talking about.

Googled "Pink Floyd Philadelphia Spectrum":

Pink Floyd played the Spectrum in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1977. They last played two shows there on June 28-29, 1977, during their Animals/In the Flesh Tour. On the second night (June 29, 1977), Floyd member Roger Waters fell ill and did most of the show after a painkiller injection. However, the painkiller wore off and was taken to the hospital and missed the final encore of "Us and Them" where second guitarist Snowy White had to fill in on bass guitar. Unbeknownst to the crowd, this was the first time that the rest of Pink Floyd (guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Rick Wright) performed a song live without Waters (they would go on without Waters as of 1986). Roger's experience performing while ill at this venue would be documented on "Comfortably Numb".

gems_n_rhinestones

I actually looked it up too. I wasn't sure but I thought I heard Ed said they wrote Another Brick in the Wall about the Spectrum??

What you found about Comfortably Numb makes total sense when you look at the lyrics.

"Can you stand up? I do believe it's working. Good. That'll keep you going through the show. C'mon it's time to go."

eeriepadave

yeah i remember Ed mentioning that at the show, but kinda slipped my mind and forgot to look it up afterwards. Pretty cool though.