My wife and I sat in the nosebleeeds to the right of the Madison Square Garden stage for the last performance of the 2024 David Gilmour tour. I did not want to miss this opportunity to catch Gilmour, particularly since years ago, when I was driving livery part time, I spoke to a woman who was a concert junkie like myself, and she said Gilmour at Radio City Music Hall was the best concert she had ever seen. Best concert you’ve ever seen?
I attended Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” tour at Nassau Coliseum, I saw the David Gilmour version of Pink Floyd at Yankee Stadium and I have gone to a couple of Roger Waters tours along the way.; I had to see David Gilmour.
We were pumped that there was no opening act last night; the band hit the stage shortly after the 7:30 PM start time and played until after 10:30 PM with an intermission.
The first half was a great show with a couple of Pink Floyd classics interspersed with David Gilmour’s solo material. This was clearly a “David Gilmour” tour and not a Pink Floyd concert and that was fine. The sound snd light show were phenomenal; the audience was respectful and attentive, mostly keeping their cell phones out of view as was requested before the concert began. The second half began with a Gilmour era Floyd song into a number of melodic solo offerings. Once again, this was fine, but We kept waiting for a kick ass Pink Floyd classic or two as the end of the show drew near. I never look at set lists before a show but my wife did. It was either catch the 10:45 train to Babylon or transfer at Jamaica on the 11:06 to Long Beach. Was it “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”? ( an unused to that point mirror ball hung above the audience); no “ Comfortably Numb”. Great song but work in the morning and the train schedule won this time. Great concert, glad we went, but just missed being epic.

Time

Rock on!

GQ