09.04.2006 David gilmour Toronto massey hall Dave Gilmour mesmerizes Toronto fans. By BILL HARRIS - Toronto Sun 10.04.2006: David Gilmour paused and asked, "What's that noise?" It turns out some of the haze from Gilmour's stage show at Massey Hall last night temporarily set off a fire alarm. "Or is it a fog alarm?" Gilmour wondered.  Regardless, the brief fire alarm was the only unwanted sound on a glorious evening of music.  If anything should have set off alarms, it was Gilmour's virtuoso guitar-playing. It filled every inch of air space at Massey Hall, exploding every atom and busting every molecule.  Gilmour, who long ago attained rock-royalty status as one of the prodigies behind Pink Floyd, doesn't come around these parts too often. He hadn't played in Toronto since 1994 and hadn't played the snug confines of Massey Hall since 1984.  So if you were lucky enough to be at the soldout show last night, you already know you witnessed something very special. Gilmour and his six-member band -- which included popular Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright and ex-Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera -- played for three full hours, with nary a dull moment.  Gilmour is 60 years old now, and when he first walked onto the stage he looked like any unidentified labourer who could be raking leaves in your backyard. Balding, with a slight paunch, and wearing a black T-shirt that was stretched at the neck and nondescript black trousers, if you didn't recognize his face you would have had no idea what he was about to unleash.  Then he hit the first note on his guitar and it all made sense. This is not your average 60-year-old.  Gilmour is touring in support of his recently released, top-selling solo CD, On An Island, which he played last night in its entirety to start the proceedings. It's an okay record, albeit laid-back to the extreme in places. But it's a great compliment to the prowess of Gilmour and his band to say that last night On An Island was considerably more impressive and effective live than it is on CD.  Fans who were, well, somewhat chemically altered and were at Massey primarily to hear the old Pink Floyd stuff still managed to sit transfixed through the On An Island segment. That's really saying something.  After a brief intermission, Gilmour came back and performed some of the more well-known Pink Floyd fare. Among the highlights were Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Fat Old Sun, Echoes and the two encore numbers, Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb.  Gilmour has said he appreciates being on tour without all the technical luggage that is required for a Pink Floyd trip. But while the light show last night may have been rudimentary by Pink Floyd standards, it was spectacular nonetheless, particularly by Massey Hall standards.  Pink Floyd's reunion for the Live 8 extravaganza last summer -- most significantly, it was a reunion of former enemies Gilmour and Roger Waters -- has prompted renewed interest in Pink Floyd collectively, and Gilmour personally. There are no other Pink Floyd projects in the offing, however.  Gilmour kicked off the five-city, 10-concert North American segment of his tour with two shows in New York last week. He will play here again tonight before heading to Chicago (two shows), Oakland (two shows) and Los Angeles (two shows).  In late may, Gilmour will be at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England for three concerts, and those shows will provide sound and footage for a future DVD release. "There will be work to sort of keep me a little bit busy, making sure things are going right with the DVD and supervising the editing," Gilmour said in a recent interview with The Toronto Sun. "But other than that, I haven't got any plans, to be honest, beyond the end of this tour."  Well ... if you're not dong anything, David, you always could come back to Toronto and play about 10 more shows.    © Foto: Joe O'Connal, SUN	On An Island Tour Übersicht 16. Konzert 2006   Band: David Gilmour - Guitar, Saxofon Rick Wright - Keyboard, Vocals Phil Manzanera - Guitar Guy Pratt - Bass, Guitar Jon Carin - Keyboard, Guitar, Vocals Steve DiStanislao - Drums, Vocals Dick Parry - Saxofon   Statistik: 1984 spielte David Gilmour zwei  Konzerte in dieser "Halle".   Kommentar: Guy Pratt   Songliste: 01. Castellorizon 02. On An Island 03. The Blue 04. Red Sky at Night 05. This Heaven 06. Then I Close My Eyes 07. Take a Breath 08. Smile 09. A Pocketful of Stones 10. Where We Start 11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond 1-5 12. Whots .. Uh The Deal 13. Wearing The Inside Out 14. Fat Old Sun 15. Speak To Me 16. Breathe 17. Time  18. Breathe Reprise 19. High Hopes 20. Echoes 21. Wish You Were Here 22. Comfortably Numb   Nächstes Konzert: 10. April 2006 Toronto >>   Vorheriges Konzert: << 7. April 2006 New York
David Gilmour in Toronto. 10.04.2006: Die "Massey Hall" in Toronto sieht fantastisch aus. Guy Pratt schrieb im Blog (Posted April 10, 2006 09:00 AM): Well we thought it was our best yet... xx Guy Back to the Top