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Simisu
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Dark side - live on shrooms (long)
#5788854 - 06/25/06 08:33 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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well... just a little preface, i live in Israel and we seldom get to have visitors like Roger Waters over here let alone such crowed people like him create (there were about 70.000-100.000 people over there) i never thought I'd get to experience dark side of the moon in a live setting with that kind of crowed and I'm SO happy that it actually happened!
(unfortunatly i can't link directly to the photos so if you want to get an idea of what the show was like you can find some good photos here )
people gathered from all around the country for the show and i thought I'd either take a ride with someone or take one of the buses that were supposed to go to the venue (these were buses which were arranged especially for the show and tickets were sold along with the concert tickets, i didn't know about these before the day of the show but i was pretty sure i could pay on the spot and board the bus. none of the regular buses had any lines for that place BTW) i was too late in finding a ride so i went to the bus station and waited along with a growing mass of people, as time goes by it looks like no bus is going to come so people start making calls to the bus company asking what's the deal... there's no answer! people start to freak out... they had NO idea how to get there and the time was getting late as hell (also considering the massive car jams on the way)
i was getting pretty nervous too but i was resolved not to loose it so i wouldn't ruin the day for my self, i wanted to be there early to take in some of the atmosphere and also eat my mushrooms about half an hour before the show starts. so now it was getting late and i had no choice but to call my parents and tell them to pick me up and that i was taking the car (they were in the middle of a training session in the jim) it was kind of a worst case scenario since i didn't want to risk driving and my dad always gets pissy as HELL if anything tiny is wrong with the car, and of course i didn't want to deal with the parking and traffic (i should also mention that i was meeting two friends over there and one of them had my ticket... i was going to sleep over at one of them so i knew that there would be someone to drive the car later)
so i took this guy and his dad along drove my parents home and set off to the show... when we got pretty close that traffic was practically standing and the show was supposed to start in 15 minuets!!! so i drove on the side line for a while passing through all the suckers and when we could already see the turn i get pulled over by a cop! 
the fine for driving on the side lines in Israel is like 150USD but i wasn't feeling guilty so i told him and that and some of and basically that it's a once in a life time and i don't usually do this kind of thing, i told him it was getting late and that the show was already supposed to start and we've come a long way and please and... so he says "yeah and still you DO know it's a 750NIS fine?" so i say "listen, do whatever you have to, i don't have a choice here but it would be great if you'd let us off the hook on this one... it's clearly a special occasion and pretty please" (and right now I'm thinking ) he gives us this stern look and says "alright, here's your papers... drive safely now!" ON TO THE SHOW... WOOOOHEEEEE 
it could of easily gone WAY wrong (with my 3.5 grams of mushrooms in my underpants and the guy next to me had some hash in his... i already spent a fuckload of money on the show ticket and wasn't in a spending mood ) but i finely get to the venue... now... my ticket is inside so i try calling my friend... FUCK!!!#$@%#$^ the phone lines are down (too many people and the grid is overloaded) WTF#%$$#%!&&^! after a few minuets of franticly trying to reach my friend i hear an announcement "ladys and gents please have Patience, on account of the massive traffic jams Roger has agreed to wait for a while before starting the show. he has been waiting for this show for a long time and he wants to let as many people as possible get here before starting" phew... but i still can't reach my friends.
after about 20 minuets i was able to leave a MSG on their machine and they finely got there just as i get thro the gate the lights go down i give my two friends a hug and as we're hugging the first notes are hared In The Flesh starts and we hold hands and start to make our way into the crowd
[the show is finelly starting and i just arrive, pictures taken from a web site not mine... i had to remove the links because they blocked them but i'll leave the comments and you can imagine it? or find it at the first link i gave ]
this was the set list that followed... Mother Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun Shine On You Crazy Diamond Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here Southampton Dock Fletcher Memorial Home Perfect Sense Leaving Beirut Sheep *a break for 15 minuets [Dark Side of the Moon] Speak To Me, Breathe, On The Run, Time, The Great Gig In The Sky, Money, Us and Them, Any Colour You Like, Brain Damage, Eclipse, [End of Dark Side of the Moon]
Happiest Days of our Lives + Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) Vera Bring The Boys Back Home Comfortably Numb [END].
up until we reached our spot i wasn't sure i was going to dose but as soon as i realized where i was and how fucking incredible it all is i thought "once in a life time!" i munched on my 3.5 grams and chased it with a few gummy bears to clear my mouth... the songs the followed kept building and building and i was totally in it when have a cigar started and simply exploded with the rest of the crowed when wish was playing (i don't have words to describe how happy i was singing wish you with all those people...)
[roger and the mic]
when Leaving Beirut started i was already kinda feeling the shrooms and when he took the brake before DSTM i was nearly peaking... it's only my third time shrooming and it was weird, i didn't know what to do with my self (and so did the people around me... specifically two or three of them that were clearly blasted on LSD they kept standing while some of us sat down) i just looked around and tried to take everything in *grinning like mad * i was expecting SOME visuals but it didn't seem to be coming yet again
[Sheep]
when i thought about dosing i thought it would be stronger but i was worried it will distract me from the show, it turned out to be less then i thought but I'm glad because i had a fucking blast! i was filled with SO much energy and DTSM didn't fail an inch... the words made perfect sense and i could FEEL the message he was saying and i thought "I'm glad to be alive today! " my whole body was buzzing and i danced and sang feeling so pure and so good... i felt in tune with my body and the music i felt like my self again and i was happy about it!
i was getting more and more restless and energized and this tripped out girl that stood in front of me was getting pissed at me and occasionally telling me to stop dancing or shut up, i was sad for her because she was clearly more pissed at me then enjoying the amazing show in front of us! at one point she got VERY pissed off and told me that this was "her space" she said "look you see that blanket you're stepping on? that's MY blanket! i was here since 12 noon!!! get the fuck out of here" poor girl... I'm not a stranger to people getting pissed at me for dancing and I'm amazed each and every time since for me it's impossible NOT to dance and get excited at shows let alone THIS kind of show! (it wasn't the drugs that made me apathetic to her pleading simply my rational that THIS is the place to do what I'm doing and NO ONE is entitled to take it away from me! they should either deal with it or go away!)
[Psychodelic tunnel spinning colors while "On the run" was playing... i'm in heaven ]
at one point people started pushing me (which only pissed everyone ales...) i didn't mind at all, i lost my balance and felt tens of hands pushing and holding me until i regained my footing, my eyes were closed and i didn't care what everyone was saying! i kept dancing and i remember thinking how fun it was to feel everyone around me, i wished they would be sensible enough to join me but most everyone was lame about it 
when DTSM finished my friends asked me to move to somewhere where I'd have enough space for my self and maybe some friendlier people around... so we moved and i stood in front of three screaming girls they made me feel SO good because they'd just scream and everyone would join them which was amazing! at one point i turned around and screamed in joy "IT'S SO FUN TO HEAR YOU SCREAMING, THANKS GIRLS" and kept jumping away in near ecstasy...
some great moments followed and i was suprised to be enjoing stuff from the depressing "the wall" albume... (actualy my first PF albume which hold much childhood memories) vera and bring the boys back home was awasome, grand and filled me with an epic feeling!
[vera lynn]
[the ending song and the crowed is ecstatic and screaming in joy]
the show ended and i was shocked, it went away SO fast! i couldn't stop smiling and people started going in one direction towards the exits and i walked backwards watching the bewildered mass and happy faces, one guy came mooing and i joined him and then he'd ba'a like a sheep and laugh that manic laugh and people joined all around... it was so surreal 
i was feeling the MOST normal I've ever been, i felt "good". i couldn't stop moving though... i kept dancing and stretching while my friends went to buy us some water bottles and while they sat drinking i was playing with my water bottle throwing it up in the air and catching it while dancing...
i met a few people i used to work with and a friend while we made our way to the car... EVERYONE was shocked and speechless, all smiles and hugs... it took us some time but after reaching the car we didn't have to wait too much in the traffic (we were luckily heading towards the opposite direction from everyone, I've heard it took people 4 hours to get out of there )
i put on some led zeppelin in the car and was drumming and singing the whole way to Jerusalem (about half an hour drive) i still felt so energized and couldn't stop my self while my friends were already kinda crashing ha ha, i guess it was all that adrenalin that ran in my vains?
i only calmed down after eating a couple slices of pizza (damn good pizza too), i couldn't tell if i was still under the effect or not since this wasn't such a regular day but I've felt pretty content and grateful for this day. later we went over to this place where they make these dutch crap? with Dulce De Leche on top the place was packed full at 2:20 AM (it's a SMALL place though) but the guy says "sorry I'm closing soon and i can't take any more orders" and I'm thinking "no fucking way... i have to have one of those hot coco drinks they sell it's the perfect ending for today! i have to!" so i tell him "even for people who just saw Roger Waters and need a cup of coco to make a perfect ending for this special day?" click i can see his expression changing and he asks me how it was so i explain a little and that seemed to do the trick...
oh lovely coco thick dark chocolate coco drink we sat there for a while relaxing some more and finely decided to head home... by then i started to feel my body ache and cry for sleep but my mind was far from it! we made our beds and went to sleep but i soon realized that there's no chance I'm sleeping any time soon... it took me three hours to finely doze off (i looked out the window for a while enjoying the cool breeze reflecting on the day i had, drank some more water, spent some time on the toilet and eventually crashed on the sofa where it was much cooler then the hot sticky room)
i slept like three hours until my friend woke up, we made some coffee sat for a while and left for the old city to eat some hummus (chickpeas) in the arab quarter... I've never been there and it was a nice experience for me despite the tiredness and fatigued body but our other friend was getting sort of pissy and after we went home they had a small row and i felt it was time to go before they both get me down...
when i got home around noon i tired going to sleep again but to no avail... sleep did not come until 4AM and that's after i gave up at about 1 and went for a night walk... i don't know if it was the adrenalin or the shrooms but i was restless as hell! i felt like when i wake up I'd have to start living out my visions not wasting any more time... I'm still restless i think but at least I've had a good sleep  
thanks for reading if anyone got this far  any feed back would be appreciated thanks!
[edited set list and added the pics... pics are blocked ]
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Edited by simisu (06/28/06 04:37 AM)
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Simisu]
#5789842 - 06/25/06 04:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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good report, i enjoyed reading it.
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Simisu
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: trippin_balls]
#5794918 - 06/27/06 04:34 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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i went to see my best friend preform at a pub in tel aviv last night and met these two rasta girls that waited for that bus that never showed up... i asked them if they ever got there and they told me that after i drove off someone called a privet bus and they had to pay like 12USD more to board it and they only arrived at the 5'th song!!! what a shame... but at least the got to see DSTM 
i was so lucky  and i'm so gratefull for such a perfect day!
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Simisu]
#5794926 - 06/27/06 04:51 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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thanks for that, sounds like you had an awesome night!
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Simisu]
#5795029 - 06/27/06 07:08 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Awesome!
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Simisu]
#5796090 - 06/27/06 03:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sounds like a lot of fun man. Can't wait to see the show myself. I can't wait to see Sheep.
I noticed that you didn't list The Gunner's Dream on your setlist. Did he not play it? I had heard that he didn't play it at a couple of shows and was hoping that he wouldn't drop it permanently because I really like that song a lot.
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Simisu
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Deadmaker]
#5796381 - 06/27/06 04:45 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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no, i don't think he did that song... (probably because he can't possibly sing it you do know he's using playback on some of the songs?)
i can see they blocked the images i'll see if i can do something about it (or at least change it back to links or something)
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great report! i liked how you used a lot of smileys to express the emotions. The show sounded amazing and, having been to israel i can really imagen what it would be like.
p.s. if i was there with you, i would have been dancin like a crazy person too!
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Dimmy]
#10578586 - 06/26/09 07:23 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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i somehow found a link to this post, and i see the last time anyone posted on this was three years and one hour! so i guess this deserves a bump
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Simisu]
#10580360 - 06/27/09 02:55 AM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Utterly euphorically beautiful experience simisu. Certainly an understatement to call it even a once in a lifetime experience. You were there, at the heart of it all. The universe layer out the red carpet for you that night in every regard.....well except the pussy people who complained about you dancing, probably the most ridiculous thing I've heard in awhile. And yes, I'd have had the same idea that they didn't need to be there....but maybe one day they'll look back and realize how out of line they were. Thank you thank you thank you for posting this report, I'm going to listen to dark side right now, though I will be sober...I just came out of a two week session of shroomy adventure seeking and I've got to take a break.
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Wraistlingill]
#10645563 - 07/09/09 02:02 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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thanks!
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: Simisu]
#10647740 - 07/09/09 02:13 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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good read. all due respect though sometimes you tripped dancers don't realize how much of peoples space your taking up. Respect is mutual, people want their space. Especially at that dark side of the moon tour. I saw him over in the US, it was a huge family event just as much as a psychedelic one.
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Re: Dark side - live on shrooms (long) [Re: bamba]
#10675175 - 07/14/09 01:01 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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your right, it was indeed a very family event as well as young people! but where i was there were only young people around (was too "close" to the stage anyway)
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