You're quite welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

@@WrayEllis Thanks! I hope to be in Montreal next July (second time for me), so a visit to the stadium with my Animals tour t shirt is obligated ✌

Thanks!

It got a lot of use! I'm listening to "Best of the Guess Who" on my brand new headphones - best gift combo I ever got.

And apparently, purple was all the rage...

Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks Wendy.

Thanks Shonna. I appreciate that. Scratches to Boris...

Thanks Jonathon.

Thank you.

Lovely words. Thank you.

Thanks.

Yours too. Thanks Kelita.

Thanks! I appreciate that. No, it wasn't a great night. I'm sure we all wanted it to be, but it wasn't. The next day, when I told my college buddies back home what happened at the show, nobody believed me. It was beyond credibility - for Roger Waters to spit on a fan...?! No way! (Sex Pistols, sure. NOT Pink Floyd...) So, I printed some of the shots I took (which were disappointing overall), then I simply stopped talking about that show. That's where my story remained for nearly 40 years. When Roger finally admitted the incident and it became common knowledge, I figured people would finally believe me. That was when I hauled out my negatives and decided the time was right to share them. The fact that people are thanking me for my story blows my mind. I'm beyond grateful. It's been a long road.

@@WrayEllis Oh I feel you, all the way. It felt like he was talking to us in 'Hey You" when he writes, "hey you standing in the aisles with itchy feet and fading smiles...etc". I was not at this concert but I was in Montreal during the construction of the O in late 1975 (and if you can believe it the construction workers walked off the job from May to the end of October, making it seem like it would not be finished in time at all for the opening ceremonies the following July), then visited the O in the late 80s for Expos games. I knew of this story with the spitting, but not the full context, not the specific audio and even a Super 8 clip taken within moments of the incident, where RW looks absolutely FURIOUS, and all the pieces that YOU provide really fill out exactly how this came together! And FWIW I did see RW on his sprawling In the Flesh tour in 1999 by which time all of this had passed (one would hope). To me, it must have seemed an absolute trigger for RW to be trying to pull off this 1977 concert at the very end of a world tour slog, from the fireworks going off near the stage, screaming and throwing things, and worst of all that the decisive moment of vulnerability comes when he was trying to sing Pigs on the Wing 2, a tender song of resolution in the studio recording's context. Even more telling is his beckoning the offending teen back with taunts for Waters to get his "revenge," and his further comment overheard that some of the audience DO want to hear the song and DO care (tying into the lyrics of PoTW itself), then he (Roger) can be overheard saying, "I don't care...well, I DO, but I wish I didn't." Here is a man singing (or trying to sing) a song of particular vulnerability and he literally gets abuse on the stage from a few deranged fans, who were almost certainly high or drunk anyway. I believe it tapped into his darkest impulses he later channeled into the lyrics (on The Wall album) of the fascistic fantasy of being able to pick out offensive (through a lens of various types of bigotry) people in the audience and have then put up against the wall and shot. THIS incident, the spitting, is also described in far less detail, but represents an incredibly decisive moment, and to my knowledge outside of fanzines was first widely published in Nicholas Schaffner's Saucerful of Secrets, published summer of 1992, a full 15 years later. PF had kept many things about their inner workings quite close to the vest (other than the very public dispute over the legal use of the name when DG had to fight RW in court to release Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987 under the PF name). I can still remember reading that book IN the bookstore when it was released (as one did in those days) and reading about this incident, and how deeply it affected Roger. But absent all the context and details that you provide here..and also for what it's worth, please disregard some of the cretinous quibbling going on in some of these past comments trying to 'correct' your memory or add to it, critique it, whatever, they can make their own video recollections if they know so much about the incident, they should stop sh*tting on this wall (no pun intended) as you have made IMO a definitive and insightful summary of the events that sews up all the pieces, for me anyway. I think also for you, as a young man watching this horrific event unfold in front of you, must have been extraordinary and somewhat painful. One final thought, and I apologize for all the rambling, is the irony of your mention of the Sex Pistols below is (as I'm sure you've heard) that it was likewise in the same year as this concert that John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) was first spotted by McLaren in London wearing precisely an old PF t-shirt, except with the words "I HATE" scrawled above the name on the tattered shirt. How is that for coincidence? Talk about a band who hated (or intended to project hatred) their audience, the ultimate violent fantasy of *actually* murdering audience members as in Sid Vicious' music video for "My Way". And to think that the Pistols' members were the SAME age as you. I hope unpacking all of these memories on your channel here can provide some measure of closure to the experience now almost 47 years behind us. God bless.

Aww. Thank you!

Or maybe just too drunk to remember. There were a lot of casualties that night.

Awesome!

Just telling you what I saw. Believe whatever you want. By the way, the person you see at the start of that other video - with the bushy hair and camera strap over his shoulder...is me.

Well aren't you generous! Thank you. I picked that song specifically for you. These are all my tunes. The backing tracks were recorded on my Portastudio by me playing all the instruments and singing all the parts. I used to do cover songs. My older videos are full of them - and I loved that. (I do a pretty decent version of Low Rider by War...) But, I got frustrated by every show getting copyrighted. So, I'm just doing my own songs. No copyright issues. And, that photo is very special - it's amazing he picked that one out of a big pile of old family photos. That's me on stage with the late Ray Sawyer of Dr. Hook. They had some huge hits in the 70s and 80s. Anyway, after Dr. Hook split up, Ray toured on his own. In 1986, he needed a band to back him as he toured Western Canada. Normally I took lots of photos but for some reason, not on this tour. I have fewer than 10 photos from that rollicking adventure. Well, 9 now...I guess. Thanks again. You rock MORE.

Then I've done what I set out to do. Thank you!

Thanks!