That was a fun trip down memory lane...
Sep. 21st, 2008 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fullcontactmuseLast night, I went to a laser show with the Boy down at the Pacific Science Center to see the Wall. This had been the first time seeing a laser show since I lived in Denver. Of course, we went to go see the Wall and the Boy was commenting how trippy it was. The Seattle Laser Dome is a very different configuration from the Gates Planetarium back in Denver, named for Charles C. Gates of the Gates Rubber Company.
Where as the Gates Planetarium is like a theater in the round, with a platform in the middle for the star field generator in the middle, the Seattle Laser Dome is laid out more like a theater with a thrust stage, except people can lay down in the middle section and watch the show on the ceiling. Interestingly enough, I read that they even did a show with a live band playing for their CD release party. Of course, after I learned that I had images of the Ophelia, of Abney Park fame, rendered in laser light across the dome with the live show playing at the foot of the dome. Probably not quite of the steampunk vein with lasers, though if it were called a "Death Ray Abney Park" show instead of a "laser show", that could work. I should probably toss that suggestion![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
robert_from_ap's direction. Who knows, he might go for it, right?
Anyway, the show was good and I found myself singing to the music and was okay that they dropped a few songs—Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 3; One of My Turns; Vera, Bring the Boys Back Home, and Run Like Hell. Actually, I was rather annoyed at Run Like Hell's exclusion, but life will go on. Interestingly enough, they replaced Empty Spaces with "What Shall We Do Now?", a song that was originally slated for the album—it's lyrics were printed on the album sleeve, no less—but was dropped due to time constraints and replaced with "Empty Spaces". The song, "What Shall We Do Now?" would find the light of day in the Allan Parker film, Pink Floyd's the Wall. The version they lifted sounds like they lifted it from the film based on the noise signature which is very different from the re-mastered sound of the CD and ends with the sound of the hammer breaking the glass.
The Boy was telling me it was very trippy on his way out the door. I said to him, "If you think that was trippy, you should watch the movie. We have it on DVD, you know..."
Where as the Gates Planetarium is like a theater in the round, with a platform in the middle for the star field generator in the middle, the Seattle Laser Dome is laid out more like a theater with a thrust stage, except people can lay down in the middle section and watch the show on the ceiling. Interestingly enough, I read that they even did a show with a live band playing for their CD release party. Of course, after I learned that I had images of the Ophelia, of Abney Park fame, rendered in laser light across the dome with the live show playing at the foot of the dome. Probably not quite of the steampunk vein with lasers, though if it were called a "Death Ray Abney Park" show instead of a "laser show", that could work. I should probably toss that suggestion
robert_from_ap's direction. Who knows, he might go for it, right?Anyway, the show was good and I found myself singing to the music and was okay that they dropped a few songs—Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 3; One of My Turns; Vera, Bring the Boys Back Home, and Run Like Hell. Actually, I was rather annoyed at Run Like Hell's exclusion, but life will go on. Interestingly enough, they replaced Empty Spaces with "What Shall We Do Now?", a song that was originally slated for the album—it's lyrics were printed on the album sleeve, no less—but was dropped due to time constraints and replaced with "Empty Spaces". The song, "What Shall We Do Now?" would find the light of day in the Allan Parker film, Pink Floyd's the Wall. The version they lifted sounds like they lifted it from the film based on the noise signature which is very different from the re-mastered sound of the CD and ends with the sound of the hammer breaking the glass.
The Boy was telling me it was very trippy on his way out the door. I said to him, "If you think that was trippy, you should watch the movie. We have it on DVD, you know..."
