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LEGENDARY DAY ON THE GREEN

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APR 22, 2019…31 YEARS AGO IT WAS A CLASSIC ‘DAY ON THE GREEN’ WITH PINK FLOYD AT THE OAKLAND COLISEUM FOR TWO NIGHTS-APRIL 22 & 23. MAN I MISS THE BILL GRAHAM “DAYS ON THE GREEN”. THESE SHOWS WERE PART OF THE ‘MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON’ TOUR. PINK FLOYD HADN’T TOURED SINCE 1981, AND WHEN ROGER WATERS LEFT THE GROUP IN 1985, HE BELIEVED THE GROUP WOULD NOT CONTINUE WITHOUT HIM. WATERS THREATENED LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DAVID GILMOUR AND NICK MASON, AS WELL AS ANY PROMOTER THAT PROMOTED A “PINK FLOYD” SHOW. HOWEVER, A LEGAL DEAL WAS WORKED OUT WITH WATERS AND THE TOUR WENT ON. THE FIRST SHOW IN OAKLAND AT THE COLISEUM WAS PLAYED TO A CROWD OF 78,000 PEOPLE. THE SECOND NIGHT WAS A SELLOUT WITH 90,000 FANS LOVING PINK FLOYD.

THIS WAS THE SETLIST FOR THE FIRST NIGHT OF DAY ON THE GREEN FROM SETLIST.COM

  1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
  2. Signs of Life
  3. Learning to Fly
  4. Yet Another Movie
  5. Round and Around
  6. A New Machine (Part 1)
  7. Terminal Frost
  8. A New Machine (Part 2)
  9. Sorrow
  10. The Dogs of War
  11. On the Turning Away
  12. One of These Days
  13. Time
  14. On the Run
  15. The Great Gig in the Sky
  16. Wish You Were Here
  17. Welcome to the Machine
  18. Us and Them
  19. Money
  20. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
  21. Comfortably Numb
  22. Encore:
  23. One Slip
  24. Run Like Hell

THIS IS A CLASSIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING THE SECOND SHOW

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