Hello everyone - I don't want any legal issues or anyone taking this down, so I won't reveal myself totally outright - but I was the director / bassist / the (hybrid with the original recording) voice of the Judge in this show. I guess I'll reveal some of the "mystery" surrounding this performance. This was a passion project from 2017 that I'd been cooking up for years, after falling in love with the album. I would spend my days in high school and college daydreaming about how to stage this thing, how it would be interpreted, where I'd pull the best elements from each incarnation of the album from... Eventually, and incredibly, all the stars aligned. After miraculously securing Roger's personal blessing (I contacted the webmaster at the Brain Damage fan website, he got me in touch with someone in Roger's management) - this show was performed at a university as part of an extra-curricular amateur theater club on campus. It wasn't a class project, these are not trained actors or singers or musicians, and there were no professors or "adults" involved - it was just a bunch of nerdy, extremely talented kids working their asses clean off. And to this day, I'm still so overwhelmingly grateful to every single person that was involved in making this dream come true. I just want to say after 3 years of having this up, it's been unreal seeing the overwhelmingly positive response. Pink Floyd fans picking up on not just the fun easter eggs, but folks saying that this show is true to the original album's content and intent is the best compliment I could ask for. I'm still proud of this show, knowing that we put it together on a literal shoestring budget and a lot of sleepless nights. I personally owe my current life to this show too. In fact the guy who plays Pink, the drummer, and I didn't want to stop playing music together after the show ran its course. So we started a band called The Toxhards, which was signed a year ago and we're now spending half each year on the road touring and recording, doing exactly what we love. You best believe we still play Comfortably Numb as a tribute to our humble beginnings in this show. I can't thank The Wall enough - the hands down greatest album of all time, and I can't thank every single one of you enough for tuning in!
I grew up with The Wall and it helps me thru the darkest time of my live. I know every note of it and I listened to many live versions including Rogers, of course. So I don't have any expectations about this adaptation but I must say this is one of the best shows of The Wall I've ever seen. You bring new live in this pice of art in the very clever arrangement of the musical parts (additional themes, duets, solos etc.) and the theatrical adaptation, that makes me wish to see this live again. Thanks for that, Rock on...
Thankyou so much for this show and giving a little bit of the background in how it came about. I have actually watched this more than Rogers Wall tour. I find this to be so much more raw and relying more on the talented cast and musicians than visuals. The ending makes me emotional. You should tour this but I know it would be hard. Thanks again.
Fun fact: The thin ice was used in the third episode of Bruh Nye the science guy. But only the part when the people of Helix along with Hank, Bobby, Presto, Shelia, Eric, and Diana say goodbye to the Dungeon Master after he got ran over by someone.
Oh my, this is really a masterpiece. I have watched the movie twice, listened to the album and live versions multiple times, but only now I've captured the real meaning of some songs and the album. Truly amazing this is.
I haven't seen such young, talented people for a long time. It was undoubtedly a new experience of this show for me. I was hooked from the beginning until the standing ovation you all deserved. Thank you .
This is great. Very accurate interpretation of the story. In the Flesh and Run Like Hell brought me to tears. Also I like that Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 is more about rebelling against the school and the teacher, except for the end bit of the song I never got that sense in the movie of The Wall. My one tiny bit of constructive feedback is that they shouldn’t have used the traditional Wall animation from the movie. I liked that they used the movie screen in certain areas especially for Don’t leave Me now, but the performances from the actors and actresses were so powerful that the original animation really wasn’t necessary. The only animation from The Wall movie that would’ve been appropriate was the Ass Judge in The Trial. Honestly this interpretation is absolutely brilliant.
Out fucking standing. I started to watch, thinking I probably wouldn't make it till the end, but I did and am very impressed. The Wall is a hell of a project to tackle. Well done!
An absolutely amazing adaptation of one of the best, if not THE BEST Pink Floyd album of all time. I ansolutely love how everything is depicted, and I like the additional stuff added to the play, like other Pink Floyd songs. Petition for this to be a Broadway adaptation
So before the thing even starts someone is lecturing about racism, misogyny, and homophobia? This is disgusting and blasphemous regarding the best album ever made.
I mean, it's only a warning for the people that don't want to view those themes. But the entirely of In The Flesh (the reprise one, not the one at the start) does have him literally becoming the thing that killed his father, which is literally the Nazis. If you don't see a problem with that, that's on you, but they're obviously not doing it to say "this album is racist" because that's far from true
@@tto0508 I can already tell you're the type of person to threaten people for being different from you. Go ahead and tell me about all the people of color and gay people you wanna eliminate
Very interesting interpretation. The interludes were a great idea. The only choice I wouldn't have made is the addition of the hero's return. There's 3 songs from the Final Cut that belong on the Wall, When the Tigers broke Free / Anzio '44, The Gunner's Dream, and the Final Cut.
you guys absolutely killed it my god, absolute justice was delivered on every front to the album and all the original ideas thrown in were great additions as well, really good job
I was checking out some Pink.Floyd videos on RU-vid and I came across this, I am so happy to find some kids who love this album as much as I do!! I mean you must really love it to go through all that work to make a stage production out of The Wall. am lucky because the double-vinyl album came out when I was in 7th grade and I was a hard partier in high school and I must of heard this album at every party I went to during my high school years, when I first heard it I had no idea who Pink Floyd was. As a matter of fact when I first started hearing it at parties I hated it. Because I used to like to drink and dance and “The Wall” is not easy to dance to (slow dance, ya to some of it) By the time CDs came out I was bummed-out because I couldn’t afford the double cd until I was in my late 20’s, so, I took that double-album almost every where and pretty much wore it out. You could tell you guys took parts from every version of the album (Vinyl, VHS, Live Concert, Box Sets) because believe me I have them all now, even the box sets (like immersion). I even noticed how you guys snuck in the alarm clocks from “Time” (Dark Side of the Moon). I was amazed at some of the people in your audience, you could tell some of them had no idea what to expect like when you were pulling people out of the audience (“ In The Flesh?” and “Run”) but their were others who were doing the crossed arms salute. You guys did a really great job!! Like someone else commented, I didn’t have that kind of talent in my high school!! Thanks again for sharing it on You Tube.
AMAZING AMAZING BETTER THAN THE MOVIE!!! YOU CAPTURED THE ENTIRE ESSENCE OF THE ALBUM PERFECTLY. THIS IS MY FAVORITE ALBUM OF ALL TIME AND COMFORTED ME IN MY DARKEST TIMES AND THIS PLAY SPOKE TO MY SOUL AND MADE ME CRY. THIS IS THE BEST PLAY I HAVE EVER SEEN. ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY
I saw the wall concert the last time Waters took it on tour. You all did a great job! I think originally, it was supposed to be a theatrical production. The film was pretty dope, too. Congratulations!
It might sound ridiculous but I've had this tab open for months and every time I start to watch it again tears well up in my eyes. Just amazing what these kids pulled off. I was expecting a recorded soundtrack, but no. Live musicians and they kicked ass.
Fantastic ideas, fantastic execution, some got me chills even. The only complaint I have is the vocals being done by performing actors, instead of standing singers, because this renders the voices as shouty at places. Other than that, I'm in awe.
Goddamit its the best thing I've seen. Truly a masterpiece. I can't believe yours pulled it love. I can tell everyone involved loved that they were doing. The sound mixing was great, the oil editing, the camerawork, the musicians, the actors, the adaptation of the wall ,everything. Absolutely loved it.
I'm Speechless. Best thing on watched on You Tube in a long time. Fantastic performance and the music was so well done. I would pay to see this on Broadway.👍
After the song Mother the piano played "Goodbye Cruel World", Brilliant and I wept watching this for the effort and emotions put forth from the characters and the original story behind the album. Shine on you Crazy Diamond. RIP
HOw HOW HOW HOW has this not been viewed more than this? My god, so damn wonderful, and the actor who also plays the solo to Comfortably Numb had me out of my chair! Bravo!
I can't believe you all did this. What a feat! Incredible. The music, performances, and the editorial decisions that you made with the source material, it was an incredibly moving experience, even for someone who listened to the album on repeat for months and months when it first came out. Amazing.
Okay I had no idea what to expect when I started this but here I am during Goodbye Blue Sky and I'm in tears. You guys nailed it, you guys abso-fuckin-lutely nailed it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nice! I finished this moments ago! Loved it!! My child is so disappointed in her school for not doing something as artistic as this. The actors here show something very important for playing their parts - passion. Sadly, many schools only have boring replayed plays every year... the same thing and mostly High School Musical. And many of the students aren't there for passion of the performance or teamwork. They only want a few moments in the spotlight. I have no idea who put this amazing Pink Floyd The Wall play on, but I could see how important it was to them. They were all outstanding. Glad to meet you here!
@@MarC-te4he this is a v complicated show At any time it can go wrong The amount of work that went into this is off the scale Such a pity pink Floyd never turned it into a stage play
