Pink Floyd
Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, Ontario
May 13, 1988
(for those who don't know, "CNE Stadium" was an open-air stadium.)
My friend called me that Friday when I got out of work. She asked if I wanted
to drive up to Toronto to see Floyd. I said "hell, yeah!"
(She had tried to buy tickets at the supermarket service desk on the
freak chance there would still be some available and there were!)
A run through the shower, and she was there to pick me up. I remember
stopping at a local restaurant in Niagara Falls, NY to grab something
to eat on the way. Hair and makeup done on the QEW. Got stuck
in traffic outside the city, but got there in time to grab our seats waay
in the back directly opposite the mammoth stage.
It was a bit cool but not too much. The sun going down, the stars coming out.
The breeze was fresh and clean... it was the perfect evening to see Pink Floyd outdoors.
The white-noise synth backdrop of SOYCD faded in from nothing,
and with the first keyboard notes I had goosebumps. That whole intro
was... amazing. I am at a loss for words to describe it.
My fav part was the second solo in Comfortably Numb. That giant mirror
ball raising, spinning, turning and opening up like a flower, then rotating;
all in perfect synch to Dave playing that great, emotional solo.
I remember seeing Skydome under construction but thought nothing of it,
being so enthralled with the concert.
I still call that the best concert of my life, due to who it was, the circumstances
by which I got there, and the feeling I had all the way through.
