| In the Flesh Tour | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tour by Pink Floyd | ||
| Locations | Europe, America | |
| Supporting album | Animals | |
| Start date | 23 January 1977 | |
| End date | 6 July 1977 | |
| Legs | 2 | |
| Shows | 55 | |
| Pink Floyd tour chronology | ||
| Wish You Were Here Tour (1975) |
In The Flesh Tour (1977) |
The Wall Tour (1980-81) |
The In the Flesh Tour, also known as "Animals Tour", was a concert tour by the English rock band Pink Floyd in support of their album Animals. It was divided in two legs, one in Europe and another in North America. It was the last time Pink Floyd performed a major worldwide tour with Roger Waters. The tour featured the famous character inflatables puppets, and also featured a pyrotechnic "waterfall" and one of the biggest and most elaborate stages to date, including umbrella-like canopies that would raise from the stage to protect the band from the elements.[1]
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Pink Floyd's market strategy for the In the Flesh Tour was very aggressive, filling pages of The New York Times and Billboard magazine. To promote their four-night run at Madison Square Garden in New York City, there was a Pink Floyd parade on 6th Avenue featuring pigs and sheep.[2]
This was the first tour since their 1973 tour that Pink Floyd didn't use female backing singers. The musicians that augmented the band for the tour was sax player Dick Parry (occasionally playing keyboards too out of view of the audience) and guitarist Snowy White (who would also help out on bass guitar on some of the songs).
In the first half of the show, Pink Floyd played all of the Animals album in a slightly different sequence to the album starting with "Sheep" then "Pigs On the Wing (Part 1)", "Dogs", "Pigs On the Wing (Part 2) and "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". During "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", Waters would shout the number of the concert on the tour, such as "1-5!" for the fifteenth show. The second half of the show comprised the Wish You Were Here album in its exact running order ("Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)", "Welcome to the Machine", "Have a Cigar", "Wish You Were Here" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)"). The encores would usually consist of either "Money" or "Us and Them" from Dark Side of the Moon or both. At the Oakland, California show on 9 May they played "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" as a third encore; it was the last time it was ever performed live. The final night of the tour on 6 July at Montreal's Olympic Stadium had a third encore of "More Blues" which saw David Gilmour sit out the final encore as he was unhappy with the band's performance that night. Snowy White played a bluesy guitar solo with the rest of Pink Floyd in Gilmour's place.
During the tour Waters began to exhibit increasingly aggressive behaviour, and would often yell abusively at disruptive audiences who wouldn't stop yelling and screaming during the quieter numbers.[2] In the New York shows they had to use local workers as lighting technicians due to union problems with their own crew. They had several difficulties with the workers; for example, Waters once had to beckon one of the spotlights to move higher when it only illuminated his lower legs and feet while he was singing. He eventually became exasperated, brought the whole band to a halt to remark "I think you New York lighting guys are a fucking load of shit!", and then continued the song.[3]
The Montreal show, 6 July 1977, the final performance of the tour, ended with Pink Floyd performing a blues jam as the roadies dismantled the instruments in front of the insatiable audience who refused to let the band leave the stadium. A small riot at the front of the stage followed the band's eventual exit. That night, Waters spat in the face of a disruptive fan; The Wall grew out of Waters' thoughts about this incident, particularly his growing awareness that stardom had alienated him from his audience.[4] Three unofficial audience recordings are known to exist (one aptly named Who Was Trained Not To Spit On The Fan?, a pun referencing a lyric in the song "Dogs", played that night, and the spitting incident); during "Pigs on the Wing (pt. 2)" Roger halts the performance to yell this at the rather rowdy crowd:[3]
| “ | Oh... for fuck's sakes, stop letting off fireworks and shouting and screaming, I'm trying to sing a song! I mean I don't care, if you don't want to hear it, you know... fuck it. I'm sure there are a lot of people here who do want to hear it. Why don't you just be quiet? You want to let your fireworks off go outside and let them off out there. And if you want to shout and scream and holler go do it out there, but I'm trying to sing a song that some people want to listen to it. I want to listen to it. | ” |
Although the Animals album had not been as commercially successful as the previous two, the band managed to sell out arenas and stadiums in America and Europe, setting scale and attendance records. In Chicago, the band played to an estimated audience of 95,000; in Cleveland and Montreal, they set attendance records for those venues by playing to over 80,000 people.
Additional musicians:
A typical 1977 set list would include the following:
Set I - Animals:
Set II - Wish You Were Here:
Encore:
Westfalenhalle – Dortmund, West Germany Westfalenhalle – Dortmund, West Germany Festhalle – Frankfurt, West Germany Festhalle – Frankfurt, West Germany Deutschlandhalle – West Berlin, West Germany Deutschlandhalle – West Berlin, West Germany
Stadthalle – Vienna, Austria
Hallenstadion – Zürich, Switzerland Hallenstadion – Zürich, Switzerland
Sportpaleis Ahoy – Rotterdam, The Netherlands Sportpaleis Ahoy – Rotterdam, The Netherlands Sportpaleis Ahoy – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Sportpaleis – Antwerp, Belgium
Pavillon de Paris (Porte de Pantin) – Paris, France Pavillon de Paris (Porte de Pantin) – Paris, France Pavillon de Paris (Porte de Pantin) – Paris, France Pavillon de Paris (Porte de Pantin) – Paris, France Olympiahalle – Munich, West Germany Olympiahalle – Munich, West Germany Olympiahalle – Munich, West Germany
Empire Pool – Wembley, London, England Empire Pool – Wembley, London, England Empire Pool – Wembley, London, England Empire Pool – Wembley, London, England Empire Pool – Wembley, London, England New Bingley Hall – Staffordshire County Showground, Stafford, England New Bingley Hall – Staffordshire County Showground, Stafford, England New Bingley Hall – Staffordshire County Showground, Stafford, England New Bingley Hall – Staffordshire County Showground, Stafford, England
Miami Baseball Stadium – Miami, Florida Tampa Stadium – Tampa, Florida The Omni Coliseum – Atlanta, Georgia Assembly Center – Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Jeppesen Stadium – University of Houston – Houston, Texas Tarrant County Convention Center – Fort Worth, Texas Veterans Memorial Coliseum – Phoenix, Arizona Anaheim Stadium – Anaheim, Los Angeles, California Anaheim Stadium – Anaheim, Los Angeles, California Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum – Oakland, California Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum – Oakland, California Memorial Coliseum – Portland, Oregon County Stadium – Milwaukee, Wisconsin Freedom Hall – Louisville, Kentucky Super Bowl of Rock 'n' Roll, Soldier Field – Chicago, Illinois Kemper Arena – Kansas City, Missouri Riverfront Coliseum – Cincinnati, Ohio World Series of Rock, Municipal Stadium – Cleveland, Ohio Boston Garden – Boston, Massachusetts The Spectrum – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Spectrum – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Madison Square Garden – New York City, New York Madison Square Garden – New York City, New York Madison Square Garden – New York City, New York Madison Square Garden – New York City, New York
Olympic Stadium – Montréal, Québec, Canada|
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