The third and final night of Desert Trip in Indio, California had the strongest back-to-back performances of the weekend -- by The Who and Roger Waters.
Taking the stage with a bottle of Pedialyte in his hand, Pete Townshend said, "Well, here we are. You all come to watch old people dance?"
Townshend and Roger Daltrey, with the sidemen who now make up The Who, delivered hit after hit for two hours.
Townshend dedicated "The Kids Are Alright" to "the young ones" and joked that it must be "tough for you older fans. Get them a chair!"
He also said The Who "were 1967's version of Adele or Lady Gaga or Rihanna or Justin Bieber. We were in the charts."
When Roger Waters agreed to participate in Desert Trip, he immediately set about creating a whole new show of Pink Floyd material.
“I decided, given what it was, that I was entirely content to make my show here an homage to the years that I was in Pink Floyd and reflect some of the feelings that I have about it," he explained. "Plus, I also wanted to do something dramatic because I’ve always had a lot of showmen in me.
"And so we came up with something, which is the Battersea Power Station idea. We built Battersea Power Station in front of your very eyes and it’s pretty cool.”
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Utilizing the 240-foot wide by 40-foot high slightly curved video screen on stage, along with his own quadrophonic sound system, Waters delivered a complete surround-sound and visual experience that made it seem as though the 75,000 fans on hand were inside an arena and not on a giant field.
He played such Pink Floyd classics as "Breathe," "Time," "Money," "Us and Them," "Shine on You Crazy Diamond," "Wish You Were Here," "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2," "Run Like Hell" and "Comfortably Numb." But he denied rumours of a Pink Floyd reunion at the show.
Original article by Sal Cirrincione at iHeartRadio.