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Regarding Roger Waters at Mumbai,
the following is a note from www.pinkroioshn.org:

"Remove our content from your site immediatetly.
Do NOT post PinkRoioShn release as mp3 format.
Can you not read? They ALL say right on them not to bastardize to mp3.
Infact there is NO Pink Floyd ROIOs that this is acceptable for.....
NEVER mp3; always use lossless."

We have just received the above note and we apologise for disappointing our readers.
In place of Roger Waters, fans can download
Van Morrison's The Inner Mystic (Remastered)
Pacific High Studios, CA, September 1971
Please click here for the tracks

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Here's a follow-up note from "bl" of www.pinkroioshn.org:

Since you were forthcoming with respecting our wishes,
we will be hosting that concert in lossless format (as it should be):
http://bardfresh.free.fr/downloads/RW2007-02-18_Standing_in_Mumbai-PRSCDR017/

Thanks again.

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Roger Waters
In Mumbai 2007 [no label 2CD]
Live at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, India, Feb 18, 2007.

When Roger Waters announced he was to make a World Tour in 2007, not many expected him to really visit the "world" outside of the Western cities. But he did. In the first leg of this tour, Waters travelled to the new hip cities. Waters brought his Dark Side Of The Moon tour to Hong Kong, Mumbai in India and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for what fans have described as memorable and momentous shows.

These were full shows with all the bells and whistles. The band brought all 32 tons of equipment to each city. In Mumbai, additional props like "an actual light airplane and helicopters flying over the audience, inflatable pink pigs, the Mr Screen, film projector, flame thrower wheels, laser lights, a backdrop of The Wall built with cardboard/polymer bricks, combined with Daleks special effects and a 360 degree quadraphonic sound" were used.

Of course Waters has been to India before, to Bangalore and he predicted: "My last India experience was phenomenal. The Indian audience really knows how to rock - and Bangalore was a fabulous city. I’m looking forward to being in India again, and rocking with my fans in Mumbai. From what I hear of Mumbai as a city - this is going to be a rollicking experience!"

From Brain Damage reader Prakash:
"There were many families with young kids and even some people in wheelchairs had come to the show. The arrangements were good and there were no mess ups. I feel bad about the kids as they may have got stoned as so much weed was in the air.... Two funny instances I could remember were, firstly, during the opening beats of "Time", Graham lost one of his sticks and the crowd had a laugh seeing him struggle in getting the other stick. Next was before the start of Another Brick In The Wall, there were many hands raised for the "stand still laddy" and even Roger laughed before he continued with the song. He seems to be mighty pleased as the whole crowd was singing all the songs along with him.

"All in all it was the best show I have seen and hope they will regroup and make a world tour... All the Indian Floydians must have felt proud seeing him live and I consider this as one of the best moments in my life...."

From Brain Damage reader Simon Denton:
"Come the magical moment when the stadium was plunged into darkness to signal the start of the show, the crowd erupted. The band took their places and were ready to go as Roger walked onto the stage and the crowd were even more ecstatic. Clearly moved by this welcome, Roger walked back and forth across the stage grinning from ear to ear acknowledging the crowd.

"They then launched into In The Flesh and being at the front, near the stage, it was totally amazing to hear EVERYONE in that capacity crowd singing EVERY lyric to EVERY single song. Again Roger was clearly moved by this and made a point of saying so at the end of the night, going way "off script" in a way I've not seen before.

"Some people next to us made a banner saying "we've come all the way from Bangladesh for you" (Dave Kilminster took a photo of them before the show started). Roger noticed it and said to the crowd "these guys at the front have come from Bangladesh and I know many of you have made long journeys to be here and that is really very special to me". The crowd of course loved it.

"One of the most emotional bits was "Leaving Beirut" when this crowd of mixed religious groups (and nationalities) cheered loudly to the lyrics and messages in the song. That must have been very moving for Roger."

So what else did Roger Waters do in Mumbai? He flew his pink pig and had the pig inscribed with new messages special for Mumbai. "KAFKA rules" and "Get Rid of the Caste System". It had one in Hindi too,"sab jaati ek hai" (all religions/caste are the same). It had 'FREE AT LAST ' on its belly which was visible to all when the pink pig was let loose to float into the night sky. The next day, the band flew to Dubai to perform there on Feb 21. Out of respect to Muslims, Roger grounded his flying pig. It has been reported that the majority of concertgoers in Dubai were from Iran.

It's hard to imagine Roger Waters flying his controversial message-laden pink pig in $heep City, $ingapore. Would the police have insisted on approving his controversial slogans? So there was no Roger Waters concert in $heep City.

Thanks to Rob (The Human Mic Stand) for sharing this. It is an excellent stereo audience recording from this very tall Pink Floyd fan. It captures the sound clearly and has a nice ambience as well. One of the best recordings of this tour. Visit http://www.brain-damage.co.uk for Pink Floyd news.
- Professor Red

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain, this recording has never been officially released.