There are still the sonic details, spoken word pieces, and found noises, too - the only difference is that there is some crowd noise, a few intros from the "Master of Ceremonies," and an ever so slightly rougher fidelity. Other than that, there are minor differences, from Gilmour guitar solos to Waters' vocal phrasing, but this plays exactly like the record. There are no revelations at all, actually, with the possible exception of the layered harmonies on "Outside the Wall," which makes this coda seem like a full-fledged song.
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There are two songs not on the record - "What Shall We Do Now?," a tune pulled from the record at the 11th hour (early pressings still listed it on the sleeve), plus "The Last Few Bricks," which was an instrumental at the end of the first act that gave the crew time to finish building the wall - but they really add no revelations. Skillfully edited together from the handful of Wall shows Floyd performed between 19 (much of the recordings reportedly date from shows at Earl's Court in London), the album replicates The Wall live - which, of course, was a replication of the record, only with visuals.
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Until the 2000 release of Is There Anybody out There?, that is. So, the film mutated into the solemn, scarily sober Alan Parker film that became an '80s cult favorite, while live documentation of The Wall remained the province of bootlegs. How could it not be? Not only were the crew trying to capture a production that was about the theatrical experience, much of the later portion of the show would have been film of a film, as Gerald Scarfe's animations were projected on the cardboard bricks. That plan didn't come to fruition because the footage was botched. Pink Floyd knew they had something special, something worth preserving, and they intended to do so with a concert film, possibly book-ended with filmed narratives. And, from all accounts, it was one hell of an experience - how could it not be, with actual theatre, film, music, and huge dancing puppets all added to the spectacle of a regular Floyd show? At the end, it didn't really matter who was playing, since the entire Wall extravaganza was about the experience. As they readily admitted, it could have been anybody playing behind that wall, and they did augment their lineup with guitarists Snowy White (for the 1980 tour) and Andy Roberts (the 1981 tour), bassist Andy Brown, drummer Willie Wilson, and Peter Woods.
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The group devised ways to appear during the second half before the wall was torn down at the end - David Gilmour played his "Comfortably Numb" solo on hydraulics, above the wall, and a hotel room with Waters brooding in a chair appeared during "Nobody Home." Nevertheless, the importance of the group, as such, was diminished. Originally, Waters wanted Floyd to perform behind the wall for much of the show, but during the development of the production, it was decided that the wall would be finished at the end of the first act - in other words, at the end of the first record of the double album-set.