Roger Waters at SAP Center, June 7, 2017

Roger Waters' Us + Them
SAP Center at San Jose
525 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113 USA
8:00 PM, Wednesday, June 7, 2017

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[8:00 PM seated, looking around at how many seats are still empty, there must be tons of people still waiting in line outside; 8:15 PM lights down, 8:20 PM band out]

1. [8:23 PM] Speak to Me »
2. [8:24 PM] Breathe
3. [8:26 PM] One of These Days
4. [8:31 PM] Time »
5. [8:37 PM] Breathe reprise »
6. [8:38 PM] the Great Gig in the Sky
7. [8:44 PM] Welcome to the Machine »
8. [8:50 PM] When We Were Young »
9. [8:52 PM] Déjà Vu >
10. [8:56 PM] the Last Refugee
11. [9:01 PM] Picture That
12. [9:08 PM] Wish You Were Here
13. [9:12 PM] The Happiest Days of Our Lives »
14. [9:13 PM] Another Brick in the Wall, part 2 »
15. [9:1m PM] Another Brick in the Wall, part 3
    [set ends 9:20 PM]

[9:39 PM ready to roll! 9:40 PM lights down, 9:42 PM band out]

1. [9:43 PM] Dogs »
2. [10:00 PM] Pigs (Three Different Ones) »
3. [10:12 PM] Money
4. [10:19 PM] Us and Them
5. [10:26 PM] Wake Up and Smell the Roses » 10:32 lucious interlude
6. [10:33 PM] Brain Damage »
7. [10:3m PM] Eclipse
   [10:40 PM band introduction]
8. [10:44 PM] Vera Lynn »
9. [10:4m PM] Bring the Boys Back Home »
10. [10:47 PM] Comfortably Numb
    [show ends 10:55 PM bows, all off after a minute, no encore]

• Jon Carin: piano, keyboards, ? guitar, lap steel guitar, harmony vox;
• Drew Erickson: piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards;
• Dave Kilminster: guitar, talk box, ? bass, harmony vox;
• Holly Laessig: lead and harmony vox, percussion;
• Ian Ritchie: saxophones, ?bass;
• Gus Seyffert: guitar, bass, harmony vox;
• Joey Waronker: drums, percussion;
• Roger Waters: bass, acoustic guitar, vox;
• Jonathan Wilson: guitar, acoustic guitar, ?keyboards, lead and harmony vox;
• Jess Wolfe: lead and harmony vox, percussion.

Typically nasty traffic made the drive down more stressful than I'd like, but with creative routing from Google, we still got the the venue on time. Unfortunately, it was a madhouse in front of the SAP Center, and with the entrance line stretching all the way down the block, we opted to circle around and skip in through the rear entrance instead – probably saved ourselves 20-30 minutes with that one. Negotiated the security theater and got inside about 10 minutes before the appointed show-time, then made it to our seats at the back of the arena to await the coming musical adventure.

Three hours later: mind blown. Roger and crew have put together an immensely entertaining evening, a true multimedia spectacular.

Jim Harrington posted a decent review of the show for the San Jose Mercury.

Thanks to the folks posting to Setlist.fm for helping me correct errors in my original setlist notes.

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