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Someone uploaded a clip to the new Google Video of me playing the solo in ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ Live in Berlin in 1990. I have mainly good memories of that show. It was a fantastic feeling being in front of 350,000 people, especially as it was so close to the real Wall which was about to come tumbling down. Cyndi Lauper sang the song, dressed as a saucy schoolgirl. I think Cyndi hates me because on the rehearsal day she saw me at my absolute worst, arguing with Joni Mitchell in bratty fashion (over credits on her CD or something trivial) and after that Cyndi steered well clear of me backstage. But it was quite a star-studded green room, what with Sinead O’Connor, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, Utte Lemper, Tim Curry, and various Scorpions all tripping over each other. I remember Marianne Faithful and Jerry Hall off in a corner having a little tete a tete… oh to be a fly on that ceiling! I got on pretty well with Roger Waters, and I suggested that they put me in a puppet costume with 15ft arms and legs to play the evil teacher. So I was rigged up with a mountaineering harness and I climbed horizontally into the costume in a kind of moat at the bottom of the Wall while paratropers in jackboots abseiled down it all around me. They attached a wire to my harness that went up over the wall, over a pulley and down to attach to a sandbag that weighs just 10lbs less than me. All they had to do was yank on it and ka-pow! I was 60ft up the wall, thrashing wildly and screaming at the top of my lungs in a Scottish accent. I had quite a view of the Potsdamerplatz and beyond into East Berlin.
Also notable on Google Video is a very fun (and totally unauthorised!) video montage someone made themselves for “Key To Her Ferrari”. And no, that’s NOT my mother.
I watched the Ferrari video. I thought it was a little boring (perhaps I just don’t appreciate these fine cars as much as others), but I was laughing out loud after hearing, “…I thought of my mother.” Very funny!
Again, thanks for sharing.
I thought it was Great. its one of my all time favorite songs, and I thought it was put together pretty well. Just needed a sweet Buick at the end…
TMDR Do you have any footage from the ’88 tour that may someday see the light of day?? (What a great Tour!)
Ferrari Blues…
Hee, hee, hee…. lovely, just lovely. Now all you need do is write another ditty for a BMW commercial shorts… hmmm.. or maybe for a Hummer montage.
Man, the way you wailed on that Casio, Thomas! AWESOME!!!
That was an excellent guitar solo when David Gilmour played it,
and it sounded just as cool when you played it.
*Damn* you’re up on things…! About 10 years ahead of the rest
But anyway, it was just this afternoon that I was wondering whether that BlackHorseProductions {or whatever they call themselves} had your permission to use “The Key…”, and bango, here you were, to satisfy our collective curiosity. Thank you! 
But dang, you’d
of us at last count, I think. Seriously.
think everybody would know better by now, after K-Fed’s well-deserved crushing under your boot heel, than to use your music without your permission. Will they EVER learn??!?! Jeeeeeeeeez… {imagine big eye-roll right here}
Love and chana masala,
Curious Kara… .;)
Bizzzzzzzzt!!!
It looks like your being electrocuted by your own ‘strap-on’! HA HA
Keyboard that is !! Errrhem
That Wall show certainly heralded relief; I’m glad you were there. Nice cowlicks.
I have interviewed Cyndi Lauper and her spirit seems as forgiving in general as her hair was bright purple that day. This is terribly presumptuous, however a grudge from Cyndi is probably not too likely.
Also, even though some Mtv CEO has declared upon their 25th anniversary that they are “not a reflective organization,” it cannot be denied that the network wouldn’t have launched nearly as well without you two in the vanguard.
Please consider that The Goonies II may require a hit single…
message for stevied,i have a vhs copy of”live wireless” from 83 if thats any good! great clips thomas,thanks.
Damn, you were really cuttin’ up in that video footage from Berlin. Just awesome!! Well, seems as though Google has its pro’s and con’s … there’s unauthorized footage there, but someone like me who doesn’t get to see our favorite songs on video get to spy em’ out! Peace.
thats totally awesome!
I have the video of “The Wall” Live from Berlin and I love. Great performance, Thomas. You certainly have an incredible stage presence.
Interesting video to “Ferrari.” I wanted to make one of my own using footage from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” but I couldn’t get my video editing programme to work properly. Needless to say, my plans to make a fan video of “Mulu: The Rainforest” with “Fern Gully” footage and an “Airhead” video with “Sailor Moon” clips had to be scrapped, too.
Are fan videos unauthorized: probably. But I think that fan videos are a pretty heartfelt tribute, don’t you?
Have you seen the “Blinded Me With Science” and “Quantum Mechanic” fan videos that were made from Anime footage? Definitely worth checking out.
Sorry. Typo. That should have read, “I have the video of ‘The Wall Live from Berlin’ and I love it.”
Mr Dolby, have you ever owned a Ferrari?
I’ve never owned a Ferrari. I did drive one once, for a Much Music TV shoot in Toronto. It was a yellow convertable and they wanted to prove whether a pop star in a hot car was a ‘babe magnet.’ As I recall, all I got was a lot dirty looks, and one restraining order
Ha Ha that’s because it was the wrong colour.:-)
I remember watching The Wall live on TV. As a big fan of your music, I had no idea you were in the show. When you came out it was great, a really good performance, best part of the show. And the outfit had me in stitches.
The video is tantalizing, but for whatever reason I can’t view Google video (YouTube works fine). I’m glad, though, that you mentioned Joni Mitchell. You and she have been my two favorite songwriters for over twenty years, so when a Canadian pen pal reported to me that all was not peaches and moonbeams during the “Dog Eat Dog” days, I wanted to toss holy water at him and shout “Heretic!”
I should light a candle each night and focus on the possibility that you and she will one day do lunch with no looming spectre of collaboration. Don’t great things often happen when genius lunches with genius?
A couple years back the jazz choir at my college did Key To Her Ferrari in a vocal arrangement with piano, horn and bass. It sounded totally different, but I thought it was amazingly neat that they performed a Dolby tune! The lyrics were also cleaned up as well, which I thought was very funny.
Hey! My keyboard!
P.S. Here’s a little photo of you’re truly rocking out a solo on the famous AZ-1 at a recent show last weekend in Toronto. Thanks to the left overs of Ernesto, for our first set the band actually outnumbered the audience. Not an entirely bad thing, if their unresponsive you can always use threats of physical violence to motivate them if you’ve got them in numbers.
I guess it’s appropriate that Thomas’s solo features him rocking out dressed as the teacher and mine I’m dressed as a schoolboy.
Hey Ghastly, I THOUGHT that was your AZ-1!!! [Well, it's yours
] Wasn’t sure,
*now*, and we all know how you appreciate it.
didn’t want to make a nidiot of myself.
Man, if that keyboard could talk!!
Wonder what it would say?!
Love and good soldering {did some of that myself when I
was in high school–built a little strobe-light thingie from a kit.
And it still works!! Never had a chassis for it, though. Used to push-pin it to the wall, plug it in, and back away.}
Kara!
That clip was very enjoyable… anyway… I just heard Key to her Ferarri for the first time yesterday, and if I’d been standing right in front of the stereo, I’m sure the power that came out of the speakers when that song came on would have blown me halfway across the room! That song is amazing. Well done!
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