Blog
March 11, 2024
On June 15, 1977 Pink Floyd brought their Animals/In The Flesh tour to the Milwaukee County Stadium for another great show in the rain!! Their last show here in 1975 for the Wish You Were Here tour was also a rainy event.
It was another amazing show and a lot of work for their team to set up and protect all the gear from the rain. The rain stopped the show a few times, but no one cared.
Notice the photo of The Pig before it was inflated for the show and traveled about via a cable.
Enjoy a look at the setting up and rehearsal plus a bit of the show.
The setlist consisted of;
1. Sheep
2. Pigs on the Wing 1
3. Dogs
4. Pigs on the Wing 2
5. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
6. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
7. Welcome to the Machine
8. Have a Cigar
9. Wish You Were Here
!0. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
11. Money
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
February 26, 2024
On June 22, 1975, the Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" tour came to the Milwaukee County Stadium for a show.
Milwaukee County Stadium was not real happy to have their nice grass baseball field messed up, so I was hired for insurance purposes by Daydream Productions to photograph it before and after! One of the weirdest photo jobs I've ever had but I also got to photograph the setup and rehearsal for the show.
That is why you see a friend holding a board that has 21 on it for the June 21 field condition on the day before the show.
It took two days to set it up and the field survived well enough that more shows were allowed like the Rolling Stones a few months earlier when I also photographed the grass.
Fun to look at the old days and the gear that was used for the show. An airplane they made that flew on a wire over the crowd was one of the more interesting things used.
For the show it rained and I didn't risk the photo gear getting soaked but the crowd didn't care. The show started and stopped a few times and ended at 12:30am with the crowd still wanting more!
Enjoy a look at the setup, people, cars and staging on a very hot couple of days! It makes you appreciate all the work it takes to setup a major show and notice the $0.65 beer!
Also take a look at the guy with the long curly out of control hair parted right down the middle. That would be me!
Here is the setlist from the night.
1. Sheep
2. Dogs
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
4. Have a Cigar
5. Speak to Me
6. Breathe
7. On the Run
8. Time
9. Breathe (Reprise)
10. The Great Gig in the Sky
11. Money
12. Us and Them
13. Ant Colour You Like
14. Brain Damage
15. Eclipse
16. Echoes
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
February 12, 2024
I keep finding photos of races that I don't have in my website at www.richzimmermann.com. Here is one of those missing races that I've scanned in now.
It is the Road Runner 225 Champ Car race held on June 3, 2005 at the Milwaukee Mile.
Jimmy Vasser would get the last pole position of his career and I have his helmet visor from the pole winning run!
Paul Tracy won the race and led most of the laps of the day with his beautiful Forsythe Racing Champ Car.
I spent a lot of time with the Mi-Jack racing team with drivers Andrew Ranger from Canada and Nelson Philippe from France.
Andrew had a lot of promise as did Nelson but they finished the race 16th and 12th respectively. Andrew would continue racing after one more year of Champ Car then back to racing in Canada.
Nelson Philippe had a heavy shunt during a practice session and was just very sore. I shared my Bio Freeze with him! I always carry it with me and use for my sore neck and back. Got his helmet visor for that. He's a very nice guy.
Oriol Servia was racing for injured Bruno Junquiera and finished third with future star A. J. Almendinger finishing second.
Great late racer and friend Justin Wilson finished fourth. Justin was one of the nicest guys in pit lane. He always had time for a chat.
Sebastien Bourdais won the championship in 2004 and would win it again in 2005 but only finished sixth here. Love the photo of Carl Haas giving Sebastien a thumbs up before the race and hugging the nose of Oriol Servia's car as he always did with his cars.
Enjoy a look at that weekend.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
