exhibition Pink Floyd's marketing strategy for the In the Flesh Tour was aggressive, filling pages of
The New York Times and
Billboard magazine. To promote their four-night run at
Madison Square Garden in New York City, there was a Pink Floyd parade on
6th Avenue featuring pigs and sheep. Although the
Animals album had not been as commercially successful as the previous two, the band managed to sell out arenas and stadiums in North America and Europe, setting scale and attendance records. In Chicago, the band played to an estimated audience of 95,000; in
Cleveland and
Montreal, they set attendance records for those venues by playing to about 80,000 people. They also set an attendance record in
Milwaukee, playing before a reported crowd of 60,000 at
Milwaukee County Stadium. This was Pink Floyd's first tour since 1973 not to use female backing singers. Augmenting the band were sax player
Dick Parry (who occasionally played keyboards out of view of the audience) and guitarist
Snowy White, who also played bass on "Sheep", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Welcome to the Machine".
Roger Waters played electric guitar on "Sheep" and "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and acoustic guitar on "Pigs on the Wing 1-2" as well as "Welcome to the Machine".
David Gilmour played bass on "Pigs on the Wing Part 2" during the second and final leg of the North American tour. In the first half of the show, the band played all of
Animals in a different sequence than the album, starting with "
Sheep", then "
Pigs on the Wing (Part I)", "
Dogs", "
Pigs on the Wing (Part II)" and "
Pigs (Three Different Ones)". At some venues, paper sheep and pigs designed by
Tim Hunkin were fired over the audience and parachuted back to earth. Some venues prohibited this, however.
The Wall grew out of Waters' thoughts about this incident, particularly his growing awareness that stardom had alienated him from his audience. "It was a funny gig," recalled guitarist Snowy White. "It was a really weird vibe… I used to just do my job. But it was interesting to look across the stage and see Roger spitting at this guy at the front… It was a very strange gig. Not very good vibes." ==Personnel==