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Nils Zehnpfennig

Nils Zehnpfennig

CEO & Owner of Alive AG (entertainment logistics company in Cologne, Germany) and creator/host of Fingal's Cave podcast, a show dedicated to Pink Floyd fan culture and history.

Jul 15, 2026

Adam S.
Adam S.GUEST
6:00
[laughs]
6:00
First of all, some more numbers.
6:01
He did 219 shows, and he made almost a billion in turnover.
6:07
So if you need a reason why he did it, here we go I didn't think about all that, to be honest, because at that point, I did not expect anything from Roger from 1980 in comparison to 2010.
6:22
I think it, he was far beyond that already.
6:25
I was in Spain on holiday, and had to go back to Dusseldorf to see it with my best friend, and then go back to Spain.
6:32
So it was a really special trip.

8 MINS LATER

14:46
But inevitably, Gilmour playing it is so much more convincing to me.
11:53
There's not a lot of bells and whistles, but it's very, very good.
11:56
Yeah, I can, I can only second that.
11:58
I mean, it's, technically the tour is from 1999 to 2002, which for me personally sounds a little bit weird, because from my Pink Floyd career on, it was at a sh- a tour in 1999, it was a tour in 2000, and in 2002.
12:14
I never connected these tours, to be honest, but they are the same tour technically.
12:18
But still, I think what, what happened with Roger was that he finally accepted after something like almost 20 years
12:27
yearsThat Pink Floyd is bigger than him and that the way he tried to play the Pink Floyd songs in '84, '85, and '87 is not what the audience expected, and it may be not the way Pink Floyd should be played.
12:46
And this is the first time where he really accepted that the renditions he's playing are so close to the originals, but still extremely nice.

43 MINS LATER

56:17
But what was it like for those who were there? Nils, you first.

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