English musicians and music geeks extraordinaire Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness have posted a new episode of their podcast The Album Years. They talk about 1987, discussing albums by Pixies, The Smiths, Guns N' Roses, and a whole lot more. This is part #2B, the fourth - and final - episode about this year.
English musicians and music geeks extraordinaire Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness have posted a new episode of their podcast The Album Years. They talk about 1987, discussing albums by Roger Waters, Yes, Pink Floyd, and a whole lot more. This is part #2A, the third episode about this year.
Roger Waters will release his new version of The Dark Side of the Moon on October 6th. He has posted a video for his reworking of Time, with a spoken word intro to update its meaning. Take note of the vintage organ sound as a replacement for Rick Wright's keyboards. The Dark Side of the Moon Redux is available for pre-order here.
Roger Waters sheds some light on his reimagination of The Dark Side of the Moon: "People will have to lsiten to it, before they can form a view of what it is. I am very proud of it. I hope it will be a rallying point for people". The Dark Side of the Moon Redux will be released on October 6th. It is available for pre-order here.
Watch Rogers Waters perform a medley of The Happiest Days of Our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall Pts. 2 & 3 on The Late Show to promote his upcoming This Is Not A Drill tour. He will perform 40 "in-the-round" arena shows in the US, Canada and Mexico.
Roger Waters has put the shelved liner notes for the new box set of the Pink Floyd album Amnimals on his website. Once again he and David Gilmour don't see eye to eye.
As I am banned by Dave Gilmour from posting on Pink Floyd’s Facebook page with its 30,000,000 subscribers, I am posting this announcement here today and in full on rogerwaters.com.
First, a warm welcome back to our little band of brothers and sisters who have always kept an open mind, let’s hope some of the fans whose access to my words is suppressed by Gilmour find their way here and discover some truth.
What precipitated this note is that there are new James Guthrie Stereo and 5.1 mixes of the Pink Floyd album Animals, 1977. These mixes have languished unreleased because of a dispute over some sleeve notes that Mark Blake has written for this new release. Gilmour has vetoed the release of the album unless these liner notes are removed. He does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark’s notes, but he wants that history to remain secret. This is a small part of an ongoing campaign by the Gilmour/Samson camp to claim more credit for Dave on the work he did in Pink Floyd, 1967-1985, than is his due. Yes he was, and is, a jolly good guitarist and singer. But, he has for the last 35 years told a lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd when I was still in charge. There’s a lot of “we did this” and “we did that,” and “I did this” and “I did that.”
Roger Waters has added extra shows in New York and Los Angeles to this North American This Is Not A Drill tour: August 6 in NYC and September 11 in LA. All shows will be performed "in the round":
It’ll be a new show. It will be no-holds-barred. My work is to think, ‘Well, how can I make rock & roll more interesting or theatrical or exciting or visual or musical or whatever?’ That’s what I’ve spent the last 50 years doing, expressing myself.
Roger Waters has announced a lengthy North American This Is Not A Drill tour. All shows will be performed "in the round":
It’ll be a new show. It will be no-holds-barred. My work is to think, ‘Well, how can I make rock & roll more interesting or theatrical or exciting or visual or musical or whatever?’ That’s what I’ve spent the last 50 years doing, expressing myself.
Tickets go on sale on January 31 at 10 AM local time.
Andrew Lloyd Webber sickens me. He's in your face all the time and what he does is nonsense. It has no value. It is shallow, derivative rubbish, all of it, and it makes me very gloomy. Actually, I've never been to one of his shows but having put that slightly savage joke on the record, I thought I'd better listen to some Andrew Lloyd Webber and I was staying in a rented house in America this summer and the people who owned the house had a whole bunch of his rubbish so I thought I'd listen to Phantom Of The Opera and I put the record on and I was slightly apprehensive. I thought, Christ, I hope this isn't good - or even mediocre. I was not disappointed. Phantom Of The Opera is absolutely fucking horrible from start to finish.
Roger Waters
Roger Waters will build The Wall yet again during a lengthy European tour in 2013. He will be talking about the tour via a special web cast on rogerwaters.com and facebook.com/rogerwaters on Thursday 15th November from 12:30pm UK time, when more dates will be announced.
Roger Waters, the co-founder and principal songwriter of the archetypal progressive band Pink Floyd, has announced the return of the historic production of “The Wall” to Europe in 2013. His aural and visual masterpiece of alienation and transformation will be performed in its entirety featuring a full band and state-of-the-art production. “The Wall” live has played 192 shows around the world to more than 3.3 million fans making it one of the most successful tours in rock history.
The 2013 tour will consist of 18 open air/stadium shows, to include such iconic venues as Rome Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam Arena and Berlin Olympic Stadium, etc., as well as two Oslo Telenor Arenas. An exclusive presale for The Wall 2013 will be held through RogerWaters.com. To participate, go to rogerwaters.com ASAP now to sign up. Public sale tickets for The Wall 2013 go on sale on November 16th for selected dates.
Roger Waters traverses the globe with The Wall yet again in 2012. No European dates so far.
Australia & New Zealand:Roger Waters, David Gimour and Nick Mason perform Outside The Wall at the O2 Arena in London - May 12.
Roger Waters and David Gilmour back together for Comfortably Numb at the O2 Arena in London - May 12. They were later joined on stage by Nick Mason.
Six wallpapers made during his North American tour are up for grabs from the official Roger Waters website.
Watch an entertaining conversation about pudding and other The Wall related tidbits between Roger Waters and Conan O'Brien.
After taking The Wall across North America in the Fall, Roger Waters stages his prog rock extravaganza in Europe in the Spring of 2011. Note that Berlin is as yet missing from the itinerary:
As to why he is doing The Wall again, read this lengthy message he posted on his website:
Why am I doing the Wall again now?
I recently came across this quote of mine from 22 years ago:
” What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?”
I believe this is still a supremely relevant question and the jury is out. There is a lot of commercial clutter on the net, and a lot of propaganda, but I have a sense that just beneath the surface understanding is gaining ground. We just have to keep blogging, keep twittering, keep communicating, keep sharing ideas.
30 Years ago when I wrote The Wall I was a frightened young man. Well not that young, I was 36 years old.
It took me a long time to get over my fears. Anyway, in the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with it’s concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns.: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever! All these issues and ‘isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life.
This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years.
In some quarters, among the chattering classes, there exists a cynical view that human beings as a collective are incapable of developing more ‘humane’ ie, kinder, more generous, more cooperative, more empathetic relationships with one another.
I disagree.
In my view it is too early in our story to leap to such a conclusion, we are after all a very young species.
I believe we have at least a chance to aspire to something better than the dog eat dog ritual slaughter that is our current response to our institutionalized fear of each other.
I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to express my, albeit guarded, optimism, and encourage others to do the same. To quote the great man, ” You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
Roger Waters, 2010
Roger Waters rebuilds The Wall during an extensive North American tour. A change for a new generation to experience the Floyd's paranoid extravaganza in the flesh.
Live dates:
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
Roger Waters
