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Post by kds on Jul 7, 2022 13:47:13 GMT
After two years of COVID delays, Roger Waters finally kicked off his This is Not a Drill Tour last night in Pittsburgh ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-2022-set-list/Always a class act... Roger Waters began the first night of his 2022 This Is Not a Drill tour with a cheerful message projected onto the screens above the stage: “If you don’t agree with Roger’s politics, you might do well to fuck off to the bar right now.”Nice, Roger, real nice. Anyway, some surprises. Along with playing Side B to both Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon in running order, Roger also played a couple rarely heard solo songs - The Powers That Be from 1987's Radio KAOS (not played since 1999) and The Bravery of Being Out of Range from 1992's Amused to Death (not played since 2002). The biggest surprise might be opening with Comfortably Numb, which has been his usual closer for most of his sets since he returned to active touring in 1999. He also debuted a new song called The Bar, and played the closer from his final Floyd outing The Final Cut - Two Suns in the Sunset - which I don't believe he's ever played live. I know he did an acoustic version for one of those COVID shutdown videos a couple years ago.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 17, 2022 19:45:51 GMT
Roger Waters says that he's...important:
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Post by kds on Jul 18, 2022 1:49:22 GMT
Roger Waters says that he's...important:
I really cannot disagree with Rog here. I mean, I get it. It's 2022, The Weeknd and Drake are more popular and more relevant now. Roger hasn't been in Pink Floyd in nearly 40 years (other than the Live 8 show), and his solo career hasn't exactly set the world on fire. And he's really benefitted from the fact that, for the most part, Pink Floyd has not existed since 1994. But, still, I can't disagree.
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Post by kds on Jul 27, 2022 18:58:16 GMT
This is interesting. I decided to listen to David Gilmour's About Face album on the Spotify just now, so I type in David Gilmour, and low and behold, there's a Live at Stockholm 1984 album there, with a release date of July 23, 2022. I have seen absolutely nothing about the release on Gilmour's social media page or Pink Floyd's (which I'm pretty sure is run by Gilmour's Team these days), and his official website has no mention of it.
EDIT - I'm listening to this now, and it's got the sound quality of a halfway decent bootleg. I looked on Amazon and there's a "gray area" release of a radio broadcast of a Stockholm show from 1984 making its rounds.
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Post by kds on Oct 5, 2022 13:02:34 GMT
I listened to the long awaited remix of Animals yesterday.
Other than the fact that it's one of my favorite albums, I don't have much of an opinion on the remix. Granted, I'm not an audiophile, but it's definitely not different enough to entice me to buy the album again.
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Post by kds on Oct 7, 2022 18:43:15 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 7, 2022 18:59:13 GMT
I saw that, but also if I'm not mistaken, the whole article as actually hearsay. Notice some of the phrasing and lack of attribution: "reportedly held up;" "may have led potential buyers;" "seems to have escalated;" and it goes on to talk about other considerations. It almost reads like a planted story more than anything else. Though I also could imagine it being true.
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Post by kds on Oct 7, 2022 19:05:50 GMT
I saw that, but also if I'm not mistaken, the whole article as actually hearsay. Notice some of the phrasing and lack of attribution: "reportedly held up;" "may have led potential buyers;" "seems to have escalated;" and it goes on to talk about other considerations. It almost reads like a planted story more than anything else. Though I also could imagine it being true. I was thinking the same thing. But, I know some of the stuff Roger said in that interview have definitely caused some ripples in the Floyd universe. It couldn't have been a coincidence that after Roger's interview came out, Pink Floyd reposted the video for their pro Ukraine song "Hey Hey Rise Up" from earlier this year.
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 10, 2022 19:19:42 GMT
Oh boy, Joe Rogan hosted Roger Waters for a show the other day. Two hours and forty-six minutes. I just put it on, but I wonder how long before he says something to alienate 50% of his audience and the population? (I don't plan to slog through the whole thing, but we'll see.)
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Post by kds on Oct 11, 2022 13:16:48 GMT
I was actually a little surprised to hear that Waters was appearing on Rogan's show. Roger Waters is apparently more open minded than Neil Young then. Who knew?
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 11, 2022 13:20:43 GMT
The whole "Rogan is a dangerous conservative Nazi" stuff is so idiotic anyway. He's got specific views all over the map. And yeah, some are pretty crazy. But who cares? The guy is a comic and talk show host and MMA commentator, not presidential candidate!
I did listen to probably an hour of it. And Waters more or less related to Rogan on every topic to that point. Though there was one funny thing. Waters was criticizing Bono for having had a conversation with GW Bush. (I don't know if this was recent or a long time ago, or what.) And he was saying "I can't imagine why ANYONE would want to talk to GW Bush!"
Rogan said, "To find out what he thinks about things? I mean, he was a former president. I'd love to have a conversation with him."
And Waters seemed shocked, and said something like, "yeah, I suppose that's an angle on it. But he wouldn't tell the truth anyway."
While to some degree, I agree that politicians and former politicians are likely to at least shade the truth, I also thought it was funny that having a conversation with somebody you disagree with seemed so shocking to Waters.
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Post by kds on Oct 11, 2022 13:25:21 GMT
The whole "Rogan is a dangerous conservative Nazi" stuff is so idiotic anyway. He's got specific views all over the map. And yeah, some are pretty crazy. But who cares? The guy is a comic and talk show host and MMA commentator, not presidential candidate!
I did listen to probably an hour of it. And Waters more or less related to Rogan on every topic to that point. Though there was one funny thing. Waters was criticizing Bono for having had a conversation with GW Bush. (I don't know if this was recent or a long time ago, or what.) And he was saying "I can't imagine why ANYONE would want to talk to GW Bush!"
Rogan said, "To find out what he thinks about things? I mean, he was a former president. I'd love to have a conversation with him."
And Waters seemed shocked, and said something like, "yeah, I suppose that's an angle on it. But he wouldn't tell the truth anyway."
While to some degree, I agree that politicians and former politicians are likely to at least shade the truth, I also thought it was funny that having a conversation with somebody you disagree with seemed so shocking to Waters.
And, Roger seems like just the type of guy who would buy into the "Rogan is a dangerous conservative Nazi" narrative. Especially given his comments on Bono meeting President Bush. The mere fact that Roger seemed so shocked that a fellow musician would want to talk to a former President just shows how far off the deep end Roger is, and frankly a lot of people are right there with Roger, that they're so blinded by the R or the D designation by a politician's name or on somebody's voter card that they dare not to even have a conversation with them.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 1, 2022 11:42:25 GMT
Roger Waters talks about Syd Barrett:
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Post by kds on Nov 18, 2022 13:27:04 GMT
Roger Waters released a new version of Comfortably Numb today. As a BB fans, you know how much I love an unnecessary self cover. This is a sparse, more dirge like version of the classic song from The Wall. It sounds like one of those slowed down covers used for trailers for super serious war dramas. And, this version of CN was how Roger was opening his concerts. I'm glad I saved my money ultimateclassicrock.com/roger-waters-comfortably-numb-2022/
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 30, 2022 17:44:25 GMT
Happy 43rd birthday to The Wall, the first Pink Floyd music I was ever aware of (despite not knowing it was Pink Floyd). As a young child--4, 5 years old--I knew "Another Brick in the Wall, pt 2." My sister, nine years older, had it and listened to it a lot into the early and even mid '80s, and I remember seeing the 1982 movie early on (at home, so probably in 1983, '84). So I got it by osmosis.
The album: - Hit #1 in more than 10 countries (including the US, but not the UK, where it peaked at #3) - Yielded Pink Floyd's only US and UK #1 single, "Another Brick in the Wall, pt 2" - Went 23x platinum in the US (meaning half that in sales, as it's a double album) and 4x platinum in the UK - Sold more than 30 million copies worldwide - It is the 27th biggest selling album of all time, or 21st if you remove various artist soundtracks and greatest hits albums.
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