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De pe un blog gasit intamplator pe net, un articol care mi-a placut, pe care il postez si eu aici, cu citarea sursei si cu multumiri pentru autorul articolului Il mai vazusem pe roger waters in concert, in 2007, la budapesta, insa am fost usor dezamagit: trupa cu care canta reproducea aproape nota cu nota solo-urile din celebrele piese pink floyd. fara geniul lui gilmour, wright si mason, desigur. concertul de la londra din acest an a fost special. waters a recreat “the wall“. fara maretia inegalabila a concertului de la berlin din 21 iulie 1990, insa cu logistica si efectele video ale secolului XXI. cele trei concerte de pe O2 arena (suplimentate cu inca doua, datorita cererii imense de bilete) au fost inregistrate si filmate pentru viitorul DVD al turneului. O2 arena din Londra este coplesitoare. cat un stadion (23.000 de locuri), cu o instalatie de lumini formidabila si cu un sound system impecabil, locul ideal pentru “the wall“. accesul se face civilizat, fara imbulzeala, poti cump...

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song “We Shall Overcome.” Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza. Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with drums by Thor Jonsson, neither of whom are seen in the video. Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. “The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,” he writes. “I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ It seems appropriate.” Roger Waters releases “We Shall Overcome” video

Getty Images It's unlikely that any rock 'n' roll roadie works as hard as Roger Waters ' roadies. Last night in Toronto -- on the first of three dates kicking off the former Pink Floyd singer's globe-spanning, 30th anniversary 'The Wall Live' tour -- they slowly and steadily constructed a massive, non-metaphorical wall across the Air Canada Centre stadium stage until, by intermission, the band was now completely hidden behind it. And after repleting up the rafters with crashing fighter planes, flying pigs and grotesque three-story tall animatronic puppets, they eventually send that wall a-tumblin' down at the climax of Waters' triumphant return performance. Several generations have now grown up with Pink Floyd's 1979 magnum opus, chanting that they don't need no education, attending laser light shows, crowding Midnight Madness screenings of the Alan Parker film and listening to the prog-rock double-album epic in their bedrooms with the light...

October 12, 2010 at 6:33 pm RogerWatersTours.com No comments The Construction of The Wall | Stage Production on Roger Waters Wall Tour | Stufish Big bands and artists often take lots of equipment out on the road with them in order to set up their own stage, lighting, sound, vision, props and… oh yes, instruments too! But the amount of equipment, engineering and on-site construction happening on Roger Waters Wall Tour is just phenomenal! How I would like to be a rigger on the current Roger Waters tour – if I wasn’t afraid of heights! The people behind the design, engineering and construction of The Wall are Stufish and they have a rather excellent photo gallery on their website of a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of The Wall. As you can see from the photo top right, the amount of equipment used is colossal! The Construction of The Wall | Stage Production on Roger Waters Wall Tour | Stufish Those who find it necessary to complain about the ticket prices can probably start ...

Roger Waters kicks off his The Wall 2010 tour in style at Toronto's Air Canada Centre. Photos by Richard Beland. To read a review of the Roger Waters show click here . ( Sursa )

Somewhere amidst the arrival of the giant inflatable "Mother," the none-too-subtle animated film showing war planes carpet-bombing suburbs with Christian crosses, Islamic crescents and stars, Jewish Stars of David, plus Shell and Mercedez-Benz logos, and the graffiti-style scrawl of "Big Brother Is Watching You" splayed across the literal giant wall that was rapidly being built to consume the full back 20 per cent of the Air Canada Centre, a nervous pang of realization hit me: The Wall is really fucking important. And that concerns me because I have no idea what the future holds for this truly important work. Roger Waters kicked off his massive 30th anniversary tour of The Wall last night in Toronto. It was the first time a full, proper production of the classic album and related stage show has happened since Waters' former band Pink Floyd toured it in 1980. True to his word, The Wall was done in its entirety with some incredible technological augmentation an...

This would be considered a “SPOILER” if you plan on seeing the presentation of THE WALL featuring Roger Waters. This Tour will be remembered for sure. The few photos and videos I took from the 2nd row and what I am about to summarize will for sure remove the surprise element from the experience for anyone who hasn’t see Pink Floyd or any of previous Roger Waters’ Tours. ……I saw the Radio Kaos Tour when Roger Waters stopped into Hamilton, Ontario around 1987 and both Pink Floyd tours after around the same time Delicate Sound, Momentary Lapse, Division Bell era. Music aside the creativity that went into those tours set a new bar for me as a teenager early in my concert career. Now almost 23 years later the anticipation of seeing THE WALL in it’s original format was building by the minute. When we first walked onto the floor and saw the Wall going up each side of the hockey rink the size of this show started to sink in…. heck if I hadn’t seen KISS just 6 nights ago it might have see...

Roger Waters performs "The Wall" Live At The Air Canada Center on Sept. 15, 2010. GEORGE PIMENTEL/GETTY IMAGES Credit to Roger Waters where credit is due: this 30th anniversary tour in honour of the epochal Pink Floyd opus The Wall is about The Wall, not about Roger Waters. Waters’s previous resurrections of the paranoid double-album song cycle from 1979 that marked the classic, stadium-era Floyd lineup’s last moment of real greatness and that had effectively blown the group apart by the time The Final Cut rolled around felt a bit like gratuitous, compensatory grandstanding in the wake of some iffy solo efforts – The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, anyone? – and his old bandmates’ slide into the comfortable sterility that would yield A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell. “You might have the name Pink Floyd,” they seemed to say, “but I’m still the man in charge of the music that made the people care.” These days, catching Waters alone doing Pink Floyd songs is only ...

Roger Waters performs "The Wall" Live At The Air Canada Center on Sept. 15, 2010. GEORGE PIMENTEL/GETTY IMAGES Credit to Roger Waters where credit is due: this 30th anniversary tour in honour of the epochal Pink Floyd opus The Wall is about The Wall, not about Roger Waters. Waters’s previous resurrections of the paranoid double-album song cycle from 1979 that marked the classic, stadium-era Floyd lineup’s last moment of real greatness and that had effectively blown the group apart by the time The Final Cut rolled around felt a bit like gratuitous, compensatory grandstanding in the wake of some iffy solo efforts – The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, anyone? – and his old bandmates’ slide into the comfortable sterility that would yield A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell. “You might have the name Pink Floyd,” they seemed to say, “but I’m still the man in charge of the music that made the people care.” These days, catching Waters alone doing Pink Floyd songs is only ...

Kiddington Hall din Oxfordshire a găzduit recent un concert de caritate, banii fiind destinaţi Fundaţiei Hope and Optimism for Palestinians In the next Generation.  Spre surprinderea celor prezenţi - care au strâns 350.000 de lire sterline -, pe scenă au urcat Roger Waters şi David Gilmour - cel care a promis că se lasă de muzică, îndurerat de moartea colegului Rick Wright (1943- 2008).   Syd Barrett (1946-2006) a înfiinţat Pink Floyd (în 1965) împreună cu Waters, Wright & Mason.   Sursa

There could be more live collaborations between Roger Waters and David Gilmour .  Following their surprise on stage reunion last weekend, in aid of the Hoping Foundation , Waters has said this might not be a one-off.  Writing on his Facebook page, the former Pink Floyd leader said the idea for the get together a week ago came from Gilmour (a big supporter of the Hoping Foundation), and that he had taken some persuading to do it. After Gilmour suggested they do the Teddy Bears’ classic  To Know Him Is To Love Him , at first Waters felt that this might be beyond his capabilities: “Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote, ‘If you do  To Know Him Is To Love Him  for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I’ll come and do  C. Numb  on one of your  Wall  shows”.  Well! You could have knocked me down with...