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Title: Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
Post by: Mac on January 20, 2012, 08:11:41 am
ROGER WATERS REGRETS 1980's BATTLE AGAINST PINK FLOYD
Roger Waters spoke candidly about Pink Floyd during his recent appearance on Howard Stern's radio show, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. When asked about parting ways with David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and the late Rick Wright in the mid-'80s, he explained: "It was character forming." When Stern pressed him and asked if the band was wrong to regroup and perform Floyd material on the road without him, Waters -- who viciously battled Gilmour and Mason in court over the group's name -- admitted: "No I don't think so. I think I was wrong to think they were wrong."
Waters, who'll be back in North America this spring in yet another leg behind his live revival of The Wall, explained that the band seemed to all be on the same page until their first whiff of across-the-board success: "1973, The Dark Side Of The Moon was the first time we made any cash. We were reasonably generous with one another at that time. I think once you've achieved that measure of success, you've really done what it was that you set out to do together. From then on it was really about clinging to the trademark in a kind of frightened way, not wanting to lose the umbrella with the words Pink and Floyd together."
Roger Waters told us that the seeds to The Wall revival actually were inspired by another classic Floyd album from the '70s: "Well, I very much enjoyed The Dark Side Of The Moon tour I did in '07/'08, maybe because I included the whole of Dark Side Of The Moon in the last tour that I did, it put it in the minds of a lot of people around me: 'Why don't you do The Wall?' And I started to think about it, and I recovered from the last tour and I got the feeling that I had at least one more (tour) left in me."
Roger Waters North American tour dates (subject to change):
May 1 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center May 3 - Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center May 5 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center May 7 - Denver, CO - Pepsi Center May 11 - San Francisco, CA - AT&T Park May 13 - San Diego, CA - Valley View Casino Center May 15 - Phoenix, AZ - US Airways Center May 19 - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum & Sports Arena May 22 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena May 24 - Seattle, WA - KeyArena At Seattle Center May 26 - Vancouver, BC - BC Place May 28, 29 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place May 31 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre June 1 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre June 3 - Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center June 5 - Detroit, MI - Joe Louis Arena June 6 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena June 8 - Chicago, IL Wrigley Field June 10 - Louisville, KY - KFC Yum! Center June 11 - Indianapolis, IN - Bankers Life Fieldhouse June 13 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena June 15 - Sunrise, FL - BankAtlantic Center June 16 - Orlando, FL - Amway Center June 19 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena June 21 - Buffalo, NY - First Niagara Center June 23 - Toronto, ON - Rogers Centre June 25 - Ottawa, ON - Scotiabank Place June 26 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre June 28 - Albany, NY - Times Union Center June 29 - Hartford, CT - XL Center July 1 - Boston, MA - TBA July 3 - Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center July 6 - Bronx, NY - Yankee Stadium July 9 - Raleigh, NC - RBC Center July 10 - Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena July 12 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center July 14 - Philadelphia, PA - Citizens Bank Park
How the f uck does St. Louis, a great music town constantly get passed up by these groups >:(
Title: Re: Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 20, 2012, 03:10:02 pm
Is there a link to the interview itself? Would love to listen to it for sure.
Title: Re: Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
Post by: Mac on January 21, 2012, 07:08:58 am
Sorry, can't recall where I picked this up from. If I run across it again, I'll post.
Title: Re: Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 08, 2012, 11:22:00 am
Roger Waters Tour Scales 'The Wall' for Stadiums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT4DzwsUh1A
Title: Re: Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
Post by: Mac on June 08, 2012, 12:31:23 pm