Thursday 30 December 2010

Roger Waters Says Pink Floyd Will Never Tour Again

Discussing about his recent production of The Wall,Roger Waters said a full-fledged Pink Floyd reunion tour will not happen. "David and Nick and I might do a one-off somewhere, but there's no way we're going to do a tour," he said. "It's just such a shame that we didn't get around to it before Rick died."

His new version of The Wall has a more huge context today than it did when he and Pink Floyd first staged the show more than 30 years ago. The 67-year-old Floyd co-founder told Rolling Stone magazine it's "basically the same show, but with a broader meaning."

"We had to deal with the fact that it was one thing for a man in his 30s to sing about his young adult life, which was sort of an echo of his upbringing at that point," Waters said. "But it's something else to go on doing that when you're in your 60s."

Friday 24 December 2010

Roger Waters 'The Wall' Tour grows


To Roger Waters The Wall tour,Live nations & AAA Entertainment are glad to announced that a Birmingham date is to be added to in their tour. Tickets for the Birmingham show are on sale now.

Roger Waters The Wall Live will have completed a hugely successful 56 date North American run,prior to European tour.

ROGER WATERS UK DATES MAY 2011

Wednesday 11 The O2 Arena, London SOLD OUT
Thursday 12 The O2 Arena, London SOLD OUT
Saturday 14 The O2 Arena, London SOLD OUT
Sunday 15 The O2 Arena, London
Tuesday 17 The O2 Arena, London
Weds 18 The O2 Arena, London
Friday 20 Manchester MEN Arena SOLD OUT
Saturday 21 Manchester MEN Arena SOLD OUT

JUNE 2011
Monday 27 Birmingham NIA
Tuesday 28 Manchester MEN Arena

Thursday 9 December 2010

Roger Waters: Plays The Wall


Roger Water's comeback to vancouver in anticipation on the wall tour, we figured we needed a grand gesture to gig him how much we care.

What do you give a man who has helped bring us some of the most beloved albums of all time? And then it dawned on us.

It really doesn’t get much longer than naming a hockey rink after the man. Waters will be playing The Wall in its entirety on friday 10 December at Rogers Arena.

From “Hey You” to “Outside the Wall”, it should be an acid trip to over all trips. Hopefully, Sting would not required the same condition his next time through town. After all, Sting Arena doesn’t exactly sing.

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Roger Waters and The Wall Tour


Roger Waters, bass player, co-vocalist and lyricist for the English band Pink Floyd, is offering a new way to experience his performance of the 1979 album “The Wall”.

ith the construction of a fake, brick wall halfway through his set - completely blocking himself (and his eleven-piece band) off from the crowd to show the disassociative state society is heading in.

“The new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to the innocent lost in the intervening years,” states Waters in his tour blog.

Waters also questions if, “the technologies of communication in our culture serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will the deceive us and tear us apart?”

The rock veteran obviously sides his opinion on the matter with the latter statement since the only visual sequences during the show are flashes of Shell oil signs and various religious artifacts. Waters even allows fans to upload pictures of civilians and soldiers lost at war that are shown throughout the show as a protest of unnecessary violence. As he feels, “many of these tragic losses of life are avoidable.”

Tickets are not cheap, but Waters still has a few weeks of U.S. touring left. To get the first-hand experience of the visonary music, it would be wise to order tickets now before the prices rise any higher.

Saturday 20 November 2010

Roger Best Songs For His Late Father


Past Wednesday was the birth date of Roger Waters late father.We miss our dad a lot and we considered our self very lucky that we have a great personality among us while we were growing up, now coming to the the stage of being father we still appreciate the kind of crap he put up with raising us and our brother and sisters.

Following are the 5 songs which was the best songs for his late father considered by Roger Waters are:

1."Free Four" (Obscured By Clouds)
2."The Thin Ice"/"Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1"(The Wall)
3."The Fletcher Memorial Home" (The Final Cut)
4."When the Tigers Broke Free"
5."The Post War Dream" (The Final Cut)

Friday 12 November 2010

Roger Waters’ The Wall Comes to Wells Fargo Center


On Monday, Nov. 8, Tuesday, Nov. 9 and Thursday, Nov. 11. Roger Waters will celebrate there 30th anniversary of the original release of The Wall with a visit to the Wells Fargo Center

His monumental tour features a full band and a newly-mounted state-of-the-art production of his masterpiece on alienation, paranoia and stardom-induced estrangement performed in its brick-by-brick entirety.

The Wall was America’s top-selling album of 1980 released originally in November 1979. It is one of the top-selling double albums in music history, and is still in the US Top 5 best-selling albums of all time. Early reviews of the tour have been glowing.

While the chances of Waters and Gilmour reconciling egos and bringing Pink Floyd back together for a full tour are about as good as pigs (literally) flying, if Roger’s “Dark Side of the Moon Tour” a few years back was any indication, all are in for quite a treat.

Monday 1 November 2010

Waters does well with 'The Wall'


It is a king of concert tours because it was performed by Pink Floyd only a handful of times in its original form(and because it was so over-the-top even then), it has attained legendary status.

This time Roger Waters gave a new look instead of rehashing the same old thing on Tuesday at Qwest Center Omaha.Oh, and there was that giant white wall, built up between the audience and the band, brick by cardboard brick

This time there is no deviation from the original album except a few longer guitar solos and there were only a few pauses — one for an intermission and two or three for Waters to take a minute to speak to the gathered crowd.

Water looks much more comfortable with his fan, it looks like he was much better convinced of “The Wall,” which happened after he spit on a fan at a Montreal concert and thought a wall between him and the annoying gits in the crowd wouldn’t be a bad idea.

In Omaha, he waved at fans, encouraged claps and swayed to the music.

The original album and tour was about isolation. This time around, it was more anti-war, anti-capitalism and anti-poverty than about any kind of psychological issue.

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Roger Waters UK And Ireland Tour 2011


Roger Waters's three dates to his UK and Ireland tour 2011.

The Pink Floyd star will now play in London an extra date on May 18, and two more shows at Manchester's MEN Arena on June 28 and 29. The tour will see Waters band’s classic album ‘The Wall’.

At one of the gigs he has also promised an on stage reunion with former band mate David Gilmour, although exactly which one is to remain a surprise. It comes after the group staged a surprise reunion at a charity gig in July. Tickets for the new dates go on sale on Friday (September 17) at 9am.

Roger Waters’ UK and Ireland dates are:

London, O2 Arena - May 11/12/14/15/17/18
Manchester, Evening News Arena - 20/21 and June 28/29
Dublin, O2 - 23

Wednesday 4 August 2010

Reunite on stage Roger Waters and David Gilmour


Reunited on stage Roger Waters and David Gilmour over the weekend at a benefit in England. The unannounced team up went down before the 200 attendees of the Hoping Foundation benefit in Oxfordshire, for young Palestinian refugees which raised money. Roger Waters are set for another onstage reunion after striking a secret deal before their performance at a charity show last weekend. Roger Waters talks about show with David Gilmour, including future appearance!.

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Wednesday 16 June 2010

Roger Water: Roger Waters will tour The Wall


Roger Waters, the Bass player and main songwriter for Pink Floyd during the 70s and early 80s, is to revisit one of the bands masterpieces and take the Wall back out on the road for the first time since the he performed it with Pink Floyd.
Roger the Wall has been performed since then on a one off concert commemorating the fall of the Berlin wall back in 1990 with guest appearances from artists like Bryan Adams, Van Morrison and Sinead O’Connor and since then Waters has performed with his old band mates in Pink Floyd for a one off concert in the Live 8 concert.
But since the death of Pink Floyd’s keyboard player Richard Wright any further coaction with the band’s guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason are now highly improbably.
But it looks like Roger has unfinished business with the album that most people equate with ‘Roger Waters’ the artist and so he plans to take The Wall out for another airing in 2011 making the show his most ambitious to date with everything including the kitchen sink thrown in.
The special effects will be bigger and better than anything previous, this is coming from a man whose stage shows both with and without Pink Floyd have been some of the most fantastic ever staged.
Roger has always been a pioneer conceptually and his song writing broke barriers and walls (excuse the awful pun) and none more so than in the conceptual design for The Wall on the album of the same name, the film of the same name and the tour.
Themes of alienation, loss and the way that we are affected by such experiences is fundamental to The Wall and a glimpse into Roger Water’s soul is captured within the story of The Wall which is regarded as one of the greatest concept albums of all time.
The Wall tour will be also made relevant to today’s world moving it from 1979/1980 to today’s world even though the themes addressed in The Wall are timeless.
Roger has said that he is unsure of whether or not he will take a huge show like this out on the road again and this may be his swansong with respect to large stage productions but this is Roger Waters and he is to be underestimated at great peril.
Knock em dead next year Roger.
And if you have any spare tickets for the O2 arena shows in May please let me know (the fan inside me can remain silent no longer).

Thursday 10 June 2010

Roger Waters: Roger Waters of Pink Floyd on re-building


Roger Waters, the musician formerly of Pink Floyd, has discussed his plans to re stage the classic rock album The Wall.
The concept album has been performed only 31 times by Pink Floyd in the early eighties as well as by Waters with an all star cast in July 1990 to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Rogers will tour the album in 2011, visiting 25 European cities.

Wednesday 2 June 2010

Roger Waters will also play The Wall in Dusseldorf

Pink Floyd fans may be hurrying to bookaccommodation in Düsseldorf after Roger Waters revealed he will end his 2011 tour of Europe with a concert in the German city. Having previously announced plans to perform the British rock band’s classic album The Wall live across North America later this year, the musician has now confirmed a string of dates across Europe. After three nights at London’s O2 Arena in May 2011, Waters will head to cities such as Dublin, Paris and Berlin before appearing at the Espirit Arena in Düsseldorf on June 18th. He is set to play The Wall live for the first time since a concert staged in Berlin in 1990. Speaking to the NME recently, the Pink Floyd co-founder suggested he could stop touring altogether when his latest trek around Europe comes to an end. "I’m 66 now, so I think there will come a point where I just don’t want the physical demand," Waters said. People using hotels Düsseldorf can book tickets for the concert from 09:00 BST on June 4th.

Roger Waters Albums

Year Album UK Albums Chart US Billboard 200
1970 Music from The Body (with Ron Geesin) – –
1984 The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking 13 31
1986 When the Wind Blows (various artists soundtrack) – –
1987 Radio K.A.O.S. 25 50
1990 The Wall - Live in Berlin 27 56
1992 Amused to Death 8 21
2000 In the Flesh - Live 170 136
2002 Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1 – –
2005 Ça Ira 1 (UK Classical Chart) 5 (US Classical Chart)
"–" denotes a release that did not chart.

Roger Waters Equipments and Instruments

Waters first played a Hofner bass that was soon swap with a Rickenbacker 4001S. Circa 1970 he switched to a Fender Precision Bass. He often plays with a pick but is also known to play fingerstyle. Waters uses RotoSound Jazz Bass 77 bass guitar strings. Throughout his career he has used WEM, Hiwatt and Ashdown amplifiers. He is known to use delay, tremolo, chorus effect and phaser effects in his music.

While usually credited only as a bass guitarist and vocalist, Waters is also known to play electric guitar (as he did on Wish You Were Here and Animals, where he played rhythm guitar on tracks "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" part 9 and "Sheep") as well as synthesizer and tape effects, both to Pink Floyd and his solo works. He also plays acoustic guitar frequently during his live tours, mostly on tracks from The Final Cut and on the track "Mother".

The following is a list of equipment Waters has used on his recordings and tours.

Roger Waters Discography

Music from "The Body" (1970)

Movie soundtrack.Collaboration with Ron Geesin. Features all of Pink Floyd on one track.

Track listing
1. Our Song (1:34)
2. Sea Shell And Stone (2:08)
3. Red Stuff Writhe (1:20)
4. A Gentle Breeze Blew Through Life (1:12)
5. Lick Your Partners (0:36)
6. Bridge Passage For Three Plastic Teeth (0:34)
7. Chain Of Life (4:00)
8. The Womb Bit (2:07)
9. Embryo Thought (0:40)
10. March Past Of The Embryos (1:15)
11. More Than Seven Dwarfs In Penisland (2:01)
12. Dance Of The Red Corpuscles (2:07)
13. Body Transport (3:14)
14. Hand Dance - Full Evening Dress (1:04)
15. Breathe (2:50)
16. Old Folks Ascension (3:47)
17. Bedtime - Dream - Clime (2:04)
18. Piddle In Perspex (0:57)
19. Embryonic Womb-Walk (1:22)
20. Mrs. Throat Goes Walking (2:07)
21. Sea Shell And Soft Stone (1:56)
22. Give Birth To A Smile (2:43)


Line-up
- Roger Waters / bass guitar, vocals
- Ron Geesin
With:
- David Gilmour / guitar on "Give Birth To A Smile"
- Rick Wright / keyboards on "Give Birth To A Smile"
- Nick Mason / drums on "Give Birth To A Smile"

Roger Water Hits


Waters' solo singles have seen chart activity, the most popular being "What God Wants, Pt. 1", which reached #4 in the UK despite a radio ban. His three major solo albums have been acclaimed Gold by the RIAA, and his opera Ça Ira reached #1 on both the UK and U.S. Classical Charts. Roger has also been inducted into the U.S. and UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd, and received a "Media Event of the Year" award for mounting The Wall Live in Berlin.

Roger Waters Interests

Roger takes pleasure in hunting and fishing, and has been an avid fly-fisherman for 20 years. He has previously holded up the UK Labour Party, often describing himself as a socialist, but has lately disagreed with Tony Blair's New Labour policies (in

particular Blair's decision to involve his country in the Iraq War). On at least one occasion, though, Waters did describe himself as a "capitalist" (March, 1992), his democratic leanings even though.

Roger Waters Picture Gallery





Introduction to Roger Waters

George Roger Waters was born in September 6, 1943. He is an English rock musician, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer.

He is best known for his famous 1965-1985 career with the band Pink Floyd as their main songwriter,and responsible for the majority of the album concepts (from 1968), one of their chief singers (along with David Gilmour), and bass player. He was also the intelligence behind the majority of many of Pink Floyd's symbols including the Pink Floyd Pigs and the marching hammers.

Following this, he began a reasonably successful solo career releasing three studio albums and staging one of the biggest concerts ever, The Wall Concert in Berlin in 1990. In 2005, he unconfined an opera, Ça Ira and rejoined Pink Floyd for a performance at the Live 8 concert in London, on July 2, 2005, for their first public performance together in 24 years.