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).

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.

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.