Whatever makes the old man happy and alive!
I don't really care: I honestly never been a huge fan of The Wall.
Yeah, he's in danger oflosing my respect
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Jesus, does this guy ever quit?
How about some new music....or, at least, something that isn't relentlessly all about him, as the recent concert/film was. There were few frames in which a roger didn't appear....even when someone else was soloing/singing.....
Sheesh....
Well remember, when he quit Pink Floyd he thought the band would die.
True, but if there ever were a megalomaniac in Prog, it would have to be him. Even when someone else is singing he's stomping around the stage, arms pumping, mouthing the lyrics....and if it's not where everyone's eyes go, it's certainly where the camera does.
"Look at me! Look at ME!! LIOK AT ME!!!!"
I repeat: sheesh. I mean, it was an ambitious spectacle, but if he'd only been a little more generous to those in his band it wouldn't have been so.....
All joking aside, I'm willing to wait to hear what the intended audience thinks about this instead of a what bunch of snobbish prog fans have to say.
Is he milking it? Perhaps. But, if he opens this up to an entirely new audience, more power to him.
If he was so bent on milking "The Wall," why did it take him decades to release a live PF concert of it?
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Release more official 70's PF concerts. Milk THAT!
I like "The Wall" well enough, but it's too musically, thematically and lyrically thin to be a convincing opera. That "version" of "Another Brick in the Wall" proves it to me. They add a lot of musical folderol to make it look deeper than it really is.
"Arf." -- Frank Zappa, "Beauty Knows No Pain" (live version)
Say what you will but Amused to Death and Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking stand out compared to any Gilmour solo releases.
The last PF album clearly needed Waters input, the last track with vocals was the worst one.
I am happy they did release another album tho' I will consume anything released by them.
The Wall, I too think it's the one that could possibly be made into a great dramatic opera piece.
Gilmour's guitar is probably the most memorable experience within PF, this too, never was a major fan Clapton till I heard this album and specifically this track... awww most beautiful guitar tunes...
Roger Waters - 5:06AM (Every Strangers Eyes)
I'll just keep on posting here by myself.
Amused to death, this album too had Jeff Beck playing the most memorable sensitive tunes, like no one to date.
Here is Waters talking about Jeff Beck, who played all guitars on his album, Amused to Death.
It's hard and almost impossible for any guitarist to beat Jeff Beck's (I feel every note)
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Wasn't a Jeff Beck fan before Amused to Death, not because I didn't like him but because I didn't know his work. His guitar on RW's album is incredible. I went and bought a bunch of his albums, some of them are of my all time favorites. On another post you said that you can feel every note, that pretty much sums it up. I wish he recorded more.
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Sonia, one of my best concerts was Roger Waters on his Pros and Cons tour, at Radio City Music Hall. Alas, it wasn't with Clapton, I think it was Andy Fairweather Low? Anyway, a great show! Very mellow, and in a beautiful, comfortable venue.
I also saw his Radio KAOS, Amused to Death (I think!) and In the Flesh tours. And The Wall a few years ago.
Yeah, I have to agree that Roger without Gilmour is frequently missing something. I can say some Roger songs surpass Gilmours output, but I haven't found anything Roger has done to be strong start to finish - perhaps that is why he has spent so much time revisiting DSOTM and The Wall in the last decade.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I agree. Probably should have put that in there. They definitely are better as a whole, but I find that there are Waters fans who think he was the whole and that his solo material is on par (or almost on par) with Floyd material. I don't see that from Gilmour fans so much.
The Wall was pretty weak in terms of memorable hooks and melodies, not to mention that even then Waters had a range of about six notes. I can see making a decent story of it but you'd have to come up with entirely different vocal parts for most of it.
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