Roger Waters - The Pros & Cons of Going Solo

dr wu23 wrote: As always Pauls ratings are at odds with everyone else and the real nature of things.. PA ratings- Waters and Geesin 2.83 Pros and Cons 3.07 Radio Kaos 2.97 Amused To Death 3.93 Ca IRA 3.33 Is This the LIfe 3.73 Stravinskys Soldiers Tale 3.09 Final Cut (listed as a Floyd lp) 3.19 There are several lps by Dylan ,Bowie, and Young I would play and own over anything solo by Waters.... now Pink Floyd early lps  would be a different matter. Could care less about his politics ..just talking the music here.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 25 2023 at 05:19

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ....Roger Waters....., he's One of the Few artists whose music will live on forever in The Endless River of time, long after Roger's gone to that Great Gig in the Sky.

David_D wrote: I guess, mr. RW gets quite another treatment in this thread than in the other. I've tried to make it fair.

Regardless of its execution, I think that The Pros And Cons was a brilliant concept. And I think it was Waters last brilliant concept. The rest has been beating a dead horse. The same social topics and commentary, but with a different famous guitarist. Too bad he lost his muse.

Edited by SteveG - March 22 2023 at 12:02

 1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nE3dmeYl_9Jgv2CT0aqufkDcyB6BBMcGM

^ Better late than never with the 38-video playlist for Roger Waters' opera. Thanks for reminding me. 

Pink Floyd Niagara performing Another Brick in the Wall

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 22 2023 at 08:53

tigerfeet wrote: I used to be a Roger Waters fanatic!  That was until i got married and my wife was a Gilmour fanatic. I can tell you it almost ruined our relationship  Now many years later we laugh at how we used to get heated about who was more important to Pink Floyd, Waters or Gilmour.  However, this thread is about the Pros and Cons of Going Solo. In my opinion PF had become compromised musically, and I am sure they were all desperate to get away from each other and release solo albums. So, in regards to Pros of Going Solo for Roger, I think that he realized that he could write songs until the cows came home. His problem was that he needed a good guitarist to play guitar/solos. This is why his decision to record as a solo artist was a good decision.  When Pros and Cons was released I was so excited. I had been a Roger fan for years. My first instrument was Bass guitar and I thought that his way of playing was exact and with purpose and creativity. I still rate him as one of the best bass guitarists of all time.  He had decided to get Eric Clapton on board who at that time was suffering from poorly received gigs after having being in rehab a few years earlier. Clapton had become bored and non creative and in my opinion he could finally let loose on Pros and Cons and it gave him a new found lease of life. It really does come out from Clapton and such sweet guitar is all over the Pros and Cons album. He made the album for me, although i did enjoy the album cover

I really wish Roger had recordings so that he could release a live album from this tour. Clapton might be one of the few guitar players that could really do justice to Gilmour's original solos. I remember hearing some bootleg songs at some point, all with rather poor quality, but I particularly remember a great version of Nobody Home, which is not one of my favourite songs from Floyd, actually, but he did add some wonderful solo that really made the song better. I actually got to hear a version of Wish you were Here with Clapton himself singing it (how I wish I could get a good quality version of that).

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: The best thing about the pros and cons of hitchhiking is the album cover(original).