Roger Waters planning The Wall tour 2010-2011

Ya, the wall was even longer ago.

As a Roger Waters diehard, I registered so I could contribute to this thread.

I need to correct a few mistakes. First, Waters HAS released material since his last concept album. For one he wrote a full classical opera! Either those who are saying he lost his creativity are unaware of this opera, or they don't consider it a creative effort. I don't follow that, but needless to say, I don't agree. He also submitted a full album last year, but so far it seems the record executives are sitting on it. If you want to hear pieces of it, you can find them around. It will have Each Small Candle from the In the Flesh Tour, and Leaving Beirut which he performed on tour the last time he came through. I saw the Seattle show and I loved Leaving Beirut. I bellieve the song he did for The Legend of 1900 is to be on that album, too.

So Waters has not been resting on his laurels, unlike certain former bandmates. He continues to upset the soulless minions of orthodoxy, believe me. Just go read the Wikipedia discussion page for Leaving Beirut. It's just a simple song about a nice memory from pre-war days, and he simply asks why we assume these people have no humanity, why we talk about them like they are not human, you know? But boy oh boy, that is all it took to rile up some people.

Now, as to the band, well, of the former bandmates, the keyboardist has passed away, and he and Waters had fallen out anyway over the former's cocaine addiction. The former drummer is still his friend. The replacement for the original guitarist, on the other hand, has released several solo albums using the Pink Floyd name. That is how this Roger Waters fan sees it. Your mileage may vary, but that's my opinion.

Roger Waters wrote The Wall. He also wrote Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and pretty much all of the lyrics after Sid's breakdown.

As to the new band, they have been called The Bleeding Heart Band since the Pros and Cons Tour. The drummer has been Graham Broad since about day 1. Andy Fairweather Low has played guitar in this since Clapton chose not to tour. Waters on bass... that's right, he still plays his instrument... and keyboards have been shifted around now and then, but you can't complain about Jon Carin, when he can get him. So what's not to like? This is essentially the band who did the Pros and Cons Tour, the live Wall at the Berlin Wall... really, pretty much everything since Waters decided to stop working with people who contributed nothing to the music anymore.

I am really excited about this tour. I loved the Dark Side tour, and I hope he'll come back to Key Arena in Seattle.

A guy who wrote a whole boring album about how much he hates fame is touring for that album YET AGAIN.

God, roger waters truly is worthless.

Official now.  First dates listed below. 

I don't need to see Waters do The Wall live.  He is coming to Atlanta though.

Never say never for Finland.


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 12 2010 at 12:05

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Edited by RoyFairbank - November 05 2010 at 15:09

Looks like it's 2011 for the UK then?

Waters already said Europe will be toured too, 52 dates or something like that, but the dates were not given yet (surely they will be for 2011). He also said he wanted to tour Latin America and other parts of the world, but that isn't confirmed yet.

The Truth wrote: OH MY GOD HE'S DOING A CONCERT IN KANSAS CITY!!!

OH MY GOD HE'S DOING A CONCERT IN OMAHA!!!

As a guy who never gets to see any prog live, I might consider going.  I'll take one of my many friends who also loves prog!  The ones who live only in my dreams.