Roger Waters Tour The Wall
The eagerly-awaited Roger Waters concert tour will combine an evening's worth
of music --comprised of two sets - with state-of-the-art staging, lighting and sound.
The Set will consist of Roger Waters and full band performing "The Wall," one of
the defining works of rock music history, from start-to-finish. Waters last performed
"The Wall" live in America with Pink Floyd more than 30 years ago. roger waters tour
The Roger Waters concerts will utilize elaborate large-scale video projections and
theatrical staging to underscore and accentuate the power of the music which is
delivered via a state-of-the-art 3600 quadraphonic sound system immersing the
audience in a 3-dimensional hyperworld.
The appearance will be a state-of-the art affair, featuring a 240-foot-wide and
35-foot-tall Wall complete and after broken down during the concerts. Other
backdrop and appropriate furnishings are accepted to be allotment of the
appearance as well.
Album illustrator Gerald Scarfe, who worked on the tour and 1982 film, is
providing new art and redesigning puppets and inflatable objects.
"I recently came across this quote of mine from 22 years ago: ” What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand
one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?” I believe this is still a supremely relevant question and the jury is out. There is a lot of commercial clutter on the net, and a lot of propaganda,
but I have a sense that just beneath the surface understanding is gaining ground. We just have to keep blogging, keep twittering, keep communicating, keep sharing ideas. 30 Years ago when I wrote The
Wall I was a frightened young man. Well not that young, I was 36 years old. roger waters the wall tour
It took me a long time to get over my fears. Anyway, in the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear
and loss with it’s concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns.: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever! All these issues and ‘isms
are driven by the same fears that drove my young life. This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost
in the intervening years. In some quarters, among the chattering classes, there exists a cynical view that human beings as a collective are incapable of developing more ‘humane’ ie, kinder, more
generous, more cooperative, more empathetic relationships with one another. I disagree. In my view it is too early in our story to leap to such a conclusion, we are after all a very young species.
I believe we have at least a chance to aspire to something better than the dog eat dog ritual slaughter that is our current response to our institutionalized fear of each other.
I'm not as young as I used to be. I'm not like B.B. King, or Muddy Waters," the 66-year-old said. "My friend Eric Clapton ... he'll be playing guitar and he'll be on stage 'til the day he dies, because that's what he does."
"I'm not a great vocalist or a great instrumentalist or whatever, but I still have the fire in my belly, and I have something to say," he continued. "I have a swan song in me and I think this will probably be it."
On the subject of the reunion in 2005, he reflects on the importance of the "symbiosis between the four band members, in which I call the golden years of the band, all we contributed, the combination of the four separated talents was something very very special”.
However, he has thought about the possible obsticle to another reunion. “The problem is this one: during 20 years [Pink Floyd] has been [David Gilmour's] baby, for that reason he is so obstinate. If we reunited for any reason, I would be delighted to do it. Not a single
show, but a series of events that we could do. It would be very satisfactory for me... but I do not believe that Dave wants to do it.”
He noted that he holds rich memories from Mexico, when he was there in 2002.“Fans did something amazing the last time that I was there. As an encore I played 'Flickering Flame', and something happened that I'd never seen before: 30 thousand people igniting and
extinguishing its lighters to the sound of a song that they'd never heard. roger waters tour the wall 2012
“That was fabulous, absolutely fabulous. Massachusetts Demolition
I have never seen it in any other city of the world. I hope that they do it again”, he said, smiling.
I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to express my, albeit guarded, optimism, and encourage others to do the same. To quote the great man, ” You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
Just a Friendly reminder that Roger Waters Boston Tickets are officially on sale this coming Monday February 20, 2012. Roger Waters Tour will bring the massive Wall to Boston, MA’s Fenway Park on July 1. The stadium show is part of an extended tour that includes other ball parks like Chicago’s Wrigley Field (6/8) and New York’s Yankee Stadium (7/6-7). Waters first tested out his expanded stage show last summer and will treat fans to an enhanced light show and presentation.
The 2012 North American tour schedule for "The Wall" was announced late last year, Although Roger Waters Tickets Boston were expected to go on sale Jan. 30, but that's no longer the case and they are on sale Monday.
"Roger Waters The Wall Tour" is also scheduled to make stops at three other Major League Baseball stadiums this year: San Francisco's AT&T Park on May 11, Toronto's Rogers Centre on June 23 and Philadelphia's Citizen's Bank Park on July 14. Roger Waters Tickets for those shows are on sale now and selling out fast.
Though most of the North American shows will take place at indoor arenas, another outdoor gig is set for the cavernous Los Angeles Coliseum, though it appears that only half of the stadium will be utilized for the show.
The outdoor stadium shows will feature "state of the art modifications transforming the arena production into magnificent outdoor events
