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Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters opened his 2010/11 tour of Floyd’s seminal “The Wall” tour last night in Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.

For whatever credence you might put in critical reviews, you can see what The Associated Press (AP), The Star, the UK’s Telegraph and Calgary’s 660News thought of the show.

The AP might have been most laudatory: “Many times when classic rock artists perform, there’s an air of nostalgia, but not with Waters. Not only does the material seem fresh, it also appears 2010 is the right time for this tour, probably because of the technology that catapults it into the stratosphere.”

The Star was the most critical of these four reviews, calling the show a “cash-in,” and describing the music as “actually kind of drab and heartless, not much different from what you’d hear at one of those Classic Albums Live nights at the Phoenix were it not for the production values.”

Read the reviews online:

• “Roger Waters tears down `The Wall’ in Toronto” (AP)
• “It’s The Wall, not the Roger Waters show” (The Star)
• “Roger Waters: The Wall, Air Canada Theatre, Toronto, review” (Telegraph)
• “Roger Waters kicks off ‘The Wall’ tour with sold-out show in Toronto” (660News)

Roger Waters has announced the “final four” U.S. dates for the North American leg of his tour of “The Wall”:

1. Sept. 24
   United Center, Chicago, Ill.
2. Oct. 3
   TD Garden, Boston, Mass.
3. Dec. 3
   Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif.
4. Dec. 5
   Staples Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

The tour now has 87 confirmed dates for North America. Watch the official Roger Waters site for all official dates.

Roger Waters has announced 28 concert dates for Europe — the second leg of his tour of “The Wall” that starts in Toronto Sept. 15.

The European tour starts March 27 in Lisbon, Portugal, and wraps up June 18 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

As with the North American tour, rogerwaters.com will offer fans the chance to buy premium tickets during a members-only presale, which will start “very soon.”

See the complete, up-to-date list of venues and dates at rogerwaters.com.

Ex-Pink Floyd member Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” is at the top of the chart for ticket sales of musical, theatre and sports events for the week ending May 16.

Ticket sales tracking company TicketNews announced Waters was #1 on its Top Combined Events  chart.

“The Wall” show has a huge lead over #2 on the list — with a 13.19 “power score” over the 4.83 score of Broadway show “Wicked.” Lady Gaga is third at 2.48; Justin Bieber is in fourth place at 2.29.

None of this is news to people who logged on at 10 a.m. May 10 when “Wall” tickets went on sale. Waters immediately sold-out many venues, and added a dozen shows to the tour by the end of the day to help meet demand.

TicketNews’ scores are based on sales from the TicketNetwork Exchange, the world’s largest secondary market exchange. Total ticket sales from the given event and total ticket sales within the category are used to calculate power scores.

On top of the eight new Roger Waters shows we told you about this morning (“Eight shows added to “Wall” tour”), another four have now been added to his “Wall” tour in four venues:

1. Sept. 23, United Center, Chicago, Ill.
2. Nov. 11, Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
3. Nov. 30, Staples Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
4. Dec. 14, Honda Center, Anaheim, Calif.

Ticket for these shows go on sale tomorrow at 9 a.m., local time.

Eight shows were immediately added to Roger Water’s tour of “The Wall” once general tickets went on sale this morning:

1. Sep 18, Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2. Oct 1, TD Garden, Boston, Mass.
3. Oct 6, Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.
4. Oct 13, Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, N.Y.
5. Oct 20, Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec
6. Nov 4, Izod Center, East Rutherford, N.J.
7. Nov 14, BankAtlantic Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
8. Dec 8, HP Pavilion, San Jose, Calif.

Tickets are on sale of all of these additional venues.

General tickets for Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” went on sale this morning at 10. If our experience buying tickets for his Montreal shows coming up Oct. 19-20 is any indicator, sales are brisk.

The first date sold out within 20 minutes, along with many sections for the second show.

What’s been your experience buying tickets? Post them as replies to this message.

Roger Waters has announced the band that will tour with him during his performances of “The Wall” later this year.

Drums:
Graham Broad

Guitars:
Dave Kilminster
G.E. Smith
Snowy White

Keyboards:
Jon Carin
Harry Waters

Lead vocals:
Robbie Wyckoff

Backing vocals:
Jon Joyce
Mark Lennon
Michael Lennon
Kipp Lennon

Smith, Wyckoff, and the Lennons (all cousins) are new to Waters’ lineup. Wyckoff will be singing lead vocals originally handled by David Gilmour.

Harry Waters is Roger’s son.