Pigs flew July 10, when Roger Waters joined David Gilmour on stage at the Hoping Foundation charity event in Oxfordshire.
To even the scales, Gilmour has promised to join Waters at one show of his “Wall” tour to perform “Comfortably Numb” with his former bandmate.
But which show? That’s the question.
Guess the closest and win Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” from 1990. Guess the exact date, and we’ll throw in a sealed copy of Classic Rock’s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”
Make your guess now. One guess per person. (Don’t worry, laddy, we’ll know …)
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters and music publishing firm Warner/Chappell have renewed their contract.
The arrangement means the company will continue to administer songs Waters wrote or co-wrote while with Floyd — from the band’s “Atom Heart Mother” (1970) album until his departure from the band following “The Final Cut” (1983).
Warner/Chappell is a division of Warner Music Group Corp.
Richard Manners, Managing Director of Warner/Chappell UK said, “Roger is an iconic songwriter, lyricist and musician. Each generation discovers these phenomenal albums anew, and their wide-reaching influence and popularity continues to grow.
“We’re delighted Roger entrusts these songs to Warner/Chappell on a global basis, and we’re looking forward to the work ahead, especially with much-anticipated ‘The Wall’ dates on the horizon.”
Roger Waters has made available a “two-minute taster” of his reunion gig with David Gilmour, which took place at the Hoping Foundation charity event in July.
“The sound quality is crap but it was a great night for me, and for him, and also for ‘US and THEM’,” he writes on his Web site.
The video seems to be a hand-held job, shot from the audience of 200.
The duo have given the entire 29-minute set to the foundation, which plans to post it at 5 p.m. Monday UK time.
Enter to win a DVD copy of Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” on the 20th anniversary of that concert, July 21, 1990.
With a cast of more than 100 and more than 200,000 people in attendance, Waters’ most-recent performance of “The Wall” took place on the site of the former Berlin Wall, just months after its collapse.
This 2003 DVD contains the complete concert remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound, a new documentary, set and character designs, and unseen footage.
Pigs flew last night at an Oxfordshire, England, charity event, when Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters performed live together.
Appearing in Kidlington for a concert to benefit the Hoping Foundation, the two played four songs together, accompanied by Guy Pratt, on bass and acoustic guitar; Harry Waters, on keyboards; Andy Newmark, on drums; Chester Kamen, on guitar; and Jonjo Grisdale, also on keyboards.
The set contained four songs: Floyd classics “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” and “Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two),” along with Phil Spector’s “To Know Him Is To Love Him.”
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song “We Shall Overcome.”
Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza.
Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with drums by Thor Jonsson, neither of whom are seen in the video.
Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. “The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,” he writes.
“I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ It seems appropriate.”
The BBC spoke to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters in a piece published online today. Waters talks about the band’s last performance at the Live 8 event in 2005, and says he believes it will be the band’s last appearance.
“It was an extraordinarily moving experience for me,” he says. “Live 8 was so beautiful, and Rick (Wright) obviously was still with us then. … If that’s the way we draw a line under Pink Floyd, so be it. I won’t be unhappy about that.”
Wright died in 2008, leaving Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason as the surviving members.
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.
Pigs flew July 10, when Roger Waters joined David Gilmour on stage at the Hoping Foundation charity event in Oxfordshire.
Roger Waters has made available a “two-minute taster” of his reunion gig with David Gilmour, which took place at the Hoping Foundation charity event in July.
Enter to win a DVD copy of Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” on the 20th anniversary of that concert, July 21, 1990.
Pigs flew last night at an Oxfordshire, England, charity event, when Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters performed live together.
Roger Waters has announced the “final four” U.S. dates for the North American leg of his tour of “The Wall”:
Roger Waters has announced 28 concert dates for Europe — the second leg of his tour of “The Wall” that starts in Toronto Sept. 15.
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