Posted January 13, 2017 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters posted this brief clip of him playing in the studio with producer Nigel Godrich.
Waters has said he’s working on a new album, which would be his first studio album of new material since “Amused to Death” (1992). (Read “Roger Waters: New album coming in 2016.”)
Godrich, best known as producer of Radiohead, was one of the producers of 2015’s film soundtrack “Roger Waters The Wall.”
Waters begins his 2017 North American tour May 26 in Kansas City, Mo.
Posted October 13, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has announced a 40-date North American tour coming in 2017.
“Us + Them” is the project recently teased in a 20-second video posted online by Waters.
“We are going to take a new show on the road, the content is very secret,” says Waters. “It’ll be a mixture of stuff from my long career, stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things.
“Probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme. It will be a cool show, I promise you. It’ll be spectacular like all my shows have been.”
The tour begins May 26 in Kansas City, Mo., and wraps up Oct. 28 in Vancouver, BC.
Tickets go on sale Oct. 21. VIP package sales and Citi presale tickets begin Oct. 17.
Full schedule is available at rogerwaters.com.
Posted October 12, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has posted a mysterious video on his website. The 20-second clip is apparently a tease for an upcoming project titled “Us + Them.”
Posted September 12, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Posted September 6, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Join us this week for Floydian Slip #1065: It’s a special show devoted to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters on his 73rd birthday.
We’ll hear Roger solo from: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio K.A.O.S., his recent “Wall” concert film, a 2003 documentary about “Dark Side” and much more.
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Posted September 1, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Pink Floyd has released a new video featuring an early performance of “Grantchester Meadows.”
The video includes film of the band’s Roger Waters, David Gilmour and Rick Wright in a 1970 KQED (San Francisco) performance and new nature footage shot by Aubrey “Po” Powell of Hipgnosis, set to audio from a BBC performance recorded May 12, 1969.
The song comes from the band’s 1969 album “Ummagumma.”
The video is the first taste of the rarities coming our way when the group releases ‘The Early Years 1965-1972″ boxset Nov. 11.
Posted June 29, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Roger Waters has signed a publishing deal with BMG to represent his catalogue of Pink Floyd songs.
As a main songwriter with Floyd, many of the band’s most popular (i.e. profitable) songs fall under Waters’ jurisdiction: “Money,” “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” “Another Brick in the Wall, Part II” and “Comfortably Numb,” to name a few.
“We are honored that Roger Waters has chosen BMG, the youngest of the big international music companies, to represent his legendary and exquisite catalog,” says BMG CEO Hartwig Masuch. “To win the endorsement and trust of one of the world’s most successful songwriters is a significant milestone less than eight years after our launch.”
Waters added, “October last year I put on a gig called Music Heals with some wounded veterans in Washington D.C. BMG supported us. I’m very glad to be back in the same team.”
Waters’ Floyd catalogue was previously administered by Warner/Chappell.
Posted June 24, 2016 by Floydian Slip
One fan who ponied up $500 for the so-called “super deluxe” boxset of “Roger Waters The Wall” got a surprise: Instead of being autographed by Waters, the 170-page hardcover book included with fan Jim Clarke‘s box reads “Love Jimmy Smith.”
Fans have put forth two theories to explain the anomaly: Either Waters grew tired of signing all 3,000 boxes and decided to play a prank. Or someone else was hired to sign on Waters’ behalf and experienced a momentary lapse of reason when he accidentally signed his own name.
Music publication NME has asked Waters’ camp for comment, but none are forthcoming just yet.
Either way, in the end, this botched box might end up being worth even more than if Waters had signed his own name to it.
Surrogate band indeed.
Posted March 6, 2016 by Floydian Slip
Opéra de Montréal will premiere an opera based on Pink Floyd‘s “The Wall” next year. The album’s auteur and Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is collaborating on the project.
Baritone Étienne Dupuis will star as Pink. Music for the production was written by Julien Bilodeau, and Waters is handling the libretto. Alain Trudel will conduct the Orchestre Métropolitain.
Waters initially declined to participate, but changed his mind after hearing the score. “I sat there not expecting to be moved, and I was moved,” he says. “Very moved. So I approach this project with great enthusiasm.”
Waters is no stranger to opera. He spent a great deal of the 1990s writing “Ça Ira” with Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gil.
The opera’s premiering in Montreal is apropos: Waters got the idea for “The Wall” after growing frustrated with a rowdy audience and spitting on a fan during a Floyd show at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in 1977.
“Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera” will open March 11, 2017.
The company has already released its version of “Another Brick in the Wall Part II”:
Posted February 16, 2016 by Floydian Slip
The 2015 remix of Roger Waters’ “Amused to Death” won “Best Surround Sound Album” at last night’s Grammy Awards.
James Guthrie and Joel Plante took the honor for their work remixing the ’92 album.
Waters’ feature length movie of “Roger Waters The Wall” was nominated for “Best Music Film,” but lost to “Amy,” a film by Asif Kapadia about Amy Winehouse.
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