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Pink Floyd fans left unimpressed after Roger Waters ‘tells audience to f** off’ during ‘awkward’ London show. (Come for Dark Side of Moon and he reads emails for 60 minutes)
Evening Standard via Yahoo ^ | 10/9/23 | Tina Campbell

Posted on 10/09/2023 5:20:23 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1

The veteran musician, 80, headlined the 2,286-capacity venue with the evening billed as a chance to hear the entirety of his recently released album, Dark Side Of The Moon Redux, which is a reimagining of the band’s iconic Dark Side Of The Moon, which recently turned 50.

However according to several disgruntled audience members, he spent an hour reading from his unpublished autobiography instead of singing and even told them to “f*** off” when they complained.

Waters is said to have read out pages of notes about his pets, including a duck called Donald, which he discussed for 20 minutes, leaving onlookers stunned.

He said: “If you want to tell stories tell them in your own time to your own audience in your own f***ing theatre. By the way, if you can show constraint and stop shouting again.”

Waters went on to impersonate the likes of Bruce Forsyth and Max Bygraves, in an attempt to deliver some stand-up comedy.

One fan claimed on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that they were thrown out just after the interval for saying that the gig had been “s**t” so far and said that his phone had been “confiscated” - although another said they were just put in pouches for the duration of the concert.

They said: “£500 to hear a load of old waffle and slung out after the interval. Not good.”

Other people also took to X to vent their frustration, writing: “I am sorry to say but tonight’s concert was such a let down. The actual songs were great but the self-indulgent c**p was interminable and finishing over 1 hour later than timetabled is inexcusable.’

“But 60mins of music over two and a half hours is barely a concert. The rambling nonsense ruined a wonderful last 50mins.”

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To: dangus

Gilmour’s “There’s No Way Out Of Here” is a great song. A lot of people assume it’s a PF song when they hear it.


41 posted on 10/09/2023 8:07:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FLNittany
As soon as you hear the children shrieking at the playground on School, well...

The shriek on The Wall, was lifted from "Careful With That Axe Eugene", shrieking has been Waters' forte since the early days of PF.

42 posted on 10/09/2023 8:08:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Far out, man. Far out.


43 posted on 10/09/2023 8:10:38 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dfwgator

To me, the park sounds in School (given it’s precedence) sort of spark/reinforce a theme similarity between the two albums that is kind of hard to deny.

I like Floyd and bought The Wall the day the album was released. I will honestly say that other than radio, I haven’t listened to them in 30 years.

I listen to Supertramp all the time though. The fact that they aren’t in the rrhof is a ridiculous joke.


44 posted on 10/09/2023 8:36:23 PM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Rodger has been shown to be a world class loser for years now. Gilmour did Floyd better, and could actually get some of the original band members to play with him.


45 posted on 10/09/2023 9:16:59 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

That’s David Gilmore, not Roger Waters.


46 posted on 10/09/2023 9:29:28 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: rlmorel

Yes, you should’ve known better. By 2004 Waters had been gone from Pink Floyd for about 20+ years, but maybe you didn’t know what a left-wing nut he is.


47 posted on 10/09/2023 9:33:49 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I love the music of Pink Floyd but there’s no way in hell I’d go to a Roger Waters concert.


48 posted on 10/09/2023 9:37:31 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Tom Tetroxide
Go to a Brit Floyd concert instead. You can see their stuff on Youtube that will give you an idea how well they cover Pink Floyd songs.

Good advice. Actually, I think they play the music closer to the studio versions than the real Pink Floyd did. Of course they have the advantage of the music being digitally cleaned up between the time it's recorded and the time it appears on YouTube.

49 posted on 10/09/2023 9:41:21 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: dennisw
All I did was sing Run Like Hell.

If you haven't seen "Run Like Hell" live from the David Gilmore concert in Pompei, I strongly suggest you look it up on YouTube and listen/watch. Make sure you watch to the end!

50 posted on 10/09/2023 9:51:15 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

I didnt want Roger stealing all the attention in this thread. Besides, its a cute meme.


51 posted on 10/09/2023 11:09:53 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1 ( )
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To: libertylover

I like David Gilmore from what I see of him live on YouTube. Same for Pink Floyd minus Roger Waters. You have to be nuts to pay hundreds to see Roger Waters in concert.

Amusingly enough, through the years, Waters and Gilmore have a few sidemen that they both like to hire for their tours.


52 posted on 10/09/2023 11:16:02 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: libertylover

Yes…I didn’t know. But a disgusting part of our society has encouraged these entertainers to force themselves on us with their political blather, so it is harder to be as ignorant as I was at that time.

Heck, that element has always been there, but it is a rarity now for an entertainer’s politics to be a private affair…unless they are a conservative.


53 posted on 10/10/2023 2:31:42 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: libertylover

Brit Floyd - “On the Turning Away” - Space & Time - Live in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfuA61R6QbI&ab_channel=BritFloyd


54 posted on 10/10/2023 2:31:46 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: libertylover
That’s David Gilmour, not David Gilmore. :-)
55 posted on 10/10/2023 4:04:41 AM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: FLNittany

OTOH, Syd, David and Roger met at a private school they all hated, so the kids shrieking sorta could be counted as inevitable discovery, if it were an invention. And the syncopated guitar was a late, resisted addition added by Bob Ezrin only to part 2.


56 posted on 10/10/2023 4:57:01 AM PDT by dangus
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To: zeestephen

80 years old.

Maybe he hired Joe Biden’s speech writer?

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When you have diminishing cognition, ego is the last to go.

Biden is one of the first things I thought of when I read this excerpt. This guy doesn’t care about entertaining people. It’s all about him (and his duck) and it always was about him.

You can be sitting there in your wheel chair at the nursing home being fed tapioca in the courtyard, and when you see a butterfly flutter by, you scream “I OWN THE WORLD!”


57 posted on 10/10/2023 5:08:12 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: dfwgator; FLNittany

Actually, I think he was more referring to the natural playground shrieks rather than the the singular shriek which bridges from The Happiest Days of Our Lives to Another Brick in the Wall. But Pink Floyd was also VERY into Musique Concret, the use of natural sounds in music. There are entire “songs” featuring nothing but Musique Concret on their earlier, experimental albums. So I gotta call the playground shrieks, “inevitable discovery.”

OTOH, there’s a syncopation and brightness on Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2 that’s wholly alien to Pink Floyd (it was actually imposed on them by their producer, Bob Ezrin) that sounds a lot like School.

Even the themes aren’t as similar as you might suppose: School is about the failure of schools to teach real life, amidst an album about how unfair Britain’s class rigidity is; Another Brick pts 1 and 2 are part of a “backstory” suite of songs that explain how Roger’s/Syd’s/Pink’s abuse at the hands of oppressive schoolmasters led to his emotional problems.


58 posted on 10/10/2023 5:13:17 AM PDT by dangus
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Roger’s basic problem: he confessed in The Wall all about his dark side, how his abusive treatment as a child led him to have fantasies about being a Nazi dictator. So instead of healing that anger and moving beyond it, he learned, “Hey! My fans love me being a fascist prick!” So his next album, The Final Cut, he reveled in his own racism and @$$401ishness.


59 posted on 10/10/2023 5:17:01 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Another good British “school” song...

The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f37lC0CSXlQ


60 posted on 10/10/2023 5:17:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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