Just saw Roger Waters in Cincinnati. Stunning show, musicianship, and his interaction with the audience was seemed genuine. The production was one of the best I’ve seen. He played some of his solo music but mostly Floyd starting at Dark Side and ended with a Dylan song.
You were warned it would be politcal and go to the bar if you don’t want to hear it, but it was over two hours of visual propaganda against everthing I know to be true. The vitriol was for every Ameican President starting with Eisenhower but over the top on Reagan, Trump, the Police and the Supreme Court. It was seething anger and rage. Clinton was the only one omitted.
I’d say the 18,000 seat arena was 3/4 full and almost all agreed with his politics. It startled me.
If I had a dollar for everytime the F-bomb was displayed or spoken, I could fund FR for a year, easily. Odd thing is if capitalism is so bad, why did the cheapest T-shirt start at 50.00 dollars and Hoodies 100?
BTW, my tickets were free from my station. So FU Roger.
Roger reminds me of a classic routine by the late Bill Hicks (one of the few lefty comedians I though were occasionally funny)
“Ooh, you know what Rogers’s doing now? He’s going for the righteous indignation dollar. That’s a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We’ve done research – huge market. He’s doing a good thing.”