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Review: Roger Waters blasts Donald Trump during eye-popping concert at Tampa's Amalie Arena
Tampa Bay Times ^ | Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:30pm | Jay Cridlin

Posted on 07/12/2017 7:40:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Camera flashes popped as the bus-sized pig floated over the Amalie Arena crowd, splashed with Donald Trump’s yowling mug and phrases like “Welcome to the Machine — I Won” and “Piggy Bank of War.”

Subtle political commentary, this was not. Then again, subtle was never Roger Waters’ style. The Pink Floyd mastermind’s worldview may be as grim and dystopian as ever, judging from his spectacular, effects-laden concert Tuesday night in Tampa. But if America truly is going to hell in a handbasket, as Waters seems to believe, at least he’s giving it a proper, stadium-style send-off. […]

Waters and his band roared through Dogs, play-acting a farcical classist nightmare by donning pig masks and sipping champagne. Then came Pigs (Three Different Ones), which brought the anti-Trump pig blimp and a flood of savage graphics on the screen: Trump’s head on a pig’s body, a teeny Trump hoisted by Vladimir Putin, more than a dozen ire-inducing quotes attributed to the president (“The beauty of me is that I’m very rich,” for example; or “Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won’t lose a penny”). The video ended with four words: TRUMP IS A PIG. A few fans lobbed boos and catcalls in the silence that followed, but many more howled in applause. Then, on Money, more footage: Trump and Putin and Jeff Sessions, sports cars and beauty pageants and gold, Trump’s casinos alongside the Kremlin. Waters was drawing a line in the sand on one of Pink Floyd’s biggest hits: Pout and boo all you want, but this is where I stand. If you stand with me, sing along.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: antisemite; rogerwaters; trump; waters
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To: Olog-hai

I had tickets for the upstate NY concert. Once I heard it was a political event and not a concert I had AMEX reverse my ticket charge.


21 posted on 07/12/2017 7:58:17 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Skooz

But, Waters is a tool.

Thanks Pink Floyd Fan!

Agree......he has always been negative in his songs, depressing....its what socialism does to the brain.

Absence of God.

Oh boy.


22 posted on 07/12/2017 8:00:05 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Olog-hai
>>which brought the anti-Trump pig blimp

The pig blimp.  {yawn}

Figures, his entire act consists of recycle pig manure these days. Hasn’t had any fresh ideas for 25+ years.

But hey - Speaking of  Waters, Balloons and pig manure - maybe he should write a song about how well a pig like this...

https://www.google.com/#q=Maxine+Waters+Husband+Bank

...floats?

23 posted on 07/12/2017 8:00:40 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Olog-hai

Shanghai China 2005

Went to see Roger Waters

He floated the pig with Bush written on the ass

I flipped him off

Turned and flipped off all the cheering Chinese and walked out


24 posted on 07/12/2017 8:04:22 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: goodnesswins

No. Pink Floyd.


25 posted on 07/12/2017 8:05:52 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Olog-hai

Never heard of him.


26 posted on 07/12/2017 8:06:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Olog-hai

He did this at Coachella in October 2016.. We walked out, along with hundreds of others (mind you he was the closing act of a three night series).


27 posted on 07/12/2017 8:09:12 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Why is this even news? It is and has been common knowledge since the 70’s that the Entire Entertainment industry as a whole Hates America, Hates Americans, and everything they and this country stands for. See Meathead!


28 posted on 07/12/2017 8:14:43 AM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: bgill

Son of a Communist, quit Pink Floyd in 1985, atheist, divorced four times, a nothingburger.


29 posted on 07/12/2017 8:17:15 AM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Olog-hai

“Hello..?”

“Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd. Will you accept the charges from United States?”

...click...


30 posted on 07/12/2017 8:19:54 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Olog-hai
He's been angry and bitter since his father was killed fighting to save the world from Nazi socialism in 1944 at Anzio.

He's a head case.

31 posted on 07/12/2017 8:21:20 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: moovova
Oh—he hung up. That’s your residence, right? I wonder why he hung up. Is there supposed to be someone else there besides your wife there to answer? …

This is the United States calling. Are we reaching—? (click) See, he keeps hanging up. And it’s a man answering! …
Pink can’t catch a break.
32 posted on 07/12/2017 8:35:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: MarvinStinson

I never heard of this moron Roger Waters, either, but he sounds like a colossal ahole.


33 posted on 07/12/2017 9:06:08 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: Olog-hai

Hmm..i wonder what Rogers net $$$ will be for this arena tour....

Funny how he blasts Trump for being ‘rich’...

Waters should get an award for the biggest celebrity HYPOCRITE - EVER.

He’s the very ‘Dog and ‘Pig’ he sings about.

His fans are he sheep.


34 posted on 07/12/2017 9:17:07 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Olog-hai

Waters used to be Musician, (a very long time ago), now he is just a Leftist Propagandist.

I would like to see Gilmore (a lesser Leftist) before I die, but I have no desire to subject myself to Waters full blown insanity.

In other words, I’m comfortably numb.


35 posted on 07/12/2017 9:17:12 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: MarvinStinson

Who is Roger Waters?

(((
My question, as well.


36 posted on 07/12/2017 9:20:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Drew68

Says it’s an incredible show once you get past all the Trump-bashing ....

***
I assume your friend is not a conservative.


37 posted on 07/12/2017 9:21:37 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Vic S

+1


38 posted on 07/12/2017 9:23:04 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Bigg Red

Bass player and leader of Pink Floyd.


39 posted on 07/12/2017 9:25:05 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Kickass Conservative

David Gilmour certainly helped him become a musician. But probably the biggest help was the late Richard Wright.


40 posted on 07/12/2017 9:25:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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