Posted on 09/09/2006 8:54:03 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MANSFIELD -- When there are speakers hanging over the concourse and up on the lawn you know someone from Pink Floyd must be playing the Tweeter Center.
Roger Waters, former bassist and songwriter for the legendary rockers, brought the surround sound, an unimpeachable nine-person band, and grand visual accompaniment to bear on a catalog steeped in majesty, misanthropy, and the tiniest glimmer of hope.
In the first of a two-night stand Waters, looking fighting-trim, played a wide-ranging 2-hour-and-40-minute set with the celebrated 1973 Floyd album ``The Dark Side of the Moon" at its heart.
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I hate this. Pink Floyd is one of my favorite groups..
I like some of their songs but I am not surprised because he has hinted at such opinions in the past.
This gives me even more reason to hate Pink Floyd. The group sucks. You have to be on LSD to enjoy their music. Slow and depressing.
Yup. There is a lot of anti-capitalist (Pigs, Dogs, Money), anti-military (Us and Them), blame-other-people-for-your-problems (most of The Wall) stuff in Pink Floyd songs.
Still in the pinko is right.
It still sucks-Dave Mattews Band is the same way, great music but dyed in the wool pinko. Grateful Dead who is my all time favorite band, never commented publically on politics. There followers, however, did all the time. Its a generational thing, I guess. Old time hippy types, desperate for the days of old look for political obstinance..
A final plea to ``Bring the Boys Back Home" gave way to ``Comfortably Numb , " which brought the evening to an elegant and forceful close.
Bring The Boys Back Home was written about WWII. I guess Rog would rather haved surrended to the fascists in Italy and Germany and the Imperial Japanese military than win WWII. Such is the case of someone who lost his dad to war.
I think here it is just a case of trying to remain "relevant" by simply replacing the political figures pictured in the slideshows that accompany the songs.
He wants to sing The Wall after Israel tears down their wall. Where in HELL is the condemnation of the religious zealots who kidnap, murder, and target men women and children for terrorism? What about the vile antisemetic propaganda that the "beloved" Palestinians air? Matzoh being made from the blood of Christian children, Jews as the subhuman offspring of pigs and monkeys.
Roger Waters is a fool. Syd Barrett was a sane and rational man by comparison.
I'm all set to see this same performance at Verizon music Center in Indianapolis at the end of this month. A absolutely cannot WAIT!
One thing about Pink Floyd-they always try and duplicate their album sound when perfoming live. I have a copy of side two of Wish You Were Here performed at Knebworth. Excellent!
I had the Dark Side of the Moon CD in my hand to buy last night then on impulse changed my mind and bought something else.
I wish artists would just shut up and sing.
It's almost impossible for a reasonable conservative to make it in the music business, not that any reasonable conservative would want to be in that crooked enterprise anyhow. The record companies sign young gullible "skulls full of mush" and turn them into famous, but indentured servants. Almost none of the bands make any money, but the one perk they enjoy is a bully pulpit to preach any liberal doctrine they wish.
If you think about it, why would anyone give any credence to people who are too stupid to negotiate a business deal that at least allows them to be compensated equitably. It's like hiring a salesman who can't sell or a lawyer who never wins a case. I think it was Alice Cooper who said, "Why would anyone listen to me? I'm just a stupid musician!"
If you're a conservative and a musician courting a major label, you have to keep your mouth shut. Ted Nugent's love of the 2nd Amendment didn't become public knowledge until after he had achieved his fame and notoriety.
This is one of the main reasons I opted out of the typical recording industry track and became an indie. I teach, I make albums, I write the music, I do the graphics, I do a minimal amount of marketing, I retain full artistic control as well as my copyrights and I make money doing it. I've been screwed by a couple of distributors and on a licensing deal, but overall, I always come out ahead. Because my music is contemporary instrumentals, it ends up often in the New Age category. I don't buy into that whole sprout-eating, crystal chanting, harmonic-convergence thing, so it cost me acceptance by a couple of labels, because I didn't value tree-hugging or whatever.
The best part is that I can be myself, make music, and not suffer the "cognitive dissonance" that might occur otherwise if I had to toe the line for a record label. There's just a certain level of hypocrisy that the liberal musician do-gooders have to maintain. For example, Sting made a big deal over saving the Amazon rainforests, but he owns guitars made out of Brazilian rosewood. Dave Matthews band has been part of the global warming crowd, but they had that incident where they dumped the waste tank on their RV into the river and onto the boats and people below. You have the Willie Nelsons and John Mellencamps who pretend to save the family farm while donating Farm-Aid proceeds to PACs that fund lobbying for huge agri-business legislation benefitting Clinton's buddies at Tyson foods.
Rarely, there are artists that get real. David Lee Roth became a paramedic. Steve Morse of the Dixie Dregs became an airline pilot. Although I love the songs of every artist I mentioned in this post, it's solely for the talent they have. Roger Waters and that whole "hippy" generation just needs to get a job, get a haircut, and do something real for another human being. It's always symbolism over substance for those guys.
What did you trade it for? Just curious...
Steve Morse was great. And not the only former rocker to become an airline pilot. A few weeks ago, a post on FR spoke of Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden flying for british carrier. But I see your point-I wish these would remember that they are musicians, not politicians.
Anyone who ever listened to Waters' "Radio KAOS" or "Amused to Death" should not be surprised by this. Hell, "What God Wants, Part II" is a direct hit on Bush 41 and Gulf War I.
FYI, after his gig as an airline pilot, Steve Morse replaced Ritchie Blackmore as lead guitarist for Deep Purple several years ago.
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