Did he dedicate "One of these days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces)" to Saddam Hussein?
Saddam WAS removed. Mission Accomplished. We've killed 4,000 NON-Iraqi terrorists who've flooded INTO Iraq since that date. They do not fight to see Saddam restored to power. They fight to rid the Middle East of the sub-human kufir; people who do not despise Jews; people who bring social and political reforms to areas dominated by Islamic theocracy, male domination, rape, torture, slavery, bigotry, discrimination, and extreme wealth and poverty. The middle east is NOT a poor region of the world. In recent years, 5 of the world's 10 wealthiest men lived there.
Rog needs to stuff a sock in it. He's part of the problem in my mind.
We can fight them in Iraq or we can fight them throughout Europe, Asia, and America. But the jihadists WILL fight someplace.
I am a huge fan of Floyd but I am quite aware that waters is the goofiest member of the band still living, now that Syd is dead.
I also think the same personality, shal we say, quirk, that led to the goofy message in this concert is also what broke up the band.
He reminds me of the "herdsman" character from That Thing You Do (Jimmy).
"Hope I die before I grow old." Pete Townshend, The Who
Promises promises..........
I just saw this show last night in Indianapolis.
I read the garbage about his themes and statements in the show, but he has always been like this. You need to expect it going in.
All that aside, with the exception of 2 solo pieces he did, the show could not have been better. The vocals and especially the guitarist licks we as near perfect as you could get. The beginning to end performance of Dark Side of the Moon as an unforgettable experience.
I gotta tell you, i was choked up when he did Any Color you Like. It was powerful.
Set your views aside and ignore his... go see this show if you are a fan. I heard tale of lip-syncing and all that, but there was none here. He has lost some of his ability, but he still has that power behind his voice when he needs to call on it, it made it a genuine sound and sent a shiver up my neck a few times.
I'd pay to see it again if I could.
If anything his anti-war message came across as laughable.
For one thing, his new anti-war anthem "Leaving Beirut" pictured a comic book presentation behind him on the giant screens. It was about his travels in Lebanon in the mid-sixties when he was 19 years old. His car broke down and he was treated nicely by the Lebanese Addams Family (dad was missing a leg, mom was a hunchback, and their kid had one eye - I kid you not.)
In the comic book narrative, young Rog wonders why we are bombing these poor people, even though its supposed to be 1966 or something. Then he ends it all by attacking "the right wing Christians" for doing this to them. I didn't have the heart to tell Roger that very very few Israelis are right wing Christians.
Then his pictures of evil world leaders was very balanced - leftist dictators who murdered millions of their own citizens(Stalin, Mao, etc.) until they died and Republicans twice elected by the American people who peacefully retired when their terms were up.
But the funniest thing was the goofy flying pig. I have some advice for Roger - if you want your message (Impeach Bush Now) to be taken seriously by more people than the playdough-brained reviewer who wrote the posted article, you might want to find a better place to express it than the ass end of a cartoonish flying pig with blinking red demon eyes.
Then again, this is a knucklehead who is still mad at the allies for standing up to Hitler and imperial Japan.