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I despise Roger Waters. I don’t care if he happen to be or not be right on any given occasion.

I used to love music by Pink Floyd. I listened to their work all the time.

Back in 2004, I went to a Roger Waters concert. I was in a large group of 10-15 people, all good friends.

In retrospect, I should have seen what was coming, but...I didn’t.

It turned into a 3 hour political audiovisual tirade against Bush, neocons, conservatives and Israel, with some music mixed in. It looked like Code Pink put together the slide and video shows they had going on.

I didn’t want to ruin the evening for the people I went with, but I was steaming mad. I grit my teeth and sat there. At the end of the “concert”, they released a 40 foot high ballon of a pig with “F*ck Bush” on one side and “Vote Democrat” on the other.

Now, it doesn’t make any difference to me what the actual sentiment is with respect to Bush, Russia, or anything else is. When I go to a concert, I expect music, not indoctrination.

I have been unable to listen to any Pink Floyd music since then. It STILL pisses me off. I try, but just don’t enjoy it the same way.

That’s messed up and the guy is from England. I wonder how he would like it if an American did the same in England. You should have asked for a refund

It’s a shame that some musicians have to be so obnoxious with their political views. People go to music not to be beat over the head with someone’s hard edge views. And Waters is the worst. I’ve known some of PF’s music over the years, but I have gotten into them a bit more the last few years. I like Gilmour a bit better. I’m sure he’s on the left, but he’s not nasty like Waters. I wouldn’t even want to go to a show with someone bashing Biden. It would feel ick to me even though I would agree with the sentiments.

I didn’t want to ruin the evening for the people I went with, but I was steaming mad. I grit my teeth and sat there. At the end of the “concert”, they released a 40 foot high ballon of a pig with “F*ck Bush” on one side and “Vote Democrat” on the other.

Yeesh. Democrats are so tacky and childish. I used to like their music too. Heck, everybody had the “Dark Side of the Moon” album back in those days and you never went to a party where it wasn’t played at least once. But I don’t want to put up with childish, political BS when I just want to hear a band. How annoying and kudos to you for hanging in there for your friends.