Imagine paying $600 to go see him preform Dark Side of the Moon and you get 60 minutes out of 120 minutes of him reading emails! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted on 10/09/2023 5:20:23 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
The veteran musician, 80, headlined the 2,286-capacity venue with the evening billed as a chance to hear the entirety of his recently released album, Dark Side Of The Moon Redux, which is a reimagining of the band’s iconic Dark Side Of The Moon, which recently turned 50.
However according to several disgruntled audience members, he spent an hour reading from his unpublished autobiography instead of singing and even told them to “f*** off” when they complained.
Waters is said to have read out pages of notes about his pets, including a duck called Donald, which he discussed for 20 minutes, leaving onlookers stunned.
He said: “If you want to tell stories tell them in your own time to your own audience in your own f***ing theatre. By the way, if you can show constraint and stop shouting again.”
Waters went on to impersonate the likes of Bruce Forsyth and Max Bygraves, in an attempt to deliver some stand-up comedy.
One fan claimed on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that they were thrown out just after the interval for saying that the gig had been “s**t” so far and said that his phone had been “confiscated” - although another said they were just put in pouches for the duration of the concert.
They said: “£500 to hear a load of old waffle and slung out after the interval. Not good.”
Other people also took to X to vent their frustration, writing: “I am sorry to say but tonight’s concert was such a let down. The actual songs were great but the self-indulgent c**p was interminable and finishing over 1 hour later than timetabled is inexcusable.’
“But 60mins of music over two and a half hours is barely a concert. The rambling nonsense ruined a wonderful last 50mins.”
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Imagine paying $600 to go see him preform Dark Side of the Moon and you get 60 minutes out of 120 minutes of him reading emails! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
He’s a Ding Dong Jim
Perfect example of just shut up and play the music.
Not that I agree with the full Anti Defamation League agenda which is mostly woke pablum, here is some Roger Waters background:
In May 2023 concert in Berlin, Waters desecrated the memory of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, compared Israel to the Nazis and paraded around on stage wearing an SS Nazi uniform.
In an October 2022 webinar on Grayzone with anti-Israel activist Max Blumenthal, Waters vociferously advocated for comparing Israel to the Third Reich and called for Israel to “join the human race” and “stop imposing your hated, hated apartheid regime on the indigenous people of the Middle East.”
from this source:
https://www.adl.org/resources/fact-sheet/roger-waters-his-own-words
Poor Roger. He was always high strung.
That pic is hilarious!
It was funnier when Andy Kaufman did it.
Maybe he hired Joe Biden's speech writer?
Still too much dope in his brain 🤣🤪😀
Syd Barrett makes more sense than Waters.
Stink on, you crazy unpolished turd . . .
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 conservatives and Israel, with some music mixed in. It looked like Code Pink put together the slide and video shows they had going on, showing the “injustices” against some ostensible muslims that played constantly.
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.
I have been unable to listen to any Pink Floyd music since then. It STILL pisses me off. (The “F*ck Bush” not so much in the intervening years.)
I should have known. I paid no attention to the political affiliations of artists for much of my life, but at that time, I just had not gone down that road. So that’s on me. But now I can rarely overlook it.
Gilmore and his daughter put out beautiful music together on YouTube during covid lockdowns.
Neil Young could certainly give him a run for that title.
Piss poor music 50 years ago, nothing changed except their ability to delude themselves now that they arent stoned.
Well, it is a B7 chord, which is pretty hard for beginners. :-)
Is that faux ‘shocked’ teenager really his child?
I can easily imagine it happening.
He only planned to show her this one fret arrangement, then one thing led to another, and....
Why beat yourself up? Waters was NOT pink Floyd and has not been a member for 40 years.
There is an interview with Bob Ezrin , producer for the Wall that basically reveals , yeah while Waters may have come up with ideas for “The Wall” The band made a great album DESPITE Waters ego.
Waters ideas have always been whacko but the band and producers cleaned up and turned them into recording masterpieces despite Waters having no appearant musical talent. His bass playing is rather amatuerish.Gilmour did most of the classic lines in the studio.
If you're still buying tickets to hear Roger Waters perform live in 2023, you should've expected this as part of the show.
Time for this miserable old bastard to retire. Nobody cares, Roger.
People who worship musicians are the pure idiots of the planet.
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