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Roger waters world tour

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MikeVicksTOPDOG
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roger waters lead singer of Pink Floyd is doing a world tour preforming a new production of the wall.
from what i hear pink floyd used to put on an amazing show has anyone seen it?
Nov 15 2011 8:54PM
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[~_~]
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Too bad Roger Waters was the worst part of Pink Floyd.
Nov 15 2011 8:56PM
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rudager
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He toured The Wall last year, and actually wrapped up this summer.
I've heard that there was another one, is there a source? Or is it just a simple google search away?

I had tickets for last December, sadly I couldn't go because of finals, and the fact that it was in Vancouver, and I was in Calgary
Nov 15 2011 8:56PM
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Listen to The Final Cut and tell me it isn't garbage compared to their other albums.
Nov 15 2011 8:58PM
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Darth.Maul
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Gilmour > Waters IMO

But in all realty, you can't have a real Pink Floyd tour without all of the members. Water's guitarist just can't do what Gilmour can. And Gilmour as much as I love him and his voice, just doesn't sing like Waters. 

But all that being said, I would still rather see Gilmour over Waters because he happens to be my favorite guitarist. (As in I would make sweet love to hime in every way possible, much homo intended)

Nov 15 2011 9:00PM
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rudager
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http://tour.rogerwaters.com/


Damn, I want to go. Edmonton or Vancouver in Late May.



And Roger Waters isn't the greatest Floyd member, Slandis is right. Considering he lead to the break up of the band because he wanted to do everything his way.
Or the ever growing post war theme that was woven into all the music. *cough*The Final Cut*cough*

Nov 15 2011 9:01PM
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MikeVicksTOPDOG
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regardless if he was the worst which not that im agreeing with that but its the closest thing to seeing the real pink floyd live. i live in albany new york no one gives a fuck about this place so to see that roger waters is coming is very surprising
Nov 15 2011 9:03PM
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Darth.Maul
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How is The Final Cut garbage? Fletcher Memorial Home and Southhampton Dock are great songs. Sure it's different from The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon but it still has that Pink Floyd signiture sound.

Nov 15 2011 9:04PM
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rudager
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No it doesn't. There is no Rick Wright in the album. Without his keyboard skills, they aren't much. They got away without him on The Wall, but Rick gave them the sound.
Nov 15 2011 9:08PM
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MFM
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gilmour barrett wright mason and waters if we're gonna choose favourites in order. Would still love to go to this!
Nov 15 2011 9:28PM
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SFBv420.0
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Pros and cons of hitch hiking with clapton on guitar was def in the top 5 shows Ive seen

Radio kaos with knofler on the axe wasn't bad amused to death =great

Gilmore 1st solo album was great, about face meh

Whats brah done sense yeah he trumps rw

if you dig livin in the past

syd trumped em all and was the early glue

umma gumma obscured by clouds out

Nov 15 2011 9:51PM
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Darth.Maul
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What.... The.... Fuck.....

Y U NO LERN GRAMMAR?

Nov 15 2011 9:55PM
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gnartogue
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i hear he may be coming to fenway in boston which would be so sick. I like the wall and all but I wish he was doing dark side of the moon that is hands down my favorite album of all time
Nov 15 2011 10:12PM
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Listen to Gilmour Live in Gdansk with Rick Wright. Not only is it epic but it demonstrates that Gilmour and Wright were responsible for the Pink Floyd sound. It's the most "Pink Floyd" sounding music I've heard since before Roger Waters took a piss on everything. The lead guitarist for Waters is good but his style is so far from the idiosyncratic and minimalist style that helped define the band.

Waters took the worlds best prog rock band and turned it into a whiny postwar pseudo-opera. The Wall is "his" best project, and that's only if you skip through all the crap to Gilmour's playing. He became greedy and fired Rick from the band, and later fired everyone but himself from Pink Floyd, which is an egotistical way to quit.

I would kill to see Gilmour live; he's been absolutely slaying it in the past few years. Roger Waters played a show near me and it garnered nothing more than a "meh," and I consider myself a diehard Pink Floyd fan.
Nov 15 2011 11:47PM
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Darth.Maul
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Your posts seem like you write Roger Waters off as a thorn in the band's side when he wrote most of the lyrics while he was in the band. I'm not a huge fan considering what he did to Rick and what he was eventually going to do to Gilmour before he quit but you can't

Nov 15 2011 11:55PM
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Darth.Maul
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Your posts seem like you write Roger Waters off as a thorn in the band's side when he wrote most of the lyrics while he was in the band. I'm not a huge fan considering what he did to Rick and what he was eventually going to do to Gilmour before he quit but you can't say that he didn't contribute his fair share to the band.

Gilmour carried them out of the Waters era and I think that he proved that with A Momentary Lapse of Reason and with live sets like Live in Gdansk and Pulse. I also think that Gilmour plays more of a key role in the band when it comes to live playing because nobody can touch his style and emotion that he can put into his music.

Nov 15 2011 11:55PM
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I mostly agree, except I couldn't care less about lyrics. Dark Side of the Moon is by far my favorite album, and I must have listened to it a thousand times by now. Yet I couldn't recite a single line of its lyrics because I always ignore them completely in order to focus on the music.
Nov 15 2011 11:59PM
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huge-go
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I think you're the first person I've ever seen to not pay attention to pink floyds lyrics. I think they're absolutely crucial. While instrumentally they're amazing, it was the fact that they combined amazing lyrics with those instrumentals that really just took them to a new level for me. Plenty of bands with good instrumentals, and plenty with good singing/lyrics, but rare you find bands that executed both as well as floyd. That's what makes the post "the wall" stuff just not the same as the rest. There just isn't the same synergy between lyrics and music as there was for the rest.
Nov 16 2011 2:15AM
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rudager
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Directed towards SFVv420.0, Im not really all too sure on what you're talking about, in more of a sense that I don't understand words you're saying. You're on Thr right point though. I enjoyed Pros and Cons. And I love Gilmour's solo work. And if anyone out there hasn't heard Obscured by Clouds, please listen. It's their hidden gem. Next to Darkside, Obscured is my favourite.
Nov 16 2011 2:21AM
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Alex_G
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I knew about this months before it dropped.

/claim
Nov 16 2011 2:34AM
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theabortionator
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This isn't really news. Heard about it around mid october.


I might hit up the albany show since it's the home venue. I would rather go see gilmour anytime though.


The wall isn't my favorite album anyway. If I can get a reasonably priced ticket I'll probably go see it though.
Nov 16 2011 4:19AM
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*geezer*
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I actually went last year ! It's nice to say you saw Roger Waters, but as said before The Wall isn't my favorite. I actually enjoyed Aussie-floyd's lazer show a couple years back way more ( played at a smaller venue).
Nov 16 2011 8:29AM
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I don't deny they had good lyrics, I'm just the type who feels that all music would be better off without lyrics. The singing on Dark Side of the Moon was amazing, and much of it had no lyrical content whatsoever. The parts that did could have been spoken in gibberish for all I care and it would have had the exact same effect.
Nov 16 2011 1:10PM
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