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Post subject: Roger Waters
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:47 pm
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Very cool concert the other night for the Wounded Warriors project. Really enjoyed the Roger Waters set with a "band" of wounded Vets playing guitars, and singing. Cool fender representation also for this show. Veterans Day is tomorrow, remember the fallen, and embrace the survivors.

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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:34 pm
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Roger Waters is the man

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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:20 pm
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I don't detect the hand of David Gilmour in this.

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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:50 pm
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Waters....hmmm. It's kind of funny as the wife and I were talking about him just a couple of nights ago. We were sitting there watching Live From Pompeii (the "good" version...not this remastered crap) and I had noticed something...

A while back I was watching a YT vid with him doing an interview...I think it was after the G8 thing or something (right after Gilmore said "like dancing with your X wife) and I had noticed he had something of a....ermmmm...we'll call it a "disconnect in his speech patterns" to keep it polite. A reporter would ask him a question and he'd respond as if the question asked was something totally unrelated. At the time I really didn't think too much of it...figured the drugs and booze was finally catching up with him or something. But then we were watching Pompeii and in one of the interviews there, he seemed to do the same thing.

Don't get me wrong...HUGE Floyd fan here...Waters was an amazing writer, interesting bass player and if nothing else, I've often said "No one screams like Roger Waters" (ala Careful With That Axe Eugene and Comfortably Numb)...but wow...that guy really seems to be living in his own world. Just something really not wired right there...

Not trying to stir anything up here...just a personal opinion, but rather timely...
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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:44 pm
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Interesting observation, Jim.
I've not noticed that before but I will keep my eye open for it from now on.
He has always been a slightly strange sort of bloke.
It wouldn't surpise me in the least if it turned out there were some major league synaptic crossfires happening there.

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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:40 am
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Roger has always loved playing with interviewers, he's said so in the past - unless he really likes the person, you'll never get a straight interview from him. He has mellowed out rather hugely in the last few years - quite strange to see tour photos of him laughing and smiling, being nice to fans, etc. :lol:

It's weird - when I was younger, I was very much in the Gilmour camp with Floyd, to the point of being utterly obsessed. These days, I'm completely the opposite - I'd much rather watch a Waters gig than a Gilmour one. Post-Waters Floyd to me was just somehow empty - I think Dave really needed Roger to get him angry enough to be motivated in order to be on top form.

Roger was never a fancy bass player, but he always did exactly what the song needed, and not a single note more - that's far more a sign of good musicianship than someone who bounces all over the fretboard, in my opinion.


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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:25 am
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lomitus wrote:
Waters....hmmm. It's kind of funny as the wife and I were talking about him just a couple of nights ago. We were sitting there watching Live From Pompeii (the "good" version...not this remastered crap) and I had noticed something...

A while back I was watching a YT vid with him doing an interview...I think it was after the G8 thing or something (right after Gilmore said "like dancing with your X wife) and I had noticed he had something of a....ermmmm...we'll call it a "disconnect in his speech patterns" to keep it polite. A reporter would ask him a question and he'd respond as if the question asked was something totally unrelated. At the time I really didn't think too much of it...figured the drugs and booze was finally catching up with him or something. But then we were watching Pompeii and in one of the interviews there, he seemed to do the same thing.

Don't get me wrong...HUGE Floyd fan here...Waters was an amazing writer, interesting bass player and if nothing else, I've often said "No one screams like Roger Waters" (ala Careful With That Axe Eugene and Comfortably Numb)...but wow...that guy really seems to be living in his own world. Just something really not wired right there...

Not trying to stir anything up here...just a personal opinion, but rather timely...
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Jim



They look a bit high in Live at Pompeii interview sections. :mrgreen:
I urge you to listen to his UN speech on youtube, he can sound quite reasonable and rational when he wants, but when he wants :D

If there is a thin line between being mad and being a genius, he is on the later side, no doubt :D


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Post subject: Re: Roger Waters
Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:06 am
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Just want to add : One of my greatest concert experiences , was back in -94 - Pink Floyd playing for an audience of 40.000 in Oslo. Fabulous. Parts of this concert was released on the P*U*L*S*E album.
10 years later (circa) , a friend convinced me to go see Roger Waters in a concert. We had to buy tickets on the black market , since the tickets were gone in minutes :?
My mate was a bit disappointed , since he had expected more of Waters solo-stuff , which he loved . 'Cause Waters were playing mostly Pink Floyd - stuff , which I loved to hear ! IMO this concert exceeded the PF-gig I witnessed. Though , if Gilmour was there, it would have been even better :D

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