Роджер Уотерс / Roger Waters

В 1993 году у Парсонса вышел диск
Тry Аnything Оnce, на обложку которого
Storm Thorgerson (автор дизайна обложки)
поместил фотку дочери Ника Мэйсона - Chloe Mason
http://www.totalfree.at/covers/Audio%201/GrafikAudio/the_alan_parsons_project_-_try_any...
(Она держит на канате дядку)

http://secure.keyfax.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc...=AP&Product_Code=TAOCD&Category_Code=CDs

состоялась презентация ДВД с участием артистов ,
также обнародованы результаты акции .
Боб надеется на увеличении суммы помощи с 25 до 50 миллиардов
до 10-го года иначе будет поздно...
http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=24329874&p=z43z998y&n=24330081&x

2rosco -по внимательнее -плиз не дублируйте новости

Beijing Dancers Are Off The Wall
By JENNIFER BARRS - Tampa Tribune - Oct. 31, 2005

The brick, if it's still in the wall, just took a hit.

The arms flailed around it, trying to find its place in an embrace. The
legs
-- askew, akimbo, alive with distinct athleticism -- weren't hiding behind

any kind of a brick impediment.

Roger Waters, watch out.

The Chinese have got your groove, dude.

And what they did with it, at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center on
Sunday
night, was make people in the audience remember the genius of your
strangeness.

Not once during the 90-minute performance of "Rear Light," based on Pink
Floyd's "The Wall," did any of the hometown crew -- given to more than a
few
spontaneous adorations -- not once did they take a breath and applaud.

That's how fascinated they were. Or startled. Or appalled.

The Beijing Modern Dance Company, a troupe not funded by its government --
a
troupe that admittedly has not attracted the support of its polite
politicians -- visited Tampa on Sunday with a work that was more innovative

and more exacting than of its American predecessors. More moving than
"Movin' Out." More alive than "Anytown."

Why? Perhaps because they don't care what Americans think. These works,
artistic director Wally Tsao says, weren't created for Western audiences.
Yet they have a give-me-freedom appeal. As if the performers crave what
they
don't have.

To tunes such as "Comfortably Numb," the troupe delivered a winding,
winsome
look of woe. They walked together, clad in white shirts and ties, and
looked
as if they were one, but desperately delivered individual dances that cried

out for individuality. Same for "What Shall We Do Now?" and "Don't Leave Me

Now." The dances were joined but jumbled; they wanted to be together but
begged to be apart.

These were some of the greatest dancers Tampa Bay audiences have seen in
recent years. They felt -- they moved -- as if free, strangely loose of
whatever yoke around their collective necks.

The audience was in awe. And Waters would have been proud.

This story can be found at:
http://www.tampatribune.com/FloridaMetro/MGBXLCVCGFE.html

wayne

(Echoes Digest)

Nick Mason's book on the history of Pink Floyd is now available as a 3 CD audio book with Nick Mason himself reading the book. The recording also includes an update on his views surrounding the recent Live 8 concert and comes in a lovely hard backed booklet. The price for this little gem via Amazon is a very low £9.59.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/075287327X/qid=1130572559/sr=8-3/ref=pd_ka_3/0...

http://www.rogerwatersonline.com/roger_waters_news/29th10200503.htm

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http://www.rogerwatersonline.com/interviewrcdec2005.htm

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Ещё одна новая статья!
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'THEY OFFERED US 150 MILLION DOLLAR FOR A WORLD TOUR. BUT I'M NOT IN THE
MOOD'

WHERE ARE THEY NOW... ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD)

On 2 July, during Live8 in London, Pink Floyd was on stage for the first
time after a quarter century quarrel. I stood in Hyde park that memorable
day, literally on row one, and saw how Roger Waters hurried to the
microphone after each song to thank the public on behalf of the complete
group, and how Nick Mason looked at him each time ('o god, Roger needs to
say something'). Also backstage the new peace was very moving: as if Osama
Bin Laden and George Bush had suddenly decided there was a higher aim than
Allah or God, although they didn't publicly admit it. But the music
sounded
more majestic then ever: the Floyd even beat U2 as best live act of the
day.

Pink Floyd has sold more than hundred millions records, and their
influence
rings through the top bands of each generation: The Orb, Suede, Radiohead,
and all good lounge... During the top days of punk and grunge it was not
done to like the Pink Floyd dinosaur, but Johnny Rotten of the Sex
Pistols,
who posed in a I Hate Pink Floyd t-shirt, later confessed to be a fan and
also Kurt Cobain had a copy of Dark Side or the Moon at home.

Thirteen years after 'Amused to Death ' you would expect that Roger Waters
would make a pop record, but his new double cd 'Ca Ira' is an opera about
the French revolution - premiиre: 17 November in Rome. Just before my
departure the message comes that Waters exclusively wants to talk about
the
opera and not about Pink Floyd. It is as interviewing Winston Churchill
and
asking about his hobbies, I remark but the management is obstinate.

Fortunately I have a secret weapon: a couple of years ago I met a
pensioned
English major who fought at Anzio (1944) where the father of Roger Waters
went 'missing, presumed killed in action '. The disappeared father is
Waters' lament: he revives him in several therapeutic songs, such as '
Another Brick in the Wall ' (' Leaving just a memory, a snapshot in the
family album ') and 'When the Tigers Broke Free ' (' The Anzio beachhead
was
held for the price or a few hundred ordinary lives, and that's how the
high
Command took my daddy from me'). I show Waters a mail from the major
concerning the battle at Anzio, and the ice breaks.

ROGER WATERS Thank you, that is very attentive. I will certainly take
contact with that man. (long silence) War fascinates me, and not only
because my father was killed there. Fighting in the sepulchres is the most
intense experience that exists, and at the same time also the less human.
In
'On the run ' (on the new cd) I put a quote that refers to my father:
Forward!, he cried from the rear, and the front rank died... Who wants to
be gun fodder when the army leaders play with pawns at safe distance.

(Note from Felix: isn't that a quote from DSOTM?)

The strange thing is... My father, Eric Waters, was in the 8th battalion
of
the Royal Fusiliers. In ' Amused to Death ' I have put echoes of real
veterans: Bill Hubbard and Alf Risell. I asked my assistant to look up
their
exact rank because I wanted to dedicate my cd to them. Hubbard had served
in
the same battalion as my father, only he didn't die in 1917. I do not
believe in spirits, or in signs from over the grave... but also not in
coincidence.

HUMO Initially librettist Roda-Gil planned to recycle some Pink
Floyd-songs.
It is a riddle to me how he was going to insert those into an opera about
the French revolution.

WATERS To me also. If you look far enough one can say that 'On the run'
is
the royal family on the run, Comfortably Numb is the apathetic French
people
before the revolution... Perhaps this was the way he meant it. But I have
immediately stopped it, it seemed me too far-fetched and at the same time
to
easy. But as an inside joke I have hidden a bit from 'The Pros And Cons of
Hitchhiking'. For those who want to look for it: happy hunting!

HUMO Make a game out of it on your Internet site. Although probably you'll
attract those nerds who look too far - like the one who claimed that 'The
Dark Side of the Moon' coincides with the soundtrack of The Wizard of Oz.

WATERS Yeah, that's fuckin ridiculous. That's for people with too much
free
time. In every movie there are a couple of scenes that could use 'Moon' as
a
soundtrack. It simply is a cosmic, movie like record. My sympathy goes to
the people who recently voted for 'Dark Side of the Moon' as the best
record
to have sex on. That's a good evolution - in former days we always won in
the category 'best record to smoke a joint at '. It has always irritated
me
that we were considered as a psychedelic group: when we made our best
music,
we were always sober.

ps На фотке Родж с ТОЙ САМОЙ ТРУБОЙ (!), что ему подарил Игорь Бутамн в Москве 3 года назад.

No education

HUMO If you take the Eurostar to London, you see the Battersea Power
station. I always think of the cover of ' Animals '. I have also listened
to
Pink Floyd on my iPod when that enormous electricity central appears at
the
horizon, and the impact is amazing.

WATERS Did you see how the cameraman zoomed in on Battersea Power station
during our set at Live8 (in straight line only a kilometre from Hyde Park,
Humo)? Splendid moment.

I also do that, associate landscapes, spots and buildings with my music. I
played for a while with the idea to perform The Wall at the millennium. I
had already done it in 1980, and 1990, and such a ten-year event seemed to
fit me. Wall Street seemed a suitable setting for me. Can you imagine? The
umbilical point of the financial world, slowly cleaved in half by a
wall...
And then I would have thrown in Money as well. But it was such a
logistical
nightmare that we would never have obtained the deadline. And since 11
September 2001 you can't do those wild plans anymore in New York. Too bad,
because it would have been the right place and the right time....

HUMO You had, with Pink Floyd and on your solo records, always a craze for
sound effects. I have listened to all your records on headphones and then
those subtle details improve a lot. On 'ca ira ' there also are some.
Especially the guillotine really sounds frightening: the first time I
heard
it my hairs stood on end.

WATERS Thanks for the compliment, because it is no real guillotine. What
you
hear is a cocktail of a dozen sounds: a door which is slammed, a blade
drawn
from its case, a butcher's knife falling on a piece of wood, etc.. On the
sound meters of the computer you can see very nicely how all those sounds
evenly rise. For the demo I had recorded the sound of the sliding glass
door
of my office: you would have sworn that it was a cleaving axe. Other
sounds,
such as those galloping horses that storm from the left to the right
channel, simply come from a sound library. We have, however, dubbed them
all
and enhanced with ProTools.

HUMO Have you ever been on sound expeditions? With a microphone in the
hand
walking through a forest at night or so?

WATERS For 'The Wall' I have recorded the helicopter's blades myself. And
with Hugo Zefirelli I have recorded cars and bird sounds.

HUMO On The Wall' there was already a children's choir and on 'Ca ira'
again. It is striking how enthusiast these children sing: 'I want to be
King!', a saucerful of potential dictators in the make...

WATERS Yeah. If you want to know how obvious people find it that they are
better than the others, you just have to put a child in a dominant
position.

HUMO I always wondered, did your children get many remarks from their
teachers concerning 'We don't need no education... we don't need no
thought
control', two phrases you can hear all the time in 'Another Brick in the
Wall'?

WATERS O yes, very boring. Jack and Harry cursed me many times (grins),
although most of these observations were meant positively. The past twenty
years hundreds of schools have asked me authorisation to stage a
production
of 'The Wall ', and to schools I never refuse anything. 'The Wall '
boosted
a lot of discussions concerning education and lessons and thinking
behaviour. I am prouder for that than for my hits or my golden records.
Those two sentences have undermined my parental authority a bit, but it
was
worth it.

Sawing on stage

HUMO Did you discuss about the set list on the rehearsals for Live8? None
of
your solo songs were performed although I expected you would demand that?

WATERS Ah, in a certain way they are all my solo songs. I wrote Money and
Comfortably Numb. And on such an event you are
morally obliged to play your greatest hits, so that even the largest Pink
Floyd hater doesn't feel robbed for his money. They just asked me for a
large benefit for the victims of the hurricane Katrina, in New York: I
know
that Perfect Sense would be ideal textually and emotionally, but thousand
times people more know Money, therefore...

Look, the beautiful thing about Pink Floyd was exactly that one firstly
associated us with music, and afterwards with the settings and the special
effects, and only after that our heads. We all underestimated the power of
the trademark. I do not want to be reminded as 'the firm where the
shareholders sue each other all the time'.

(He looks up irritated. In this 18th century ballroom, where we sit, a man
comes in carrying a bucket of water and a violin).

WATERS Just a scene from a piece of Beckett...

HUMO During a concert in Antwerp you and three other musicians stayed on
the
scene during the break to play a game of cards. You must have the guts.

WATERS O, it wasn't: let's see if we get away with this.' It was theatre
and
it was part of Dogs. I have always put theatrical elements in our
concerts,
from the early beginning. (irritated) All those sets and the visuals and
the
special effects of Pink Floyd were me, not the other guys.

HUMO And Storm Thorgerson, the designer who was, or seemed, responsible
for
the flying pig, the pyramids, the prism, the crashing plane, the covers
of...

WATERS (impatient) Yeah yeah, but always because I asked it, and
embroidering on my vivid imagination. The flying pig was entirely my idea.
Recently a movie has emerged of a Pink Floyd-show in 1968, at the Royal
Festival Hall. You see me building a table. Literally: while the others
play
on, I get to work with hammer and saw. After I have finished our road
manager, Alan Styles, theatrically puts a tray with tea on the shaky
table.
Then the others come to drink tea, and I put a small world receiver in
front
of a microphone, so that the public can hear to what the people in
Bratislava are currently listening to. I completely forgot that act.

HUMO At every gig of their recent tour Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead
experimented with a world receiver...

WATERS (supercilious) So what. We did that already in 1968! And even
before
that, I remember that, when Syd Barrett was still with us, we experimented
with live quadraphonic at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

We had those toy cars you had to wind up, you know, you have to move them
a
couple of times backwards, and then you let the thing go and it hurls
away.
I ran after them with a microphone to produce a quadraphonic sound. Live
on
stage. (laughs) It must have been quite daft. But we were however the
firsts, and at least we supported that type of experiments.

Man, we got away with murder in those days.

Overload

HUMO On Live8 you said during the intro of ' Wish You Were': we play this
number for everyone who cannot be here today, but of course in the first
place for Syd.' Much has been said and speculated about him but I have
actually never understood if he is simply an eccentric hermit or really a
psychiatric patient.

WATERS Syd IS schizophrenic and has had several depressions. You must
consider him as an electricity board that has been overloaded.

He lives isolated now. He comes nothing too short, because he still gets
copyrights of the first Pink Floyd-records. But he has to lead a calm,
stress less life. Each time that someone utters the words 'pink Floyd' he
becomes restless - he still does.

We have played with the idea of asking him for Live8, but that did not
appear feasible. There is also all kind of reproaches... His family has
looked for a scapegoat for what has happened to him - understandably - and
in their eyes we are the ones.
I hear that Syd calls himself Roger again (his real first name, Humo).
There
are also obstinate fans that visit him that is something they prove no
service to him.

HUMO Now that you are speaking about 1968: for centuries there has been
the
rumour in Antwerp that Pink Floyd did a gig in the legendary hippie-bar
Het
Pannenhuis. Of course half of the crusty old dinosaurs nowadays pretend
they
have attended that gig. But is that tale correct?

WATERS I don't remember it. But seen our consumption of mind-expanding and
mind narrowing substances in that era that doesn't mean that it never
happened (grins). What I recall of Belgium from that time was a gig in
Leuven (Louvain), I believe at the university. There have been some
language
riots then, if I am not mistaking myself. (You're not!, Felix) Halfway our
act I suddenly saw a shower of beer-glasses flying from left to right, and
vice-versa. The others thought I had staged it (laughs).

HUMO Nowadays Pink Floyd tours the world with sixteen freight-trailers and
seventy men. Give us an example illustrating how drastically different it
was during the first years.

WATERS I remember our first foreign tour: a handful of gigs in pubs and
youth clubs in the Netherlands, set up by a sleazy businessman who, if I
remember well, was named Cyriel van den Hemel. One day he asked us if we
wanted to earn some extra money by doing an afternoon gig. He gave us an
address: it appeared to be a school. We played in the sport room, for
eight - to twelve year olds, who first put their fingers in their ears and
then started to cry. A couple of minutes later Cyriel came on the 'stage'
and whispered in my ears: 'Wie ave ze money, go now!' (laughs).

HUMO Nowadays Pink Floyd tours the world with sixteen freight-trailers and
seventy men. Give us an example illustrating how drastically different it
was during the first years.

WATERS I remember our first foreign tour: a handful of gigs in pubs and
youth clubs in the Netherlands, set up by a sleazy businessman who, if I
remember well, was named Cyriel van den Hemel. One day he asked us if we
wanted to earn some extra money by doing an afternoon gig. He gave us an
address: it appeared to be a school. We played in the sport room, for
eight - to twelve year olds, who first put their fingers in their ears and
then started to cry. A couple of minutes later Cyriel came on the 'stage'
and whispered in my ears: 'Wie ave ze money, go now!' (laughs).

HUMO On my way to here I listened to ' Four Minutes ', a beautiful, quiet
song. Outside I heard howling sirens and hooting cars, so that it seemed
for
a minute as if you had composed a soundscape for the city. Mood is your
strong point: So it astonishes me that you haven't composed more
soundtracks.

WATERS I certainly had that ambition. But first I am lazy... no, that's
not
true: I work hard, but I also want to live. Fishing. Golfing. Hunting. Not
to neglect my family - this job has already cost me a marriage. And
secondly: I have already got Hollywood offers, but each time it went this
way: Mr Waters, we gladly want you make the soundtrack for film X. You get
X
dollars, but you have to cede X per cent of the copyrights to us. That's
fuckin gangsterism! And then I refuse, and they search for someone else
who
likes to get screwed.
Recently I watched the splendid Spanish film 'Spirit or the Beehive',
about
the dream world of children during the Spanish civil war. I was frustrated
that they had not asked me for the soundtrack. Crazy enough I can't recall
who has written the music. I must have suppressed it.

John & Paul

HUMO When David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright went on tour without
you
but as Pink Floyd they had to pay you copyrights. So you were getting paid
for doing nothing.

WATERS (ironic) You can also state that they went on tour with mainly my
songs. If Ringo Starr would've toured as The Beatles, John Lennon would've
objected as well, isn't it?

HUMO And you are the John Lennon of Pink Floyd?

WATERS Well yes. Groups that loose their visionary leader always perform
less. See also Crosby, Stills & Nash without Neil Young, or Genesis
without
Peter Gabriel. If Dave sings Shine on You crazy diamond, it is a cover,
because I have written and sung the original version. At the time of
'Moon'
I even gave Nick some credits for 'Speak to me', whereas in fact he had
contributed nothing to that number. I regret that generosity now and I am
punished twice for: not only it costs me money, but also Nick claims now
that he has really deserved the credit. And...
But well, I don't want to discuss that any longer. On Live8 I have felt
much
love for the other group members - as long as we were playing. I want to
hold that feeling.

HUMO It strikes me there is a parallel between you and Paul McCartney. For
the past 20 years Macca has tried to rewrite in a subtle but obstinate way
the Beatles' history, in particular the stereotype picture of 'Lennon was
an
adventurous genius and Macca only the sentimental balladeer'. You have,
with
'The Wall in Berlin' and solo tours on which you play at least ten Pink
Floyd-songs, tried to make it known to the world that you and you alone is
Mr Floyd. It is however remarkable that people who have already proved so
much want to have the last word anyway.

WATERS Do you have to swallow If you see how others rewrite history? Do
you
have to lie down and say: kick me once again... I will not lie down. I've
rolled over for Live8, but I won't roll over forever.
The press is also to blame, because it wants a juicy tale. Syd was a juicy
tale, and that is why his influence seems to be much bigger than it was in
reality: he barely was a year in the band, and we have made our best work
later, so without him.
That I wanted to dissolve the band also was a juicy tale. But I was also
the
one who immediately promised to play on Live8 - Dave had first said no to
Bob Geldof. I am very very political aware. It has always irritated Dave
that I wrote intelligent, engaged texts concerning morality, ethics, and
politics... He hated 'The Final Cut', because I had put too many
references
to Margaret Thatcher.
Anyway, Live8 was once again the proof that our music does a lot to
people.
Weren't you moved by it?

HUMO I had tears in my eyes and I am not ashamed for that.

WATERS So what are you complaining about? I will get loads of critic all
over me because I had the pretence to write an opera., but so what? I want
to make music that brings people closer to each other.

HUMO For ' Dark Side or the Moon ' you have put several kinds of people
before the microphone - the legendary one-liner ' I don't know if l was
really drunk ate the time' was born this way. You have also recorded Paul
McCartney: why were his quotes never used? It would have been nice to put
a
Beatle on your record?

WATERS We were searching for random quotes of random passengers. We asked
them questions as: 'Do you often think of death?' or ' When was the last
time you used violence?' Henry McCullough - the guitarist of Wings, who
were
then recording at the same studio - said on that last question: '
yesterday.' I asked: 'Be honest: were you wrong? And he: l don't know. I
was
really drunk at the time (laughs). That's the way it happened.
Paul and his wife Linda were too calculated, they never showed the back of
their tongues. That is why we didn't use their quotes.

Money

HUMO You toured with Eric Clapton, and on your live-ceedees Jeff Beck and
Andy Fairweather-Low play guitar solos that I can only define as David
Gilmourish. Is that your way to make it clear to Gilmour that he wasn't
indispensable?

WATERS Of course he is not indispensable (grins), but no, that guitar
sound
just fits well with the music. Eric is a friend. We recorded a very
beautiful acoustic version of ' Wish You Were' together that I would like
to
bring out someday.
You know, we didn't only have musical disagreements within Floyd; we have
also simply grown out from each other. About politics, about philosophy...
(sigh) About everything I think drastically different than those guys. We
have now received an offer for a world tour: one hundred and fifty
millions
dollar - gross, of course... But I am not in the mood.

HUMO It must be pleasant to have so much money that you can reject such an
offer. I'll go in your place instead...

WATERS (laughs) Send me a post-card. It is not about the money. What count
is: do we still have something to say or not. I am not a nostalgic. I
don't
collect anything. I belief that at home I just have one sketch from 'The
Wall' left, a drawing from a room with a wall standing halfway. That's it.
But we have drifted far away from Ca ira.

HUMO On 'Meddle' there was already a song called Echoes and the echoes
from
Pink Floyd are everywhere nowadays. Did you never feel the urge to flee
away
from the band? Because let's be fair, just as no one is waiting for
another
Mick Jagger solo record, Pink Floyd will always overshadow every sidestep
from one of its members...

WATERS (irritated) I have absolutely no need to flee from my own oeuvre. I
wouldn't succeed anyway. A friend of mine went to the Andes: he wanted to
kick off of the 'civilised' world. He chopped his way through the jungle,
in
search of the most untouched place. Eventually he found a distant mountain
village: he assumed that the aboriginals would have never seen an English
man, but just when he was sipping from his first glass of gutrot, he heard
coming from inside a hut ' WE DON'T NEED NO EEE-DUCAAATIONNNH!' (laughs).
And Pat Leonard (producer of among others Madonna, Humo) once wrote me a
letter from a distant settlement in the Far East: Fantastic, no traffic,
no
media, no pollution, no crime, and no vandalism. Well, almost no
vandalism:
look at this photograph... With his letter was a photograph of a rock on
which some autochthon had chalked Radio K.A.O.S.

Conclusion: how far you go, you can't escape from Pink Floyd.

Serge Simonart, Humo 3396, 4th of October 2005, pages 180 - 183.

Translated by Felix

(из Echoes Digest)

What an eventful year it's been for Pink Floyd singer-bassist Roger Waters. The nearly unthinkable happened when Waters joined his former Floyd bandmates Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright for a performance in London on July 2 at Live 8. The band delivered a thrilling four-song set and also participated in a finale that saw members of Floyd and the Who, as well as other artists on the bill, joining Paul McCartney for a version of the Beatles classic "Hey Jude." [хотя уже известно, что Родж не появился в финале фестиваля в Гайд Парке - Rosco]

As if that weren't enough excitement for the year, Waters recently unleashed his first-ever opera, Ça Ira. The weighty work -- based on the history of the French Revolution -- was a long while in the making. Waters began working on the project in 1989. The death of the singer-bassist's father in World War II apparently helped inspire his interest in the themes covered in the opera.

The album finally dropped Sept. 27 as a multi-disc package with two hybrid Super Audio CDs, a DVD documenting the making of the piece and a 60-page booklet. The long-gestating opus quickly debuted in the No. 1 spot on Billboard's traditional classical chart. Ça Ira will receive a world-premiere performance on Nov. 17 in Rome.

In addition to Ça Ira, a slew of new Floyd-related musical releases are out in stores. A recently released album called Back Against the Wall pays tribute to Floyd's classic The Wall album. The CD was produced by former Yes keyboardist Billy Sherwood and features contributions from members of Yes, Jethro Tull, the Doors, Styx, Deep Purple, Toto and many other classic-rock artists. Also available is a DVD titled Pink Floyd -- London 1966-67. The disc features rare footage of the band's original lineup in the studio and performing at a concert.

There's no shortage of releases to come during the holiday season, either. A four-DVD set documenting the Live 8 concerts is due out Nov. 8. The compilation's first three discs focus mainly on the shows in London and Philadelphia, and offer highlights from the several other Live 8 events staged across the world. The fourth disc features a variety of bonus footage, including Floyd rehearsing for their reunion set. Finally, a DVD version of the 1995 Pink Floyd concert video Pulse will be released in the United Kingdom on Dec. 5, and likely will be made available in the United States around the same time. The feature, which originally was issued in the VHS format, captures 1994 Floyd performances in London during the band's final tour. The disc also will include music videos, bonus live footage and a documentary titled Goodbye to Life as We Know It.

Meanwhile, offers for a full-fledged Floyd reunion keep pouring in. Waters says the band turned down a $250 million offer to mount a reunion tour after its Live 8 performance, but he maintains that there's still a possibility the band will re-form. "If some other opportunity arose, I could even imagine us doing Dark Side of the Moon again -- if there was a special occasion," the singer-bassist asserted in a recent interview with U.K. magazine Word. "It would be good to hear it again. Live 8 was so great. [It would have to be] something with a political or charitable connection." While a worldwide trek is highly unlikely, the thought of any future reunions has to put a smile on the face of any Pink Floyd fan. (Theodore Thimou)


Wish He Was Here

"I think I am still preoccupied by the same things that I was 30 years ago," Waters tells telegraph.co.uk. "Losing my father, and that attachment that I have to his humanity, is still central to everything that I do. Ça Ira and The Wall are about communication and realizing the human potential for empathy, which is what sets us apart from the animals."

"I think I am still preoccupied by the same things that I was 30 years ago," Waters tells telegraph.co.uk. "Losing my father, and that attachment that I have to his humanity, is still central to everything that I do. Ça Ira and The Wall are about communication and realizing the human potential for empathy, which is what sets us apart from the animals."

High Hopes

"I was surprised people didn't take more notice of what I did after I left [Pink Floyd]," Waters says. "If my last album had had Pink Floyd written on it, there's no question in my mind it would be one of the biggest selling records of all time. But I'm the first to admit the combination of the four of us working together as Pink Floyd was greater than the sum of the parts."

Comfortably Praised

"It made [political leaders] make the right noises before the G8 summit, and it made them make the right decisions," Waters tells Britain's Sunday Times of the impact of Live 8. "I think [organizer Bob] Geldof truly had an effect, and I take my hat off to him for doing it.

"It was moving," Waters continues, describing his impressions of playing at the historic event. "I wrote an e-mail to [Pink Floyd's] Dave [Gilmour] afterwards. I'd just seen a bunch of press cuttings, and I think I said, 'How extraordinary to be so warmly feted by a press that's always been so unpleasant and negative in the past.'"

Random Facts

Roger Waters is an avid hunter and angler . . . He recently moved from England to the United States after a ban on hunting was enacted in his native country . . . His main home now is in New York in the Long Island community of the Hamptons. His neighbors include rapper Diddy . . . The rocker's wealth has been estimated at more than $138 million, according to Britain's Sunday Times Rich List . . . The newspaper also reports that Waters is part of a "shooting supergroup" that also includes Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood . . . Waters has a daughter named India who is a model . . . The musician is planning two rock albums for late 2006 and 2007.

http://933thebone.com/bone-rock-news-profile.htm

Last night saw an unusual, vintage recording of Pink Floyd, broadcast on Belgian radio.

As part of Radio 1 Belgium's Cucamonga show <http://www.radio1.be/radio1_master/programmas/cuc/r1_cuc_home/index.html >, excerpts from the band's 5th December 1972 concert at the Sport Palais Vorst Nationaal in Brussels were aired.

Whilst the sound quality wasn't fantastic, it was great to hear. Starting with a version of Time, that was typical of the 1972 performances (with a nice guitar solo), one also heard Breathe Reprise (slightly strained vocals from David Gilmour on this one). An excerpt from the hilarious 1969 interview they undertook in Blackpool, England for a university publication follows, and things are concluded with a well-paced version of Careful With That Axe, Eugene (which features a short passage of Roger's Scottish ranting!).

The show was streamed on their website, and if you wish to hear the recording for yourself, go to Radio 1's Cucamonga page <http://www.radio1.be/radio1_master/programmas/cuc/r1_cuc_home/index.html >, click on "Behister de jongste uitzending", and on the radio player that launches, select your chosen quality based on your bandwidth/connection speed. The Floyd segment comes just after an hour into the show. The show will be available for one week.

Our thanks to Bart Azare and Pol Van Acoleyen for letting us know about this rather unusual airing!



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Date news posted: 1 November 2005

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/news/0511012.html

Вторая Эра Рок-опер

и Гид по этому направлению

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-11-07-storytelling.shtml

Pink Floyd was mentioned on The History Channel again this past week.
This time it was on Sunday morning (8am Eastern Time) on a show called
History's Business. The CEO of BMG was on (don't know if he was a
previous
CEO or current). He said their biggest surprise was when they signed on
Pink Floyd. They were all excited when the record came. They put it on
only to hear "we don't need no education" (host: "and we don't need no
thought control"), and they thought they were doomed, but it became
one of their biggest successes ever, since the record was a huge hit.
He didn't differentiate between single and album, so he could have been
referring to either or both.

(из Echoes Digest)

Психоделия 1967

Золотой '67