Holy shitballs. Roger Waters is bringing his Pink Floyd opus to Portland. He’s playing the Rose Garden May 22, 2012, recreating the 1979 The Wall album with a full-scale theatrical endeavor. Waters has been playing it around the world—famously, at London’s O2 arena, where some old acquaintances stopped by—and now he’s bringing it here.
There’s a full North American tour, and Portland is one of the lucky stops. You can question the relevance of the old double concept album, and the taste in which Waters has claimed it as a solo project since kicking his Pink Floyd bandmates to the curb, but this should be something worth seeing. Tickets go on sale next Monday, November 7, at LiveNation. They’ll cost a fucking fortune.
End Hits: Eating pudding before meat. So there.
That would have been awesome 20 years ago!
Uh, not that I was a Wall fan, but I saw The Wall live in Berlin 20 years ago… with The Band, Van, sinead, etc…
Time flies. Fuck.
A 1% band living on residuals claiming entitled alienation from their paying audience? In a billionaire’s arena? Is this relevant to reality?
I couldn’t possibly hate Pink Floyd more, except for the Barrett stuff.
As someone who was too young to have ever seen the band as a whole, and who has never seen a solo performance by any of them because of the cost and it not being the same without everyone together, and for whom Pink Floyd is at least a top 5 band if not top 3, and knowing one of them is dead and the other three probably aren’t too far behind, it’s probably time to break down and pay way too much to see this while I still have the chance. Sigh.
I look forward to working on this one. My friend was lead carpenter on this tour’s European dates, and his daily picture uploads made it look utterly fantastic.
But yes; triteness of message, paradoxical nature of alienation played out in multi-million dollar arena owned by mulit-millionaire, “who the fuck cares?” -all valid. But still…
The story is about a rich musician too though.
This “1% band having nothing to do with reality” is a load of horseshit.
I’ve never even liked the band that much, but what a shitty critisism.
Very, very few bands are “relevant to reality”.
That’s Entertainment.
Yeah, true that, Frankie. I still occasionally hear the charge that certain acts that certain people don’t like are somehow “not relevant” to the listener. Or worse yet, to their “generation,” which is kind of suspect. I mean, Beethoven isn’t especially up to date, but the “Moonlight Sonata” is still one of your better pieces of music. The Byrds are our parents’ age (the ones that are alive, that is), but pretty much everything they did is better than My Morning Jacket, etc. etc.
This is not a 1% band. Millionaires are not in the one percent, neither is Roger Waters and a lot of the folks who’ve been moving things long before the 99% thing have been and still are rocking Floyd. Divisiveness is not helping anyone.
The Rise and Fall of a Political Movement in approximately a 3 hour span, it’s Fucking Fabulous! I caught it at the Tacoma Dome last year. And, yeah I’ve seen the old dvd’s and this show blows the shit out the others and is made relevant for what’s happening today. It’s worth the cost, even if your a struggling member of the 99%, you gotta fund the amazing project somehow!
Something self-important sounding followed by a subjective comment about the band intended to buffer the self-important statement.