As expected, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters launched a new Web site at 2 p.m. EDT today, announcing his 35-date North American tour of “The Wall” coming this fall.
The site allows fans to register for the opportunity to purchase premium tickets for the upcoming tour.
Unfortunately, the registration application and other portions of the new site have behaved sporadically in the first hour since its debut, perhaps due to a heavy surge of visitors.
The site also includes an explanation of why Waters decided to revisit “The Wall” after 30 years.
“Thirty years ago when I wrote ‘The Wall’ I was a frightened young man,” he writes. “In the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with its concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion.”
