Roger Waters

Roger Waters to appear on Conan

Posted December 14, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters will appear on the “Conan” show tomorrow, Dec. 15.

He’ll be one of three guests along with actress Amy Adams (“Enchanted,” “Julie & Julia,” “Doubt”) and indie band Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros.

The show’s Web site promises Waters “will be here to talk about just what ‘Dark Side of The Moon’ was really all about. (Hint: If you play it while watching ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ things get real trippy.)”

Waters’ last appearance on American TV was “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” May 5.

Hosted by Conan O’Brien, “Conan” is on TBS at 11 p.m. EST.

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Ron Geesin to appear on Floydian Slip

Posted November 21, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Avant-garde multimedia artist Ron Geesin will appear on “Floydian Slip” next weekend.

Geesin collaborated on the 1970 film soundtrack “Music from The Body” with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters. That album turns 40 years old Nov. 28.

Geesin also worked with the band on its 1970 “Atom Heart Mother” album, struggling to handle orchestrations on the epic “Atom Heart Mother Suite” while the band was away on tour.

Geesin is only the fourth guest to appear on “Floydian Slip” in the show’s 20-year history. Sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson was on the show in 1997; sound engineer Andy Jackson appeared in 2001; and “Wall” artist Gerald Scarfe was a guest just a few weeks ago.

Geesin will appear on show #764, which will air Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 27 and 28.

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Waters, Gilmour spotted together in Minneapolis

Posted October 26, 2010 by Floydian Slip

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune Web site, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and David Gilmour were spotted having dinner out last night.

Chris Riemenschneider writes that a local writer and music fan positively identified Gilmour as one of the members of Waters’ party at Bar La Grassa in Minneapolis, Minn., Monday night.

Waters is said to have been sporting a marching hammers hoodie. No word on Gilmour’s attire.

Fans are speculating when Gilmour will join Waters on stage during his “Wall” tour to perform “Comfortably Numb.” The guitarist made the promise as part of a deal that brought the two together at a charity event in Oxfordshire in July. The exact date of the “Wall” reunion, however, has not been made public.

Ticket holders for tonight’s Omaha show have their fingers crossed.

Read the blog post.

Posted in Concerts, Contests, David Gilmour, Events, Personnel, Roger Waters | 2 comments

Heritage/Roger Waters contest winner

Posted October 14, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Congratulations to Derrick Garceau of St. Albans, Vt., who won the Heritage/H-Team contest to see Roger Waters live in Montreal next week.

Derrick won two floor tickets to see the show at the Bell Centre, along with Heritage swag and $100 spending cash — a prize package worth $700!

Maybe we’ll see you at the show, Derrick. Then, again, we’ll be seated in the nosebleed seats, so our paths probably won’t cross. 😉

Heritage and The H-Team are sponsors of “Floydian Slip.”

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Fender introduces Roger Waters bass

Posted October 5, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Fender has begun selling a Roger Waters Precision Bass, named for the co-founder (and bassist) of Pink Floyd.

Black on black with a maple neck, it shares similar specs at the one used by Waters, who’s currently touring Floyd’s opus “The Wall.”

Retail price is $1,199.99. New Fender basses run from $779.99 to $3,129.99.

Full specs for the Roger Waters bass are available at the Fender site.

Posted in Merchandise, Other, Personnel, Roger Waters | 1 comment

Lawsuit filed over Roger Waters merchandising

Posted September 21, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Live Nation Merchandising Inc. filed suit in U.S. District Court in Boston over the use of Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters’ image on T-shirts and other merchandise.

The suit doesn’t name those it accuses of marketing the merchandise around Waters’ current tour of “The Wall.”

Live Nation says it has the exclusive right to market merchandise before, during and after “The Wall” performances.

Bootleg concert merchandise … there’s something you don’t see everyday.

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Reviews: “The Wall” in Toronto

Posted September 16, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters opened his 2010/11 tour of Floyd’s seminal “The Wall” tour last night in Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.

For whatever credence you might put in critical reviews, you can see what The Associated Press (AP), The Star, the UK’s Telegraph and Calgary’s 660News thought of the show.

The AP might have been most laudatory: “Many times when classic rock artists perform, there’s an air of nostalgia, but not with Waters. Not only does the material seem fresh, it also appears 2010 is the right time for this tour, probably because of the technology that catapults it into the stratosphere.”

The Star was the most critical of these four reviews, calling the show a “cash-in,” and describing the music as “actually kind of drab and heartless, not much different from what you’d hear at one of those Classic Albums Live nights at the Phoenix were it not for the production values.”

Read the reviews online:

“Roger Waters tears down `The Wall’ in Toronto” (AP)
“It’s The Wall, not the Roger Waters show” (The Star)
“Roger Waters: The Wall, Air Canada Theatre, Toronto, review” (Telegraph)
“Roger Waters kicks off ‘The Wall’ tour with sold-out show in Toronto” (660News)

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Reunion date contest: The results

Posted September 15, 2010 by Floydian Slip

We asked you to take a guess as to the date David Gilmour would join Roger Waters on stage during Waters’ tour of “The Wall” that kicked off tonight in Toronto. We’ve been told it’s going to happen, but the date remains shrouded in secrecy.

The polls are closed, and we’ve crunched the numbers:

More than 80 people entered the contest, with guesses fairly evenly split between the North American leg of the tour (Sept. 15 through Dec. 21) and the European leg (March 21 through June 29). Though London’s series of five shows next May is clearly the voters’ favorite.

On the North American side, Waters’ Oct. 5 show at Madison Square Garden was the most popular, earning four votes. On the European side, guesses clustered around the London shows, with the May 11 show at The O2 coming out on top of all shows worldwide with eight votes.

“Floydian Slip” is going on the record by saying our guess is London’s May 17 date.

The person who guesses closest wins a copy of Water’s “The Wall Live in Berlin” on CD. If the winner guesses the exact date, we’ll add to the kitty a sealed copy of last November’s Classic Rock magazine with the 3D Floyd cover.

Now we play the waiting game …

Posted in Contests, David Gilmour, Personnel, Roger Waters | 5 comments

Roger Waters on cover of Rolling Stone

Posted September 14, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is on the cover of the Sept. 30 issue of Rolling Stone, due to hit stands tomorrow.

The magazine has an excerpt on its Web site, along with a behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot for the cover, below:

Posted in Magazines, Merchandise, Personnel, Roger Waters | 2 comments

Contest: Guess the Gilmour/Waters date

Posted August 26, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pigs flew July 10, when Roger Waters joined David Gilmour on stage at the Hoping Foundation charity event in Oxfordshire.

To even the scales, Gilmour has promised to join Waters at one show of his “Wall” tour to perform “Comfortably Numb” with his former bandmate.

But which show? That’s the question.

Guess the closest and win Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” from 1990. Guess the exact date, and we’ll throw in a sealed copy of Classic Rock‘s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “The Wall.”

Make your guess now. One guess per person. (Don’t worry, laddy, we’ll know …)

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