Roger Waters

Roger Waters stays with Warner/Chappell

Posted August 26, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters and music publishing firm Warner/Chappell have renewed their contract.

The arrangement means the company will continue to administer songs Waters wrote or co-wrote while with Floyd — from the band’s “Atom Heart Mother” (1970) album until his departure from the band following “The Final Cut” (1983).

Warner/Chappell is a division of Warner Music Group Corp.

Richard Manners, Managing Director of Warner/Chappell UK said, “Roger is an iconic songwriter, lyricist and musician. Each generation discovers these phenomenal albums anew, and their wide-reaching influence and popularity continues to grow.

“We’re delighted Roger entrusts these songs to Warner/Chappell on a global basis, and we’re looking forward to the work ahead, especially with much-anticipated ‘The Wall’ dates on the horizon.”

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Full video: Water/Gilmour reunion show

Posted August 16, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Nearly a half-hour, this is the full video of the reunion of Pink Floyd‘s Roger Waters and David Gilmour from July’s Hoping Foundation charity event.

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Video: Waters/Gilmour reunion performance

Posted August 14, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has made available a “two-minute taster” of his reunion gig with David Gilmour, which took place at the Hoping Foundation charity event in July.

“The sound quality is crap but it was a great night for me, and for him, and also for ‘US and THEM’,” he writes on his Web site.

The video seems to be a hand-held job, shot from the audience of 200.

The duo have given the entire 29-minute set to the foundation, which plans to post it at 5 p.m. Monday UK time.

Watch the video online.

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Contest: Win “The Wall Live in Berlin” on DVD

Posted July 22, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Enter to win a DVD copy of Roger Waters’ “The Wall Live in Berlin” on the 20th anniversary of that concert, July 21, 1990.

With a cast of more than 100 and more than 200,000 people in attendance, Waters’ most-recent performance of “The Wall” took place on the site of the former Berlin Wall, just months after its collapse.

This 2003 DVD contains the complete concert remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound, a new documentary, set and character designs, and unseen footage.

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David Gilmour, Roger Waters perform together

Posted July 11, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pigs flew last night at an Oxfordshire, England, charity event, when Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters performed live together.

Appearing in Kidlington for a concert to benefit the Hoping Foundation, the two played four songs together, accompanied by Guy Pratt, on bass and acoustic guitar; Harry Waters, on keyboards; Andy Newmark, on drums; Chester Kamen, on guitar; and Jonjo Grisdale, also on keyboards.

The set contained four songs: Floyd classics “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” and “Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two),” along with Phil Spector’s “To Know Him Is To Love Him.”

The photo is from a rehearsal for the event.

Let’s hope this is a sign of things to come.

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Final four dates announced for “Wall” tour

Posted June 10, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced the “final four” U.S. dates for the North American leg of his tour of “The Wall”:

Sept. 24
United Center, Chicago, Ill.
Oct. 3
TD Garden, Boston, Mass.
Dec. 3
Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif.
Dec. 5
Staples Center, Los Angeles, Calif.

The tour now has 87 confirmed dates for North America. Watch the official Roger Waters site for all official dates.

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Roger Waters releases “We Shall Overcome” video

Posted June 7, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has made available a new recording of the protest song “We Shall Overcome.”

Posted June 3 to YouTube, the video is a call for the end of the blockade of Gaza.

Waters is seen in the video singing and playing acoustic guitar. Lead guitar is played by G.E. Smith, with drums by Thor Jonsson, neither of whom are seen in the video.

Waters explains his motivation by referencing the freedom march to Gaza this winter. “The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the U.S. tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza,” he writes.

“I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ‘We Shall Overcome.’ It seems appropriate.”

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Waters “not unhappy” at Floyd’s end

Posted May 27, 2010 by Floydian Slip

The BBC spoke to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters in a piece published online today. Waters talks about the band’s last performance at the Live 8 event in 2005, and says he believes it will be the band’s last appearance.

“It was an extraordinarily moving experience for me,” he says. “Live 8 was so beautiful, and Rick (Wright) obviously was still with us then. … If that’s the way we draw a line under Pink Floyd, so be it. I won’t be unhappy about that.”

Wright died in 2008, leaving Waters, David Gilmour and Nick Mason as the surviving members.

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Roger Waters announces European concert dates

Posted May 27, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters has announced 28 concert dates for Europe — the second leg of his tour of “The Wall” that starts in Toronto Sept. 15.

The European tour starts March 27 in Lisbon, Portugal, and wraps up June 18 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

As with the North American tour, rogerwaters.com will offer fans the chance to buy premium tickets during a members-only presale, which will start “very soon.”

See the complete, up-to-date list of venues and dates at rogerwaters.com.

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Roger Waters’ “Wall” tops ticket sales chart

Posted May 19, 2010 by Floydian Slip

Ex-Pink Floyd member Roger Waters‘ tour of “The Wall” is at the top of the chart for ticket sales of musical, theatre and sports events for the week ending May 16.

Ticket sales tracking company TicketNews announced Waters was #1 on its Top Combined Events chart.

“The Wall” show has a huge lead over #2 on the list — with a 13.19 “power score” over the 4.83 score of Broadway show “Wicked.” Lady Gaga is third at 2.48; Justin Bieber is in fourth place at 2.29.

None of this is news to people who logged on at 10 a.m. May 10 when “Wall” tickets went on sale. Waters immediately sold-out many venues, and added a dozen shows to the tour by the end of the day to help meet demand.

TicketNews’ scores are based on sales from the TicketNetwork Exchange, the world’s largest secondary market exchange. Total ticket sales from the given event and total ticket sales within the category are used to calculate power scores.

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