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Roger Waters releases new recording of “Comfortably Numb”

Posted November 18, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Sony Music released today “Comfortably Numb 2022,” a new recording of the Pink Floyd classic from Roger Waters‘s recent “This Is Not a Drill” tour.

The new track is available on streaming platforms.

“During lockdown I made a demo of a new version of ‘Comfortably Numb‘ as an opener for our new show,” Waters explains. “I pitched it a whole step down, in A Minor, to make it darker and arranged it with no solos, except over the outro chord sequence, where there is a heartrendingly beautiful female vocal solo from Shanay Johnson, one of our new singers.”

The accompanying video was produced and directed by Sean Evans. Photography by Kate Izor.

The track was produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert. Appearing on the track are Waters, vocals; Gus Seyffert , bass, synth, percussion, vocals; Joey Waronker, drums; Dave Kilminster, vocals; Jonathan Wilson, harmonium, synth, guitar and vocals; Jon Carin, synth, Vocals; Johnson, vocals; Amanda Belair, vocals; Robert Walter, organ/piano; Nigel Godrich, strings, amp and backing vocals from Roger Waters The Wall Sessions.

Waters’s “This Is Not A Drill” will tour Europe in 2023 with 40 shows across 14 European countries, starting in Lisbon on March 17, 2023, at Altice Arena.

Listen to the track now

Watch the video:


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Happy Birthday, Roger Waters

Posted September 6, 2022 by Floydian Slip

Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)


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Roger Waters marries Kamilah Chavis

Posted October 14, 2021 by Floydian Slip

Pink Floyd co-founder and long-time solo artist Roger Waters married Kamilah Chavis.

Waters posted photos of the occasion on Facebook yesterday, with the comment, “I’m so happy, finally a keeper.”

According to Yahoo!, Waters met Chavis at one of his concerts, when Chavis drove the car that brought him to the show.

“I was in the same place for two weeks and we were being transported between the hotel and the stadium. My security guard would sit with her and they’d talk while I was in the back. I don’t know, something attracted me,” he recalls. “One day I said, ‘Excuse me,’ and she turned around. ‘Did someone ever tell you that you have beautiful cheekbones?’ I saw a small reaction, and that was the beginning.”

This is Waters’s fifth marriage. He split most-recently in 2015 with Laurie Durning.

The ceremony took place at Waters’s Bridgehampton estate on the eastern end of New York’s Long Island.


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Happy Birthday, Roger Waters

Posted September 6, 2021 by Floydian Slip


Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)


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Roger Waters posts contentious liner notes; announces memoirs

Posted June 1, 2021 by Floydian Slip

First, the good news: It seems new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes by James Guthrie of Pink Floyd‘s 1977 “Animals” album may be closer to being released.

As for the bad news: Roger Waters‘s vitrol of former bandmate David Gilmour would seem to be at an all-time high.

In a message posted yesterday to his website, Waters says he’s agreeing to allow the new mixes to be released without liner notes, claiming Gilmour was unwilling to allow the releases to include the liner notes, written by Mark Blake.

According to Waters, “He (Gilmour) does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark’s notes, but he wants that history to remain secret.

“This is a small part of an ongoing campaign by the Gilmour/ (Polly) Samson camp to claim more credit for Dave on the work he did in Pink Floyd, 1967-1985, than is his due,” Waters adds. “Yes he was, and is, a jolly good guitarist and singer. But, he has for the last 35 years told a lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd when I was still in charge.”

Waters includes Blake’s liner notes in his post.

He also announces he’s begun work on his memoirs. “For anyone with a faint heart, I suggest you sit down, but anyone who likes a good laugh, sit back and fucking howl!” he writes. “I’m going to sit back and howl along with you.”


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Tickets on sale for Roger Waters 2022 tour

Posted April 8, 2021 by Floydian Slip

“This is Not a Drill,” the North American tour Roger Waters had announced before the pandemic hit in Spring 2020, has been rescheduled for ’22.

Tickets are on sale now for the 36 dates that begin in Pittsburgh July 6 and finish in Dallas Oct. 8.

In a statement, Waters calls this his “first farewell tour.”

“It is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious and precarious planet home,” he writes.

“The show includes a dozen great songs from Pink Floyd’s Golden Era alongside several new ones — words and music, same writer, same heart, same soul, same man. Could be his last hurrah. Wow!”

These shows will be the first Roger has performed “in the round” with audience on all sides.

Tickets bought for 2020 will be valid for the new dates. Those ticket holders will receive an email with instructions.

Buy tickets now.


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Happy Birthday, Roger Waters

Posted September 6, 2020 by Floydian Slip

Happy Birthday, Roger Waters (b. Sept. 6, 1943)


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Ennio Morricone dead at 91

Posted July 6, 2020 by Floydian Slip

Italian composer Ennio Morricone has died in Rome. He was 91.

He scored more than 500 film soundtracks, including a number of “spaghetti Westerns” for director Sergio Leone such as “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965) and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966).

In 1999, Morricone composed music for “The Legend of 1900,” including “Lost Boys Calling.” Roger Waters provided lyrics for the song and recorded it with guitar work by Eddie Van Halen.

Waters’s recording is included on the film soundtrack, and a demo version appears on his 2002 collection “Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1.”

Morricone succumbed to complications following a fall and broken leg he suffered last week.


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Release date set for Roger Waters Us + Them

Posted June 17, 2020 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters Us + Them,” a document of the Pink Floyd co-founder’s 2017-18 tour, will be released on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and vinyl by Sony Music Entertainment on Oct 2.

Already available for digital purchase and rental on 4K, HD and SD Digital from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the film and soundtrack’s physical release date was announced yesterday.

Us + Them, directed by Waters and Sean Evans, was filmed on tour in Amsterdam, and on location in the UK.  Viewers on digital, Blu-Ray and DVD have access to new post-feature content including two additional concert songs not included in the original feature (“Comfortably Numb” and “Smell the Roses”) as well as “A Fleeting Glimpse,” a documentary-style short film featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the tour.

Stream the film now or pre-order the physical product here


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Digital release coming for “Roger Waters: Us + Them”

Posted May 22, 2020 by Floydian Slip

“Roger Waters: Us + Them,” the concert film of Waters’s 2017/18 live shows shown in theaters last October, will be released digitally June 16.

The film was directed by Waters and Sean Evans, and shot at concerts in Amsterdam and the U.K.

The digital release will come in 4K, HD and SD versions and will include two bonus tracks: “Comfortably Numb” from “The Wall”; and “Smell the Roses” from Waters’s “Is This the Life We Really Want?”

Release dates for the DVD and Blu-ray versions will be announced soon.


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