He also profusely thanked this Boston audience for “getting it.” Now, Boston is notoriously liberal and so the message might have resonated better. And is finally humble enough to appreciate the affection. Politics aside, Waters is a 78-year-old man who – like Springsteen in his Broadway show – sees, I think, his mortality closer than before. A guy shouted out “We Love You Roger!” and at that moment, we did. But the applause kept building and building and building and it was pretty clear that we were just thanking Waters not only for a great show but for all the years of incredible music and incredible epics you can just enjoy, get stoned to or be moved by.Īnd Waters was visibly moved, almost to tears. The audience was applauding, as it will, for an encore.
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And an unusual thing happened that I’ve rarely seen at a show. BTW, Waters isn’t the singer that Gilmour is but he was perfectly fine and the guitar player sang a few.Īt some point it became encore time and Roger came out by himself and sat at the piano. He introduced that album as being his Orwell album. I’m really glad Waters did “Sheep” (from Animals.) A great, unique tune in so many ways. Next up were “Have a Cigar,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX).” All great and the audience singing wasn’t intrusive or overbearing. Half the time I wasn’t sure if Waters was even on stage as I couldn’t always see him (often played piano) and we spent a lot of time looking at the screen which was endlessly fascinating. I should note that while we had seats on the floor that were pretty close, we were kinda sitting on the side with members of the band periodically visiting different sides.
#Roger waters song free#
Of this tune, one reviewer said, “Sitting down behind the piano, he introduced a new song, ‘The Bar,’ saying it was about a place where people who “care about human rights and free press and democracy … can go with a sense of community.” The ballad may be the most hopeful and warm thing he’s ever written.” Next up were some Waters solo tunes, “The Powers That Be,” (under images of police brutality and names of those killed by police), “The Bravery of Being Out of Range,” and “The Bar.” Waters used some of the printed words on the screen to tell the story of how he and Syd Barrett had seen the Stones way back when and decided then and there to form a band.
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#Roger waters song how to#
If there’s one thing Floyd have always known how to do it’s set a mood.
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Interestingly, even though Waters has a band that can apparently play just about anything, the iconic solos in “Numb” were not played. The concert consisted largely of cuts from Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, and some Waters solo stuff (with one new tune called “The Bar.” (If you want earlier stuff, Nick Mason has a band called Saucerful of Secrets that does that stuff.) I am of the opinion that Waters said fuck it, I am going to get the big ones out of the way so I can do my own stuff. I will say that while I agree with most of his politics, I would hate to spend good money and find out that the artist was going to, say, applaud Trump all night.Īnyway, the show started with images on the screen (the visuals were incredible) and Waters standing in silhouette singing “Comfortably Numb” which segued into “The Happiest Days of Our Lives” and then “Another Brick in the Wall Parts 2 and 3.” I know people who won’t go see him for the latter reason. Now if you know anything about Waters’ politics at all, he’s very anti-fascist, very political, very pro-human rights, and famously, very pro-Palestine. If you don’t like Roger’s politics, feel free to fuck off to the bar. Initially they used the screen to give a countdown to the show and then a warning of sorts was written on it (and spoken in a sonorous British voice) thusly: Was it going to rise? Was the band going to burst out of it? Well, given what we know about Floyd I should have guessed- it was a screen. So you see this big black structure with people sitting right up against it. Here’s how it looked about 1/2 hour before showtime.
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At that show, the setup was pretty traditional with the band at one end of the arena and us about 20 or so rows back.īut our seats here – while located on the floor – initially gave us what was a weird view. The show was at the TD Garden in Boston where we (my son and I) saw The Who a few months ago. So finally, we waited long enough that we could actually congregate again. I actually bought these tickets for a 2020 show and I think we all know what happened then.