by Roger Waters The Wall on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 3:43pm
I’ve been at the editing suite today looking at some of the footage of the North American shows that we shot as an aid to making a proper film of the show later for Theatrical and Blu-ray release.
I am struck by the number of cell phones held aloft to film bits of the show and also by the amount of flash photography and the number of people texting and twittering.
This is a minority of the audience but a significant minority. What do we all think of this?
For my part I would never turn on a cell phone at any musical event, whether it’s at The Met, The Garden or anywhere else. It would seem to me to show a lack of respect to and care for fellow concert goers or for that matter for the artist. Apart from anything else, how could I possibly truly experience the thing I’d paid to see and hear, if I was fiddling with an iPhone, filming or twittering or chatting or whatever?
Anyway, this is a question not a general admonition, I am genuinely interested to know what you think.
Roger
Have to say I agree with ol' Rog on this one. While snapping a photo is one thing, I've never understood people who feel a compulsion to call people or send texts while they're at a concert. I shut my phone off and enjoy the show. I can blurb about it later on teh internets.
Roger Waters Plans New Solo Album, Live DVD from ‘Wall’ Tour
by: Matt Wardlaw June 6, 2012
While he might be currently looking in the rear view mirror, celebrating the legacy of Pink Floyd’s classic ‘The Wall’ album, the experience has put Roger Waters in the planning mode for a new solo album, which would be his first proper solo release since 1990’s ‘Amused to Death.’
Waters recently spent four hours on the air with Jim Ladd, his former ‘Radio K.A.O.S’ counterpart, at Sirius XM for a lengthy interview that aired on the ‘Deep Tracks’ channel, promoting the re-launch of the Pink Floyd-branded channel on the satellite music provider.
During the conversation, Waters revealed that a follow-up to ‘Amused to Death’ isn’t so far away in his mind. “I’ve got a strong feeling that I have a new album literally about to pop out. I’ve written a song while I was on the road, which I think will provide me with the impetus, emotionally and philosophically and politically to create a new album.”
As previously rumored, there are indeed plans to capture the current ‘The Wall’ tour for a DVD release. Responding to a question from a listener, Waters said “we’ve been filming almost everything as we go along, remorselessly. We filmed for a week when we did shows in Athens and we were filming all over South America, so yeah, there will definitely be a DVD of this whole experience coming up in the near future.”
He says that the meaning of ‘The Wall’ has changed in the years since the album was first released. “I was somewhat under the misapprehension that ‘The Wall’ was a story about me and my dad and the second World War. Slowly over the years, and particularly, working up to putting together this show, this new version of it, and touring again. I came to realize that it may have been back then, but that it has a much more universal story. It’s about all of us, it’s about all loss in war and it’s about everybody’s connection with their family.”
“We’ve made something that seems to appeal pretty universally wherever we go in the world and I’m super-happy about that. That makes me really, really content.”
The ‘Wall’ tour will finish with a big bang – Waters recently announced plans to make the final show one that will feature a wall that is two times the size of the one that has been featured on the current tour.
Roger Waters Plans New Solo Album, Live DVD from ‘Wall’ Tour
by: Matt Wardlaw June 6, 2012
While he might be currently looking in the rear view mirror, celebrating the legacy of Pink Floyd’s classic ‘The Wall’ album, the experience has put Roger Waters in the planning mode for a new solo album, which would be his first proper solo release since 1990’s ‘Amused to Death.’
Roger Waters Plans New Solo Album, Live DVD from ‘Wall’ Tour
by: Matt Wardlaw June 6, 2012
While he might be currently looking in the rear view mirror, celebrating the legacy of Pink Floyd’s classic ‘The Wall’ album, the experience has put Roger Waters in the planning mode for a new solo album, which would be his first proper solo release since 1990’s ‘Amused to Death.’
Roger Waters Plans New Solo Album, Live DVD from ‘Wall’ Tour
by: Matt Wardlaw June 6, 2012
While he might be currently looking in the rear view mirror, celebrating the legacy of Pink Floyd’s classic ‘The Wall’ album, the experience has put Roger Waters in the planning mode for a new solo album, which would be his first proper solo release since 1990’s ‘Amused to Death.’
Roger Waters Plans New Solo Album, Live DVD from ‘Wall’ Tour
by: Matt Wardlaw June 6, 2012
While he might be currently looking in the rear view mirror, celebrating the legacy of Pink Floyd’s classic ‘The Wall’ album, the experience has put Roger Waters in the planning mode for a new solo album, which would be his first proper solo release since 1990’s ‘Amused to Death.’
Roger Waters' 'The Wall' Tour Documentary Premieres in Toronto 'Roger Waters: The Wall' film goes behind the scenes of the Pink Floyd bassist's epic tour
By Daniel Kreps | September 7, 2014
Roger Waters celebrated his 71st birthday September 6th at the Toronto International Film Festival by attending the world premiere of his new documentary Roger Waters: The Wall. TIFF was the perfect venue for the former Pink Floyd bassist to debut his film since The Wall Live tour actually began its run at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on September 15, 2010, so Roger Waters: The Wall's TIFF premiere was like coming full circle. Also, what better way to follow "Bill Murray Day" than with a film that explores Waters' epic tour from behind "the Wall
Longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich is credited with "Sound" in Roger Waters: The Wall, along with veteran sound mixer Adam Scrivener. The documentary runs for 133 minutes – 12 minutes longer than the classic double-LP itself – and was co-directed by Waters and Sean Evans, who was The Wall Tour's creative director. Roger Waters: The Wall was filmed in three cities on two continents. So far, no release date has been announced for the documentary, but there will be two more Toronto screenings. Waters also revealed that his tour documentary could double as "an anti-war, protest film."
Following the premiere, and after an impromptu serenade of "Happy Birthday" by the crowd, Waters conducted a Q&A session with audience members and was asked why Pink Floyd's The Wall is so enduring. "I think people are sick and tired of being told that the most important thing in their life is commerce and the new this and the new that," Waters said according to the Toronto Sun. "I think people are probably ready to go now, 'Well, all of that rhetoric lead us to lob bombs over the top of the wall, that divides society ecologically, economically, philosophically and politically, from all our fellow human beings. And we no longer want to be told by our political leaders that they are scum and that we are great.' So that I believe that it may be we're no longer interested in the 'us and them' form of political philosophy that we've been fed on for the last couple of 1,000 years and that we may be ready to move into a new place." All that, plus "Comfortably Numb" is awesome.
"I can't top that tour," Waters told Rolling Stone last November. "First of all, you have to accept the fact that I'm not going to live forever... You just have to accept that when you do something as enormous as that tour. The hardest thing in the world is thinking of something to do, so going and doing it is a reward in itself."
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‘Roger Waters The Wall’ Documentary Coming to Theaters in September by Michael Gallucci April 20, 2015 3:45 PM
Roger Waters The Wall, the documentary that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, will play on movie screens across the world for one night only nearly a year after its debut.
The film — which is co-directed by Waters and Sean Evans — screened three times in September 2014 at the Toronto fest. On Sept. 29, it will play on big screens with a new bonus feature: an “in conversation” segment with Waters.
Consequence of Sound reports that the event will include a screening of Roger Waters The Wall plus a chat with the artist, who originally wrote the piece for Pink Floyd based on his own experiences growing up in post-war England. The Wall album, from 1979, is one of the biggest-selling LPs in chart history.
Last year, Waters referred to the documentary as a “protest movie.” The film includes concert footage from Waters’ three-year solo tour in which he played The Wall in its entirety as well as behind-the-scenes footage from France and Italy of Waters visiting the World War I cemetery where is grandfather is buried, the beachhead where his father died during a World War II battle and more.
“We were a big family on the road, 189 of us, give or take the odd Snoozy Walrus,” Waters said of the upcoming wide release of the movie. “We were happy, by and large, and I am really happy to welcome everyone at Fathom and Picturehouse aboard. I know, I know — mixing metaphors. Where was I? Oh yeah, with your help, this coming 29th September will be the perfect way to remember not just our loved ones but the other guys loved ones — fallen, living and as yet unborn.”
In other Waters news, a remastered edition of his 1992 solo album Amused to Death will be available on July 24. It remains his most recent studio album. Since then, he’s released a live album, a compilation record and an opera.
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