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  • WilDFire
    Addiction started
    • Jun 2004
    • 481

    Waters to perform entire Dark Side


    Don't know how good it will be without Gilmour, but damn, this would be awesome to see. Also, I can't imagine that any of the original flowd members would be able to or want to do this again.


    NEW YORK (Billboard) -- On March 17, 1973, a band in musical transition named Pink Floyd hit the Top 200 chart with the release of its new album, "Dark Side of the Moon." It entered the chart at No. 95, the top debut that week. And then a funny thing happened: It never left.
    Or almost never, anyway.
    More than 14 years later -- 736 weeks, to be precise -- in July 1988, it fell off the Billboard 200. Add a later run on that chart and another 759 weeks on the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart, and Pink Floyd this week reaches the staggering plane of 1,500 weeks on the charts.
    The runner-up for time on the Billboard 200, Bob Marley & the Wailers' "Legend," is several years behind, with a mere 845 weeks under its belt.
    Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who will perform the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" album on his 18-city North American solo tour this fall, talked with Billboard about the album.
    Q: Why do you think this record has struck such a chord with so many different generations?
    ROGER WATERS: Musically, this thing has really stood the test of time. There was something about the symbiosis of the musical talents of the four of us that worked really well. But also, in terms of the lyrical content, philosophically it holds an appeal to each successive generation because it feels like it gives you permission to question things, maybe, which is something that is very appealing to us as we hit puberty and drift beyond it into real life.
    Q: Did you feel like you had accomplished your goals in the studio?
    WATERS: When the record was finished, I took a reel-to-reel copy home with me, and I remember playing it for my wife then, and her bursting into tears when it was finished. And I thought, "This has obviously struck a chord." I was kinda pleased by that. I thought to myself, "Wow, this is a pretty complete piece of work," and I had every confidence that people would respond to it.
    Q: The imagery is a big part of the album's legacy.
    WATERS: Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell designed it at Hipgnosis. They came in with like six or seven ideas for album covers and threw them on the floor in the control room, and we all, as one man went, "That one!" There wasn't any conversation. There is just something so cool about it.
    Q: Did "Dark Side" mark a turning point for Pink Floyd in the studio?


    WATERS: Yeah. Up until "Dark Side," we were a very cohesive team. We were very much a band, we worked very closely together, and we were content to do that. ("Dark Side") marked a watershed in that after that, (recording) became more and more problematic. With "Dark Side" we had sort of achieved what we'd set out to achieve as young men going into the music business. After that we clung together out of fear more than out of hope.
    Q: You plan to play the album in its entirety on your upcoming tour. How did that come about?
    WATERS: It was a request from Formula I in France. They wanted a big event to go on July 14, the day before the French Grand Prix, at Magny-Course, about 100 kilometers south of Paris. Somebody rather fancifully suggested Pink Floyd playing "Dark Side of the Moon," and somebody else rather fancifully approached various people who said, "Are you f---ing insane? It's not going to happen." So they asked me ...
    The more I've worked on it, the more the idea has grown on me. I'm going downtown as we speak to work on visuals for "Dark Side of the Moon" and the rest of the show. I've got a great band together, and I have every hope that we will do the work justice.
    Music makes the soul strong.
  • Jibgolly
    Vortexuralizor
    • Jun 2004
    • 20773

    #2
    Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side

    WoW

    i only hope there is video on the 'net soon after for my eyes and ears to enjoy.

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    • AntonyM
      DUDERZ get a life!!!
      • Oct 2004
      • 6415

      #3
      Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side

      Why not
      Just as long as Waters doesnt sing
      Originally posted by Shpira
      So came back last night...
      Sven Vath was amazing...he played a god damn killer set...ended up going to that and came to at like 10 am in some whore house in south Amsterdam...no idea how I ended up there...friday was a bit of a blur got really drunk and visited several parties can't remember a whole lot to be honest hehe...saturday was probably the best day that I recall...started up in the nearest coffee shop and going from party to party...beautiful woman, beer and weed...finished the night by taking some shrooms and listening to an amazing elke kleijn set...sunday...i met a nice girl who worked at one of the coffee shops and ended up talking to her for like 6 hours...was supposed to meet her at some DnB party...but instead went for a steak and walked around red light district bars drinking and smoking...monday took it easy went to a coffee shop and took a taxi to airport....

      All in all...I think I will be going back there some time soon
      Originally posted by Illuminate
      Let me get this straight.

      So white-middle class Americans have been told by their Television sets to be fearful of:

      1. Mexicans/Latinos from the South bringing drugs and killings n' shit.
      2. African Americans cause mos def they are raging a race war and want to occupy America like how the plebs occupied Wall St.
      3. Iranians/Afghans/Any one of middle eastern origin to be quite frank, cause you know Islam...
      4. North Koreans/Chinese cause you know everything...

      Am I close here?

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      • KinKyJ
        Platinum Poser
        • Jun 2004
        • 13438

        #4
        Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side



        One of the best albums ever!

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        • Kobe
          I wish I had an interesting User title
          • Jun 2004
          • 2589

          #5
          Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side

          thanks for the heads up, I heard that he was doing a tour, but I had no idea this is what he is performing... getting tickets now!!
          Beats are my crack.

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          • feather
            Shanghai ooompa loompa
            • Jul 2004
            • 20895

            #6
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            Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

            I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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            • FM
              Wooooooo!
              • Jun 2004
              • 5361

              #7
              Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side

              it is amazing how that album has stood the invariable test of time...it should live on probably through our times as well...

              something that never grows old no matter how many times you listen to it.
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              • Kobe
                I wish I had an interesting User title
                • Jun 2004
                • 2589

                #8
                Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side

                Saw this last night-- AWESOME!! Started with various songs such as Shine on, Wish You Were Here, Have a Cigar (sick!!), Animals. Had an intermission and did all of Dark Side. Then came out for an encour and did some Wall stuff, their performance of "Another Brick in the Wall" is on my top five rock concert moments of my life. I was taken to planet rock with waves of music pouring off the stage into a crowd of at least 25,000 on a perfect night. Fucking yes.
                Beats are my crack.

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                • Lorn
                  Looking for a title!
                  • Sep 2004
                  • 5826

                  #9
                  Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side

                  Cool. Sounds like an unbelievable time.

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                  • j_love01
                    Addiction started
                    • Jun 2006
                    • 465

                    #10
                    Re: Waters to perform entire Dark Side

                    Has anyone seen the Pink Floyd laser show? Check it out if you have the chance...it's well worth it imo.
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