Both the title of this new CD and the tour on which it was recorded might allude to Waters at his worst on an earlier tour of the same name, but those who attended his recent live dates (his first stint on the road in 12 years) witnessed the emergence of a more affable Roger Waters. Above all, Pink Floyd’s storied concert performances of the album in 19 made an epic spectacle of Waters’ primary concern - the lost connection between artist and audience - as a gigantic wall was constructed on-stage between the group and the crowd during the show.Īfter three solo albums and a couple of tours, however, Waters appears to have worked through his ambivalence toward live performance and, moreover, he seems to have come to accept his privileged identity as a rock star with a little more grace than before. I found myself increasingly alienated in that atmosphere of avarice and ego until one night in the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, the boil of my frustrations burst.”Īs an assessment of how he’d arrived at such a nadir, Waters wrote The Wall (1979), that cheery meditation on post-war childhood, family, celebrity, paranoia, alienation and mental breakdown. We were becoming addicted to the trappings of popularity. The magic, crushed beneath the weight of numbers. Reflecting on that incident in 1995, Waters commented, “success overtook us.
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