![]() ![]() ![]() Roger Waters supported the Anti-Capitalist. ![]() After leaving the band in 1984, he began a moderately successful solo career. He is primarily known for being one of the creative geniuses of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Roger went full political retard on this tour, felt like the rage of a 14yo suburban kid who just listened to the Dead Kennedys for the first time. Roger Waters is a singer, songwriter and lyricist, who often plays bass guitar, and sometimes guitars. OOH, the other favorite part: when in gritty roady font the big sign came down that said something like “.we live in a Dystopian Nightmare!” and everyone around me, well dressed, sipping $20 drinks, the most pampered people the earth has ever know due to the freedoms and wealth of the US – well, all these people applauded and cheered, proud to be part of “the Dytopian Nightmare!” before heading home to their well-tended houses and high paying jobs. – ALL of that footage was actually shot during the Bush and Obama administrations. PS: For those not paying attention, nearly all the stock footage that Roger used to illustrate the horrors of his secret crush Trump (Roger doth protest too much) – the bombings, the suffering children, etc. Evening felt like an Antifa clown cover band of Floyd, or even the Roger of Old (who went after everyone) – if you like Floyd’s music, stay away from this show, it will poison it for you and reveal Roger to be a little too into Trump… I expected him to pull Hillary on stage and announce his new PAC – boy, how anti-establishment can a rich man be? So brave! Perhaps the bravest was his chanting “no f_ng walls!” while his security crew manned the barricades & no man’s land to keep people away from the stage while the arena crew sent everyone through 4 checkpoints to make sure they’d ponied up the $75min entrance fee. He managed to cheapen Dark Side, The Wall, and Animals in one evening, taking music that was multilayered in meaning and turning it into a pointless Resist! rant. Long time fan but saw his show a few nights ago and it was cringe-worthy: an obsession with Trump Trump Trump, as if there we no other politicians in the world for the past 40 years. Instead, as I noted below, he went full political retard, and literally filled his show with images of Trump, with quotes from Trump, he covered the floating pig with Trump – he, in effect, ceded the show to Trump, and made himself, and his music, so much smaller and narrow minded in the process. And if Rog had come out swinging against the entire elite wealthy political class (which includes – gasp – Clinton AND Sanders and Obama and Bush etc) I could respect it as at least a universal observation. The point here is: Animals, particularly, is a great album, with themes applicable across all spectrums, personal and political. Carter was a nice man (Naval Academy grad who got troops killed…but nice…) Maybe Roger wrote it for his agent? But it was the Raw Truth then, and even more now because Trump! Roger’s been singing about going to hell as a nation long past his AARP eligability – and Trump is STILL on his lawn! Resist! Yes, Roger got to the Raw Truth of Trump by singing Pigs (three different ones)! Wait, er, he wrote that song 40 years ago… maybe for Jimmy Carter? Er, no. ![]()
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