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Waters Mellows With Age
Posten on: 2008-05-20 00:13:02
PINK FLOYD rocker ROGER WATERS is tired of behaving like a "snotty kid" and trying to look on the bright side of life. The 63-year-old concedes getting older has helped change his negative take on life and he's more inclined to "act nicely" towards other people. He says, "I'm not misanthropic at all. I see glimmers of hope. "I have to say, though, as I have grown older and dealt with one or two of my specific personal psychological, philosophical problems, I found it easier myself to be nicer to people than I used to be when I was a snotty kid, a snotty young man. Which is good."
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Piper at the Gates of Dawn 40th Anniversary
Posten on: 2007-07-25 20:18:51
Legendary group Pink Floyd plan release a special 40th anniversary edition of their first album 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'.The reissue, which will be out on September 3, features mono and stereo versions of the LP, as well as a disc of bonus tracks: 1967 singles are 'Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play', 'Apples And Oranges' plus the B-sides 'Candy And A Currant Bun' and 'Paintbox'.Other songs are an exclusive edit of 'Interstellar Overdrive', previously only available on an EP in France, and the 1967 stereo version of 'Apples And Oranges', which has never before been officially released.The packaging, designed by longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson, will be in a in a cloth-bound book format along with an expanded 12 page redesigned booklet, plus a reproduction of a previously unseen Syd Barrett notebook from 1967 that contains personal artwork and lyric ideas.
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Pink Floyd honour Barrett in tribute gig
Posten on: 2007-05-14 13:27:06
Classic line-up of the legendary supergroup Pink Floyd turns up for a Syd Barrett tribute gig.The band have performed on 10th of May at a gig in honour of ex-bandmate Syd Barrett - but the dreams of many, reunion of the group, didn't happen on the night.The two creative engines after the psychedelic era - Roger Waters and David Gilmour, who famously fell out in the 1980s, appeared separately at the tribute gig at London's Barbican Centre.Gilmour, the guitar and voice of Pink Floyd, was joined by the band's drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Rick Wright, while Waters performed solo.Rumours of the 'classic' Floyd line-up reuniting have been rife since they put their differences behind them to perform at Live8 in 2005.However Waters didn't join in the final performance of 'Bike', which featured all the evening's other performers, including Damon Albarn and Chrissie Hynde.'Arnold Layne' - composed by Barrett and which gave the band their first hit, was among the classic tracks performed by the bandWaters played his own song, 'Flickering Flame'.According to BBC News, the bassist, said he found smaller shows "more frightening" because he had a "sense of shame" - which Barrett did not suffer from."Before the illness, he kind of lived his life like he walked," the said onstage. "I think it's because of his lack of a sense of shame that he was able to take all the creative risks he did."The "illness" was a mental deterioration triggered by LSD abuse, which led to Barrett leaving the band in 1968 and living most of the rest of his life as a recluse in Cambridge.There he reverted to his real name, Roger, and spent most of his time cycling and painting.Barrett died in July 2006 aged 60 following complications arising from diabetes.
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Each Famous Song Has A Story
Posten on: 2006-01-19 06:37:02
Pink Floyd still holds the record for having the longest stay of an album on the charts with their release in 1973 of "Dark Side Of The Moon." But their biggest song came a few years later with "Another Brick In The Wall."The track is part of the double album, "The Wall", which was an indictment of mass crowd psychology and the human nature to act as lemmings with little original thought of their own. The song's writer, Roger Waters, felt this type of thinking was ruining the creativity of musical artists.But what about the whole "brick in the wall" reference? The "wall" is used as a metaphor for the band's growing separation from their audience as they became more and more popular. Waters, in particular, was feeling the stress of too much touring, too little sleep and too much attention and adulation from their fans. The stress overcame him one night in Montreal. Roger Waters got upset and spit on a fan in the front row. Later, as he brooded over his fame and where it was taking him, the concept album "The Wall" was born. Ironically though the song's success catapulted Pink Floyd to even greater heights."Another Brick in the Wall" became, quite literally, another brick in the wall separating the band from its audience as it shot to #1 and stayed there for an amazing four weeks in February of 1980.
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