URGENT: Roger Waters Touring Pink Floyd’s THE WALL in 2010
You already know Sir Roger is obsessive about Pink Floyd, or more accurately about The Wall, specifically Roger Waters’s version of it.
So we need to alert you to this opportunity:
Roger Waters is touring The Wall from 15 September to 13 December this year, on 36 dates through the US and Canada.
The only way you can get to see it is to apply for tickets online, apparently. That means registering and putting yourself in the draw for a pair of tickets at up to 5 locations. So your chances of getting a seat at one of them will depend on how many people apply. Tickets will go on public sale *(via Ticketmaster) but if you wait for that your chances will be even slimmer. One has the impression that soon it will be too late for the pre-sale registration so if you wanted tickets to see The Wall Live you would probably be going and signing up right now.
Anyway, Sir Roger has applied for two cities in Canada and three in the US.
One of the new reasons one likes Roger Waters is that on his website he has the same quotation from Ike Eisenhower that we have here (over there on the left):
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
So appropriate for a Sunday post.
And so is this in its own way, perhaps:
It’s A Miracle
Miraculous you call it babe
You ain’t seen nothing yet
They got Pepsi in the Andes
They got McDonalds in Tibet
Yosemite’s been turned into a golf course For the Japs
And the Dead Sea is alive with rap.Between the Tigris and Euphrates
There’s a leisure centre now
They got all kinds of sports
They got Bermuda shorts
They had sex in Pennsylvania
A Brazilian grew a tree
And a doctor in Manhattan
Saved a dying man for freeIt’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
Another miracle
By the grace of God Almighty
And the pressures of the marketplace
The human race has civilized itself
It’s a miracleWe got warehouses of butter
We got oceans of wine
We got famine when we need it
We got designer crime
We got Mercedes
We got Porsche, Ferrari and Rolls Royce
Yeah, we got choiceShe said meet me
In the Garden of Gethsemene my dear.
The Lord said, Peter I can see your house from here
An honest man
Finally reaped what he had sown
And a farmer in Ohio has just repaid a loanIt’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
Another miracle
By the grace of God Almighty
And the pressures of the marketplace
The human race has civilized itself
It’s a miracleWe cower in our shelters
With our hands over our ears
Lloyd-Webber’s awful stuff
Runs for years and years and years
An earthquake hits the theatre
But the operetta lingers
Then the piano lid comes down
And breaks his fucking fingers
It’s a miracle
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Posted: 18 April, 2010 in Art, audio, Australian Values, Culture, Education, Internet, Life, music, politics and government, Religion, Sex, values, Video.
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Comments
Comment from wanderer
Posted: 19 April, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Dr Google has pointed out that whatever else is going on, tickets are actually now on sale from some outlets, eg GreaterBostonTickets, where you can get into (say) Madison Square Garden for anything from US$106 to $1,762. I’m not sure if that helps or spoils the fun.
Comment from laird lang
Posted: 19 April, 2010 at 9:14 pm
This is interesting, the Laird made a move to occupy Maryvale in Qld., some years ago when ’33s etc; were being discarded and was presented with mint Floyd and ancillary,such as ‘The Piper at the gates of Dawn” that he has to this day, played once to transfer to the disc.
I will have to play them again ( I have an excellent player and system to coax the sound) then tuck away again. In fact having had a look, I bought two lots, one have never been played and slightly thumbed.
The sound from vinyl with a good needle is of wonder, indeed I have a vast amount I have to get up and carefully change when the mood for , appreciation?, is called for. In fact(strong words:)) , transfer from vinyl to metal tape can also be excellent.
Always a source of wonderment is Sir.R. I have Jesse Winchester and Gordon Lightfoot , Mary Black, Nieve Parsons, a lot of the Alan Lomax collections, and the Library of Congress collections. Isn’t it wonderful?.
I have been listening lately to a six pressing of Jelly Roll Morton ,1927-30?
Great stuff.
With respect, the Laird & Lady Etc:.
Comment from laird lang
Posted: 19 April, 2010 at 9:34 pm
(We are talking vinyl ’33rpm. above). The collection in the music room is in the thousands, true, sounds bloated, however collecting for over fifty years and still, it is like an understanding, where I can play some music whilst I read and get an enjoyment from a relax of the author or the musician.
It’s not simple pleasure, it’s advantaged pleasure, and maybe being lost.
Probably why I champion Sir.R.
The music may well be , Ride of the Valkyries meets Swan Lake meets just another brick.
LL.
Comment from Roger Migently
Posted: 20 April, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Quick Quiz:
Which one of the following seems out of place?
1. Jesse Winchester
2. Gordon Lightfoot
3. Mary Black
4. Nieve Parsons
5. Alan Lomax
6. Library of Congress
Comment from laird lang
Posted: 22 April, 2010 at 2:57 pm
That will teach me from relying on memory, Nieve (sic) Niamh Parsons..although pronounced Nieve..
Also I think I have Black on vinyl with her family, I’ll have to check.
Parson’s album is wonderful “The Old Simplicity”, the best rendition of “1917″ I’ve heard, and includes “Blue Murder” and “He Fades Away” ,of interest to those who dislike James Hardie,s ‘ethics’.
Now Sir.R. will correct me. Oh well.
Comment from roger migently
Posted: 27 April, 2010 at 7:10 am
Now you are testing the limits of my dilettantism and have gone far beyond them. You must be aware, my Laird, that your erudition far outstrips my own but I shall research these people on the YouBeaut in order to extend my reach and my joy. I do think I have heard OF Neve but if it wasn’t the Beatles or The Righteous or Everly Brothers or Georgie Fame or Len Barry it probably went untroubled through to the keeper.
Comment from laird lang
Posted: 28 April, 2010 at 9:03 pm
For god’s sake Migently, the Laird noted Parsons version of ’1917′ as Anzac day,that this really does apply to,was to present, and hoped that a listen was required, and indeed that you would have found more truth in the lyrics (and tune) than most of the flag waving other combined. Albiet, like me, Anzac day is a private matter. Still, I do suggest you that you purchase ‘The Old Simplicity” , I feel that you will not regret it. The song it’s self you won’t find much of on the ‘Net. Trust me, it’s poignant.
Damn, one should be more forthright and less subtle.
Are we still friends?, by all means. That’s why I can chide, as can you.
Comment from laird lang
Posted: 28 April, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Ah, Sir.R. did some work and found a sort of respectable version(he composed it) by Olney, from Parsons view, she takes the side of the prostitute, far far better.. Laird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUIFYvztNfQ
Comment from roger migently
Posted: 28 April, 2010 at 11:48 pm
I have listened to some of her singing and you are right she has a sweet sweet voice. But of course I was straightway reminded of Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span and went wallowing into nostalgia. My favourite of their songs – oddly enough, you might think – is Gaudete .
The song of Parsons’ that I liked the sound of (couldn’t yet locate the lyrics to 1917) was “Clohinne Winds”. Nice images on this video.
Comment from wanderer
Posted: 19 April, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Fear Builds Walls.
Excellent heads up, the experience in itself suffices even if nothing is seen, just heard, and little remembered, if only the future fund hadn’t been already fingered. No doubt The Flying Spaghetti Monster will intervene on Sir’s behalf, foolish not to considering the publicity potential, and deliver third row isle seats in the city of choice, Canadian sensibility notwithstanding, the heads likely to be fleshed out of the desert make Phoenix and LA attractive. If by chance Sir R is short of assistants, desperate for baggage handler, pill dispenser (FDA approved of course), interpreter (fluent in American), sniffer dog distractor, butler, taster, script assistant, aide-de-camp (so to speak), and the very soul of discretion, something may be able to be arranged. Although, there is one draw back, as Q 23 in FAQs confirms – the seating will be together.
Belatedly, “And so say all of us” on your Millennial triumph, and nothing crashed, that we saw.