Roger Waters Channels Pink Floyd, Slams Donald Trump in ‘Us + Them’ Tour Preview – Variety. As a preview of both his new album — “Is This the Life We Really Want?,” due June 2 on Columbia Records — and an upcoming, large scale tour promoted by AEG Live’s Concerts West division — “Us + Them,” which launches May 2. Kansas City — Roger Waters held an elaborate late- afternoon dress rehearsal at the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey on Sunday. The event, ostensibly for “friends and family” (and what Waters teased was “friends and families of those families, then some more friends and families of those friends and families, and so on”), saw the 7. Beck drummer Joey Waronker — through a powerful 2.

Directed by Sean Evans, Roger Waters. With Roger Waters, Dave Kilminster, Snowy White, G.E. Smith. Details one of the most elaborately staged theatrical productions. The rock opera "Pink Floyd: The Wall," first performed in 1978, came at a time when some rock artists were taking themselves very seriously indeed. While the Beatles. The Wall is the eleventh studio album by Pink Floyd, released in 1979. It is their last studio album to feature Richard Wright, who was fired during the. In this unflinchingly bleak era of nationalism and despotic madmen profiting from institutionalized intolerance, listening to a Roger Waters record doesn’t sound. Hear Roger Waters' Lush New Song 'Deja Vu' Rocker unveils second track off 'Is This the Life We Really Want?'. In an interveiw during the early 1980's, after the last of Pink Floyd's Wall concerts, Roger Waters was asked if he would ever perform The Wall again. Roger Waters wrapped up his three-year Wall tour in September, and since then he's turned his attention toward his first rock album since 1992's Amused to Death.

Included was the live debut of four songs from the new album — “Déjà Vu,” “The Last Refugee,” “Picture That” and “Smell the Roses” — while the rest were from his classic Pink Floyd songbook. Photo: Kate Izor. The newer songs — the acoustic “Déjà Vu,” reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, the harshly rocking “Picture That” — fit into Waters’ larger Pink Floyd oeuvre with ease, as did the look of the show. Us + Them Artistic Director Sean Evans has crafted an audio- visual vision very much in league with Waters’ Pink Floyd past: a 3.

D surround- sound speaker system emulating the “quadrophonic” sound of “Dark Side of the Moon” (and that 1. LED screen; ample use of the handshake imagery from 1. Wish You Were Here” (used in both peaceful moments as well as depicting sarcasm, lies and affronts to human dignity); and the power station and flying pigs from 1. Animals” — the latter of which was updated to scabrous effect.

The Pink Floyd Movie Synchronization Story. The Most Comprehensive List of Pink Floyd Movie Connections on the Web. By Andrew C. Wendland. acw_echoes2001.no-spam@no. For the first of three shows at Staples Center, Roger Waters brought the focus to the entirety of his catalog, with an without Pink Floyd.

Photo: Kate Izor. The floating inflatable pigs were a highlight of the two- and- a- half- hour show. During the long, stuttering “Pigs (Three Different Ones),” an anti- Trump- image was projected on one side of the pig, while split video screens featured Trump quotes and mocking shots of him in various degrees of loathing and laughter. As Waters repeated the words “charade, charade,” during the taunting “Pigs,” images of Trump holding a large dildo, wearing lipstick and as a rotund Buddah (with a small penis) flashed upon the screen. There was also one final message: “F— TRUMP.”While the visual aspect of “Us + Them” was pure spectacle, the setlist was the anchor. From the ambient swell of “Eclipse” and “Brain Damage” to a ragged run at “Money,” from the haunted art- jazz of “Us and Them” to the glower of Waters’ voice on “Picture This,” the show was an exquisite first look at the feel- good- to- feel- bad- show of the summer.

Set One: Speak to Me/Breathe. One of These Days.

Time. Breathe (Reprise)The Great Gig in the Sky. Déjà Vu. The Last Refugee. Picture That. Welcome to the Machine. Wish You Were Here.

The Happiest Days of Our Lives. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2. Another Brick in the Wall Part 3. Set 2: Dogs. Pigs (Three Different Ones)Money. Us and Them. Smell the Roses.

Brain Damage. Eclipse. Watch Murder Download. Encore: Vera. Bring the Boys Back Home.

Comfortably Numb.