Comment: I consider Roger Waters as the biggest musical genius of the entire Rock music movement. I began listening to Pink Floyd at age 10 and I have listening to Roger Water’s amazing music ever since. This latest video is most definitely not his best recording, but that is not what counts here. What is important is that Roger Waters is most definitely a “fashion-setter”, a high visibility person whose influence on the musical scene is still undeniable. To have the author of the Rock opera The Wall now openly pointing his musical finger at the Apartheid Wall in occupied Palestine is yet another sign that opposing Israel is now becoming a fashion statement, alongside the Kufiyyeh and the “Free Gaza” slogan. There is nothing wrong with that: make no mistake about that – all political movements are fueled by the fuel of fashion. From the ubiquitous “Free Tibet” bumper sticker to idiotic “change we can believe in” of the Obama campaign – fashions and fads can be used as a powerful political weapon.
It is absolutely fantastic news that being anti-Israeli is now fashionable. The “Leon Uris” days of Israel worship are now over and everything Israeli is now greeted with quasi-universal disgust, as it should be.
The writing is on the wall for the last racist state on the planet.
I fully agree with you. Waters not only has a great musical talent, but also a very lucid political and psychogical conscience. Not only he is the author of the (almost) entire The Wall album, he also wrote all lyrics since the departure of Syd Barrett till he left the band in the 80’s. Among many others, the lyrics of “Us and Them” also are brilliant.
Would be nice if Jim Ladd would play this on the airwaves in Southern California.
Roger Waters, English rock musician and singer-songwriter, is most famous as the bass player of Pink Floyd. After 20 years of success with the band, winning four Grammys, releasing 11 albums, and selling 200million albums worldwide, Waters embarked on a solo career. Since 1984, Waters has release 7 solo hit albums. On April 12, 2010, Roger Waters announced The Wall Live tour, which will include a complete performance of The Wall, Pink Floyd’s eleventh studio album which was release in 1979. InSeats.com has unbeatable ticket for Roger Waters’ tour that will begin in North America in September 2010.
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