Rock geezer Roger Waters brought his nostalgia fest to the States Friday night, with the kickoff concert in New York City. Apparently the show was more or less what you’d expect: a lot of recycled hits from the Sixties and Seventies, a lot of recycled ‘tude—sticking it to The Man!!—and a big chunk of recycled pork filled with hot air. This last item has been a staple at Pink Floyd concerts for nearly a century now, but this time the big was bearing a timely political message, with “Impeach Bushâ€? written across the pig’s butt and “Vote Democrat Nov. 2ndâ€? on the beast’s flanks.
Okay, not so timely. This year, Election Day is November 7th. So, if Waters’ surviving fans heed his message, instead of not bothering to vote on Tuesday they’ll find themselves not bothering to vote the previous Thursday. If you ask me, Karl Rove’s fingerprints are all over this caper. Damn you, Mr. Rove! Exactly how much primo weed did it take to subvert a counterculture mastermind like Roger Waters?
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Snort Worthy…
Or rather, grunt worthy. Roger “I’m More Depressed than Morrissey” Waters is floating that pig again, this time with his Liberal/hippe/LSD propaganda. When I heard this I called Husband and told him to get rid of all those Pink Floyd……
i thought that dude was a brit.
what the fuck does he know about US politics, let alone think he has any chestnuts of his own in the fire.
and to think george washington went through all that trouble to keep the brits out of our business….
“This last item has been a staple at Pink Floyd concerts for nearly a century now”
Heh! The Floyd was a great band. When Waters split off and you could hear his nasally pc whining without the good music or Gilmore’s smooth vocals, you realized that the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. Or something like that.
This divides music fans as much as the whole “Diamond Dave/Sammy Hagar” question. I prefer David Gilmour, myself. Also, I have a problem with multi-millionaire would-be socialists from the UK telling me how to vote in the US. Fuck, as they say, off…
I saw Pink Floyd live – like 20 years ago!
Why on earth would someone want to go see Pink Floyd now? To hear the same five PF songs you hear everyday on your local classic rock station?
Listen to something new for a change. If you want something old then check out some jazz. At least you don’t hear the same five Coltrane songs on the radio over and over again.