Roger Waters speaks at the UN

[stonehart]

So how can we hear you ?

If you are in NZ I can flick you a PM when we are in your area and give you a free pass to the show as you are a Paracast member

All the technical work is being re done and the band is rehearsing again for "Dark Side Of The Moon" as the primary piece for the night.
The Technical side of things is the hard bit as the music comes together easy enough, our video tech is working on all new video footage to project during the show. We do not use the original Floyd stuff.. copyright issues so we need to have our own.
Our sound guy is demanding to do the shows in surround sound!!! god the cost of that alone should keep any sane manager up at night, and as for our lighting tech.. he always wants more.. and more fancy stuff..... me I just want lasers lol lots of them!!!

We do not do that many show a year even when we are up and running as the cost is just stupid... hell just for a mid size venue you can blow $10,000 easy these days and that is not factoring wages, transport, and advertizing costs.

Sponsorship is the key and that is not always that easy to get... The New Zealand Pink Floyd Experience have a nice amount of sponsorship, but they have being doing it longer and they are a very nice show if you have seen them.

Unlike them we do not do small theater shows.. I hate them... we do large clubs and venues only as they create a party atmosphere that mellows the crowd out... I really hate theater shows.. I can not say that enough.

But if we have to I would do them.. it just feels strange having people seated just watching... also the bigger the crowed the easier it is to play.. seriously small numbers of people make me nervous.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Some of my fav gilmour playing is on animals - my fav album. i consider myself an ok guitarist but some of the shit he does on sheep is really bloody hard to copy even closely. i think like you that i will take a player like him over any shredder or pure technique player any day. you can look at youtube and see a million guys doing this and that and they are all pretty boring.

 

[stonehart]

Some of my fav gilmour playing is on animals - my fav album. i consider myself an ok guitarist but some of the shit he does on sheep is really bloody hard to copy even closely. i think like you that i will take a player like him over any shredder or pure technique player any day. you can look at youtube and see a million guys doing this and that and they are all pretty boring.

Lol man agree on all counts there.

I have some very good scores to Animals, but even then it has/is taking me a long time to get them sounding right... animals is an often over looked dark little album with some of Dave's finest guitar playing on it.

I remember many many moons ago when I used to do the whole shredding thing a guy saying well that's all nice but guys like Gilmour can say in two notes what you did in twenty.. food for thought that.
So yeah give me Sabbath, Purple, Floyd, Hendrix etc any day... Melody it is all about melody.

 

[Burnt State]

Animals was also my favourite. Am having a Floyd renaissance after having recently seen The Wall - a little too much irony regarding the obscene price of beer and his anti-consumerist message. But his anti-war materal was brilliant and the concert transported me to an altered reality in the way good Floyd should.

BTW I totally enjoyed your musical conversation as two informed guitar skilled characters!

 

[stonehart]

Animals was also my favourite. Am having a Floyd renaissance after having recently seen The Wall - a little too much irony regarding the obscene price of beer and his anti-consumerist message. But his anti-war materal was brilliant and the concert transported me to an altered reality in the way good Floyd should.

BTW I totally enjoyed your musical conversation as two informed guitar skilled characters!

Animals and Wish you were here are always hard core Floyd fan favorite albums.

As for the price of the beer that will be the venue scalping on price as hard as they can get away with ... captive audience and monopoly on beer supply means they will charge as high as they can get away with. So yeah ironic when the show has a deep anti consumerism message to it I agree.

But the Wall shows I saw were very good and worth the cost of seeing a true Floyd show even if it had only one original member in it.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Lol man agree on all counts there.

I have some very good scores to Animals, but even then it has/is taking me a long time to get them sounding right... animals is an often over looked dark little album with some of Dave's finest guitar playing on it.

I remember many many moons ago when I used to do the whole shredding thing a guy saying well that's all nice but guys like Gilmour can say in two notes what you did in twenty.. food for thought that.
So yeah give me Sabbath, Purple, Floyd, Hendrix etc any day... Melody it is all about melody.

Another guitarist with an amazing touch I think is Mark Knopfler. His use of a volume pedal in 'Brothers in Arms' is simply some of my fav guitar ever. It's beyond expressive. I've always wondered if these players, such as Knopfler, who are left-handed but play right-handed (or vice-versa), have some really weird left/right brain shit going on that comes out in their playing?

 

[Burnt State]

Speaking of Knopfler: I can not count how many times i listened to Telegraph Road late at night in the dark smoking with the other guys in the band....

 

[stonehart]

Another guitarist with an amazing touch I think is Mark Knopfler. His use of a volume pedal in 'Brothers in Arms' is simply some of my fav guitar ever. It's beyond expressive. I've always wondered if these players, such as Knopfler, who are left-handed but play right-handed (or vice-versa), have some really weird left/right brain shit going on that comes out in their playing?

And another big influence on me when I was starting out.. all of that lovely playing is finger picked! no guitar pick! .. the up shot is you get a very mellow hand attack on the strings and can double pluck very easy. I am not sure about the right/left brain thing but hey it could be.
I am left handed but learned to play right handed lol, and thanks to the Nuns at the primary school I went to I can write with both hands... they used to smack me over the knuckles if I wrote left handed.

Speaking of Knopfler: I can not count how many times i listened to Telegraph Road late at night in the dark smoking with the other guys in the band....

Oh that song ... has to be my number one song they ever did... also took me bloody ages to work out how to play the thing .

 

[Burnt State]

It took almost three snowstorm freezing rain hours to drive into work this morning. Because of this thread I had stocked the car with Floyd discs. Got to listen to Wish You Were Hear, Animals and one side of Echoes Best of.

Despite the accidents all around me and the usual inanity of commuting, consumerism and advertising brain numbing procedures I was content listening to a much more sensible representation of reality.

 

[stonehart]

It took almost three snowstorm freezing rain hours to drive into work this morning. Because of this thread I had stocked the car with Floyd discs. Got to listen to Wish You Were Hear, Animals and one side of Echoes Best of.

Despite the accidents all around me and the usual inanity of commuting, consumerism and advertising brain numbing procedures I was content listening to a much more sensible representation of reality.

Well you may enjoy this one, when you run out of studio and offical live albums there are always the Roio's (bootlegs)

 

[Burnt State]

Thanks for that. Aside from seeing Roger in his most recent incarnation of The Wall I missed out on all their live gigs. Would have loved to have been at this one. I love their approach to songwriting as journey.

 

[stonehart]