![]() This way is driven by the greed of the few. They’re still me telling my truth.”Īnd what truth will that be? “The new show’s going to be called ‘Us + Them’ because it’s really specifically about the line from this 1973 song ‘Us and Them’ that goes ‘With, without/And who’ll deny that’s what the fighting’s all about.’ Because the main message that I have to propagate, if I can, is embodied in the (concept) that the idea of perpetual war, which has been embraced by the neocons particularly in the United States of America, is an entirely wrong way for the human race to live… There’s a different way of organizing the human race that is better than this way. So it doesn’t matter which bits of my career the songs come from. My basic ethos and philosophy hasn’t changed at all over the years. And the fact is, because, whether it’s new material or from my solo career – from Amused to Death or Radio KAOS or Pros and Cons (of Hitchhiking) – or whether it’s anything from the records that I did in Pink Floyd, there is a general thread running through it. “You know, if people are going to come see me in arenas or stadiums from Shreveport, Louisiana to Shanghai, China, and if I want them to listen carefully to what I have to say, and I do, I think it is absolutely essential that I give them a lot of songs that they recognize. The balance between old and new material in next year’s set will be “most likely 80/20, I would think,” Waters says. The fact that the tour is named after a Floyd song and not one of the new ones is testament to that. That’s not to say that his vision of moving on means foregoing vintage material in the Us + Them show. But moving on, we’ve got to save the world, man!” he laughs. ![]() I think it’s a great body of work, and I was just happy to use this weekend to tip my hat to them and to that band. This Desert Trip thing I accepted given the way the weekend was planned, which was sort of Rolling Stones/Beatles/Pink Floyd, and I thought, well, if I’m being given the mantle of Pink Floyd, it behooves me to take a good, strong, long, loving, nostalgic look at the work that David and Rick and Nick and Syd and I did together between 19. Obviously I won’t play the whole new record live, but I will definitely be playing some of the music of it. “I’ve got a lot to say, and I’ve got a huge amount of material. “My plan absolutely is to move on,” Waters tells Billboard. But while it might be tempting to imagine his massive Indio gigs (and a trio of dates in Mexico City that preceded them) as a dry run for the Us + Them tour, he says this fleeting desert stand truly is a one-off, and the tour that begins next May will be substantially if not completely different. Waters’ first set at Desert Trip was heralded by many attendees as the highlight of a three-day jam that had such non-slouches as Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones for competition. Roger Waters Eviscerates ‘Racist, Sexist Pig’ Trump at Desert Trip
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