{"id":3469,"date":"2010-12-24T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T19:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2011-01-01T01:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T08:18:43","slug":"roger-waters-on-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/12\/24\/roger-waters-on-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters touring THE WALL"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE WALL<\/em>, today<\/h1>\n

“How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!”<\/h3>\n

Why am I doing the Wall again now?<\/em><\/h4>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Roger Waters<\/a>, in his own words.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently came across this quote of mine from 22 years ago:<\/p>\n

\u201d What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?\u201d<\/p>\n

I believe this is still a supremely relevant question and the jury is out. There is a lot of commercial clutter on the net, and a lot of propaganda, but I have a sense that just beneath the surface understanding is gaining ground. We just have to keep blogging, keep twittering, keep communicating, keep sharing ideas.<\/p>\n

30 Years ago when I wrote The Wall I was a frightened young man. Well not that young, I was 36 years old.<\/p>\n

It took me a long time to get over my fears. Anyway, in the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with it\u2019s concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns.: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever! All these issues and \u2018isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life.<\/p>\n

This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years.<\/p>\n

In some quarters, among the chattering classes, there exists a cynical view that human beings as a collective are incapable of developing more \u2018humane\u2019 ie, kinder, more generous, more cooperative, more empathetic relationships with one another.<\/p>\n

I disagree.<\/p>\n

In my view it is too early in our story to leap to such a conclusion, we are after all a very young species.<\/p>\n

I believe we have at least a chance to aspire to something better than the dog eat dog ritual slaughter that is our current response to our institutionalized fear of each other.<\/p>\n

I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to express my, albeit guarded, optimism, and encourage others to do the same. To quote the great man, \u201dYou may say that I\u2019m a dreamer, but I\u2019m not the only one.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Roger Waters, 2010<\/p>\n

Tour Dates.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n

“Very cool to see this legend in an interview finally.”<\/b>
-Reviewer Rob (after watching the Conan interview on Youtube<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I recently came across this quote of mine from 22 years ago: \u201d What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[574,606,578,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-lifestytle","category-news-commentary","category-reflected-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2006\/09\/04\/syd-barrett-r-i-p\/","url_meta":{"origin":3469,"position":0},"title":"Syd Barrett, R.I.P.","author":"admin","date":"September 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND A Panegyric to Syd Barrett Reprinted with permission from The Mag (UK) Roger Keith \"Syd\" Barrett (January 6, 1946 \u2013 July 7, 2006) by Alissa Ordabai The story of Syd Barrett is a perfect example of how not to live your life if you want\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "archive"","block_context":{"text":"archive","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/archive\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/reviewermag\/pic\/0000p7xd","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":351,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2007\/09\/02\/tearing-down-the-wall-of-sound-the-rise-and-fall-of-phil-spector-book-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":3469,"position":1},"title":"Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector book review","author":"admin","date":"September 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"[book review] Rock and Roll Madman Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector Reviewed by William Wheaton Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown is the latest biography of legendary rock and roll producer Phil\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "archive"","block_context":{"text":"archive","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/archive\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2008\/02\/24\/sailing-to-byzantium-by-yeats\/","url_meta":{"origin":3469,"position":2},"title":"Sailing To Byzantium, by Yeats","author":"admin","date":"February 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"No Country For Old Men\"Sailing To Byzantium\" \u2013 by William Butler Yeats That is no country for old men. 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