Posted on 07/12/2017 7:40:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Camera flashes popped as the bus-sized pig floated over the Amalie Arena crowd, splashed with Donald Trump’s yowling mug and phrases like “Welcome to the Machine — I Won” and “Piggy Bank of War.”
Subtle political commentary, this was not. Then again, subtle was never Roger Waters’ style. The Pink Floyd mastermind’s worldview may be as grim and dystopian as ever, judging from his spectacular, effects-laden concert Tuesday night in Tampa. But if America truly is going to hell in a handbasket, as Waters seems to believe, at least he’s giving it a proper, stadium-style send-off. […]
Waters and his band roared through Dogs, play-acting a farcical classist nightmare by donning pig masks and sipping champagne. Then came Pigs (Three Different Ones), which brought the anti-Trump pig blimp and a flood of savage graphics on the screen: Trump’s head on a pig’s body, a teeny Trump hoisted by Vladimir Putin, more than a dozen ire-inducing quotes attributed to the president (“The beauty of me is that I’m very rich,” for example; or “Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, I won’t lose a penny”). The video ended with four words: TRUMP IS A PIG. A few fans lobbed boos and catcalls in the silence that followed, but many more howled in applause. Then, on Money, more footage: Trump and Putin and Jeff Sessions, sports cars and beauty pageants and gold, Trump’s casinos alongside the Kremlin. Waters was drawing a line in the sand on one of Pink Floyd’s biggest hits: Pout and boo all you want, but this is where I stand. If you stand with me, sing along. …
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Entertainment 101: Do not tick off half of your fans.
He's a prepper Libertarian who reads InfoWars, voted for Trump, and who has the ability to separate the music he likes from the politics of the artist who created it.
I often say if I only listened to those musicians whom I agreed with politically, I'd have to listen to nothing but Ted Nugent, and Ted Nugent kinda sucks.
This is what is left of “music.”
Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms
have been replaced.
Good work, Soros.
Well, the late Johnny Ramone was a conservative.
Get the Pink Floyd concert DVD called Pulse. Pink Floyd didn’t need no stinking Roger Waters!
I watched the video. Quite good.
But, without Waters it just isn’t Floyd. He wrote those songs. He is a tool, but he’s also a superb lyricist.
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