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Roger Waters: Considering reprising The Wall Live show on the US-Mexico border

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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has said the band’s seminal album “The Wall” had taken on new significance with the rise of Donald Trump, accusing the US president of “creating as much enmity as possible.”
Songwriter Waters was making a rare public appearance with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason in London ahead of a major exhibition charting the band’s journey from minivan tours to the sound-and-light spectacle of “The Wall.”
“It’s very relevant now with Mr. Trump and all of this talk of building walls and creating as much enmity as possible between races and religions,” he said.
“It is about how detrimental building walls can be on a personal level, but also on broader levels.”
The rocker said he was “absolutely” prepared to reprise the album’s epic stage show on the US-Mexico border — where Trump has promised to build a wall — but that “there needs to be an awakening period... before something like that can happen.”
He issued a rallying cry to fellow musicians to speak out about “the right wing... raising its ugly head all around the world.”
“Music is a legitimate place to express protest, musicians have an absolute right, a duty, to open their mouths to speak out,” he said.
The 73-year-old predicted “demonstrations in London bigger than any demonstrations than have ever been seen” when Trump makes his planned state visit to Britain later this year.
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I hope he actually does just that.
 
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rainz

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I know im dreaming but I would love if this happened and David and Roger were on stage together again for it, even once..
 
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Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Knowing the Trump fanbase they will come to the show having no clue what its about and think its some kind of pro wall celebration concert.
 
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Ridley327

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Yeah, the show itself is pretty extraordinary. I think it helped out a lot that Waters sounds the best he ever has, but the staggering production values in the stagecraft need to be experienced firsthand.

And I will cosign on wanting Waters and Gilmour to actually reconcile and not quasi-begrudgingly cash in favors for one another.
 
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Vilix

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What a great idea. Caught his show in Germany. Thomas Dolby and The Scorpions had parts in it.
 
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