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11 January 2008
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" - The Musical I was just reading an interview with Nick Mason in the new Mojo: "Mason added that waters was working towards a 2009 debut for his musical version of The Wall - 'he's gonna cheer it up a bit; it'll be like The Sound of Music but with bricks in it'."
The ultimate example of the water/oil nature of R&R and Musical theater was the High Fidelity musical. Talk about tone deaf... every character in that show was singing songs that the characters themselves would have absolutely despised. Yeesh.
Many many years ago, I read a review of his The Wall concert at the recently-demolished Berlin Wall. It was entitled "Another Prick in the Wall". 'Nuff said.
I still like "Comfoprtably Numb" pretty well, since I stopped listening to the radio. "Classic rock" programming would surely have killed it for me by now.
While we're on the subject of Floyd: I highly recommend this to anyone who's even remotely interested in the band. I never really got into Animals when it came out, but that recording makes it sound good. Fantastic late-night listening.
Oh, i swing with the bmark. "Comfortably Numb" has been covered so often i don't know if i can hear it again for a decades, while WYWH i have eschewed for my own pleasure. Meet you all in IRC.
For a time, Animals was my favorite Floyd album, bmarkey. This looks fascinating- thanks!
As long as we're talking about geeky Floyd stuff: I have a CD of the soundtrack to The Wall, the movie... it's the re-recorded music you hear throughout the film, which was supposed to be released around the time the movie came out, but then the whole Falklands mess happened and Roger Waters (according to legend) nixed the soundtrack release and instead released The Final Cut. (Which, mind you, is an excellent album.) It has the song "When The Tigers Broke Free," which was written for the movie I think, and also has "Empty Spaces," the song that was on the liner notes for The Wall but not on the actual album.
Would there be any interest if I made the soundtrack album available? (It won't be tonight, but it might be this weekend.)
Y'know, I'd like to be able to hear The Wall with fresh ears again. I was 19 when it came out, and quite liked it. Now all I can hear is Waters' pretension and spite. If you hate your audience that much, maybe it's time to look into another career.
If you hate your audience that much, maybe it's time to look into another career.
This is what got me curious about Pink Floyd.. I was only 14 when The Wall came out, but I was already interested in bitter rock stars. The Wall was actually my first PF album- I only got into their older stuff after the fact. I was 14 at the time- I'm not embarrassed to say it blew my mind at the time.
I still think Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the double album, would make for a great musical virtually intact if with a bit of reshuffling.
I like that Waters is showing so much concern with the book for The Wall, and if the humor is self-deprecating, directed at the 'bitter rock star', all the better. I wonder if Waters has talked to Bob Ezrin (the producer who popularized the Alice Cooper Group) about the conversion since the theatrical elements of the original album are probably more his doing than that of Waters and Gilmour. If Waters limits the orchestra to just one keyboardist, a couple guitars, bass and drums, he could pull this off.
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