Will Roger Waters feel The Dixie Chicks backlash?

[TomInTib]

Somehow, I don't think so...
I saw this at The Bad Place (sludgereport)



BUSH BASHING PIG HITS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Sun Sep 17 2006 18:53:38 ET

ROGER WATERS CONCERT TOUR HITS NORTH AMERICA AND NYC WITH FLYING PIGS, URGING DEM VOTES IN ELECTION, 'IMPEACH BUSH' WRITTEN ON REAR OF PIG FLOATING OVER AUDIENCE... One concertgoer writes: 'Seeing Bush's name written across the pig's arse made me howl'... The pig had graffiti. 'New Yorkers/Don't be led to the slaughter/Vote November 7'... another attendee played off the hit 'Another Brick in the Wall': ''We don't need no thought control,' even from Mr. Waters'...

Another sends a review: 'I attended the Roger Waters 9/15 show at Jones Beach, Wantagh, NY. At one point during the show Waters juxtaposed pictures of the President, Karl Rove, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher with pictures of Osama bin Laden, Mao Zedong, Stalin, and other world tyrants. Rogers asked whether 'these people are really are enemies'. This took place during his anti-Bush/Blair song 'Leaving Beirut' in which he claimed 'that Texas education must have really f*cked you up' and asked why Tony the 'US poodle/pawn' is a warmongerer'...

Developing...

http://drudgereport.com/flash3.htm

[MisoWeaver]

1. NO.

Most people would be too stoned to be able to read a pig.

AT least I would be...

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Two minor quibbles

1. It's "Democratic"

2. It's November 7th this year.

Otherwise, good show.

--p!

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Unless Repubs launched it to get ppl to go to the polls on the wrong day

Wouldn't be the first time they did that.

[theguvnorgc]

3. I have seen these floating pigs for years now...

I thought I was the only one.....phew!

[Wickerman]

4. ''We don't need no thought control,' even from Mr. Waters'...

Some fucking idiot who had never previously bothered to think about the content of Water's lyrics. :eyes: How can anyone be that stupid and still be able to afford one of those over-priced tickets?

[Wiley50]

10. Whaddaya Expect? The Article is from Drudge

As a long time Floyd freak having seen them 5 times in concert
( first in "71 (Meddle Tour at Symphony Hall, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center)

I can say that the reaction of most RW fundys who find themselves there
is usually a speechless mindblown awe

Come to think of it
that has always been my reation too

But, I always had weird chemistry those nights ;)

[Wickerman]

12. wow, I'd have given my right brain cell to have seen Floyd

in the Meddle era. Instead, I think I might have done it at an Allman Bros band show in 1980. What a waste.

[dionysus]

17. oh, you lucky bastard, you saw the Meddle tour

I'd give anything to see Echoes live, i guess i was born 20 years too late!

[tenshi816]

21. Did you by chance

see them during the Dark Side of the Moon tour in '73 at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium?

Some weird chemistry that night too! :hippie:

[warrens]

25. I saw that Meddle tour too, in Boston

I got turned off by them shortly thereafter, but that was one of the best shows I ever saw.

[dionysus]

16. eh, the tickets were 50 bux, about what you'd get charged for

any show nowadays

[Wickerman]

19. exactly

Almost any arena show is too damn expensive. When shows got turned over to the Tickettron then the Ticketmasters of the world we lost any vestige of affordable entertainment.

[lectrobyte]

5. I suppose the 0.0001% who listen to In The Flesh and don't get the

sarcasm... But other than that, I supect the intersection of Bush supports and Roger Waters' fans is a (nearly) null set.

So ya thought ya might like to go to the show.
To feel the warm thrill of confusion, that space cadet glow.
I got me some bad news for you, Sunshine.
Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel,
And he sent us along as a surrugate band.
We're gonna find out where you fans really stand.
Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall. -- 'Gainst the wall!
And that one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me.
Get him up against the wall. -- 'Gainst the wall!
And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon.
Who let all this riffraff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint, and another with spots!
If I had my way I'd have all of ya shot.

[zbdent]

6. Don't you feel like you're living in that part of "The Wall" now?

AAAAAAAAAAUGHHHHHHHH!

[lectrobyte]

7. Yes. This one, too, seems espeically timely.

Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky
Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the
Promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue
Sky?

Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all gone, but the pain lingers on.

Goodbye, blue sky
Goodbye, blue sky.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.

[ShortnFiery]

8. Welcome, My Son, Welcome ... to The Machine n/t

[htuttle]

11. More like Sheep...

"What do you get for pretending the danger's not real
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is no bad dream."

I just hope it ends as well...

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives he releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo,m he hath great power and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water.

[Atman]

9. No way. Totally different audiences.

Dixie Chicks were country, with a country fan base (read: red states). Roger Waters' fans are old dope smokers, young radicals, hippies, geeks, spacers, open-minded experimenters, people who don't expect the same crap every time they listen, progressive...a cross section of your average democrat, I'd say. This stunt will only make him stronger.

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. Agreed.

Subversive? You bet.

take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings
and they can appear to themselves every day
on closed circuit t.v.
to make sure they're still real
it's the only connection they feel
"ladies and gentlemen, please welcome reagan and haig
mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
mr. brezhnev and party
the ghost of mccarthy
the memories of nixon
and now adding colour a group of anonymous latin
american meat packing glitterati"
did they expect us to treat them with any respect
they can polish their medals and sharpen their
smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while
boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead
safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
with their favourite toys
they'll be good girls and boys
in the fletcher memorial home for colonial
wasters of life and limb
is everyone in?
are you having a nice time?
now the final solution can be applied

[lectrobyte]

14. The banners and flags hung on everyone's door...

Jesus, Jesus, what's it all about?

Trying to clout these little ingrates into shape.
When I was their age, all the lights went out.
There was no time to whine and mope about.
And even now, part of me flies over Dresden at angels one-five.
Though they'll never fathom it, behind my sarcasm, desperate memories lie.

Sweetheart, sweetheart, are you fast asleep? good.
'Cause that's the only time that i can really talk to you,
And there is something that i've locked away.
A memory that is too painful to withstand the light of day.

When we came back from the war, the banners and flags hung on everyone's door.
We danced and we sang in the street,
And chuch bells rang, but burning in my heart
My memory smoulders on of the gunner's dying words on the intercom...

[dionysus]

15. I caught 2 nights of Roger in Mansfeield, Mass last weekend

incredible shows.

the first night the pig said "stop the slaughter! vote democratic in nov"

the second night it said "save all our bacon, vote democrat!"

both nights the pig had "impeach bush" on its ass

the crowd went wild and loved it. I doubt you have many winger Pink Floyd fans.

the guitarists can't hold a candle to Gilmour but it was still great shows.

and both nights were totally sold out; the 2nd night was an overflow show cause the first one sold out so quickly. I've never been to a show where even the lawn was at capacity

[Jim Warren]

18. You think he cares? nt

[tenshi816]

22. I doubt that Roger Waters

gives a toss about what Republicans think of him, and his international fan base is large enough that I don't think he's going to lose any sleep over lost revenues.

My best friend's husband has a job in which he travels so much that he accumulates enough air miles each year for them to fly free, business-class, to various cities around the world to see Waters (they're obsessed with Pink Floyd) - most recently they went to Sydney and Paris, the lucky devils. Anything anti-Bush in a Waters show would make them even more eager to see it.

[Nickster]

23. Why does it say November 2nd on the pig and Drudge's story talks about

the upcoming election on November 7th? Could it be a rehash of an old story being brought up to show all that horrible liberal bias?

[dionysus]

26. at the shows i went to it said the seventh

n\t

[Beelzebud]

24. No because his fans aren't inbred southern freepers.