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ATD Article from Halifax, Canada Newspaper -- 10 Sep 92
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[From: Mike Merriam <cammerri@mars.cs.upei.ca>]
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Following is a review/interview which mostly covers old ground, but I'll
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include it anyway:
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"TV Runs Deep For Waters In Post Pink Floyd Days"
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From Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Halifax, Canada
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By Keith Leslie, Canadian Press, Toronto
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10 September 1992
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Roger Waters left Pink Floyd in 1983 in a bitter dispute, but musically he
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has never strayed far from his famous roots.
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Waters, 48, has again returned to the progressive rock sound that made
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Pink Floyd so popular in his third solo LP, Amused to Death.
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The 73-minute concept album, released in Canada last week, is Waters' view
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of the world as seen through television.
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He describes it "as a gorilla watching TV."
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"The record springs from my feeling that television is the single-most
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important facet in all our lives, providing us with a medium with which
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to communicate with each other for good and for evil," said Waters in an
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interview in Toronto.
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"It's a kind of two-edged sword and it interests me because it's so powerful."
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Waters ranks Amused to Death right up there with the Pink Floyd classics
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Dark Side of the Moon (1973) which has sold 15 million copies, and the
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1979 epic The Wall.
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"To have made two records like that, I was absolutely certain, really,
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that I would never make another one. I think I've made another one."
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While Waters still bristles at any mention of his former colleagues, who
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still record and tour as Pink Floyd, he's determined to let his music
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prove he was the creative force behind the band.
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His guest list on Amused to Death includes ex-Eagle Don Henley, Rita
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Coolidge and guitarist Jeff Beck, who is featured on seven of the album's
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14 songs.
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Waters had to send Beck a demonstration tape before the guitarist would
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agree to play on the album.
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"He's such a sweet guy," says Waters. "Jeff could never say no to you to
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your face, so he has to listen to the stuff in a separate room so if he
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doesn't want to do it he doesn't have to tell you.
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"But he did want to do it, thank God."
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It's been five years since Waters' last album Radio KAOS, which was
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followed by a tour that featured many gems from the Pink Floyd vaults.
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He hasn't decided about a tour this time, but if he does hit the road he's
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of "two minds whether to do anything from the past or not."
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He believes Amused to Death should become "a theatrical piece that stands
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on its own" so "the audience might have to wait for me to do something old
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for an encore."
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Waters admits he has many personal favorites from his Pink Floyd days, but
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he still fells The Wall was his best work.
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"We'll have to see how I live with Amused to Death, but The Wall is really
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the thing I'm the proudest of. I think it's pretty well flawless."
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Waters also wants to stage another presentation of The Wall in the year 2000.
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I did it in 1980 (with Pink Floyd). I did it in 1990 (an all-star
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production at the Berlin Wall). I'd quite like to do it in 2000."
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He just has to decide between his two preferred locations: "the Grand
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Canyon or Wall Street."
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