Columbia
Recording artist and Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters will tour the United
States for the first time in 12 years, it has been announced. Waters' "In
The Flesh" tour opens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 23, 1999 (see itinerary
attached), and is the rock legend's first tour, anywhere in the world,
since the 1987 "Radio K.A.O.S." trek. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer
last performed live, in 1993, for Don Henley at the concert for Walden
Woods.
Material
for Waters' shows will present a full cross-section of his music drawing
primarily from the repertoire of songs penned for Pink Floyd as well as
selections culled from his solo albums including "Amused To Death." Waters
cofounded the groundbreaking Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett in 1966 and became
the group's sonic architect upon Barrett's departure, creating such undeniable
classics as "The Dark Side Of The Moon," "The Wall," "Animals," "Wish You
Were Here," and "Final Cut."
Having
spent much of the past seven years working on "Ca Ira" (pronounced "sa-ira"),
an opera in English and French, Waters felt the desire to re-enter the
live arena, reconnect with his fans, and experience the thrill of performing
his classic songs live "In The Flesh."
Waters
(guitar, vocals, and bass) will tour with a full band of top-flight musicians
featuring Andy Fairweather-Low (guitar), Doyle Bramhall II (guitar and
vocals), Graham Broad (drums), Jon Carin (keyboards) and Katie Kissoon
(backing vocals). Fairweather-Low has toured and/or recorded with Eric
Clapton, George Harrison, Stevie Nicks, and Kate Bush, among others; he
has worked with Waters since the 1984 "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking" tour.
Bramhall is a Texas blues-funk guitarist who's been playing professionally
since he was 15; as a teenager, Bramhall was one of the few musicians the
late Stevie Ray Vaughan would invite to sit in with him and, at 19, was
invited to join Jimmie Vaughan's Fabulous Thunderbirds. The drummer for
Procol Harum, Broad has played with Bill Wyman & the Rhythm Kings and
can be heard on Roger Water's "Amused To Death" album. Carin has played
keyboards for The Who, Pete Townshend, Bryan Ferry and others. Kissoon
has sung with Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, George Harrison, and the Pet
Shop Boys among others.
It
is anticipated that the Roger Waters "In The Flesh" Tour will resume with
a series of West Coast dates in Spring 2000.
