2023 Rolling Stone, LLC. [1] Waters described the play as "part magic carpet ride, part political rant, part anguish". Before Roger Waters even took the stage Wednesday (Aug. 31) night for the second Madison Square Garden show on his This Is Not a Drill tour, the British rockers genial yet prickly voice issued forth a pre-recorded warning from the speakers: If youre one of those, I like Pink Floyd but I cant stand Rogers politics people, you might do well to fk off to the bar night now, he said with a laugh. Punishment: Death, read the screen early, localizing the show in a sad way as Waters put forth The Powers That Be, from his 1987 solo album Radio K.A.O.S. I pitched it a whole step down, in A Minor, to make it darker and arranged it with no solos, except over the outro, where there is a heartrendingly beautiful vocal solo from one of our new sisters Shanay Johnson. This cinematic extravaganza is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive and will include 20 Pink Floyd and Roger Waters classic songs, including: "Us . (L-R): Audio crew chief Jeff Stearns, FOH engineer Jon Lemon and system tech Alex Moore. Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, and many others followed. For one night only, Roger Waters, the creative force behind the golden years of Pink Floyd, presents his first Farewell Tour, "This Is Not A Drill", Live from Prague, in cinemas around the world. Philando Castile. My work is to think, Well, how can I make rock & roll more interesting or theatrical or exciting or visual or musical or whatever? Thats what Ive spent the last 50 years doing, expressing myself., July 8 Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. This cinematic extravaganza is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive and will include 20 Pink Floyd and Roger Waters classic songs, including: Us & Them, Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here, and Is This The Life We Really Want?. Waters discussed the tour in a video announcement that featured him rehearsing Comfortably Numb, Sheep, his solo song The Powers That Be and others with his band. All these arenas are different and add in being in the round on top of that and well thats a lot of reflections and surround sound coming back at those vocal mics on stage. It means Chadwick is active the whole show. Concerts will take place between March and June 2023. Roger Waters brought his "This Is Not A Drill Tour" to Raleigh, N.C.'s PNC Arena, Thursday night, Aug. 18, 2022. I turned it down, because I had given my word to Depeche Mode to stay with them on their next tour, he says. Pittsburgh, PA. Roger Waters: 'This is Not a Drill' in Los Angeles The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History The muted response to his cringe-worthy Ukraine comments could also have simply been a result of the crowd giving him a pass, considering how astonishing This Is Not a Drill looks and sounds; its an arresting spectacle complemented by an equally immersive sonic experience that manages to be loud as hell without veering into head-splitting levels that have you reaching for earplugs. Simulated sounds of gunfire accompanied the performance disarmingly. That relationship meant that TAIT was a natural choice to build critical elements for his This Is Not A Drill tour. In 2017, Lemon got the call to take the FOH chair for Waters Us + Them tour that year. Waters' concerts have always been both musically and visually stunning. This is not a drill.. We should all do more communicating, said Waters, illuminating the concepts dreamed up alongside co-creator Sean Evans which define This Is Not a Drill. That would be a really good thing., This is a BETA experience.