Roger Waters Tour information “The Wall” tour

Waters, with a full band, will tour with a show in which he will play ”The Wall” — Pink Floyd’s blockbuster 1980 album — in its entirety.

The show hits Madison Square Garden on Oct. 5, the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., on Nov. 3 and Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center on Nov. 8 and 9. The Philly dates and Chicago dates on Sept. 20 and 21 are the only multi-show stops in the tour.

The tour kicks off Sept. 15 in Toronto and finishes in Anaheim, Calif., on Dec. 13. Ticket prices and sale dates have not been announced.

Pink Floyd toured with a ”Wall” show in 1980-81, but only 12 shows were played in the United States — all in Los Angeles and Uniondale, N.Y. Waters also played ”The Wall” in 1990 in Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall.

On his Web site, http://www.rogerwaters.com , under the heading ”Why am I doing ‘The Wall’ again, now?” Waters says:

”It has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with its concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever! All these issues and -isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life.

”This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years.

”I believe we have at least a chance to aspire to something better than the dog-eat-dog ritual slaughter that is our current response to our institutionalized fear of each other.

”I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to express my, albeit guarded, optimism, and encourage others to do the same. To quote the great man, ‘You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.’ ”
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