http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2015/10/15/pink-floyds-roger-waters-musicorps-wounded-veterans-music-heals-concert/74005796/

Very cool. 

Hi,
 
Yeah ... I find this more honorable than Gilmour simply collecting money for his yacht! Waters also did several shows of The Wall for these same groups of veterans, or equivalent, btw.
 
Roger maybe opinionated, but I have never found him to be just a lazy fat old sun collecting the dollars ... be interesting to see what his next album is, as he is working on another one.

My impression is that Roger mellowed quite a bit between, let's say, 1980 and 2000.

drewfx1
My impression is that Roger mellowed quite a bit between, let's say, 1980 and 2000.

I have several interviews with him, from the radio that I caught from various stations over the years. He was already mellow, after the surreal push of the original "The Wall", which exhausted him. It was actually nice to see him, much more relaxed on this second time around with "The Wall", although I will honestly say that the original was better, and my review is on my website of the comparison. This one was cleaner, digitally, but the nice flow of the quadraphonic sound was no longer existent and the wonderful liveliness of feeling "I'm there" is not longer existent, and the sound only went from left to right and right to left in front of you. The "ambience" was gone. But it made it easier for him, and all he had to do was sing a couple of pieces and play a couple more and just kick back the rest of the time! He was smiling a lot more.
 
I was not a great fan of the great brouhaha that the media made about their supposed feud by the way ... half of it was just fabricated crap.
 

It seems The Final Cut finally got it the rest of his demons out.
 
I've always liked Roger's persona.

BobF
It seems The Final Cut finally got it the rest of his demons out.
 
I've always liked Roger's persona.

The original version of "The Wall" that was shown in SF and NY only in a movie theater, was about 14 to 15 minutes longer and some of the footage you got to see in "The Final Cut" was in it. The cut up version that was finally released, made sure that the album fit on 2 LP's, because with the additional stuff it would have needed a 3rd. 
 
The songs and stuff in "The Final Cut" fits into the story in "The Wall", and makes it a much bigger story than Pink's ... and it actually helps make sense of a lot of material in "The Wall".
 
It's a shame, that in the days of the CD, they do not put together the original with all that stuff and make it a far better piece than otherwise ... but it lessens "Pink's story some, by making it more of a fault of the social system than anything else, which gets the back end coming alive with the court and all that, which has a tendency to make it look like an individual fault, and it is not necessarily so.