Watch Roger Waters play an epic version of Pink Floyd's 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' in 2000
A Roger Waters tour is a hugely lucrative operation these days that can pack stadiums worldwide, but that wasn’t always the case. He first went out in 1984 to promoteand struggled to fill arenas despite the presence of Eric Clapton on the first leg. He tried again three years later whencame out, but this time Pink Floyd was on the road at the same time.
He wouldn’t attempt another solo tour until 1999, initially booking shows at small amphitheaters like the 5,000-seat Nautica in downtown Cleveland. Expectations were very modest because of the fiascos of the past, but David Gilmour quietly disbanded Pink Floyd five years earlier and there was a massive hunger to hear their music in a live setting. Tickets sold so fast that that the shows were quickly moved to basketball arenas and 20,000-seat amphitheaters.
The “In the Flesh” tour ultimately ran for 105 shows across three years and established Waters as a major player in the concert world after 20 years in the wilderness. Here’s video of him singing “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” at a Portland, Oregon, show in 2000.live between 2006 and 2008, and then he went even bigger by resurrectingfor 219 shows between 2010 and 2013. The latter run grossed nearly half a billion dollars and he scaled back slightly with the Us + Them tour of 2017–2018.
Before the Us + Them tour began, he hinted that it might be his final big tour, and he kept relatively quiet once it ended. Nobody knew that he met with David Gilmour in June. “I came up with a big peace plan that has come to nothing, sadly,” he said. “I bet all Pink Floyd fans are sorry to hear that. They all hoped that we could kiss and make up and everything would be wonderful in a cozy, wonderful world.
He didn’t outright say the “big peace plan” involved a Pink Floyd reunion, but that’s certainly one way to interpret what he said. Whatever he intended, Floyd fans can be happy that Waters will be back out on the road next year. We may never have Pink Floyd again, but his shows are the next best thing — at least until David Gilmour does another solo tour.
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