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Roger Waters about Life Earth. |
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Rolling Stone Magazine 6/2007 Why did you want to play Live Earth?
ROGER WATERS: I saw Al’s film and I
thought it was very impressive, very compelling viewing. I’ve since
done a bit of research, and at least 95% of informed opinion think
he’s right. Anything that brings attention to this problem for our
children and grandchildren is a good thing.
ROGER WATERS: So far, very little. I
find myself going to turn the lights off where I wouldn’t have
before, not to save the few cents but because it seems like a good
thing to do. And I drink warm beer, obviously, which helps.
ROGER WATERS: It will be different
playing with Dave and Nick and Rick was very special for me, and
from the stage it was quite clear that it was a special moment for
everyone. It will lack that. But I don’t mean to belittle my current
band – they’re great
ROGER WATERS: I’m going to do
shortened versions of a number of songs at this thing: “Money,”
because it seems that the love of money and power still drives
global politics. And I’ll do “Us and Them” – the unseemly scrabble
of world politics toward national and personal self-interest needs
to be set aside if we’re going to cooperate with each other to solve
this crisis that faces us all.
ROGER WATERS: IT would help if we
could divert some of our resources away from blowing each other to
bits and toward think tanks. Something has gone wrong with the
democratic process when you can get idiots rising to offices of
extreme power, like the presidency of the USA. George Bush – you
could not make a worse choice in someone to lead the most powerful
nation in the free world. ROGER WATERS: If it hadn’t been for Al Gore pounding on his lectern all these years, attempting to explain to us that this is a very real problem and giving us all the statistics, we might be blithely going on, trying to get everyone in the world to drive a Humvee. This is one more step in the process, to educate us and to encourage cooperation to deal with this problem, which could kill the whole human race. Info: A Fleeting Glimpse |
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