Brain Damage visitors share their 2021 Floydian hopes and dreams! |
Written by Matt | |
Thursday, 28 January 2021 | |
UPDATED WITH MORE SUGGESTIONS! Read on to find out what a selection of BD visitors suggested, and feel free to send in your own thoughts! First up is Gustavo, from Brazil: "What I'd love to see released this year is the original The Wall concert on DVD. I've read on the AFG forum that Roger has the entire concert restored ('The Happiest Days Of Our Lives' footage included on the The Wall immersion set would come from that)." Carl Jacobs has a decent list of things he's hoping for:
Thanks Carl - hopefully food for thought for future releases! Next up, Luke Sanderson, who says: "It recently occurred to me that the 1992 La Carrera Panamericana special which was originally released on VHS and included some new band music was conspicuously absent from the Later Years box set. Do you know if there are any plans to at least get a stand alone DVD remaster? I have my old VHS converted to DVD and always enjoy a watch now and then - it would be great to see it brought up to date." Good suggestion, Luke! Another interesting list of items, this time from Dan Vacek in Minnesota, USA. "First the fantasy: Comprehensive releasing of live shows Grateful Dead-style, like the Dick's Picks/Road Trips/Dave's Picks series.
Dan continues: "Realistically expecting in 2021: "And hoping, in the coming decade:
Dan concludes that he is "above all, looking forward to The Saucers being back on the road. I think Live at the Roundhouse is the most exceptional thing that I've seen and heard in a really long time! I hope for more." Finally, Jonathan Webb is mulling over what 2021 might bring from a Roger Waters perspective: "I reckon that it’s going to be an interesting year for Roger Waters. This is all speculation of course, but I have found some evidence across the web that may point down some intriguing roads! "On Waters' US shop website, he's released a new set of t-shirts, one for Pros & Cons, KAOS, In The Flesh Tour, The Wall tour and the DSOTM Tour. At $40 USD they’re quite pricey (not including the cost of shipping to the UK!) but nevertheless it comes as a surprise that this back catalogue of sometimes overlooked albums is suddenly coming to light, especially in wearable form. "At the time of writing, the entire Pros & Cons Of Hitchhiking album (spare Every Stranger’s Eyes) has been made unavailable on Spotify, a major streaming platform. Luckily for me I have the CD, but why would Roger create a new t-shirt of the album, only to take it away from those who want to listen? Bizarre! "I struggle to find the link for it, but a while back I saw an EPK for Waters’ This Is Not A Drill tour. The band could be heard playing The Powers That Be, a track from radio KAOS, so it’s possible that this will end up on the setlist. I remember Roger talking about KAOS though, I believe he said he should never have made it. Thank goodness he did of course, it's an amazing record, but it's been a long time since he did anything with it… Why bring it back up now? "My theory is that a remaster and reissue of Pros & Cons and / or KAOS is due, much like what happened to Amused To Death. Possibly deluxe editions, especially for KAOS as there's quite a bit of music floating around that didn't make it to the album. "Picture this, a boxset including Pros & Cons, KAOS, the soundtrack to When The Wind Blows, Amused To Death, In The Flesh, the DSOTM tour (finally on audio and visual!), The Wall tour, Is The Life We Really Want? & Us + Them. Maybe a few other little things can be thrown in like the lockdown recordings of Mother etc., and of course it’s all remastered or redone in some way (save the most recent ones). "Ca Ira and The Soldier's Tale could be fit in as well if he wanted to. I imagine there’d be a highlights disc as well, like what Flickering Flame was previously. "I've probably done nothing but describe my ultimate fantasy here, Roger has always been my favourite and I love his solo works so maybe my brain is leading me in that direction. I'd like to think though that while it’d be mega expensive, it will be done, if not this year then sometime in the future. Fingers crossed!" Nothing wrong with fantasising, Jonathan, particularly with many people in lockdown, or unable to do many of their normal activities due to the pandemic! Our thanks to everyone who took the time to share their thoughts with us...it's going to be interesting to see how many of the suggestions or wishes above come true over the coming months (and years)! UPDATE: Since we posted this article, Lars Normann from Denmark has been in touch with his thoughts. Lars said: "2020 was a strange and claustrophobic year and we all hope that 2021 will be better!
"I'd better stop myself now, I could go on and on 😉 Hopefully we will get something from the Floyd/solo archives this year!" We've also had a number of people asking if there's going to be a Richard Wright reissue/remaster campaign or box set - with his albums now hard to track down, and the recently launched website dedicated to Richard coming online, it would seem the perfect time! |