{"id":806868,"date":"2020-04-28T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=990877"},"modified":"2020-04-28T08:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:59:45","slug":"flashback-roger-waters-performs-side-1-of-pink-floyds-animals-in-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-roger-waters-performs-side-1-of-pink-floyds-animals-in-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Roger Waters Performs Side 1 of Pink Floyd\u2019s \u2018Animals\u2019 in 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, Roger Waters<\/a> told Rolling Stone<\/em> that he recently sat down for a \u201cpeace summit\u201d with his ex\u2013Pink Floyd<\/a> bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason that ultimately went nowhere. \u201cI wrote out a sort of a plan because we\u2019d come to something of a \u2026 I don\u2019t really want to talk much about this,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the plan didn\u2019t go through.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan didn\u2019t involve any sort of reunion tour. \u201cThis was just, \u2018Can we release the remastered vinyl version of Animals<\/em> without it turning into the third World War?’\u201d he said. \u201cWouldn\u2019t that be nice? I actually suggested we go democratic. I said, \u2018Why don\u2019t we have a vote? There\u2019s only three of us. Then we can decide all those things like that and at least just go on with it.\u2019 But they wouldn\u2019t have that. God knows why.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exact nature of their dispute over an Animals<\/em> re-release isn\u2019t known, but it is their last remaining major album not to receive the super-deluxe treatment in recent years. \u201cI think it will eventually happen,\u201d Mason told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2018.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s just sort of slow because of differences of opinion about how to do it or what to put on it, but I\u2019m sure it will eventually happen. Of all our albums that have been re-released, that\u2019s the one that would benefit the most from a sort of reworking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sadly, any Animals<\/em> reissue is unlikely to include much material from the band\u2019s 1977 In the Flesh tour. It\u2019s one of the great stadium spectaculars ever staged and the band played all of Animals<\/em> and Wish You Were Here<\/em> every night, but they never bothered to film or even record any of the 55 shows. The only thing that exists are horrid-sounding audience recordings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just hit a period where everyone was paranoid about bootleggers and we didn\u2019t tape shows,\u201d Mason said. \u201cIt\u2019s great we did the Pink Floyd at Pompeii<\/em> thing, but I\u2019m sorry we never filmed and recorded a Dark Side<\/em>, Animals,<\/em> or Wish You Were Here<\/em> show, really.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameras were rolling in 2000 when Roger Waters returned to the road for another tour he called In the Flesh. Every night featured an extended Animals<\/em> segment where he played \u201cPigs on the Wing (Part 1)\u201d and the 17-minute epic \u201cDogs\u201d back to back, which is the entire first side of the record. Guitarist Snowy White, who was a part of the original Animals<\/em> tour in 1977, was even along for the ride. Here\u2019s video of this section of the show, filmed in Portland, Oregon, in 2000. (The \u201cDogs\u201d instrumental section is so long that Waters and members of the band actually sit down midway through and play a game of cards on the stage.)<\/p>\n

Unless a film of the Animals<\/em> tour suddenly surfaces one day, this will just have to suffice. In the meantime, let\u2019s hope that Gilmour, Mason, and Waters find a way to get past this impasse and get a deluxe Animals<\/em> out to the public. Pink Floyd fans have basically given up any hope of a reunion or even another Waters-free tour like the ones in 1987 and 1994. At least give them this.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, Roger Waters told Rolling Stone that he recently sat down for a \u201cpeace summit\u201d with his ex\u2013Pink Floyd bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason that ultimately went nowhere. \u201cI wrote out a sort of a plan because we\u2019d come to something of a \u2026 I don\u2019t really want to talk much about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 20:02:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}