Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on Occupy Wall Street: Economic Situation in U.S. is 'Fucking Insane'

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 01:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xtaZI7grys   Posted on YouTube: November 04, 2011 By YouTube Member: rogerwaterschannel Views on YouTube: 686   Posted on DU: November 06, 2011 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 12244

 
Pink Floyd great shares his mind on the Occupy Movement!

[LongTomH]

1. Another great video from Roger Waters

The Tide is turning

[DianaForRussFeingold]

14. K&R I agree, it's a great song and a very powerful video!!!

The "Tide Is Turning (Re: Occupy)" Deserves a post in videos...I love it!:yourock:

[Bjorn Against]

2. This is one of the many reasons why Roger Waters is my favorite rock star

I only wish the rest of the 1% followed his example and recognized the importance of everyone being able to live a decent life. Waters may be rich, but he is not greedy and that is very admirable.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Go on son, that's a good investment

And they knew it was shit...

Roger cares.

[Hissyspit]

6. One of the best concise ways I've heard it explained.

[davidwparker]

23. +1

[progressoid]

4. Tear down the WALL...

Wallstreet!

[DonCoquixote]

5. He may be an ass at times

But Roger has one of the strongest consciences in Rock and Roll. With all due respect to Gilmour, Floyd is nothing without Waters. And this comes from someone who wishes Syd Barrett did not implode, and went on to the glory he would have gotten, kicking the arse of those who got rich ripping him off.

[BeyondGeography]

9. It was messy, but they created some of the most timeless works of art

of any in the genre.

[esau]

7. roger

Roger dodger

[BEZERKO]

8. Yes it is fucking insane,

and I wish most of them would eat shit and die.

[sulphurdunn]

10. I think

most people are beginning to realize that they are not being governed democratically but ruled financially for the benefit of less than 1% of the population. The problem is that at least 30% of us think that's just fine and about 50% will continue voting to perpetuate it.

[Hydra]

30. It's more than 30%, sad to say

There are 2 groups- the people who are happy being told what to do if it keeps them safe(it doesn't) and gives them moral sanction to be assholes. Those are mostly republicans.

The other group are the people who are scared. Where will this all end? Lots of people even here fear the future. They would rather go back to the past, when things were "better" than risk doing something different, even if it could lead to a better world.

Ironic, isn't it? Greed and fear destroying our world. Our darkest emotions given form.

[sulphurdunn]

43. Double Post Ignore Please

[sulphurdunn]

44. Forbidden Planet

Monsters from the Id

[Mosaic]

11. Americans are waking up

The whole system is rigged. We must unrig it! Tear down the walls that hold us in bondage!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deCjXe14y7E

[Yon_Yonson]

12. I think we ought to build a house for the 1% ...

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own.
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings.

[ArnoldLayne]

13. Roger has always been politically involved. In the early 60's before he was with Pink Floyd

he was involved with the YCND in England. At the age of 15 Roger Waters was chairman of the Cambridge England Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

[Amonester]

15. The Wall and Ca Ira (Opera) Roger's Art is about the struggles

of the masses against greed and selfishness, the ever growing mass of have-not's vs the ever shrinking few of have's, the Us and Them divide...

Me thinks the growing OWS movement has a little relation with this:
Roger Waters' Stadium Tour to Kick Off May 1st 'The Wall' will also hit arenas across North America next year
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/roger-waters-stadium-tour-to-kick-off-may-1st-20111101#ixzz1cw77quAl


:yourock: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

[DianaForRussFeingold]

16. K&R Hissyspit,Thank you so much for posting this video!

:pals: I always liked Pink Floyd "Money,Brick In The Wall etc...
I never ever knew this man and he is so interesting!


"Roger Waters talks about upcoming 2012 Wall Tour":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLblBZYRL2s :kick:

[Ishoutandscream2]

17. I have had a love-hate thing with Roger

He could be such an asshole, and he has admitted it. At his show I attended last year, and throughout the tour, he's been telling audiences he could be pretty much a shit in his younger days. I appreciated his saying that, and of course I was grateful he toured the Wall. He is genius.

By the way, I sat side stage, and he faced our side quite a bit. I was very close, and when Roger did "Bring the Boys Back Home" everyone was seated in my section, no doubt anticipating the fantastic Comfortably Numb coming up next. I stood during "Back Home" and throughout the song held high a peace sign. Roger saw, pointed, and shot the peace sign back to me. A great moment for me. That album was released when I was 18, and it really spoke to me. A great experience.

[JTFrog]

18. It all makes perfect sense.

: Stop Dave
Will you stop Dave?
Stop Dave
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
Dave, my mind is going
I can feel it
I can feel it
My mind is going
There is no question about it
I can feel it
I can feel it
I can feel it
I'm afraid

The monkey sat on a pile of stone
And he stared at the broken bone in his hand
Strains of a Viennese quartet rang out across the land
The monkey looked up at the stars
And he thought to himself
Memory is a stranger
History is for fools
And he cleaned his hands in a pool of holy writing
Turned his back on the garden and set out for the nearest town
Hold on hold on soldier

When you add it all up
The tears and the marrowbone
There's an ounce of gold
And an ounce of pride in each ledger
And the Germans kill the Jews
And the Jews kill the Arabs
And the Arabs kill the hostages
And that is the news
And is it any wonder that the monkey's confused
He said Mama Mama, the President's a fool
Why do I have to keep reading these technical manuals
And the joint chiefs of staff
And the brokers on Wall Street said
Don't make us laugh, you're a smart kid
Time is linear
Memory's a stranger
History is for fools
Man is a tool in the hands
Of the great God Almighty
And they gave him command of a nuclear submarine
Sent him back in search of the Garden of Eden


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Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents,
Pounds, shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense

Little black soul departs in perfect focus
Hold on soldier
Prime time fodder for the News at Nine
Hold on, hold on soldier
Darling is the child warm in the bed tonight

"Hi everybody I'm Marv Albert
And welcome to our telecast
Coming to you live from Memorial Stadium
It's a beautiful day
And today we expect a sensational matchup
But first our global anthem"

Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents,
Pounds, shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense

"And here come the players
As I speak to you now, the captain
Has his cross hairs zeroed in on the oil rig
He's at periscope depth
It looks to me like he's going to attack
By the way did you know that a submarine
Captain earns 200,000 dollars a year"
"That's LESS tax Marv"
"Yeah, LESS tax
Thank you Edward"
"You're welcome"
"Now back to the game...he fires one...yes
There goes two; both fish are running
The rig is going into a prevent defense
Will they make it? I don't think so"
Look out!
Look at that baby burn!

Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Expressed in dollars and cents,
Pounds, shillings and pence
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense
Can't you see
It all makes perfect sense

[amyrose2712]

25. Love it..notice my sig line!

[DreamSmoker]

19. This vid made mr cry

K&R

[freshstart]

20. He's good...I just wish he would have included 2 more things...

Not only did they know what they were selling was shit....but they bet against their investors....to make more money.

And, some of their customers were pension funds....including state pension funds.

The NJ state pension system lost 23 Billion in bad investments.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/pension_funds_lost_9b_in_octob.html

And, now they want to blame the teachers, cops, fire fighters and public workers. They didn't cause this mess.

They robbed all of us...either directly or indirectly. And, I expect there will be more if it, especially in NJ where they have decided to up the amount of pension funds they invest in risky investments.

[Hydra]

31. He says the part about betting against it at 1:20 or so

When he comments about the "lovely investment."

He could have mentioned the second part, but I've been telling people for years that the Wall St. people need sheep to shear for them to make enormous profits. Most people assured me that I was out of my mind.

Well, I guess it took something this large and blatant for the excuses to run out. Arguing that it's a fair world doesn't make it so.

[freshstart]

34. You're right he does say it....I didn't pick it up before.

I don't know if many people pick up that this is how they robbed the states too.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/pension_funds_lost_9b_in_octob.html

It is no surprise that Bush's cousin George Walker or brother Jeb were at Lehman when they were misrepresenting their financial status.

http://www.thestreet.com/markets/hedgefunds/10286680.html

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/article805295.ece

[Hydra]

35. Yeah, ugly stuff

And thanks for the reminder that the Bushes have their hands in everything. Not bringing up Prescott Bush for treason may well have been one of the biggest mistakes in history...one that we will continue to regret, I'm afraid.

[freshstart]

40. You're right again!

They are under every rock.

Neil and the Savings and Loan scandal and the Lehman scandal that is never ending. Funny, how the states that made bad Lehman investments are the same ones after public workers....Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin & NJ.

And they separate Lehman's Neuberger Berman...and Bain Captial (Romney's company) purchases it. Of course, they didn't take that in bankruptcy court, and the state's lose out.

http://open.salon.com/blog/thomas_horton/2008/10/06/fuld_by_lehman_bushs_family_connection

[EC]

39. I always wondered why people think that when the

rich get rich it's no skin off their teeth (so to speak)or the way you phrased it, that they need to shear someone. Where do they thing the money comes from? The ether? It comes from other people. For years they just shifted the money around between them. But that was limiting, so they started thinking up ways to get our money other than through sales of product. They created fees and non-intrinsic product. Thus shearing us.

[Hydra]

41. Magical thinking

In the 80s, the idea was that everyone was getting richer, so who cares that the people up top had more?

The problem was that there were actually a lot more poor people, or people working more jobs. That's invisible to people who are doing well, even now.

In a very real sense, people don't know where the money comes from...it's really kind of discouraging that people when they see massive profits don't see that it came from paying people less or stealing something.

[ArnoldLayne]

21. kick

:dem:

[Laelth]

22. k&r for the Great Roger Waters. n/t

-Laelth

[SomethingFishy]

24. He's making another run through the States with The Wall

Starting in May. I saw it last year and am going again this year. It was far and away the best show I've ever seen. I highly recommend seeing it if you can.

[amyrose2712]

26. I second, third, and fourth that!

This year will be my 4th show. I can't recommend it enough.

[SomethingFishy]

27. Hehe I'm going twice this year

Denver in May and Nashville in June where I'll be backstage as the band I tour with is rehearsing for their tour nearby...

Last year I went with my best friend from childhood. We have seen all of Rog's solo tours together. Each show better than the last.

Now that I got one with him out of the way I'm taking my oldest son and my nephew this time.

[amyrose2712]

28. That is awesome! Last year we took different people to each of the 3 shows.

One we took my BFs best friend from childhood. It was the first time they had seen each other since high school. Surprisingly, they are still very much alike and he is an extreme liberal, which is even more awesome.

[SomethingFishy]

36. I love doing that. Turning people on to Rog...

Back on the Radio Kaos tour we took a guy who had never even seen a concert before.. He came out with this dazed look on his face and asked "holy shit, are all concerts like that?" LOL.. nope sorry bud, it's all downhill from here. The only show that can top a Rog show... is another Rog show!

[mmonk]

54. Plan to be there.

The last time I saw Pink Floyd of course, he wasn't with the band. Time to see him without David and the others I guess.

[jonthebru]

29. "Money" should be the song for occupation

It needs to be arranged for group A Capella with verbal sound effects for the cash register noises. Maybe a Kazoo or real sax for the solo and clapping at the fantastic tempo change in the middle that leads to David Gilmour's solo.
Then turn it into a group sing, fantastic relevant lyrics poking fun at the 1%.


Money

Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're okay
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money get back
I'm alright Jack keep your hands off my stack.
Money it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a Lear jet

Money it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away

[DeSwiss]

32. K&R n/t

[SalviaBlue]

33. K&R

[joeglow3]

37. Is he dying?

He is the epitome of the 1% (net worth of $145 million). He must feel guilty about taking all that money and is trying to redeem himself before dying.

[Lunabelle]

45. He is an artist and created art. He deserves his fame and fortune

The banksters don't create anything but money for themselves.

[joeglow3]

49. You realize bankster represent a tiny fraction of the 1%

Are you saying that is all you are protesting? How do you determine which of the 1% are cool for the money they have taken and which are not?

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/ro... /

Sorry, but NO ONE needs $145,000,000. I don't care how they got the money: THEY are part of the problem and not the solution.

[Ken Burch]

46. Musicians making money isn't the same thing as banksters making it

And, if he had the kind of sucky management most Sixties and Seventies musicians had, Roger probably didn't make that much.

Were you one of the people who gave John Lennon shit for writing "Imagine no possessions"?

This beats hell out of all of Bono's hypocritical sucking up to the megawealthy, little of which has ever helped the poor at all.

[joeglow3]

48. You realize bankster represent a tiny fraction of the 1%

Are you saying that is all you are protesting? How do you determine which of the 1% are cool for the money they have taken and which are not?

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/roger-waters-net-worth/

Sorry, but NO ONE needs $145,000,000. I don't care how they got the money: THEY are part of the problem and not the solution.

[Ken Burch]

50. I'm protesting those who are part of the problem

The financial types and the business types are-musicians(unless they're actively backing the right-wing greed machine or living primarily for their own self-indulgence-aren't.

What we need for people like Roger to do is to be part of the solution.

It's not like I'm defending Madonna or the Stones or Metallica here.

[OwnedByFerrets]

38. If you've never heard it, listen to Amused to Death. Please.

[Flatulo]

42. I love 'Amused'... Roger's best post-Floyd work.

The man's lyrics really hit home.

[amyrose2712]

51. +1000

[Initech]

47. Economic situation everywhere is fucking insane.

Seriously - if Greece goes down, we may all go down with 'em. I'm scared shitless right now. :yoiks:

[go west young man]

52. The thread at this You Tube page is heating up.

It would be great if some DU'ers got on it and added to the debate as the RW trolls are consistently bashing Waters.

[CHOCOLATMIMOSA]

53. K&R