Sometime back in high school we picked up some Zima at a bodega (and Jolly Ranchers, to drop in them, because that is what you did then) and drank our way to Yankee Stadium to see Pink Floyd (some of us were also eating a lot of sandwiches). Now, 18 years later, we can get the gang back together and do it all over again: Roger Waters is bringing "The Wall" to Yankee Stadium! According to the press release:
Roger Waters, the co-founder and principal songwriter of the archetypal progressive band Pink Floyd, has announced the return of the historic production of "The Wall" to North America in 2012. His aural and visual masterpiece of alienation and transformation will be performed in-its-entirety featuring a full band and state-of-the-art production. Roger Waters will return to New York, bringing the historic production to New York's Bronx landmark, Yankee Stadium, on Friday, July 6. Tickets for "The Wall" 2012 at Yankee Stadium go on sale on Monday, January 30th at 10AM on LiveNation.com.
Rogers says of the album: "Thirty years ago when I wrote 'The Wall,' I was a frightened young man. In the intervening years it occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with its concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, whatever!" Man, we always knew it was about "whatever"!
