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From Roger Waters Discography | | 1987 - Radio KAOS | Radio KAOSRoger Waters, 1987
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Release date: June 15th, 1987
Radio Kaos is the second album Roger Waters released in his solo career.
From the beginning of the Radio KAOS video (thanks to Michael Walker for this): Quote: Radios KAOS is the story of twins Benny, a welsh coalminer, and Billy, his handicapped brother. Billy is special, he has the super natural ability to receive RADIO WAVES directly into his mind. The pit closes, the village is dying.
One night, drunk, after taking Billy on a pub crawl, Benny's anger overflows, as an act of defiance he smashes the window of a hi-fi shop and takes a cordless phone.
When the police come for Benny he hides the phone under the seat of Billy's wheelchair. Benny goes to prison; Billy is sent to LA to live with | ... [Read More] | | | | » Pink Floyd Facts & History | |
From Misc. | | Pink Floyd - The Household Objects Project (Oct-Dec 1973) |
After the huge success of The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd was unsure about how to top that record's huge popularity. They decided, then, to return to their experimental beginnings by trying to create an entire album using only sounds produced by common household objects, thus the name "Household Objects" project.
Quote: N.S. I remember I went to E.M.I. studios in the winter of '74, and the band were recording stuff with bottles and rubber bands... the period I'm talking about is the before your French tour in June '74.
R.W. Ah! Right, yeah. Answer starts here... (great intake of breath)... Well, Nick... there was an abortive attempt to make an album not using any musical instruments. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but it didn't come together. Probably because we needed to stop for a bit.
| Roger Waters had done something similar in Music from the Body (1970), in which he used sounds produced by the human body.
Their unconventional instruments in the Household Objects project consisted of old hand mixers, aerosol spray cans, rubber bands stretched between two tables, tape, wine glasses and bottles, and others.
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