2000 - In The Flesh

[The Piper]

Release date: December 5th, 2000

From the Roger Waters official site:

Columbia recording artist and Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters toured the United States for the first time in 12 years in 1999-2000 with his highly-acclaimed "In The Flesh" show which presented, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of Waters' music including: early Pink Floyd material; classic compositions from his masterpieces "The Wall" and "Dark Side Of The Moon"; less well-known pieces from "Animals," "Wish You Were Here," and "The Final Cut"; songs from the solo tours de force "Amused To Death" and "The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking"; and the debut of a new song "Each Small Candle." The overwhelming demand for tickets made every performance of "In The Flesh" an SRO event.

On December 5, Columbia Records released the eagerly anticipated "In The Flesh," a two-CD recording of the entire live show (drawn from performances in Phoenix, Arizona, Las Vegas, Nevada, Irvine, California, and Portland, Oregon) and Waters' first full-length release since 1992's "Amused To Death."

A deluxe DVD version of "In The Flesh"--featuring a Hi Definition live concert video with 5.1 Dolby Digital and LPCM Stereo music mixes, a 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary, band biographies, still photographs, projected images, lyrics, and more--is currently in the works with a release date TBA.

"In The Flesh" is produced and mixed by longtime collaborator James Guthrie, who has worked on Waters' music since co-producing and engineering "The Wall" in 1978 and has remastered the entire Pink Floyd catalog. Guthrie recorded the concerts as a 48-track analog recording before mixing it down to high resolution digital. "I just like the sound of analog," says Guthrie. "It's much more resolute. It's more real. It breathes. It's more three-dimensional."

James Guthrie: "The strength of this record is to hear Roger performing such a great cross-section of material from very early Pink Floyd, i.e. 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun,' to more contemporary Pink Floyd to Roger's solo career. It's a very dynamic performance. They are all important pieces of music."

Throughout the U.S. tour, critics praised the power of Waters' performances, the timelessness of his music, the show's intimate production values and seamless structure. The San Jose Mercury News reported that the show "was rock as art, with the kind of concern for sound rarely seen today." And the Fort Worth Star Telegram raved that "his long, luscious two-set show made up mainly of Floyd classics was on a more human scale? this show felt like a celebration." The Los Angeles Times was equally enthusiastic and wrote, "the show illustrated the extent to which Waters operatic rock has influenced generations."

The first verse of "Each Small Candle" was written by a South American who'd been a victim of torture. An Italian journalist, active in the initiative against torture in Northern Italy, had given Waters the short poem years ago. The poem lay in a drawer in Waters' studio until, during the crisis in Kosovo, he read a piece in The London Times describing a Serbian soldier who saw an Albanian woman lying in a burned-out building. The soldier left his platoon to give aid to the woman, then rejoined his men and marched off. The image inspired Waters to set the short poem, "Each Small Candle," to music and pen additional lyrics. It is the song that closes In The Flesh.

Tracks:

• In The Flesh [from "The Wall"] (Waters)
• The Happiest Days Of Our Lives [from "The Wall"] (Waters)
• Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 [from "The Wall"] (Waters)
• Mother [from "The Wall"] (Waters)
• Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert [from "The Final Cut"] (Waters)
• Southampton Dock [from "The Final Cut"] (Waters)
• Pigs On The Wing, Part 1 [from "Animals"] (Waters)
• Dogs [from "Animals"] (Waters, Gilmour)
• Welcome To The Machine [from "Wish You Were Here"](Waters)
• Wish You Were Here [from "Wish You Were Here"](Waters, Gilmour)
• Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-8) [from "Wish You Were Here"](Waters, Gilmour, Wright)
• Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun [from "Saucerful Of Secrets"] (Waters)
• Breathe (In The Air)" [from "Dark Side Of The Moon"](Waters, Gilmour, Wright)
• Time [from "Dark Side Of The Moon"] (Mason, Gilmour, Waters, Wright)
• Money [from "Dark Side Of The Moon"] (Waters)
• Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking Part 11 (aka 5:06 a.m. - Every Stranger's Eyes) [from "The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking"] (Waters)
• Perfect Sense (Parts I and II) [from "Amused To Death"] (Waters)
• The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range [from "Amused To Death"] (Waters)
• It's A Miracle [from "Amused To Death"] (Waters)
• Amused To Death [from "Amused To Death"] (Waters)
• Brain Damage [from "Dark Side Of The Moon"] (Waters)
• Eclipse [from "Dark Side Of The Moon"] (Waters)
• Comfortably Numb [from "The Wall"] (Gilmour, dWaters)
• Each Small Candle (new song) (Waters)

Musicians Featured:

• Roger Waters: Guitar, Vocals, Bass Guitar
• Andy Fairweather-Low: Guitar, Bass, Vocals
• Snowy White: Guitar
• Doyle Bramhall II: Guitar, Vocals
• Graham Broad: Drums
• Jon Carin: Keyboards, Lap Steel, Programming, Guitar, Vocals
• Andy Wallace: Hammond, Keyboards
• Katie Kissoon: Vocals
• Susannah Melvoin: Vocals
• PP Arnold: Backing Vocals