The Dark Side of the Moon Live was a worldwide

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by Roger Waters, lasting two years. Waters and his band performed the titular album in its entirety at each show, beginning at the

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festival on 2 June 2006. The tour featured elaborate stage design by

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(the architect of Pink Floyd's ''The Wall'' shows), including giant puppets, large video screen displays and a 360°

quadraphonic Quadraphonic (or quadrophonic and sometimes quadrasonic) sound – equivalent to what is now called 4.0 surround sound – uses four audio channels in which speakers are positioned at the four corners of a listening space. The system allows for th ...

sound system. The performances were divided into two sets: the first being a collection of Pink Floyd material along with songs from Roger's solo career, and the second ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' in its entirety, plus encores. Pink Floyd's iconic pig has been used extensively during the ''Dark Side of the Moon tour'', introduced on 6 September 2006, the opening night of the US leg, and since appearing at almost every venue. During the tour, the pig has often carried messages critical of the American government, Waters' socialist views, and the support of repressed Latin American populations, including indictments of discrimination and calls for the further prosecution of former dictators. A partial list of the pigs and messages featured at each show can be found at inflatable pigs on Roger Waters' tours.

The Performers

Waters retained much of the backing band from his 1999–2002

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tours, including guitarists

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and

Andy Fairweather-Low Andrew Fairweather Low (born 2 August 1948) is a Welsh guitarist and singer. He was a founding member and lead singer of 1960s pop band Amen Corner, and in recent years has toured extensively with Roger Waters, Eric Clapton and Bill Wyman' ...

, backing vocalists

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and

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, plus

Graham Broad Graham Broad (born 10 March 1957) is an English drummer who has been playing professionally since the age of fifteen, after attending the Royal College of Music in 1970. He is a former pupil of drumming educator Lloyd Ryan, who also taught Ph ...

on drums. Guitarist

Dave Kilminster David Kilminster (born 25 January 1962) is a British guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, producer and music teacher, who has toured as a sideman to several prestigious musicians, including progressive rock artists Steven Wilson and Roger Waters. ...

, along with Waters and

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, sang much of the lead vocal parts performed by David Gilmour and

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on the original Pink Floyd recordings.

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, leader of the progressive rock group Camel was auditioned to be lead guitarist and Gilmour's vocal replacement on the tour, but it was felt his voice could not reach the same high notes, although his guitar playing (often compared to Gilmour's) was exemplary.

Tour band 2006–2007

* Roger Waters –

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and acoustic guitar *

– Guitar (former member of

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, played with Pink Floyd in 1977 and 1980). *

– Guitar, vocals and additional bass (has toured with Keith Emerson and Spinal Tap). *

–

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, bass and

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(has toured and recorded with George Harrison,

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, Who member

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, and Eric Clapton). *

– Synthesiser,

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, guitar, lap steel guitar and vocals (has toured with Waters in the past, as well as with the post-Waters Pink Floyd, Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, and

). * Harry Waters – Hammond organ, synthesiser ( Roger Waters' son). *

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– Backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" (session singer who has recorded for

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and

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). *

– Backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "Mother" (backed the likes of Elton John, Clapton,

, and many others). *

– Backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "Perfect Sense" (former backing band member for

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), backing vocals, percussion. Solo artist, who sang the original version of "First Cut Is The Deepest", and "Angel Of the Morning", produced by Andrew Oldham, Mick Jagger, Mike Hurst, Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, and Steve Cradock. (Her original touring band "The Nice" was led by Keith Emerson, later toured on their own) backing vocals with Peter Gabriel and many others. * Ian Ritchie –

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, EWI and additional bass *

– Drums and percussion (part of former Rolling Stones member Bill Wyman's band The Rhythm Kings). Most of the touring band for Waters has toured with him and other Pink Floyd members for many years and even recorded with them in a few instances. Waters' former Pink Floyd bandmate Nick Mason played drums alongside Broad at the 12 June show in

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, the 29 June show in Ireland, the 1 July show at Hyde Park in London, the 12 July show in Italy, and the 14 July show in France. During the North American tour, he performed at both Madison Square Garden shows and all three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. On 12 May at

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in London, Mason was introduced on stage to play the second set, the whole of

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and the encores by Waters.

Tour band 2008

A small personnel change was made due to two of the band members having already booked April and May 2008.

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replaced

on guitars, bass and backing vocals. Chester toured with Waters in 2002 during the third year of the

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tour, back then replacing

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. Kamen is the brother of pop singer Nick Kamen. Sylvia Mason-James replaced

on backing vocals. Mason-James also toured with the Pet Shop Boys. These Roger Waters concerts were the first without Fairweather-Low since 1984, when he replaced

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, and the first ever without Kissoon (apart from Wall concert in Berlin in 1990, which utilized the male backing singers from the original tour.) * Roger Waters –

and acoustic guitar *

– Guitar (former member of

, played with Pink Floyd in 1977 and 1980). *

– Guitar, vocals and additional bass (has toured with Keith Emerson and Spinal Tap). *

–

, bass and

(Toured with Waters in 2002 on the In The Flesh Tour). *

– Synthesiser,

, guitar, lap steel guitar and vocals (has toured with Waters in the past, as well as with the post-Waters Pink Floyd, Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, and

). * Harry Waters – Hammond organ, synthesiser ( Roger Waters' son). *

– Backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Mother" (session singer who has recorded for

and

). * Sylvia Mason-James – Backing vocals, percussion (toured with the Pet Shop Boys) *

– Backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on "Perfect Sense" (former backing band member for

.)backing vocals, percussion (former backing band member for Ike and Tina Turner. Solo Artist, who sang the original version of "First Cut Is The Deepest" and "Angel Of the Morning", produced by Andrew Oldham, Mick Jagger, Mike Hurst, Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, Steve Cradock. Her original touring band ´The Nice´ was led by Keith Emerson, and later toured on their own) backing vocals with Peter Gabriel and so many others. * Ian Ritchie –

, EWI and additional bass *

– Drums and percussion (part of former Rolling Stones member Bill Wyman's band The Rhythm Kings).

Set list

The tour's set list remained constant after 8 June 2006. Earlier shows' sets differed in that they featured " The Gunner's Dream" along with a different running order. A power outage at the 29 June 2006 show forced an early intermission, and so the second set featured "Leaving Beirut" and "

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DVD release

According to an interview with Roger's manager, a DVD of the tour is in the works but until it is finished there will be no release date. At different points in 2009–2011, a DVD document was rumoured to be coming soon but to no avail. Not much has been heard since.

Tour images

Tour dates

Waters announced that he would be performing 62 more dates worldwide in 2007. The tour resumed in late January and February with shows in Australia, New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, and China. More shows in South America and Europe, including the UK, followed, with 27 US and Canadian dates in June and July. On 17 December 2007 it was announced that Roger Waters would play a single one off show in

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, Denmark 13 May 2008., but on 19 December, only two days later than the first announcement, it was announced he would also play at the

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11 May 2008. On 21 January 2008, a big rumour and a lot of speculation was finally put to rest when it was announced that Roger will also play the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in

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, on Sunday, 27 April, as the final night's headliner. On 3 February it was announced that Waters would also play in

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, on 30 April, almost eight years since he last played there, on 3 July 2000, during the

tour. Two more US dates were confirmed,

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on 2 May and

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on 4 May, both in the state of

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, again almost 8 years since he has played in the area. On 20 February, another European date was announced, this time in Granada, Spain, 9 May. On 26 February, what are supposed to be the last dates of the tour as confirmed by Roger Waters' manager, was announced, two concerts in England, 15 May in Liverpool and 18 May in London. Finally, on 5 March a second London show was announced. The final show of the tour took place on 6 June at the

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, Russia during

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. (1) - The show of 2 June 2006 as part of Rock in Rio Lisboa (2) - The show of 10 June 2006 as part of

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(3) - These shows are with Nick Mason (4) - The show of 14 June 2006 as part of Norwegian Wood (5) - The show of 29 June 2006 as part of Live at the Marquee (6) - The show of 1 July 2006 as part of

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(7) - The show of 2 July 2006 as part of Roskilde Festival (8) - The show of 16 July 2006 as part of Moon and Stars Festival (9) - The show of 7 July 2007 as part of

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References

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The Performers

Tour band 2006–2007

Tour band 2008

Set list

DVD release

Tour images

Tour dates

See also

References