Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features guitarist Terence “Snowy” White.
When Roger Waters put a band together for his 1999 In the Flesh comeback tour, bringing guitarist Snowy White into the mix was a no-brainer.
When Roger Waters put a band together for his 1999 In the Flesh comeback tour, bringing guitarist Snowy White into the mix was a no-brainer.
- 11/18/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Roger Waters’ massive, star-studded production of The Wall in Berlin in 1990, just eight months after the wall was torn down, remains one of the most surreal odysseys into the nexus of music, theater, and charity. Perhaps the greatest highlight during the show, which raised money for victims of natural disasters, was “Comfortably Numb,” which found Van Morrison and the Band joining Waters for the album’s climactic showstopper.
Waters sang his verses dressed in a doctor’s overcoat (a stagehand even hands him a stethoscope), and he faced the 60-by-600–foot Styrofoam-brick wall,...
Waters sang his verses dressed in a doctor’s overcoat (a stagehand even hands him a stethoscope), and he faced the 60-by-600–foot Styrofoam-brick wall,...
- 7/21/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this month, Roger Waters told Rolling Stone that he recently sat down for a “peace summit” with his ex–Pink Floyd bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason that ultimately went nowhere. “I wrote out a sort of a plan because we’d come to something of a … I don’t really want to talk much about this,” he said. “But the plan didn’t go through.”
The plan didn’t involve any sort of reunion tour. “This was just, ‘Can we release the remastered vinyl version of Animals without...
The plan didn’t involve any sort of reunion tour. “This was just, ‘Can we release the remastered vinyl version of Animals without...
- 4/28/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Thin Lizzy’s songs typically addressed badass rock & roll topics like bar fights, jailbreaks and medieval battles. But on Black Rose: A Rock Legend — their ninth LP, released 40 years ago today — the band paid tribute to their Irish homeland with a highly unusual and weirdly touching album-closing epic.
“Tell me the legends of long ago,” Phil Lynott sings over a rolling, waltz-time riff at the beginning of “Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend,” named for an old Irish song that addresses the country as though it were a lover.
“Tell me the legends of long ago,” Phil Lynott sings over a rolling, waltz-time riff at the beginning of “Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend,” named for an old Irish song that addresses the country as though it were a lover.
- 4/13/2019
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Title: Roger Waters The Wall Director: Roger Waters, Sean Evans Starring: Roger Waters, Dave Kilminster, Snowy White, G.E. Smith, Jon Carin, Kipp Lennon, Mark Lennon, Pat LEnnon, Jon Joyce, Robbie Wycoff and Graham Broad. Genre: Documentary The cinematic homage to the legendary 1979 Pink Floyd album, ‘The Wall’, intertwines Roger Waters’ 219 concerts (between 2010-2013), with his own personal voyage of the inner wall he had to break through. The British lead of Pink Floyd hits the road through Europe, from the UK to Italy, to reach the memorial of his father in Anzio, where the man died during World War II. ‘Roger Waters The Wall’ is enthralling both for [ Read More ]
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- 9/22/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
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