"I've only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we as human beings have a responsibility to one another."
Roger Waters has written about the costs of war in the past, most notably on Pink Floyd‘s The Wall and The Final Cut albums. And with Donald Trump now president of the United States, he fears the world is heading down a similar and frightening path.“It’s a lack of empathy that creates a true sociopath like Donald Trump.”
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Waters noted that “fighting is always about cash. War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made.”
And he’s worried that Trump, a businessman by nature, may see a lucrative reason for building up the U.S.’ armed forces. “All the Donald cares about is business,” he said. “He cares about winning and losing at business. He just wants to be the strongest country in the world and to dictate what he believes to everybody else, and he is trying to do so and will continue to try to do so until the resistance grows to the point where hopefully he can be removed from office.”
As Waters points out, he “actually pay[s] taxes in the States,” so his concern is personal for a number of reasons. “He wants to spend even more of [our] resources in this country on creating a larger Army, Air Force and Navy, and creating more conflict ’round the world because it’s good for business.”
Waters will be hitting the road in May for a massive North American tour that will keep him busy through the end of October. The Us + Them tour will include songs from Pink Floyd’s catalog as well as from Waters’ solo career, which will expand sometime this year with the release of a new solo album, Is This The Life We Really Want?, his first in 25 years.
He’s also suggested staging The Wall at the U.S.-Mexico border in protest of Trump’s proposed wall. Either way, he hopes the upcoming tour will make a difference in some way. “We have to organize our love in such a way that it becomes a potent and powerful enough tour to resist their narcissism and their greed and their callous disregard for the feelings of others and their absolute lack of the ability to empathize with anybody,” he told Rolling Stone. “It’s a lack of empathy that creates a true sociopath like Donald Trump.”
Roger Waters 2017 Tour Dates
Roger Waters 2017 Tour Dates
May 26 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
May 28 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
May 30 – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center
June 1 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center
June 3 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
June 4 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
June 7 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center at San Jose
June 10 – Oakland, CA – Oracle Arena
June 12 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
June 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Gila River Arena
June 16 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena
June 20 – Los Angeles, CA – STAPLES Center
June 21 – Los Angeles, CA – STAPLES Center
June 24 – Seattle, WA – Tacoma Dome
June 27 – Los Angeles, CA – STAPLES Center
July 1 – San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center
July 3 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
July 6 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
July 9 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center
July 11 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena
July 13 – Miami, FL – AmericanAirlines Arena
July 16 – Atlanta, GA – Infinite Energy Arena
July 18 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum
July 20 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
July 22 – Chicago, IL – United Center
July 23 – Chicago, IL – United Center
July 26 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
July 29 – Milwaukee, WI – Bradley Center
August 2 – Detroit, MI – The Palace of Auburn Hills
August 4 – Washington, DC – Verizon Center
August 8 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
August 9 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
August 13 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
September 7 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
September 11 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
September 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
September 15 – Uniondale, NY – Nassau Coliseum
September 19 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
September 21 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loand Arena
September 23 – Albany, NY – Times Union Center
September 24 – Hartford, CT – XL Center
September 27 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
September 28 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
October 2 – Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre
October 3 – Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre
October 6 – Quebec City, QC – Videotron Centre
October 10 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
October 16 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
October 22 – Winnipeg, MT – MTS Center
October 24 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
October 28 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
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