Roger Waters Setlist

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'Welcome to the Machine' is the second song on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here.^[2][3] It features heavily processed synthesizers and acoustic guitars, as well as a wide range of tape effects. Both the music and the lyrics were written by bassist Roger Waters.

Recording[edit]

The track was built upon a basic throbbing sound made by an EMS VCS 3 followed by a one-repeat echo which Waters would have played originally on bass guitar (which he overdubs an actual bass part to the song which is more predominant on the Stereo Quad mix). On the original LP, the song segued from the first 5 parts of the suite 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and closed the first side. On the CD pressings, especially the 1997 and 2000 remastered issues, it segues (although very faintly) to 'Have a Cigar'. This segueing is a few seconds longer on the US version than the UK version. David Gilmour admitted that he had trouble singing one line of the song, saying, 'It was a line I just couldn't reach, so we dropped the tape down half a semitone.'^[4] He sang the part at a slightly lower pitch, then the tape speed was raised back to normal.

Time signatures[edit]

Like many Pink Floyd songs, 'Welcome to the Machine' features some variations in its meter and time signatures. Each bass 'throb' of the VCS synthesizer is notated as a quarter note in the sheet music, and each note switches from one side of the stereo spread to the next (this effect is particularly prominent when listened to on headphones). Although the introduction of the song (when the acoustic guitar enters) does not actually change time signatures, it does sustain each chord for three measures, rather than two or four, resulting in a nine-bar intro where an even number of bars might be expected.The verses and choruses are largely in 4/4, or 'common time'. However, on the line 'It's all right, we know where you've been', a measure of 7/4 is inserted, shortening the sequence, and causing the left-right stereo panning to be reversed for quite some time. An instrumental section begins, with the acoustic guitar adding variations in its strum pattern, until it switches to 3/4 for a length of time, when a 12-string acoustic riff is introduced, ascending up the E minor scale until the chord changes to C major seventh. Finally, the instrumental section ends, and the second verse begins. With the lyric, 'It's all right, we told you what to dream', once again a measure of 7/4 is inserted, and the stereo panning is finally returned to normal. Incidentally, these two phrases beginning with 'It's all right ...' are the only parts to feature any chord other than some form of E minor or C major—these phrases go to an A bass in the first verse, and in the second verse, the acoustic guitar articulates the A as a major chord, with its C# in contradiction of the frequent C chords. The song remains in 4/4 from this point forward.^[5]

Music video[edit]

The music video was animated by Gerald Scarfe which was initially a backdrop film for when the band played the track on their 1977 In the Flesh tour. The fanciful video begins with what appears to be a giant mechanical axolotl crawling across a rocky terrain. The scene segues into a desolate industrial cityscape consisting of towering gleaming steel structures. A cylinder disturbingly cracks and oozes blood while a cuboid unfolds itself and the scene goes into girders laden with decayed corpses and rats (with one of them looking emaciated). A view of a barren landscape with a tower that extends from the horizon that morphs into a screaming unnatural form, which then stops to pant for a few seconds before viciously decapitating an unsuspecting man in the foreground. The head then very slowly decomposes to a skull as the sun sets. Finally, three buildings stand tall until an ocean of blood washes away this scene. The waves turn into thousands of hands waving in rhythm to the music (much like people at a rock concert). All of the surrounding structures are swept away except for one. Despite being pulled at by the bloody masses, the monolith survives and synchronizing with the synthesized sound at the end of the track, it flies upwards high above the clouds into space where it fits securely into a hole in a massive floating ovoid object.^[6]

Personnel[edit]

Music and lyrics by Roger Waters.

• David Gilmour – six and 12-string acoustic guitars, double-tracked vocals
• Nick Mason – timpani, cymbals
• Roger Waters – bass guitar, EMS VCS 3
• Richard Wright – EMS VCS 3, Hammond organ, ARP String Ensemble, Minimoog

Live performances[edit]

The song was performed for the first time on Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh tour. Gilmour and Waters shared lead vocals, although in initial performances, Gilmour sang on his own with some backing vocals by Waters. Also for the 1977 live performances, David Gilmour played his acoustic guitar parts on his Black Strat, Waters played an Ovation acoustic guitar, Snowy White played bass guitar, Nick Mason played his tympani parts on his drum kit with mallets, and Rick Wright handled the Mini-Moog synths and VCS3 while Dick Parry played the string synths off-stage. The live renditions of the song were complex because music had to be synchronised with the backdrop film and its sound effects. As a result, the band had to wear headphones and listen to a click-track which, in turn, meant that there was very little room left for improvisation.

Pink Floyd would play the song again on their A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour (1987-89) where Tim Renwick played lead guitar, while Gilmour played a 12-string acoustic guitar. These renditions were not synchronised to the film.

The song was performed by Roger Waters during his 1984-85 Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking Tour, on the 1987 Radio K.A.O.S. Tour, with Mel Collins as saxophone soloist. All of these performances were perfectly synchronised to the film. These live versions deviated significantly from the album version. It was also played on the 1999–2002 In the Flesh tour (only stills from the animation were used) and appears on the In the Flesh concert DVD and CD. Waters also performed the song on his Us + Them Tour (2017-18),^[7] in a version which resembles the album version, in which the music is yet again synchronised perfectly with the screen video.

Studio notes[edit]

David Gilmour's quotes on the recording process, taken from the Wish You Were Here songbook.^[4]

The only time we've ever used tape speed to help us with vocals was on one line of the Machine song. It was a line I just couldn't reach so we dropped the tape down half a semitone and then dropped the line in on the track.

It's very much a made-up-in-the-studio thing which was all built up from a basic throbbing made on a VCS 3, with a one repeat echo used so that each 'boom' is followed by an echo repeat to give the throb. With a number like that, you don't start off with a regular concept of group structure or anything, and there's no backing track either. Really it is just a studio proposition where we're using tape for its own ends -- a form of collage using sound.

It's very hard to get a full synthesiser tone down on tape. If you listen to them before and after they've been recorded, you'll notice that you've lost a lot. And although I like the sound of a synthesiser through an amp, you still lose something that way as well. Eventually what we decided to do was to use D.I. on synthesiser because that way you don't increase your losses and the final result sounds very much like a synthesiser through a stage amp.

References[edit]

1. ^Bill Wyman. 'All 165 Pink Floyd Songs, Ranked From Worst to Best'. Vulture. Retrieved 22 February 2020. ...this is one of the greatest sci-fi rock songs of all time.
2. ^Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN1-84195-551-5.
3. ^Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN0-7119-4301-X.
4. ^ ^abCooper, Gary. 'Wish You Were Here songbook'. www.pink-floyd.org. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
5. ^Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (1975 Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd., London, England, ISBN0-7119-1029-4 [USA ISBN0-8256-1079-6])
6. ^Welcome to the Machine video on YouTube
7. ^'Roger Waters Setlist at Meadowlands Arena, East Rutherford'. setlist.fm. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

External links[edit]

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking was the first solo concert tour by Roger Waters. It included performances of some of his songs from Pink Floyd of whom he was still a part when the album was produced, and a full performance of his first solo album, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking. The tour, despite featuring Eric Clapton (who was present on the 1984 dates only), under-sold tickets, but did better during 1985.^[1]

Tour set list[edit]

A typical set list for the tour:

1984

Set One

1. 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun'
2. 'Money'
3. 'If'
4. 'Welcome to the Machine'
5. 'Have a Cigar'
6. 'Wish You Were Here'
7. 'Pigs on the Wing'
8. 'In the Flesh'
9. 'Nobody Home'
10. 'Hey You'
11. 'The Gunner's Dream'

Set Two: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

1. '4:30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)'
2. '4:33 AM (Running Shoes)'
3. '4:37 AM (Arabs with Knives and West German Skies)'
4. '4:39 AM (For the First Time Today, Part 2)'
5. '4:41 AM (Sexual Revolution)'
6. '4:47 AM (The Remains of Our Love)'
7. '4:50 AM (Go Fishing)'
8. '4:56 AM (For the First Time Today, Part 1)'
9. '4:58 AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin)'
10. '5:01 AM (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Part 10)'
11. '5:06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)'
12. '5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)'

Encore

1. 'Brain Damage'
2. 'Eclipse'

1985

Set One

1. 'Welcome to the Machine'
2. 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun'
3. 'Money'
4. 'If'
5. 'Wish You Were Here'
6. 'Pigs on the Wing (part 1)'
7. 'Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert'
8. 'Southampton Dock'
9. 'The Gunner's Dream'
10. 'In the Flesh'
11. 'Nobody Home'
12. 'Have a Cigar'
13. 'Another Brick in the Wall Part 1'
14. 'The Happiest Days of Our Lives'
15. 'Another Brick in the Wall Part 2'

Set Two, as 1984

Encore, as 1984

Backdrop projections[edit]

Us And Them Tour Setlist

The backdrop projection was directed by Nicolas Roeg and between 1984 and 1985, combining Gerald Scarfe's animations and Roeg's live action footage.

'He [Nicolas Roeg] came to America and all the stuff he shot in America... Yeah. I told him what I wanted but, I mean, very broadly. I said 'I want trucks, truck stops, people get on and off buses, deserted cabins...' You know. After the going to the country dream has gone sour. Just broad stuff like that, but I never expected him to arrive back with these fantastic kind of circling helicopter shots of broken down cabins in the middle of the desert and things like that. He actually went there to shoot the clip from 'Pros and Cons' and so, he stayed on for an extra three days or something, just shot a whole bunch of footage and came back and said 'There you are!'

The 1984 tour featured footage during 'Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad', 'Running Shoes', 'Arabs With Knives (and West German Skies)', 'For the First Time Today, Part 2', 'The Remains of Our Love', 'Go Fishing', 'For the First Time Today, Part 2', 'Dunroamin, Ducarin, Dunlivin' and 'Every Strangers's Eyes' while the 1985 tour had uninterrupted footage during the full piece.The first set featured the original 1974 Pink Floyd footage for 'Money' and the original 1977 Pink Floyd footage for 'Welcome to the Machine'. The film used in 'Wish You Were Here' is the same that was used for 'Us and Them' on the 1974 Pink Floyd tour. 'Pigs on the Wing' featured footage of the inflatable pig suspended over Battersea Power Station. 'In the Flesh' used the footage of 'Waiting for the Worms' from the original 1980-81 Wall shows and movie. 'The Gunner's Dream' was a completely new video featuring stock footage and the photographs from 'The Final Cut'. 'Brain Damage / Eclipse' featured the same footage as on the original 1974 Pink Floyd tour.

Tour dates[edit]

Tour band[edit]

• Roger Waters: Lead vocals, Bass guitar, Acoustic guitar;
• Eric Clapton: Lead guitar (1984 only);
• Tim Renwick: Rhythm guitar, Bass guitar (1984 only);
• Jay Stapley: Lead guitar (1985 only);
• Andy Fairweather-Low: Rhythm guitar, Bass guitar (1985 only);
• Michael Kamen: Keyboards;
• Andy Newmark: Drums;
• Chris Stainton: Hammond organ, Bass guitar (1984 only);
• Mel Collins: Saxophone;
• Katie Kissoon: Backing vocals;
• Doreen Chanter: Backing vocals.

Roger Waters Setlist 2018

References[edit]

Roger Waters Setlist Desert Trip

1. ^Carruthers, Bob (2011). 'The Wall'. Pink Floyd – Uncensored on the Record (E-book ed.). Cooda Books Ltd. p. 115. ISBN978-1-908538-27-7.

External links[edit]

Roger Waters Setlist St Paul