The balance between old and new material in next year’s set will be “most likely 80/20, I would think,” Waters says. The fact that the tour is named after a Floyd song and not one of the new ones is testament to that. That’s not to say that his vision of moving on means foregoing vintage material in the Us + Them show. But moving on, we’ve got to save the world, man!” he laughs. I think it’s a great body of work, and I was just happy to use this weekend to tip my hat to them and to that band. This Desert Trip thing I accepted given the way the weekend was planned, which was sort of Rolling Stones/Beatles/Pink Floyd, and I thought, well, if I’m being given the mantle of Pink Floyd, it behooves me to take a good, strong, long, loving, nostalgic look at the work that David and Rick and Nick and Syd and I did together between 19. Obviously I won’t play the whole new record live, but I will definitely be playing some of the music of it. “I’ve got a lot to say, and I’ve got a huge amount of material. “My plan absolutely is to move on,” Waters tells Billboard.

But while it might be tempting to imagine his massive Indio gigs (and a trio of dates in Mexico City that preceded them) as a dry run for the Us + Them tour, he says this fleeting desert stand truly is a one-off, and the tour that begins next May will be substantially if not completely different. Waters’ first set at Desert Trip was heralded by many attendees as the highlight of a three-day jam that had such non-slouches as Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones for competition. Roger Waters Eviscerates ‘Racist, Sexist Pig’ Trump at Desert Trip

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