#jim ladd

I am kissing you on the lips anon

Hmmmm obscure let’s see... Roger thinks David G is smokin’ hot. lol kidding... unless?

I learned from the Rogan podcast that he’s a fan of Neil Young! Roger doesn’t listen to a lot of rock or contemporary music (ok boomer) but he likes that singer songwriter kind of stuff which I find interesting!

During his Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking tour, Roger worked once again with artist Gerald Scarfe (famously did The Wall art and music videos for WYWH album, he’s a baddie we love Gerald) and Gerald drew Roger in the persona of a dog for the tour art. I find it unsettling lmao oh and it was named “Reg,” photo below

Roger hates his album Radio K.A.O.S. because at the time of recording he decided to make it sound contemporary. This was during the 80s, and subsequent listening after that time period truly does date it significantly. Some may like it, I love several songs on the album, but like roger I can see why he’d dislike it. Still, he played a phenomenal arrangement of The Powers That Be on his current This Is Not A Drill Tour. And man, you could feel that Precision Bass right in your bones in that arena.

Roger worked on an album in the 70s called Music From The Body with Ron Geesin. This accompanies a film I have never seen in it’s entirety, but it’s sort of an educational film about different parts of the body. Beautiful music mixed with strange experimental recording techniques to make bodily sounds. Seashell and Stone is absolutely lovely though!

Ron Geesin (co-composer on Atom Heart Mother, The Body, etc)

REG : What do you think of the split with Roger and the rest of Pink Floyd in 1985?

Ron : He was grumbling most of the time I knew him, so the split looked inevitable. As a supporter of the individual expressionist, creator/artist, and not in any way against the Pink Floyd group, I actually suggested it as early as 1971.

Geoff Whitehorn (session guitarist on Amused to Death)

So I went up to Roger's house, the billiard room studio. I was only supposed to be there for a day but I ended up there for about five days, thoroughly enjoyed it. (...) Roger gave me a nice fresh salmon as well, which he had caught one morning which I thoroughly enjoyed with a bit of lemon and garlic.

Mark Fisher (of Fisher Park, stage effects/installations) :

REG : You are a trained architect, Roger Waters went to architecture school, did you find you had a lot in common with him?

Mark : No. I am not mad and he is. Or is it the other way around?

Jim Ladd (DJ, interviewer & friend)

REG : What are your favorite Roger and Floyd songs?

Roger Waters, Sunset Strip

I missed Jim Ladd's birthday last week. Jim was a revered FM radio DJ in the Los Angeles area for a million years, and he figures heavily in Waters' album Radio KAOS.

There are things on the original album that are just not there on some recordings, and definitely not on the chopped-up YouTube offerings. For instance, my least-hated favorite fish: (you'll have to learn that for yourself!

Oh, and the weather tomorrow will be 'balmy'.

Roger Waters, Sunset Strip, from the album Radio K.A.O.S.

Billy come home!