Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters returns to Milwaukee on Saturday, Aug. 22 for a concert in the round at the Fiserv Forum as part of his 31-city "This Is Not A Drill" North American tour, which kicks off in Pittsburgh on July 8.
The show is Waters’ first in Milwaukee since a 2017 performance at the Bradley Center, and the bassist, singer and songwriter says that he feels the need to speak out.
Calling on the human race to either change or die, Waters told Rolling Stone, "As the clock ticks faster and faster and faster down to extinction, it seemed like a good thing to make a fuss about it, so that’s why I’m going on the road."
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. at FiservForum.com.
"It’ll be a new show," Waters told Rolling Stone’s Kory Grow in September. "It will be no-holds-barred. My work is to think, ‘Well, how can I make rock and roll more interesting or theatrical or exciting or visual or musical or whatever?’ That’s what I’ve spent the last 50 years doing, expressing myself."
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Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
