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Rockers team up to pay tribute to Pink Floyd's The Wall

By: Randall Larson
Date: Monday, August 15, 2005

Members of rock bands Yes, the Doors, Jethro Tull, Styx and Toto have teamed up to record a tribute to Pink Floyd's classic album The Wall.

The new album titled Back Against The Wall, will include vocals by Ian Anderson, and features the playing of Robby Krieger, Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire and Steve Howe.

Former Yes member Billy Sherwood produced the tribute, which also features King Crimson's Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, Keith Emerson, Styx's Tommy Shaw and Toto's Steve Lukather.

Actor Malcolm McDowell provides spoken dialogues in the album, which is due to be released on September 27, 2005.

"All the artists involved poured their hearts and soul into this body of work and it shows. It is with the utmost respect to Pink Floyd that we took the challenge," atethemusic.com quoted Sherwood as saying.

Via www.topix.net/music/progressive-rock

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Comments/Responses

• Aug 15, 2005, 06:29am •

could be interesting, although I'm surprised Roger Waters released the rights to his magnum-opus for something like this to happen. But then he did perform on stage with Gilmour, Mason and Wright at Live8, so hopefully the grumpy old genius is loosening up ;)

• Aug 15, 2005, 08:14am •

Doesn't look too bad and thank God it's not filled with Top 40 'artists' doing what only they would consider a tribute to one of the best pieces of Rock Art ever conceived. When I read the headline saying they were releasing a tribute I saw images of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Simpson doing 'Another Brick in the Wall'. The horror.

lracors • Aug 15, 2005, 02:03pm •

Wow! This is a who's who of prog rock.

• Aug 15, 2005, 04:57pm •

Let us not forget that Waters had a group of select artists perform the entirety of The Wall way back in the day in Berlin.

Now granted, this list of prog-rockers is a much more appropriate selection of artists to tackle the material - but I dunno man. This could really suck.

*imagining Ian Anderson fluting his way through Run Like Hell*

*shudders*

• Aug 15, 2005, 11:49pm •

I think I LOVE the idea. All my rock faves... Crimson, Yes, Tull, ELP, Styx, the Doors, (Toto?) ... doing another of my faves... Floyd! I'd definitely buy this... Really it coulda been Dave Matthews and Hootie and the Blowfish and Wyclef doing Floyd. Glad it's classics paying tribute to their contemporaries.

• Aug 17, 2005, 12:09am •

raithen - you are correct, Waters did put together The Wall '90, with a lot of other artists, but he was directly involved int he performance as well, whereas this is letting other people do it on their own. Personally I'm hoping Steve Lukather plays guitar on this album's version of Comfortably Numb - the original has the greatest guitar solo ever recorded (IMHO), and it'd be interesting to see what a virtuoso like Lukather does with it.

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