We'll do it again." Six months later he wrote us and said, "So, there's this crazy thing happening in Coachella Valley. And the next day had written us this beautiful email saying, "We're brothers and sisters now. We were told just a couple songs." And he's like, "No, you're singing on every song."Īfter the show, which was one of the greatest experiences for me - being up there and seeing all these people crying - the rain started pouring down for "Mother" and the clouds parted, rainbows came out of the sky. ![]() ![]() We were like, "Oh no! We weren't told to sing on this song. And he started singing and then he stops dead in his tracks and he turns his head over and he, "Man up." And we sat down for a song that we weren't going to sing on. Wolfe: So we got there and started singing and you could tell that Roger liked what he heard. We had written and his manager had gotten back to us and said, You're going to be doing these two songs. Holly Laessig: told we should learn maybe five songs. Roger Waters Calls Insignificant Gilmour & Wright Toxic, Snotty, Says They Were Always Trying to Drag Him Down in Pink Floyd 'They felt very insignificant, I think,' Waters said of. Many bands in the nineteen seventies would. ![]() And he asked me to find him some background singers." And I said, "I have just the girls." They flew us out there and we had one rehearsal a day before the show. Only bands with the iconic status of a Pink Floyd could get away with playing an entire new album to start a concert. Jess Wolfe: We got a call from Jay Sweet, who runs Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island and he said, "I have this surprise guest that's gonna come and play a set at Newport.
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