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Anyone who has been in the game as long as Roger Waters<\/a> has to wonder how long they can keep up their track record.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rock and roll might be considered a young man\u2019s game half the time, but the greatest artists of them all usually know how to take the basis of rock and roll and transcend what the genre was supposed to be when they make a record. And while Waters does know his limitations better than most, he felt that the biggest names in the industry have staying power far beyond his range.<\/p>\n Then again, you have to remember all the moving parts of the live show that Waters practically trademarked. Pink Floyd wasn\u2019t the first band to use amazing light shows, but whereas they sounded like the archetypal psychedelic outfit when they first began making waves, Waters was determined to move past the more acid-soaked material once they started making more extravagant pieces like on \u2018Echoes\u2019.<\/p>\n But those same extravagant pieces are the reason why the band needed to go the extra mile. David Gilmour may have been perfectly happy playing the same kind of music every single time he got up onstage, but Waters knew the audience didn\u2019t have time to be bored in the middle of a stadium show. They needed to get their money\u2019s worth, and so began some of the greatest stage designs that anyone had ever seen when making The Wall<\/a>. <\/p>\n While the record was always designed to be part of a massive stage production, Waters wanted to go the extra mile once he left the band. Getting Waters to put those massive bricks up during his Berlin performance was already a spectacle to behold, but while a lot of his later touring days saw him reinterpreting songs from his solo career, he knew that part of the magic was getting to see the final bricks laid out in the first act and hearing everyone scream \u2018TEAR DOWN THE WALL\u2019 during the grand finale.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all well and good, but that\u2019s not the kind of production that rock and roll was built for, either. The biggest names of the early days were more interested in entertaining an audience purely through their music, and while there were more extravagant characters like Little Richard and Chuck Berry strutting their stuff whenever they performed, Waters had a great deal of respect for people like BB King being able to level an audience through the power of their music.<\/p>\n