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There\u2019s a certain enigma that comes whenever you listen to Roger Waters<\/a> playing on his records. <\/p>\n He\u2019s not trying to trick the audience by any stretch, but when listening to any one of his conceptual pieces, he definitely wants to take them on a journey every single time he gets into the studio, whether that\u2019s with a linear story or with unconventional soundscapes. But if he had David Gilmour to work with back in the Pink Floyd days, he was going to need to work a few miracles to get anyone even close to what his old bandmate could do.<\/p>\n In all fairness, though, getting his first choices for guitarists was far from a bad idea. Since Snowy White had been a member of the surrogate band during the group\u2019s first tour of The Wall, it was easy to see why he would be a worthy replacement when Waters decided to turn The Wall into a full-on spectacle when playing in Berlin in 1990. But once he started coming out with his own stuff, the lineup was absolutely stacked.<\/p>\n The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking was already a sturdy enough concept for Waters to want to use it for a Floyd record, but was anyone going to be complaining with someone like Eric Clapton<\/a> on guitar? If he was good enough for The Beatles, he was more than worthy of taking Gilmour\u2019s spot, but even after a few years of working with \u2018Slowhand\u2019, Waters was already looking for a new collaborator.<\/p>\n And while Radio KAOS did show him keeping up with the times, it wasn\u2019t until Amused to Death that he really started to spread his wings. This was a version of Waters that looked a lot more familiar than him being fed through countless computerised soundscapes, and seeing the guest list was also an extra bonus. No one would have predicted hearing someone like Don Henley on the record would have panned, and yet the whole thing sounds absolutely seamless.<\/p>\n But if we\u2019re being completely honest, the album should have really been called a collaboration album between Waters and Jeff Beck half the time. Beck was the extra boost that songs like \u2018What God Wants\u2019 needed, and while he may have earned his stripes as one of the greatest rock and roll instrumentalists, you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a better voice on the record than his guitar half the time.<\/p>\n