PINK FLOYD GHOST BAND TO TOUR: Roger Waters and his son reveal dates for Pink Floyd tribute 2027 tour after finding singer.
Roger Waters and his son, Harry Waters, have revealed the dates for Pink Floyd’s tribute band tour next year, as well as who will be stepping into the shoes of the singer.
The Legacy – A Pink Floyd Show tour has been in the works in Waters’ world for some time, enlisting the help of his son’s band to perform the iconic rock group’s greatest hits.
However, the rock legend took to his X account in April this year, in search of a singer to match the inimitable vocals of his heyday, as he said: “Harry’s band is missing one thing. The voice I had when I was young.”
Subsequently, having sifted through around 3,000 applications, Waters has settled on Clifton David Broadbridge, a Canadian singer living in Nashville, to take on the massive role of impersonating the former Pink Floyd frontman.
A description of the Legacy show, according to Consequence, reads, “Roger Waters Presents LEGACY – A Pink Floyd Show is an all-new live production celebrating the defining music and visual world of Pink Floyd’s golden era from 1971-1979.”
It adds, “Created under the direction of Roger Waters with a band led by his son Harry Waters, a longtime touring musician, pianist and composer, LEGACY features a world-class 10-piece band performing the ground breaking songs from The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.”
The description also says the show will be “spanning more than two hours, LEGACY reaches deep into Pink Floyd’s catalog and celebrates the music that defined a generation, music that is just as relevant today.”
As more and more elderly rockers like Roger Waters, age 83, shuffle ever closer to the proverbial Great Gig in the Sky, this is the future of boomer-era rock, or the lack thereof. Concerts with massively expensive ticket prices to see what were called in the Big Band days “ghost bands” with only one or two original members – or in this case, the son of an original member. (Or worse, the dreaded holographic recreations of ancient bands.) Steven Hyden wrote in his 2018 book, Twilight of the Gods, that for “classic rock” the brand is everything, and increasingly, the brand will be all that survives.