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BULLETS Morrison, Members of the Band, Ing 1984'S ROGER WATERS TO TOUR EAST COAST `IN THE FLESH' (Continued from page 1) BETWEENTHÉ Potsdamer Platz to an audience in retail campaign being keyed to the that Waters is using. excess of 250,000. The cast included tour is designed to reintroduce "Yes, it's expensive, difficult to set Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams, Van Waters' three catalog titles (includ- up, and labor- intensive," he says with BULLETS Morrison, members of the Band, ing 1984's "The Pros And Cons of a shrug. "But the effect is just so Marianne Faithfull, Cyndi Lauper, Hitch Hiking "), as well as highlight wonderful." Sinéad O'Connor, Ute Lemper, the the fact that he was a guiding force The songs will also be enhanced by by Geoff Mayfield Scorpions, the Military Orchestra Of behind Pink Floyd. the set production Waters has devised The Soviet Union, and a couple of Columbia is planning national with Jonathan Park, which is based helicopters from the U.S. Seventh retail contests around the tour, with on a projection system. "I've become ROCK RULES: Limp Bizkit is far from limp, as its sophomore album, Airborne Corps. Mercury Records prizes of Waters albums, concert increasingly disenchanted with all "Significant Other," rules The Billboard 200 with a significant 635,000 released Waters and company's "The tickets, signed tour posters, and those huge lighting trusses and in units. It's the largest one -week sum by a rock album since Beastie Boys' Wall-Live In Berlin" in 1990. autographed guitars. The label is particular the ubiquitous Vari- Light," "Hello Nasty" rang the bell last July with 681,500 pieces (Yeah, Beastie And while his Radio K.A.O.S. tour working with national chains, indies, says Waters. "So we'll be lighting the Boys rap, but what kind of radio stations play them ?). Bizkit's loud in 1987 may have been dwarfed by lifestyle accounts, and the tour show with a few uplighters and using entrance also ends Backstreet Boys' five -week hold on the No. 1 spot. the scale of Pink Floyd's stadium - venues. Diener says the response four Pigi projectors, which are very According to sources, four of the nation's largest accounts -the Trans sized spectacle, Waters' arena show overall has been enthusiastic but par- powerful and can be used to light up World Entertainment, Musicland Group, Best Buy Entertainment, and was every bit as ambitious in concept ticularly so in the tour markets. the sides of buildings." Wherehouse Entertainment chains -accounted for a little more than and production. "It was slightly mad The push is also aimed at helping Waters admits there's no way he'll half of "Significant's" first-week sum. The first-week sale is particular- and quirky but none the worse for prime the pump for the release of the be making a profit from the tour, ly efficient, considering that the album's initial shipment was in the range that," he recalls of the show "But out- "Pink Floyd-The Wall" DVD, for even if it's a sellout. "You take a punt of 900,000 -1 million. About 1 million reorders were registered by week's side the major cities, we struggled to which Sony has acquired the world- and hope that people are going to end. sell tickets. I remember playing wide home video rights. The film was come," he says. Neither are there The rock'n'rap outfit, whose following was nurtured by Korn and MTV Cincinnati the day after my ex-col- originally released in 1982 and plans to add more shows in Ameri- caught some retailers by surprise. One large chain that had forecasted leagues had sold out a 70,000 [capac- directed by Alan Parker, and the ca or elsewhere; certainly not this it would sell in the neighborhood of 30,000 units during the opening week ity] football stadium; I was in an DVD will contain additional footage year. blew through almost 50,000 copies the very first day. 8,000 -capacity arena with about 1,500 and a "Making Of ..." sequence. Indeed, the next Roger Waters Obviously, lots of media are pointing to Limp's big start as proof that people there. It was quite character - For his band, Waters has been able activity -in the spring of next year - rock is "coming back," but did it ever really leave? After all, Alanis forming, I must say." to pick up several previous mem- will be something completely differ- Morissette, Marilyn Manson, the aforementioned Korn and Beastie Since "The Wall" in Berlin, Waters bers -Andy Fairweather -Low and ent: a modern opera drawn from the Boys, and rock soundtracks from "Armageddon" and "City Of Angels" has made only two public appear- Snowy White on guitar, drummer French Revolution titled "Ca Ira" all took turns at No. 1 during the second half of '98. ances: at the Guitar Legends Festi- Graham Broad, and backing singers (roughly, "what will be "), which val in Seville, Spain, in 1991 and at Katie Kissoon and P.P. Arnold. But Waters has written with librettist ELSEWHERE IN THE TOP 10: K -Ci & JoJo and Missy "Misde- Don Henley's Walden Woods charity he's added some fresh faces, includ- Etienne Roda Gil. A joint project of meanor" Elliott also invade the top 10 with sophomore albums, the for- concert at the Los Angeles Universal ing Fabulous Thunderbirds guitarist Columbia and Sony Classical, with mer at No. 8 with 140,500 units, the latter at No. 10 with 131,000 units. Amphitheatre the following year, Doyle Bramhall II, who was so keen the issuing label to be determined, Both first hit the charts in the summer of '97. along with Neil Young and John he sent in a demo of "Comfortably it's expected to be released sometime The Jodeci duo's "Love Always" opened at No. 24 with 41,000 units; it Fogerty. And it was the latter show Numb" to secure the job. in 2000 in both English and French peaked at No. 6 the following March, when it sold 106,000 units. For rap- that rekindled his enthusiasm for The songs themselves will stick versions, according to Peter Gelb, per Elliott, this first week is a little bigger than that seen by her debut playing live: "It was a fantastic pretty close to the originals. "When president of Sony Classical. set, "Supa Dupa Fly." But, in a softer sales week, that one started high - evening. I enjoyed it so much." I go to a show I want to be able to It's a project that has increasing- er,at No. 3, with 130,000 units. The dates for the Roger Waters - recognize the songs that I know," ly occupied Waters' time over the Phil Collins' "Tarzan" soundtrack easily wins the Greatest Gainer In the Flesh tour are a mix of indoor says Waters, who admits that he past decade -from the 21/2 -hour for the second week in a row, as Walt Disney's animation camp reclaims and outdoor shows (see rundown, this finds Bob Dylan gigs a bit discon- demo that received then French its Midas touch (10-5). It's the first Disney album to reach the top five page). certing these days. But the perfor- President François Mitterand's since "Pocahontas" hit No. 1 in 1994 (Chart Beat, Billboard, July 3). "The response from promoters has mances will take on an extra dimen- approval for France's bicentennial Everything else in the top 10 sells less than it did a week ago. The lat- been absolutely fantastic," says Jane sion live, if only for the quad sound celebrations (which, finally, did not est albums by Backstreet Boys and Ricky Martin each fall below Geraghty, VP of New York's Premier get commissioned) to the revamped 300,000 units for the first time. The Boys see a 19% dip as they get Talent. "We could've added second version that Waters, who doesn't pushed down to No. 2 (274,000 units), while Martin has a 27.5% evapo- shows most places but just haven't perform on the work, has spent ration as he slides to No. 3 (215,000 units). The soundtrack from "Wild had the time to do it." much of the past year recording Wild West," which will likely swell on next issue's charts following the Geraghty says, for example, that with an 80 -piece orchestra and a film's June 30 debut, holds at No. 4 with a 16.5% decline (180,000 units). the Milwaukee date sold out in 13 100 -piece choir. The aforementioned declines prove appearances can deceive. To truly minutes, while the Cleveland date "It is a brilliantly creative work," appreciate the strength of the top of the chart, compare it to the same had to be moved from the 5,000 -seat Gelb says. "Unlike some of the week last year. In the July 11, 1998, Billboard, the "City Of Angels" sound- Nautica Amphitheater to the 12,000 - IR0Gl_IR IAIATERS orchestral pop records I've heard track was No. 1 with less than 150,000 units, and only the top five titles - seat Gund Arena. that are unsuccessful because they compared with 13 this issue -surpassed the 100,000 -unit threshold. To prepare a set list for the show, DATE CITY VENUE just synthesize pop material, this is Waters says that he "went out and an organic work written for orches- AROUND THE HORN: Regular readers of this column know that bought my back catalog and wrote July tra. But it is unmistakably a Roger Lenny Kravitz's "5" has been climbing steadily since it was augmented Milwaukee, Wis.
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