The months in the planning 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief benefit concert is finally here. We’ll update this post with a setlist, photos, videos and our thoughts as the night goes along. The expected order of performances is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band > Roger Waters > Bon Jovi > Eric Clapton > Rolling Stones > Alicia Keys > The Who > Kanye West > Billy Joel > Chris Martin > Paul McCartnirvana.

Setlist:

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Land of Hope and Dreams, Wrecking Ball, My City of Ruins, Born To Run (w/ Jon Bon Jovi), Living On A Prayer

Roger Waters: In The Flesh, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2, The Ballad Of Jean Charles de Menezes, Money, Us and Them, Comfortably Numb (w/ Eddie Vedder)

Adam Sandler: Hallelujah (w/ Paul Shaffer)

Bon Jovi: It’s My Life, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Who Says You Can’t Go Home (w/ Bruce Springsteen), Living On A Prayer

Eric Clapton: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, Got To Get Better In A Little While, Crossroads

Rolling Stones: You Get Me Rocking, Jumping Jack Flash

Alicia Keys: Brand New Me, No One

The Who: Who Are You, Bell Boy, Pinball Wizard, See Me Feel Me/Listening To You, Baba O’Riley, Love Reign O’er Me, Tea and Theatre

Kanye West: Clique > Mercy > Power > Jesus Walks > All Of The Lights > Run This Town > Diamonds From Sierra Leone > Diamonds > Touch The Sky, Gold Digger, Good Life, Runaway, Stronger

Billy Joel: Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway), Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song), Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas > New York State Of Mind, River Of Dreams, You May Be Right, Only The Good Die Young

Chris Martin: Viva La Vida, Losing My Religion (w/ Michael Stipe), Us Against The World

Paul McCartney: Helter Skelter, Let Me Roll It, 1985, My Valentine (w/ Diana Krall), Blackbird, Cut Me Some Slack (w/ Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic), I’ve Got A Feeling, Live and Let Die

Alicia Keys: Empire State of Mind Pt. 2

All proceeds from tonight’s concert benefit the Robin Hood Relief Fund and will be used to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Please head to the organization’s website to donate to the cause.

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As we reported yesterday, Roger Waters stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night for a chat with the host. Waters discussed his role in tonight’s 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief and shared a few spoilers about what to expect from him this evening.

Rog told Fallon that he will perform “a little bit of The Wall and a little bit of Dark Side of the Moon.” More specifically he said he’ll play Money, Us and Them and Comfortably Numb. Even more exciting, Waters revealed he’ll duet on Comfortably Numb with Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder.

In another big of exciting news, Waters confirmed that he is working on a new album. Fallon pressed him for details on the album title to which Roger offered “I’ve Been Saying This for 19 Years, So Don’t Hold Your Breath.”

[via Rolling Stone]

Lots of musical legends are in New York City this week for tomorrow night’s 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief at MSG and NBC’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon has snagged two of them for visits. Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters will stop by 30 Rock this evening for a chat with Jimmy, while on Thursday Long Island’s own Billy Joel will sit for an interview about performing at the benefit.

Waters has appeared on Late Night multiple times including a performance of In The Flesh with Foo Fighters during the show’s Pink Floyd Week. Both guests are not to expected to perform.

While we screw our heads on straight after last night’s amazing Love For Levon tribute to the late Levon Helm, we wanted to share a great video from what was one of the many highlights of the show – Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters performing The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down with My Morning Jacket and the Levon Helm Band horns…

Roger Waters & My Morning Jacket – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Here’s a full report on the Love For Levon concert.

The already formidable Love For Levon lineup has gotten even more impressive with the addition of Roger Waters to the bill for the October 3rd concert. Set to be held at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey; Love For Levon is a star-studded benefit concert which aims to raise funds to help the late The Band drummer’s estate keep ownership of Levon’s home, barn and studio.

John Mayer, My Morning Jacket, Ray LaMontagne, Eric Church, Gregg Allman, Dierks Bentley, Marc Cohn, Patty Griffin, Warren Haynes, John Hiatt, Bruce Hornsby, Jorma Kaukonen, The Levon Helm Band, Robert Randolph, Mavis Staples, Joe Walsh and Lucinda Williams were the Love For Levon artists previously announced. Tickets are currently available for the event through Ticketmaster.

After three years and 160 dates in 27 countries, Roger Waters massive The Wall tour concluded, for now at least, in front of over 75,000 fans this past Saturday at The Plains of Abraham in Canada’s Quebec City. For The Wall finale, Waters’ crew built an 800-foot version of The Wall, the biggest of the tour and nearly as huge as the one the former Pink Floyd bassist used in Germany 22 years ago to commemorate the falling of the Berlin Wall.

The Wall Tour has grossed more than $350 million since 2010 and has been seen by over 3 million people. Not only was it the highest grossing tour of 2010, it currently holds that honor for 2012. For a look at just how big the Quebec City Wall was, check out this just posted montage…

• FLASHBACK: David Gilmour and Nick Mason Reunite With Roger Waters, Review – The Wall Endures The Test of Time and Opening Night Videos

On Friday at noon, SiriusXM satellite radio will launch its newest artist-branded channel when The Pink Floyd Channel launches on Channel 27. The commercial-free Pink Floyd Channel will feature music, interviews and historic concert broadcasts from the Pink Floyd archives.

Channel 27 will host the Pink Floyd programming until Monday, May 28. Then, the channel will be available Friday, June 29 through Monday, July 9 on Sirius channel 142 and XM channel 43. Additionally, the Pink Floyd Channel will be available as a 24/7 channel online on channel 802 and through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App for smartphones and mobile devices beginning Friday, June 29 for an extended period.

In other Pink Floyd-related news, Roger Waters has announced that the final The Wall gig of 2012, and perhaps ever, will take place at Quebec City’s Fields of Abraham on July 21st. According to a report in Pollstar, “The Wall fans will see in Québec City at Fields Of Abraham July 21 will be more than two-times as large as the wall that’s been constructed before hundreds of thousands of fans since the tour launched in 2010.”  Waters’ latest video blog discusses The Wall finale…

The last TBA date on Roger Waters’ The Wall initial 2012 North American Tour docket has been announced as the bassist will bring his massive production to Boston’s Fenway Park on July 1. A pre-sale will take place on February 13, while the public onsale will take place on February 20.

Howard Stern welcomed Roger Waters to his Sirius/XM radio show yesterday for what turned into an hour-long, revealing interview with the Pink Floyd bassist. As usual, Howard didn’t hold back and asked about the circumstances keeping Waters from touring with David Gilmour, the death of Rog’s father, Waters’ songwriting process and much more. If you missed it, we’ve got you covered…

Howard Stern Interviews Roger Waters

As we previously reported, in a recent issue of Rolling Stone, Roger Waters revealed that he would be bringing his highly successful tour back to North America this summer to play a number of markets that he missed the first time around, as well as the bigger news that he would also bringing the huge multi-media production outdoors for the first time, and that those show would be taking place baseball stadiums in select big cities. Well, Waters has come through on his promise, as today Live Nation has announced the latest leg of the tour that will mix both arena and stadium dates.

The tour will kick off on May 1, in Houston at the Toyota Center and will run through mid-July, with stadium dates expected to take place at AT&T Park (5/11), Memorial Coliseum (5/19), Wrigley Field (6/8), Fenway Park (7/1), Yankee Stadium (7/6) and Citizens Bank Park (7/14). While Live Nation hasn’t confirmed that Yankee Stadium, Fenway and the Memorial Coliseum will host The Wall, they have listed TBA’s for those cities. Considering Waters mentioned those ballparks by name in the Rolling Stone piece, we think it’s a pretty good bet they’ll host The Wall. Tickets for most shows go on sale November 14. Check out the full list of dates after the jump.

If you’re not into into hearing The Wall in its entirety, then maybe you’ll be interested in hitting one of these recently announced tours…

• Prince: Welcome 2 Canada Tour (11/25 – 12/17)
• John Butler Trio: Spring NA Tour (4/9 – 5/3)
• Akron/Family: January Tour (1/6 – 1/20)
• Woods: December Tour (12/7 – 12/18)
• Kaki King: Late Fall World Tour (11/3 – 12/10)
• The Civil Wars: Winter Tour (1/10 – 2/4)
• Railroad Earth: Winter Tour (1/20 – 3/10)
• Nada Surf: February European Tour (2/7 – 2/28)

Here’s a look at the full list of The Wall North America 2012 dates…
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We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column…

Last year, former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters celebrated the 30th anniversary of The Wall by mounting an extensive world tour, that was touted for its updated multi-media presentation of the iconic album. Last week, Waters revealed to Rolling Stone, whose latest issue features a cover story on the legendary psychedelic rock band, that he would be bringing the tour back to the United States next summer to play a number of markets that he missed the first time around, as well as the bigger news that he would also bringing The Wall outdoors for the first time, and that those show would be taking place baseball stadiums in select big cities.

Waters stated “we want to base the tour around Saturday nights in baseball stadiums. We’re going to be projecting over 140 yards. So now it’s going to be 1,500 pixels wide. We’ve done light tests and Fenway Park and Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium just to see what the ambient light is like. And it’s fine. It works. We’ve taken part of the Wall and the projectors into those three places.”

If you’re not into a night hearing Roger perform The Wall, then maybe you’ll be interested in hitting one of these recently announced tours…

• John Fogerty: Looking Out My Back Door – John Fogerty Performs Live! The Albums of Creedence Clearwater Revival (11/17 – 19)
• Guns N’ Roses: U.S. Fall Tour (10/28 – TBD)
• Warren Haynes Band: Fall Tour (10/11 – 11/19)
• Kenny Rogers: Christmas & Hits Tour (11/25 – 12/23)
• Matisyahu: Festival Of Light (12/19 – 12/28)
• Avey Tare: Early Winter Tour (11/30 – 12/11)
• Little Willies: Mini Fall Tour (10/28 – 10/30)
• Chris Cornell: Songbook Tour (10/26 – 12/17)
• Ween: Denver New Year’s Run (12/29 – 31)
• Railroad Earth: U.S. Fall Tour (10/6 – 12/29)

Last July Roger Waters made big news when he announced that his former Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour would join him on stage at a The Wall gig to play and sing Comfortably Numb. Apparently tonight’s the night as Gilmour’s blog includes an entry stating that David will join Rog at the 02 Arena in London this evening.

Those hoping for future Gilmour guest spots will be disappointed to know that this is a one-off appearance…

I should also remind you that tonight is most definitely a one-off; David is not repeating his special guest performance at a later occasion, I’m sorry to disappoint those of you with fingers crossed and tickets for later shows.

We’ll be sure to share some videos and photos as they surface.

[via CoS]

UPDATE: As expected Gilmour did join Waters for Comfortably Numb. The other surviving Pink Floyd member, Nick Mason, joined Gilmour and Waters for the Outside The Wall finale. Mason joined his old mates on tambourine. READ ON for a photo and a video of Dave tearing shit up…

If it seems like a long time since Roger Waters took to his Facebook page to break the news that his old Pink Floyd band mate David Gilmour would perform at one of Waters’ The Wall Tour performances that’s because it was. Way back on July 15 Rog wrote a note mentioning that Gilmour told him ““If you do ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him’ for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I’ll come and do ‘C. Numb’ on one of your Wall shows,” which led to a guessing game about which concert the guitarist would appear at.

Gilmour never wound up sitting in with Waters last year during the North American leg of the tour, but according to a new Waters’ interview with Sky News, the sit-in we’ve all been waiting for is still on the table. ”I hear the rumours – I think it’s beginning to look now as if he’ll do one gig, he’ll do Comfortably Numb at one gig,” Waters told Sky. Funny that Rog refers to them as “rumours” considering he’s the one spreading the news. Waters is still coy as to which particular concert Gilmour will join him at.

The European leg of The Wall Tour kicks off tonight at the Mediolanium Forum in Milan and does a big circle of the continent before ending at the same venue on July 7.

[via NME, h/t @TheWeightOnline]

We were saddened to learn yesterday of the death of Gerry Rafferty at the age of 63. While his name is most closely associated with the saxophone-rock-hit Baker Street, Rafferty also was a member of Stealers Wheel and wrote the classic Stuck In The Middle With You. The Guardian wrote a very in-depth obituary that is worth your time. Every year the great gig in the sky gains a few more superb players, and they already have their first legend of 2011.

As always, we’ve got six more links to help you over the hump…

• Rivers Cuomo performs a solo piano cover of God Only Knows
• The Allman Brothers add five more shows at The Beacon Theater
• Roger Waters is recording six shows for a possible DVD release
• Tea Leaf Green announces an in-studio webcast January 12th
• Was 2010 the year of The Cat & The Beach?
• Trent Reznor, Tom Morello, Eric Clapton and others to appear on the first Robbie Robertson record in over a decade

Finally, it was announced yesterday that David Sitek (guitarist of TV on the Radio) was joining Jane’s Addiction as part of the “creative team” and it looks like he’ll be acting as bass player for their next album. Unclear as of now if Sitek will be touring with Jane’s Addiction or what effect this will have on his participation in TV on the Radio.

Roger Waters – The Wall @ MSG, November 6

All in All, You Were All Just Bricks in My Wall

We all build walls. Everybody has their bricks. The question is, just how high do we let them go? And what is the difference between having a robust set of personal defenses and being alienated, alone, and generally mad?

The bricks that built Roger Waters’ wall are things that many people can relate to: a father he lost to war and never ultimately knew, an overprotective mother who didn’t let him grow, abusive educators and a lover who seized on his vulnerabilities. But for Waters, the last straw, or rather the final set of bricks, was being adored by people he did not respect.

It was this final trigger that caused him to create his magnum opus, released in 1979, Pink Floyd’s The Wall. And 31 years on, it is safe to say that this piece of music stands shoulder to shoulder to the beloved operas of Venice and the sophisticated chamber music of Vienna.

So Ya, Thought Ya, Might Like to Go To the Show

A late-career revival of an album/tour of such epic proportions reeks of cashing in, and given the sheer number of shows, and particularly the endless add-ons to the tour, even the most dedicated Roger Waters fans had their reservations. READ ON for more on Roger Waters’ The Wall…