Didn't I read somewhere, Blake's book perhaps, that Ezrin was excited to work with Roger and the Ezrins (meaning Bob, his wife, and kids) were going to live in England at one of Roger's houses? Supposedly, at the last minute, his wife got cold feet. You're a married man aren't you Kitkat? Surely you know that what the wife wants, the wife eventually gets! So he works with Dave for probably more money, gets a good balance of both LA and England, and appeases the wife! Sounds like a no-brainer to me!
On a side note, I love The Wall but prefer the Demo tapes to the actual album. The Demos are a lot darker, kinda like Animals 2, and I think Ezrin kinda Fudged it up a bit. It was OK for Ezrin to do that with Kiss and Alice Cooper cause people knew that they were getting cheesy theatrics when they bought albums from those guys and attended their shows. I prefer the dark drone going into The Thin Ice rather than the exploding bombs and crashing symbols that Ezrin probably suggested to make it more "theatrical." I prefer the darkness of the original ABITW2 to it's finished disco-like counterpart and the list goes on and on. I highly doubt Roger could have gotten a bunch of kids on stage at Live Earth swaying back and forth while Roger smiled, shaking his ass, looking like an idiot, if ABITW2 had been done as it was originally intended.
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But, the album sold well and I guess it got them out of their financial troubles, so...
I'm just glad that Ezrin wasn't there for Animals..."All alone and dying of cancer"...du bop du du du bop du du du bop (insert disco beat here). "But you're really a criiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhh"...(insert string section here). "Raving and drooling I fell on his neck with a scream"...(insert voice of actor screaming and add a slide whistle to simulate the falling of the guy). Man, that would have sucked!
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