Let me tell you a little story. It was almost December 2001 when we were smashed by the TV: Roger Waters was coming to play here!!. My city is like 500 km south of Santiago, which is the bigger city of my country. Well, let me tell you I was born and live in Chile, for those of you who don't know where my country is, let me tell you one thing: the end of the world. The southern edge of south america. So, big rock bands come this far only sometimes, not as much as we'd like. Knowing this, you'll easily imagine how happy we (floyd fans) were.
But Roger had some surprises. We all had the image of an ugly Roger, never willing to talk with a fan or something like that (most of that image put on our heads, sadly, by dave gilmour). BUT, when Roger's plane landed, he went to say hello to the fans, to shake hands with them (!!), we couldn't believe it!!. After that, a guy from the Floydean Community of Chile (some kind of unofficial fan club) approached Roger, and talked to him. Next day, Roger was signing autographs on CDs, Cassettes, DVDs, whatever his fans took to him...
Well, this man was the ogre dictator of Pink Floyd??, to me, he seemed a great guy, a little cold sometimes, but more than able to give a little spark of happiness to people like us, his fans from the southern end of the world...
Oh, and, by the way, his show was magnificent. He said "Hello" and "Thank You" in spanish so many times, specially to the guys of the Floydean Community, who were with a huge flag that said "together we stand, divided we fall", and played really good, even when Jon Carin didn't came, 'cause Harry Waters (son of Rog) works GREAT in keyboards...
That's all
PS. Here is the story told by the guy I've said met Roger: http://www.pinkfloyd.cl/esp_roger_en_ch ... glish1.htm
That's not me, I just though it was good to prove thr Roger-signing-autographs statement, and borrowed this pic from the web page above cited.
