English rocker Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) kicked off the Toronto leg of his Us + Them tour Sunday night with a powerful message aimed squarely at Donald Trump. And he did it without ever actually saying the U.S. president's name. “What a charade you are.” #trumpisapig #rogerwaters #usandthem #concert #live #music #livemusic #yyz #toronto A post shared by Daniel Blais (@waytooclose) on Oct 3, 2017 at 5:15am PDT Waters, who named his tour after a track from Pink Floyd's 1974 album The Dark Side of the Moon, took the stage for almost two-and-a-half hours last night, thrilling fans with a mix of old stuff and new. A post shared by Ehsan Ghassemlou (@ehsan_ghassemlou) on Oct 2, 2017 at 7:06pm PDT "The content is very secret," Waters had said previously of his show. "It'll be a mixture of stuff from my long career, stuff from my years with Pink Floyd, some new things. Probably 75% of it will be old material and 25% will be new, but it will be all connected by a general theme." That theme appears to be related to America's current political climate, if not a critique of capitalism itself, based on what audience members saw. A post shared by Gianmaria Conti (@gianmaconti) on Oct 3, 2017 at 7:31am PDT The multi-sensory experience featured floating pigs with Trump's face on them, graphics of Trump's head with a baby's body, animations of Trump vomiting, images of Trump cheering for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as large displays of words like "RESIST" and "CHARADE." A post shared by john hall (@jhall7384255) on Oct 3, 2017 at 4:53am PDT At one point, Waters and his band played in the dark as a string of Trump quotes filled the screens behind them. "You know, it really doesn't matter what the media write," read one, "as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass." A post shared by Ali Javaheri (@alijavah) on Oct 2, 2017 at 10:49pm PDT Waters is scheduled to play a second show at the Air Canada Centre this evening, as well as a third Toronto show at the same venue on October 13.
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