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05-05-2010, 03:39 PM
May 5
2010
01:10 PM ET
Roger Waters‘ new viral marketing campaign is meant to generate buzz for his upcoming “The Wall Live” tour. Instead, it’s getting some unwanted attention after one of his posters wound up pasted over part of the late Elliott Smith’s memorial mural on L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard yesterday. Waters’ street team stuck an image featuring an anti-war quotation from President Dwight D. Eisenhower directly on top of the beloved mural, which appeared on the cover of Smith’s Figure 8 and was unofficially dedicated with messages in the singer-songwriter’s memory after his tragic 2003 death. Smith’s fans were understandably less than thrilled.
Waters promptly apologized for what he called an innocent mistake. “It was absolutely an accident,” the Pink Floyd frontman told the L.A. Times today. “I didn’t want to disrespect Elliott Smith’s fans, and I’ve instructed [the team] to remove the wheat paste immediately. It was a random pasting in the normal course of this, and I want to make it public that we had no intent to offend or cover up something precious.”
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/assets_c/2010/05/waterssmith4-thumb-480x360.jpg
This is the revered, totally impromptu/grass roots "Elliott Smith Memorial Wall" on Sunset next to the Malo restaurant. The mural was Smith's background on a series of photos taken by Los Feliz/Silver Lake portraitist Autumn De Wilde, was immortalized on the cover of the Figure 8 album, and after the singer's tragic death it became a repository for his fans' messages and wishes. (It has also been tagged by street artists many times.).
what the fuck is wheat paste?
2010
01:10 PM ET
Roger Waters‘ new viral marketing campaign is meant to generate buzz for his upcoming “The Wall Live” tour. Instead, it’s getting some unwanted attention after one of his posters wound up pasted over part of the late Elliott Smith’s memorial mural on L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard yesterday. Waters’ street team stuck an image featuring an anti-war quotation from President Dwight D. Eisenhower directly on top of the beloved mural, which appeared on the cover of Smith’s Figure 8 and was unofficially dedicated with messages in the singer-songwriter’s memory after his tragic 2003 death. Smith’s fans were understandably less than thrilled.
Waters promptly apologized for what he called an innocent mistake. “It was absolutely an accident,” the Pink Floyd frontman told the L.A. Times today. “I didn’t want to disrespect Elliott Smith’s fans, and I’ve instructed [the team] to remove the wheat paste immediately. It was a random pasting in the normal course of this, and I want to make it public that we had no intent to offend or cover up something precious.”
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/assets_c/2010/05/waterssmith4-thumb-480x360.jpg
This is the revered, totally impromptu/grass roots "Elliott Smith Memorial Wall" on Sunset next to the Malo restaurant. The mural was Smith's background on a series of photos taken by Los Feliz/Silver Lake portraitist Autumn De Wilde, was immortalized on the cover of the Figure 8 album, and after the singer's tragic death it became a repository for his fans' messages and wishes. (It has also been tagged by street artists many times.).
what the fuck is wheat paste?