WATERS TO PERFORM ‘DARK SIDE’

There's money and there's "Money."

Roger Waters told a European interviewer that following Pink Floyd's reunion for the Live 8 benefit concert in 2005, the band was offered a $150 million gross for a world tour.

That number might even be conservative, but it didn't matter. "It is not about the money," the Floyd's chief architect said. "What counts is, do we still have something to say or not? I am not nostalgic."

And yet, soon after, Waters began two years of touring on his own with "The Dark Side of the Moon Live." The show that visits the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday offers a start-to-finish rendition of Floyd's most enduring album, even if Floyd purists might argue that in light of who sang which vocals on that album, "Dark Side" would sound more authentic in the hands of the David Gilmour-Richard Wright faction of the splintered band.

At any rate, the gimmick is likely to fill in some of the rows that weren't sold out for Waters' show at the MGM Grand this same week in 2000.

That one offered plenty of psychedelic visuals, but also the silver-haired Waters emerging from the shadow of the giant floating pig as -- who would have thought it? -- a warm and personable performer in his own right.