The entire process was somewhat marred by an ongoing lawsuit over the band’s name, which was ultimately decided in favor of Gilmour and company. And that Pink Floyd was Roger Waters, and a Pink Floyd without Roger Waters, well it didn’t really exist, did it? David Gilmour decided that Pink Floyd was, indeed, still alive his first move was to rehire Rick Wright, and sessions soon commenced for their next album, 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Most fans and critics alike generally consider The Final Cut to really be Roger Waters’ first solo album, anyway it barely even contextually resembled the Pink Floyd of The Wall era.ĭavid Gilmour, however, didn’t really seem to mind Waters’ departure he had a different concept of the situation, and didn’t necessarily ascribe to Waters’ idea that everyone else in the band was just a hired gun, and totally expendable. Even though the album charted well and was a commercial success, the Pink Floyd that most fans had known was essentially dead when Waters announced his departure from the band in 1985. Waters had already fired founding member Richard Wright during the recording sessions for The Wall, and the current album, The Final Cut, ended up being the final straw for Waters. Roger Waters’ increasingly politicized world view, along with his total negativity and complete disparagement of the contributions of bandmates David Gilmour and Nick Mason led to a considerable amount of tension in the band, both musically and creatively. This very noteworthy box deserved and required much greater attention I’ll get back to my usual wanderings and ramblings in the next issue!ġ982 found Pink Floyd in a state of complete disarray. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.This issue, I’m focusing on a single release, Pink Floyd’s The Later Years, which is a sprawling 18-disc box set that covers the band in the years following the departure of Roger Waters. Waters does have an official Facebook page (though, as he says, he is banned by former bandmate David Gilmour from posting on Pink Floyd's Facebook page, with its 30 million followers).Īs word got out about Waters' remarks, he invited "trolls" to challenge him: "Call me a hypocrite for posting this on Zuckerberg's crappy censored platform." She's ugly we'll give her a 1' - how the f- did he get any power? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world." But how did this little p- who started off by saying, ' She's pretty we'll give her a 4 out of 5. I've got him sit - no, I shouldn't tell you. "Zuckerberg features in my new rock ’n’ roll show. No more.’”Īt the People's Forum event last week, the man whose concerts have featured Trump's head attached to a pig's body elaborated on his disdain for the Facebook founder. "And yet they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is so that it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general public so the general public could go, 'What?! What? No. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless a work. Waters read the rights request from a printed page at the People's Forum event, held June 10: "'We want to thank you for considering this project. He has been vociferously anti-Trump, anti-Brexit and has spoken at rallies for years in support of Assange. His support of a cultural boycott of Israel in response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in particular, has been controversial.
2," " Comfortably Numb" and " Wish You Were Here," Waters has been a vocal activist for a number of causes. So those of us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit - in terms of the control of the publishing of my songs I do, anyway - so I will not be a party to this b-s-, Zuckerberg."Īpart from cofounding one of rock's seminal concept-oriented bands and writing or co-writing such classics as " Money," "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. "I only mention that because it's the insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. And the answer is 'F- you!,'" he added as the crowd cheered. "So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me, right? Arrived this morning with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money.
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