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Roger waters and david gilmour1/8/2024 He told his followers, “David thinks he owns it. Last year, Waters took to social media to lament that he’s been banned on Pink Floyd’s website. He also admitted that although he doesn’t think they would ever reunite and be back on the road as Pink Floyd, he believes that “it would seem silly at this stage of our lives to still be fighting.” And I think it can be exacerbated by some specific difference of opinion on a re-release and how it should be approached or what should be done.” Reflecting on their ongoing feud, Mason mused: “I think it comes and goes. I actually get along with both of them, and I think it’s really disappointing that these rather elderly gentlemen are still at loggerheads.” I’m hesitant to get too stuck into this one, just because it’s between the two of them rather than me. It’s a constant irritation, really, that he’s still going back to it. He continued, “I think it rankles with Roger that he made a sort of error in a way that he left the band assuming that without him it would fold. He feels that writing is everything, and that guitar playing and the singing are something that, I won’t say anyone can do, but that everything should be judged on the writing rather than the playing.” But I think the problem is Roger doesn’t really respect David. He shared, “It’s a really odd thing in my opinion. We really don’t have that much in common anymore.”įor years, drummer Nick Mason has kept mum about Waters and Gilmour’s relationship but speaking to Rolling Stone magazine in 2018, he reflected on their decades-long beef. Besides, I was in my thirties when Roger left the group. The thought of him coming into something that has any form of democracy to it, he just wouldn’t be good at that. He is very used to being the sole power behind his career. Gilmour told Rolling Stone, “Why on Earth anyone thinks what we do now would have anything to do with him is a mystery to me. In 2014, Pink Floyd released The Endless River which is a tribute to late keyboard player and founding member Richard Wright. You can’t say it’s going to cease to exist… you obviously don’t understand English jurisprudence.'” He added, “Because when I went to these chaps and said, ‘Listen we’re broke, this isn’t Pink Floyd anymore,’ they went, ‘What do you mean? That’s irrelevant, it is a label and it has commercial value. Who cares?… It’s one of the few times that the legal profession has taught me something.” It’s just … I’ve been there, I’ve done it.”Īnd in a 2013 interview on BBC’s HARDtalk programme, Waters revealed that he regretted the lawsuit. It isn’t to do with animosity or anything like that. Waters then admitted, “I don’t think any of us came out of the years from 1985 with any credit … It was a bad, negative time, and I regret my part in that negativity.”īut as for Gilmour, he told the Associated Press: “The rehearsals convinced me it wasn’t something I wanted to be doing a lot of … There have been all sorts of farewell moments in people’s lives and careers which they have then rescinded, but I think I can fairly categorically say that there won’t be a tour or an album again that I take part in. Two decades later on July 2, 2005, Waters and Gilmour reunited with Richard Wright and Nick Mason for a one-off performance at Live 8. He even went to the High Court in an attempt to dissolve the band and prevent them from using the Pink Floyd name. In 1985, Waters left Pink Floyd and it wasn’t an amicable separation. To which Gilmour later commented, “I’m certainly guilty at times of being lazy … but he wasn’t right about wanting to put some duff tracks on The Final Cut.” It’s hard to pinpoint when it all began exactly but we can safely assume that it’s been brewing for years particularly when they released The Final Cut in 1983 – an album which was written by Waters and when Gilmour asked for more time to write songs, the former refused. As such, we’ll explore what happened and why, even after all these years, they’re still not on good terms. Disagreements are par for the course in every group but Waters and Gilmour took their feud public and even to the courts. Over the years, the rift between the two of them has become widely known and much talked about.
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