“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.”īut that doesn’t mean he’s given up on the idea of some sort of truce. Like many Pink Floyd fans, Mason finds their ongoing battle frustrating. We really don’t have that much in common anymore.” 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. “Roger was tired of being in a pop group. “Why on Earth anyone thinks what we do now would have anything to do with him is a mystery to me,” Gilmour told Rolling Stone. 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.”īut they haven’t appeared anywhere in public together in the past seven years, and when Gilmour cut the 2014 Floyd album The Endless River as a tribute to the late Richard Wright he didn’t even consider inviting Waters to participate.
“But I think the problem is Roger doesn’t really respect David. “It’s a really odd thing in my opinion,” he says, trying to explain their current impasse. The two may not speak to each other much these days, but both have somehow stayed close to Mason.
But since he’s not in charge, he’s taking his new project Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets on their first American tour next year for an evening of pre-1973 Floyd music.īefore starting the band, he got the blessing of both David Gilmour and Roger Waters. If he were in charge, they’d still be out there headlining stadiums all over the world like the Rolling Stones. He has far fewer songwriting credits than any other member of the group, but he’s the only person to play on every single album and the only one that never thought breaking up was a good idea. There is no release date yet announced for Waters' book.Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has always occupied a unique space within the band.
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"The full story of what really happened is in my memoirs," Waters teased. I quote this bit of the article verbatim."įollowing Gilmour's quote, Waters impugns the guitarist for having "no f-ing idea what he’s talking about" because he wasn't present when the tape loop for "Money" was created. In the same blog post as Blake's "redacted" liner notes, Waters revealed an excerpt from his memoir in which he is highly critical of Gilmour's "false" Pink Floyd narrative, specifically in regards to the odd-meter groove in one of the band's most iconic songs, "Money." “As chance would have it I was doing a bit of delving in a book of press clippings and came across an interview David Fricke of Rolling Stone Magazine did with DG in a hotel room in NY in 1982, DG’s talking about the cash register tape for the defining 7/8 rhythm on 'Money.' The interview was published in Musician Magazine, so even back then DG was sowing the seeds of the false narrative. If I don't now, I'll probably never do it," he said in an announcement. "I had a lot of time on my hands over the last year, and I thought, 'Bugger me. And in a sly twist, he released journalist Mark Blake's notes here via his official website.
The truth of Pink Floyd will be revealed in his forthcoming memoir, he said. Waters, who often accuses Gilmour of overstating his creative contributions to Pink Floyd, says he finally agreed to exclude the liner notes from the Animals reissue in order to have it see the light of day. Waters says Gilmour objected to them being included on the reissue so as to preserve Pink Floyd's mystique. The Animals reissue has been held up for two years as Waters and Gilmour wrestled over - of all things - the liner notes. Roger Waters and David Gilmour's long-lasting feud will no longer prevent the band's reissue of its remixed 1977 studio album, Animals, and has only fueled the Pink Floyd bassist's imperative to tell the band's true story in his autobiography.
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