Attention Pink Floyd fans! Time for another disappointing update.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Roger Waters explained meeting David Gilmour in June.
Roger talks about proposing a ‘big peace plan’ to David which was ultimately rejected.
Here’s the statement:
“I wish he’d let me advertise this movie [‘Us + Them’] on the Pink Floyd website. It’s not allowed. He censored it, and I’m not allowed to announce anything on it.”
When asked when the meeting happened, Roger said:
“We spoke in June. We had a big meeting where I came up with a big peace plan that has come to nothing, sadly.”
He further added:
I bet all Pink Floyd fans are sorry to hear that. They all hoped that we could kiss and make up, and everything would be wonderful in a cozy, wonderful world.
“Well, it wouldn’t be all that cozy or wonderful for me, because I left Pink Floyd in 1985 for a reason. The reason being that I wanted to get on with my work.
“Well, thank goodness I’ve been able to get on with my work. Work is its own reward. I was very happy to see in the Variety review of the movie that they managed to connect the dots between ‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ ‘Animals,’ [solo album] ‘Amused to Death,’ and ‘Is This the Life We Really Want?’ That was gratifying.”
Pink Floyd is one of the most commercially successful rock bands of all time. David Gilmour joined the band in the late ’60s with Waters becoming their primary lyricist. The duo devised the concepts behind the albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979) and The Final Cut (1983). They are credited with influencing genres such as progressive rock and ambient music. The band was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. The band has sold more than 275 million records worldwide, with The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall two of the best-selling albums of all time.
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Hey Roger – You tried to kill Pink Floyd. We will never like you. Drop dead.
Roger Drop dead? Please be my guest dipshit! Don’t go all dimebag on us doucheR!!!!!!
That is hia opinion and really what was the peace offer? Bet it only had Roger name for all songs written by Roger Waters.
I love Roger Waters work. However, all Waters is really doing is living off his best work when he was with the band, at his height too.
Gilmour kept moving on & has attempted for years & years to make up with Waters. He’s always walked away. Perhaps Roger you need to remember how much you tried to destroy the product ‘Pink Floyd,’ instead off trying to take credit now as you wrote a lot with the band when you were part of the ensemble, but NOT all of it.
RW ‘is NOT’ PF, they were a group, always.
I don’t know if David has tried and tried. Outside of live 8, and it took Bob Geldof to mediate that as i understand, the other accord was their one off charity thing that David asked Roger to join and David did comfy numb on Rogers wall tour (which was awesome). After that two sides to every story. Roger doesn’t help himself over the years when he subtly disses David or his wife, he made some comment that David cant write lyrics making his wife do it, something like that.
If there’s been repeated attempts its Nick Mason trying to do it but even he has given up and soldiered on with his new band, also awesome!
I think Roger only wants something for the cash and not nostalgia. If David ever agreed to something you’d know it was for his own self serving interests.
But you’re right the sum was always greater than the parts
Very well written and it brings in the most pertinate facts. I couldn’t agree more.
Brain dead for sure
your trash die
Rather rude,childish comment
You’re a Jew hater
you are thinking of roger.
You’re not very bright are you. Waters wasthe principle creative force behind Pink Floyd’s Golden era and before. Both in lyrics and in music.
It would be nice to find out what Roger’s “big peace plan” was, and exactly how much both of them would’ve had to roll over to make it work.
It’s sad, really. I’ll bet they have some wonderful music left between them… If only they could put aside their differences.
Ironic in the extreme that Mr “Peace & Love” & “Hey, let’s all live together in harmony” is still at loggerheads with his former bandmate. That said, saw ‘Us + Them’ at the cinema yesterday & thoroughly enjoyed 🙂
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I’m w David Gilmour. Roger’s into troling now, spewing ignorant political opinions
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BDS anti-Semite
no one but other racists care what you think either. don’t you have a klan meeting to get to?
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Roger is, yes
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Rock and Roll is Opinion… hello.
He praises Costa Rica for having the smallest military budget, let him relocate there so we don’t have to listen to his incessant whining about the military.
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spare us the riddles
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Waters’ “peace plan” is probably to get Rick Wright (maybe even Sid too) back in the band.
Funny how he’s the only one gobbing off about it.
Sid died a couple of years ago, so that probably ain’t gonna happen.
Syd died in 06 and Richard in 08
Sid died years ago. Surprised you didnt know that fact,yet comment as you did.
Apologies, I should have put up a sarcasm warning.
Wright died of cancer.
Precisely my point. Oh, Sid’s dead too
I actually think it’s totally dumb that he couldn’t just have it advertised on the site. Christ he wrote 2/3 their music. His name is still linked to the band and they don’t do anything as a band anymore.
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bands have their golden era, and rarely can equal that.
you can see their group exhilaration then;
and years later the thrill is gone, and theyr much more plainspoken and matter of fact.
imagine Taylor Swift 10 yrs from now
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Roger broke up the band and proceeded to put out crappy stuff that didn’t come close to the Gilmour/Waters collaboration. All he was trying to do here was gain access to the Pink Floyd web domains to promote his new crappy stuff. Sorry Roger. You are the villain here. As always.
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Go dark, roger
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well put!
Roger waters is a douchebag
Your dad, too, lol
Waters is a first class scmbg. Kudos to Gilmour for not allowing that piece of s..t come close.
Didnt Roger quit the band, then turn around and sue them all? I think jealousy is what it was. He never could get over Pompeii and the cameras all over the young guitar god David.
Roger declared the band done, Dave and Nick wanted to go on. The lawsuit was more over roger trying to block them from touring under the floyd name.
And that scene in “Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii” where they’re sitting at a table and Gilmour holds up an album cover depicting a crying girl right in Waters’ face, you know there’s something up about Waters’ secret fetishes that Gilmour could have learned of by his having a view on a window of the house where Waters and Barrett resided while living in Cambridge, when Barrett was incapacitated with his LSD abuse.
I side with Roger over David more in general but in this case I’m with David. No need for Pink Floyd to promote Roger’s solo work, he’s just trying to gain more money.
I’m sure the only thought was how to milk the floyd machine for more money. Face it, they dont like one another and won’t get together but every year or so he has to say he’s reached out, for his own ego.
For all Roger wants us to believe his peace love inclusion he’s worth hundreds of millions, has no problem gouging fans on ticket prices. Anti-wall and all are welcome but has his own security and lives in secured penthouse apt. Rails about capitalism but will have no issue enjoying the benefits touring next year with the same songs only to insult President Trump so he gets more media coverage.
Very good
At least this site has way better writer’s than stupid assed click bait metal zone
There would be no Pink Floyd if it werent for Waters. Period.
Nothing to be proud of.
Gilmour is just as Pink as Roger.
Nobody should follow Waters except to run him into the ground. The world has no room for a racial discriminating piece of garbage. He should be ashamed of himself heading up the BDS movement. He is and always will be anti-Semitic low life.
Cry some more. No one cares what an apartheid zionist fascist like yourself thinks.
Go fk yourself jack, you are a sad moron
you are right, ignore these racists who comment in favor of anti Semitism.
What does that say about Roger? That no one wants to work with him. He’s a total scumbag.
well done, David. don’t tarnish yourself any further by associating with this anti Semetic scumbag. F roger and his ideals.
Get lost netanyahu. You’re finished
does your last name refer to the fact that no one will come near you or is it more representative of the single brain cell you operate on? either way, get lost you racist scumbag!!.
You can be pro-Judaism and anti the fascist Israeli state.
anti Semetic ,Roger ,your a piece of shirt! and David knows that!
Go f yourself netanyahu
f u piece of dreck!!
Roger, did you think David forgot that you sued him to try and kill Pink Floyd? I woulda laughed at you too.
Gilmour knows what a scummy piece of garbage Waters is
Any article that starts with “Roger Waters says”, I am done reading after those three words.
In the end, Roger Waters is a musical genius who faces the problems in the world and goes after them. Gilmour is the guitarist from Pink Floyd and the Pink Gilmour tours.
i think all the PF’ers were then. could RW write anything now?
I think there’s an ulterior motive behind these “the bands gettin back together ! ” headlines.
I believe Dave just doesn’t want to mix anti American liberal politics with Pink Floyd. Better to keep all politics out of entertainment.
So true!!!… Keep thy politics to thyself… But Roger has never been one to know enough to not force his views on politics… But I still appreciate his music regardless of that… It’d be nice to see them write together again they were one of the greatest writing teams of the 20th century and the music they created together is by far better than anything they’ve apart….
Roger only wants to make up so he can plug his new movie on the Pink Floyd site. Then he went on to say Nick Mason’s tour work was beneath him. Ignoring him was best option.
David Gilmour and Nick Mason and and Richard Wright went on to create some great albums and great music after the separation. They continued in the lines of Pink Floyd albums. And in my book Dvision Bell ranks with any of the best.when Rodger mentions he wanted to get on with his work anyway after the separation his work is way below the quality that was produced by the other three. It certainly was not anything that appeal to me. Also a great piece of the group was lost when Richard wright died. Much of David’s new work is also quite good but I don’t see anything coming from Rodger that is decent stuff.
roger’s musical deficit is prob why he turned to ranting political extremism :
get SOME attention
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Nah, Roger was always out spoken in his political views… I think it really held him back career wise post Floyd and to some extent what really cost him the friendships he had with his fellow bandmates… Had he just kept his politics to himself I think more people would have much more appreciation for his solo work… Regardless of his antiquated anti-jewish political views he is still one of the greatest song writers of the 20th century… There’s not many of the songs from the albums “Darkside of the Moon” thru “The Wall” that didn’t get major radio play and they are still some of the best selling albums if all time…
Says a lot that a 2nd bass player was needed to cover Roger.
Actually they only really put out 2 albums of music… Momentary Lapse of Reason was songs written for David Gilmour’s solo album that the Nick Mason and Rick Wright added to at the end and it was decided to call it a Pink Floyd album… So you got the Division Bell and Endless River that were truly written as Pink Floyd albums with Gilmour, Wright and Mason all contributing… Not that any of these are bad albums, they sustained the band for 27 years and there were some great songs on these albums but imagine how great they would be if Roger was involved… Roger did well for himself solo album wise but his political views tend to ruin him in the public eye and damage his career… Roger continued on in the concept album format which I think also cost him career wise, but when I go back and listen to his solo work today I have a much greater appreciation for it and still hear the the sound that made Pink Floyd in those albums…
I gave Roger’s albums plenty of time to come around for my ear but I could never get to a point where I felt like I was hearing something that really drew me in. May be it’s just me but the writing seemed lacking. There was no inspiration for me.