The rivalry between the two founding members of Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and Roger Waters, has intensified recently after Waters accused Gilmour of being “creatively bankrupt” and lacking any genuine musical “ideas” when it came to writing their renowned albums.
Waters made these remarks in a recent interview with the British publication “The Telegraph,” when he appeared to respond to Gilmour’s wife’s assertions that he is “antisemitic” to the core of his being. Gilmour endorsed this assertion.
In the same interview, Waters said that “The Dark Side of the Moon,” an album to which Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright had made substantial contributions, was being completely re-recorded. The development is the most recent in a long-running legal dispute over ownership of Pink’s famed Floyd repertoire.
The “The Telegraph” interview, which was published on Wednesday, gave Waters the chance to respond to the harsh criticism that Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, had previously leveled at the former Pink Floyd singer and bassist.
“Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” Samson wrote in a tweet on Monday. Also a supporter of Putin and a liar, thief, hypocrite, tax evader, lip syncher, sexist, envious megalomaniac. Enough with your foolishness.
Samson’s message was retweeted by Gilmour, the guitarist responsible for the iconic Pink Floyd guitar solos in “Time” and “Comfortably Numb,” who added the description, “Every word demonstrably true.”
Along with their disagreements over Pink Floyd’s ownership rights and personal issues, the assault also appeared to be a reflection of the two musicians’ divergent political ideologies. With the name “Pink Floyd,” Gilmour composed music for the war-torn nation after the Russian invasion as a fervent supporter of Ukraine’s fighting effort.
On the other side, according to Waters, the invasion was instigated by “extreme nationalists” in Ukraine. The former Pink Floyd bassist has a history of antisemitism and currently performs some of the band’s oeuvre under his own name.
Waters disparaged Gilmour and Wright as artists during the conversation. They are incapable of writing songs, he proclaimed, and they share no ideas at all, he continued. They are passionate with the fact that they have never had.
The band’s most well-known record, “The Dark Side of the Moon,” was, according to the band’s founding member, solely his musical idea. “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon,” he claimed. Let’s do away with the entire “we” nonsense. We were a band, of course — there were four of us, and we all participated — but since it was my idea and I created the song, blah.
The musician categorically refuted accusations of anti-Jewish hatred, saying, “[There’s] not a single millisecond of antisemitism anywhere in my life.”
In support of his previous claims to the German tabloid “Berliner Zeitung” that he would release a re-recorded version of the album without Gilmour or Wright on it, Waters performed snatches of several of the songs from “Dark Side” that he had re-recorded for the outlet.
The German publication quoted him earlier this week as saying, “On these new recordings, I’m the only one singing my songs, and there are no rock and roll guitar solos.”
Since then, Waters has reaffirmed his intention to release his interpretation of “The Dark Side of the Moon” in May of this year. The unhappy former Floyd member redone “Comfortably Numb” last year, but without Gilmour’s vocals or his iconic guitar solo.
On his current “This Is Not a Drill” tour, Waters’ rendition has become a mainstay.
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