The previous Pink Floyd chief Roger Waters is a longtime critic of Israel, and he’s additionally been a vocal critic of Joe Biden in latest months, together with Biden in a “warfare legal” montage throughout his This Is Not A Drill tour. In interviews, Waters has blamed NATO aggression for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and he’s written an open letter to the primary girl of Ukraine, encouraging her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, to sue for peace. In a Rolling Stone interview just a few months in the past, Waters claimed that he’s on “a kill record that’s supported by the Ukrainian authorities.” Proper now, a few of Waters’ outdated collaborators are taking purpose at him.
Final week, as Rolling Stone factors out, Roger Waters did an interview with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, and he posted a translation on his web site. In that interview, Waters commented on the truth that Pink Floyd had teamed up with the Ukrainian musician Andrij Chlywnjuk to launch the protest tune “Hey Hey Rise Up!!“:
I’ve seen the video, and I’m not shocked, however I discover it actually, actually unhappy. It’s so alien to me, this motion is so missing in humanity. It encourages the continuation of the warfare. Pink Floyd is a reputation I was related to. That was an enormous time in my life, a really huge deal. To affiliate that title now with one thing like this… proxy warfare makes me unhappy. I imply, they haven’t made the purpose of demanding, “Cease the warfare, cease the slaughter, deliver our leaders collectively to speak!” It’s simply this content-less waving of the blue and yellow flag. I wrote in one in every of my letters to the Ukrainian teenager Alina: I can’t increase a flag on this battle, not a Ukrainian flag, not a Russian flag, not a US flag.
Yesterday, in obvious response, the author Polly Samson tweeted this about Roger Waters: “Sadly @rogerwaters you’re antisemitic to your rotten core. Additionally a Putin apologist and a mendacity, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Sufficient of your nonsense.” Samson is married to Waters’ ex-bandmate David Gilmour, and she or he wrote lyrics for a few of Pink Floyd’s songs after Waters left the band in 1985. Gilmour quote-tweeted Samson and wrote, “Each phrase demonstrably true.”
David Gilmour has additionally been liking numerous tweets that criticize Roger Waters; you’ll be able to see all of his likes here. In response, Waters posted this assertion on Twitter: “Roger Waters is conscious of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate feedback made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes completely. He’s presently taking recommendation as to his place.”
Waters and Gilmour have been in battle for a very long time, although most of it hasn’t been for political causes. As an alternative, they’ve been arguing over who will get credit score for what. A 2021 reissue of Pink Floyd’s Animals was reportedly held up as a result of Gilmour vetoed an essay from the author Mark Blake within the liner notes. In a press release on his web site, Waters accused Gilmour of inflating his position in Pink Floyd on the time, writing that Gilmour “was, and is, a jolly good guitarist and singer. However, he has for the final 35 years informed a whole lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd once I was nonetheless in cost.”
