Posted on 02/19/2024 7:32:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
“Anybody who knows Bono should go and pick him up by his ankles and shake him… until he stops being an enormous (Expletive)”
Roger Waters has lashed out at U2 frontman Bono, describing him as “disgusting” and “a (Expletive)”.
The comments against the Irish rock singer arose in a new interview with Waters, and saw the Pink Floyd musician criticise the former for his previous comments on the Israel-Hamas war.
Speaking during one of their Sphere residency shows in Las Vegas, Bono used the performance to pay his respects to those killed during the October 7 attack at the Israeli music festival Supernova.
“In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence,” he told the crowd before launching into a performance of ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’. “But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So sing with us… and those beautiful kids at that music festival.”
He then played the song with altered lyrics, singing “Early morning, Oct. 7, the sun is rising in the desert sky… Stars of David, they took your life but they could not take your pride,” in place of the original lines.
Now, Waters – who has been a longtime critic of the State of Israel – has taken aim at the musician for his comments during a new interview with Al Jazeera (via Clash) , and branded the comments made at the live show “disgusting”.
“My mother told me, when faced with difficult problems, the first thing to do is to read—read, read, read. Then, the next part is easy: do the right thing,” he told the outlet, referring to his own family background that saw his father killed in the Second World War.
“Anybody who knows Bono should go and pick him up by his ankles and shake him… until he stops being an enormous (Explitive).”
“We have to start saying to these people, your opinion is so disgusting and so degrading… sticking up for the Zionist entity,” he added. “What he did a couple of weeks ago in the Sphere in Las Vegas, singing about the Stars of David, was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
This is far from the first time that Waters has openly criticised Israel. Over recent months, the outspoken former Pink Floyd member has been in the news for his comments on the conflict in Palestine and accusations of anti-Semitism.
He has repeatedly denied all accusations of anti-Semitism and explained that his disdain is towards Israel, not Judaism. He also accused Israel of “abusing the term anti-Semitism to intimidate people like me into silence”.
He was recently the subject of a documentary, The Dark Side Of Roger Waters, which was produced by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and collates various incidents of alleged anti-Semitism levelled against the musician.
Rogers spoke out against the documentary with a post to his official website, dismissing the project as “a flimsy, unapologetic piece of propaganda”. He later claimed that it “indiscriminately mixes things I’m alleged to have said or done at different times and in different contexts, in an effort to portray me as an anti-Semite, without any foundation in fact”.
The documentary highlights a controversial concert in Germany back in May 2023, which was criticised by the US State Department who described it as “deeply offensive to Jewish people”. The gig saw him appear on stage wearing a black trench coat with a swastika-like emblem. At the time the musician defended the choice, claiming that the segment was a statement against fascism, injustice and bigotry and called criticism of it “disingenuous and politically motivated”.
In April, Waters won a legal battle to play a concert in Frankfurt after it was initially cancelled over claims of anti-Semitism, and last month it was reported that he had been dropped by his label BMG over his comments on Israel.
As for U2, over the weekend the Irish rock band once again used their residency shows in Las Vegas to make a political statement – using their Saturday show to pay tribute to the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, who was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony and suddenly died on Friday (February 16).
Those guys need to sit down and have a beer together.
I’ll take Bonobo any day over Waters..................
They’re both phonies. Look how both hide their money while saying the opposite.
It always amazed me as a youth to hear that Dark Side of the Moon was one of the highest selling albums of all time. Far out, dude.
Pot calls Kettle black...................
Fine. Just broke my PF CD in half.
Never again. The music was lackluster anyway.
He blames the Jews for the death of his father, who died in World War II.
And it still is.
Every Generation rediscovers it................
...and I have a new respect for Bono (for which I’d now have to eat my hat if certain people were still around).
I never listen to that. Anything by them gives me a headache. Just like Aspartame.
I know the creators of South Park certainly don’t like him.
Roger Waters hates Jews.
(Well, maybe not, but it would be fun seeing the pr!ck try to deny it.)
While I don’t agree with Bono on everything, at least he tries to do stuff.
AFAIK, all Waters does in bitch...............
My opinion of Bono just went up a notch or two.
The only song I know is Money and it is quite lame. It’s a gas.
Roger Waters is something else
“I call it treason against rock ‘n’ roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics. ... When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I’d run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick. .... If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.” — Alice Cooper
Myanmar and China cited as abusers of human rights involving Muslim minorities but there’s always the inconvenient truth about India.
“The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government continued its systematic discrimination and stigmatization of religious and other minorities, particularly Muslims”
https://hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/india
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