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Someone whose most famous work features extended fantasies of being a Nazi leader should just stay quiet on the subject of Israel. “The Wall” is a great work of art, but its context needs to be tended like a garden.
Rogers sucks.
I forgive David Gilmour
Why are all my favorite entertainers liberal weenies? It drives me crazy...but, Shine on you Crazy Diamond is absolute greatness...so, I let it go......
I am a die hard Floyd fan and I am sick to my stomach when Roger speaks.. He is such a jerk.
Yawn.... Floyd never was relevant to anything.... Now more so.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhc-r-a-p.........
I had read about rumors of this some time ago...
With this, I don’t think there is a favorite group left on my list that I don’t personally and politically despise. Going all the way back to Buffalo Springfield.
Probably a good thing I switched to old and long dead classical music. Just like any social group today, if you stay too long and get to know them personally, it leads to “Too Much Information”.
You can’t really get to know the dead personally and that at least is a saving grace for me..
He is offensive, but he has no power, Obama is offensive an he has power
Rogers is a has been bass player
He has always been into controversy but it is sad to drag Pink Floyd along for his ride.
Pink Floyd should go to Syria and do a Concert for ISIS. That would be entertaining.
No. It goes deeper than naivete. Waters is a hard-core virulent, angry leftist. He has penned songs with very disturbing anti-Israel and anti-conservative lyrics. The Wall portrays his hated Tories as anti-Semitic (See In The Flesh), when it is the British Left that is so. In one Pink Floyd song he has even expressed an interest in putting all his hated (nearly all "right-wing" or Israeli) politicians in a "home" and killing them all.
In The Fletcher Memorial Home, named for Eric Fletcher Waters, his father who was killed in WWII, who he never knew and is endlessly bitter about, he wrote:
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig,
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly,
Mr. Brezhnev and party.
The ghost of McCarthy,
The memories of Nixon.
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitterati.
....
Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favorite toys
They'll be good girls and boys
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial
Wasters of life and limb.
Is everyone in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now the final solution can be applied.
Brezhnev is cynically added for "balance", imho. -montag813
I’m really sorry to hear about Roger Waters being anti-Israel. I wish he would have kept his mouth shut. Now I have to tell my kids and they will be disappointed about it. My daughter’s marching band is doing a “Wall” themed half-time show this year and we have started to hear the music and think a little bit about it.
Too bad talent and good sense are not a package deal.
I was once a fan. I have now told everyone I know to boycott Pink Floyd. They are finished as a group, and utterly banished in my house, in our friends’ houses, and frankly at local radio stations. In fact, they are disappearing on the radio all over the country. Pink Floyd in their mansions picked sides. Too cowardly to walk the walk, too cowardly to visit these places, too cowardly to even VISIT the Middle East, they nevertheless spouted off. They’re done. Tell your friends, tell your family, make their anti-Israel concerts utterly uncomfortable. Return what you can and do not teach yourchildren about their music. (I haven’t, my friends haven’t.) It is time their little dysfunctional, hateful, distant, fascist, utterly self centered (Oh hello Pink!) rock group felt the pain.
Screw Rogers Waters and Nick Mason . I’d rather listen to Gary Numan who DID play in Israel in February . He was also a Thatcher supporter back in the day when 90% of other Brit rocks stars loathed her . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB4KAOvScMs
I hate that liberal rat SOB.
I used to really enjoy the music of Pink Floyd. I listened to their work all the time.
Back in 2004, I went to a Roger Waters concert. I was in a large group of 10-15 people, all good friends.
In retrospect, I should have seen what was coming, but...I didn’t.
It turned into a 3 hour political audiovisual tirade against Bush, neocons, conservatives and Israel, with some music mixed in. It looked like Code Pink put together the slide and video shows they had going on.
I didn’t want to ruin the evening for the people I went with, but I was steaming mad. I grit my teeth and sat there. At the end of the “concert”, they released a 40 foot high ballon of a pig with “F*ck Bush” on one side and “Vote Democrat” on the other.
I have been unable to listen to any Pink Floyd music since then. It STILL pisses me off.
Just listen to Pink Floyd......some of the most depressing lyrics around.