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  • Roger Waters Calls U2’s Bono “Disgusting” and “a (Expletive)”

    02/19/2024 7:32:30 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 66 replies
    NME ^ | 19th February 2024 | Liberty Dunworth
    “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...
  • How to play the drums like Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason (80 years old today)

    01/27/2024 4:06:30 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 19 replies
    Far Out Magazine ^ | January 27, 2024 | Jordan Potter
    When losing oneself in the gateway masterpiece The Dark Side of the Moon or the kaleidoscopic obscurity of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, one can easily overlook the masterful work of Nick Mason. As the rhythmic backbone of Pink Floyd, undoubtedly one of the 20th century’s finest rock bands, the affable beat-keeper always knew just how much to add and when to add it, an oft-overlooked attribute. Furthermore, as the longest-standing member of Pink Floyd, his role has mimicked that of Ringo Starr in The Beatles as a mediator in times of internal tension. Unfortunately, in the story...
  • Roger Waters Fired His Son From His Touring Band Before He Joined a Pink Floyd Tribute Act

    12/01/2023 2:38:37 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    NME ^ | 1st December 2023 | Max Pilley
    Harry Waters had played keyboards with his dad's band for 14 yearsRoger Waters’ son Harry has revealed that his father fired him from playing in his band, and he is now planning on playing his dad’s music in a Pink Floyd tribute band instead. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the younger Waters claimed that it was in late 2016 that the former Pink Floyd bassist let him know that he would no longer be required to play keyboards in his dad’s touring band. WATCH “I was fired, it was pretty miserable,” Harry said. Advertisement “I think he just wanted...
  • South American Hotels say ‘No’ to Roger Waters After His Support Gaza Extremists Following Barbaric Oct. 7 Terrorist Attacks (Pink Floyd)

    11/17/2023 6:03:02 AM PST · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Nov. 17, 2023 7:15 am | By Fernando De Castro
    Via Fernando de Castro in Brazil Prestigious hotels in Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina are refusing to accommodate former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters. The refusal stems from Waters’ anti-Semitic positions. The decision to reject lodging for the left-wing singer and his team is primarily due to his stance on the Hamas-Israel conflict. Waters denied the responsibility of the terrorist group for the October 7 attacks, which claimed over 1,400 lives in Israeli territory. Over 200 Jews are still missing and being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. A Waters concert is scheduled to take place in the Uruguayan capital this...
  • Pink Floyd - See Emily Play

    11/04/2023 12:06:50 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 9 replies
    Pink Floyd ^ | 1967 | Pink Floyd
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  • Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne (Official Music Video)

    10/28/2023 12:13:09 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 30 replies
    Pink Floyd ^ | 1967 | Pink Floyd
    "Arnold Layne" was Pink Floyd's first single, released in 1967.
  • Can This Pink Floyd Feud Get Any Uglier?...New documentary pits Gilmour v. Waters again in even darker light

    10/10/2023 6:19:27 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    Hollywood in ToTo ^ | 8 Oct 2023 | Staff
    The best rock ‘n’ roll bands on the planet rarely get along. For every U2, a quartet known for their off-mic harmony, there’s a Beatles, Rolling Stones or Van Halen. Rock infighting is as ubiquitous as trashed hotel rooms and sexualized groupies. Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend can’t hide their differences, but they do just that when it’s time to go on stage or record a new song. The Pink Floyd infighting is still legendary by those measures. David Gilmour and Roger Waters, who many perceive as the heart of the legendary band, haven’t shared an amicable word in some...
  • Pink Floyd fans left unimpressed after Roger Waters ‘tells audience to f** off’ during ‘awkward’ London show. (Come for Dark Side of Moon and he reads emails for 60 minutes)

    10/09/2023 5:20:23 PM PDT · by DeathBeforeDishonor1 · 68 replies
    Evening Standard via Yahoo ^ | 10/9/23 | Tina Campbell
    The veteran musician, 80, headlined the 2,286-capacity venue with the evening billed as a chance to hear the entirety of his recently released album, Dark Side Of The Moon Redux, which is a reimagining of the band’s iconic Dark Side Of The Moon, which recently turned 50. However according to several disgruntled audience members, he spent an hour reading from his unpublished autobiography instead of singing and even told them to “f*** off” when they complained. Waters is said to have read out pages of notes about his pets, including a duck called Donald, which he discussed for 20 minutes,...
  • Roger Waters Dresses up as SS Officer, Compares Anne Frank to Abu Akleh

    05/24/2023 10:52:38 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | MAY 24, 2023 | Tzvi Joffre
    "Good morning to every one but Roger Waters," tweeted the Israeli Foreign Ministry.Roger Waters dressed up as an SS officer and compared Anne Frank to Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a concert at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin last week. At the beginning of the show, an announcement was displayed on a screen reading “on a matter of public interest: a court in Frankfurt has ruled that I am not an antisemite," sparking applause from the crowd. "Just to be clear, I condemn antisemitism unreservedly," continued the announcement. Waters, the former bassist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd,...
  • Roger Waters Wins Legal Battle to Play Frankfurt Concert

    04/25/2023 3:04:25 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    NME ^ | 25th April 2023 | Damian Jones
    The show was originally cancelled over anti-Semitism claimsRoger Waters has won a legal battle to play a forthcoming concert in Frankfurt after it was initially cancelled over claims of anti-Semitism. The former Pink Floyd frontman was supposed to play at the publicly owned Festhalle on May 28, but Frankfurt City Council called off the performance over the musician’s views on Israel. They later described him as “one of the world’s most widely-known anti-Semites”. Despite the cancellation, Waters suggested earlier this month he’s “coming anyway” in an update on Instagram update alongside a photo of the grave of Sophie Scholl, a...
  • Pink Floyd - Seamus (Mademoiselle Nobs) Live Pompeii

    04/18/2023 5:14:59 PM PDT · by SamAdams76 · 32 replies
    Before the band Pink Floyd went into the stratosphere with "Dark Side Of The Moon" in 1973 (half a century ago!), they released an album called "Meddle", said to be a soundtrack for a non-existent movie, in 1971. Dominated by the PF classic "Echoes", which takes up the entire Side Two of the album (back when albums had sides), there was sort of a throwaway track called "Seamus" at the end of Side One, that was mostly sung by a dog. The record executives were horrified by this track and did their darnedest to get it removed from the album...
  • Volcanic eruptions and Pink Floyd: Inside Europe’s ‘Little Ice Age’ mystery

    04/05/2023 7:36:48 PM PDT · by Saije · 27 replies
    Courier Tribune ^ | 4-5-2023 | Mark Waghorn
    Europe's mysterious "Little Ice Age" has been traced back to a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia - thanks to Pink Floyd. It lasted centuries and led to the Thames Frost fairs, when the river froze over for months at a time - turning it into a skating rink. A generally warm medieval period was followed by a mostly cold spell - from the 14th to the 19th Centuries. The weather phenomenon has baffled climatologists for decades. A study - inspired by the 70s rock legends' Dark Side of the Moon - now shows it was triggered by a catastrophic eruption...
  • 'Leave them kids alone,' sang Pink Floyd in 1979. Now it's: 'we'll convert your children'

    02/28/2023 7:56:12 AM PST · by NetAddicted · 7 replies
    Mercatornet.com ^ | 2/28/2023 | James Parker
    Parents need to wake up to the possibility of LGBTQ+ indoctrination February 2023 is the month where the LGBTQ+ juggernaut ramped up its attempt to convert our children and to destroy any notion that heterosexuality has a God-given beauty. Let’s start with WorldPride 2023. In the run-up to the global fleshfest (and you’ll see why I chose that word as you read on), several stories have enraged local residents in Sydney, and rightfully so. Public pornography The first was the “gay bear mural” of a large hairy, naked man, dressed in bondage straps, with a teddy bear’s head smiling at...
  • Roger Waters Concert Canceled Over Alleged Antisemitism

    02/27/2023 1:34:50 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    Ultimate Classic Rock ^ | February 26, 2023 | Corey Irwin
    The City of Frankfurt, Germany announced that a scheduled Roger Waters concert would be canceled. In their decision, the city council referred to the Pink Floyd rocker as "one of the world's most well-known antisemites." Waters was supposed to perform at the Festhalle concert hall in Frankfurt on May 28. The venue is not a privately held entity, as the city has a 60% share in the ownership. As such, the city council had the power to cancel Waters gig. The cancellation announcement cited Waters' boycott of Israel, his comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa, his declaration of his...
  • David Gilmour Blasts Roger Waters As “Misogynistic, Antisemitic Putin Apologist”

    02/07/2023 1:08:54 AM PST · by Libloather · 52 replies
    Consequence ^ | 2/06/23 | Carys Anderson
    Well, David Gilmour and Roger Waters still hate each other. Gilmour’s wife, the author Polly Samson, took to Twitter to denounce Waters as a “misogynistic, antisemitic Putin apologist” (amongst several other things), and Gilmour shared the claims as “demonstrably true. “Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core,” Samson tweeted. “Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.” Soon after, Gilmore quoted his wife’s tweet, adding, “Every word demonstrably true.” Waters has long been outspoken in his beliefs surrounding the Russia-Ukraine conflict, even calling President Joe Biden a “war criminal”...
  • Pink Floyd Fans Suddenly Care About Rainbow Album Art: 'Lose the Wokeness'

    01/20/2023 2:23:56 PM PST · by Round Earther · 78 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 1/20/23 | Nick Mordowanec
    Some Pink Floyd fans are up in arms about the rainbow colors that have accompanied the band's classic Dark Side of the Moon album artwork for nearly five decades. The legendary music group announced Thursday that it was releasing a special 50th anniversary edition of what is already one of the best-selling albums of all time. The announcement was made on social media networks including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, featuring an adapted image of the iconic album cover with the prism and rainbow colors.
  • New Jersey middle school teacher arrested after allegedly overdosing on fentanyl in classroom

    01/08/2023 7:49:39 PM PST · by CFW · 29 replies
    Fox News ^ | 1/8/23 | Paul Best
    A middle school teacher in New Jersey is facing multiple drug charges after allegedly overdosing on fentanyl in a classroom in November, the Westfield Police Department said. School Resource Officer Fortunato Riga responded to the second-floor classroom, where a nurse was treating the teacher in front of students, and gave him Narcan, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose.
  • Roger Waters gigs in Poland cancelled amid Ukraine backlash

    09/25/2022 8:31:57 AM PDT · by Kriggerel · 20 replies
    BBC ^ | September 25, 2022 | Adam Easton
    Planned concerts in Poland by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters have been cancelled amid outrage over the musician's stance on the Ukraine war. The concert's promoter, Live Nation Poland, confirmed the cancellation but gave no reason for it. The controversy was triggered by an open letter Waters wrote to Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska. In it, he said, "extreme nationalists" in Ukraine "have set your country on the path to this disastrous war". He accused her husband, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, of failing to fulfil his election campaign promises to bring peace to the Donbas region and and made no...
  • Why Roger Waters Calls Joe Biden a ‘War Criminal’

    08/08/2022 11:42:26 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 43 replies
    UltimateClassicRock ^ | August 8, 2022 | Allison Rapp
    Roger Waters has clarified some of the messaging presented on his current This Is Not a Drill Tour, which includes an image of President Joe Biden with the words "War Criminal" and "just getting started ..." projected to the audience. He addressed the image during an interview with CNN’s Michael Smerconish, saying that President Biden is "fueling the fire in Ukraine." He added: "That is a huge crime. Why won't the United States of America encourage Zelenskyy, the President [of Ukraine] to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that's killing — we don't know how many Ukrainians...
  • WATCH-Roger Waters of Pink Floyd savages CNN over UKR-RUS war

    08/07/2022 12:23:51 PM PDT · by Az Joe · 75 replies
    Twitter ^ | 08/07/1954 | Jack Posobiec
    I wouldn't change a word of his argument.