Posted on 10/10/2023 6:19:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
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 time. They could make a fortune by putting aside their differences and reuniting for the sake of their fans (and wallets).
Not a chance.
Waters left the band in 1985, thinking his departure would mark the end of Pink Floyd given his outsized role in the group following co-founder Syd Barrett’s exit. Except Gilmour and his mates carried on, angering Waters in the process.
The ensuing legal battles became the stuff of legends, but Gilmour and Waters re-teamed a time or two for major charity gigs (like London’s Live 8 event in 2005).
That was then. Now, the warring ex-partners fire shots at each other via social media and press interviews.
Earlier this year, Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson slammed Waters on social media for his alleged rage against the Jews.
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pollysamson @PollySamson · Follow Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense. 2:33 AM · Feb 6, 2023
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Waters maintains his anger is at the state of Israel and its policies, not the Jewish people.
The latest salvo proved equally personal.
Gilmour is helping promote “The Dark Side of Roger Waters,” a documentary detailing the anti-Semitic allegations against Waters over the years, by spreading the news to his nearly 300K X followers.
The film report adds some new charges to back up those claims.
In the video, BBC journalist John Ware interviews Norbert Statchel, Waters’ former saxophonist, and Bob Ezrin, the music producer who helped helm Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Both men, who are Jewish, recalled experiences in which Rogers said things that were antisemitic.
The group behind the project, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, “is a volunteer-led, UK-based charity dedicated to countering antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance enforcement of the law.”
Waters continually denies the anti-semitic label and carries on, touring across the globe and revisiting classing Pink Floyd material.
Waters is 80. Gilmour is 77. The rock legends are still roaring in their senior years, and they’re running out of time to mend any fences before shuffling off this mortal coil.
David Gilmour needs to get his wife under control. As I have heard him say, he is ambivalent towards Waters. His wife is not helping at all.
He also treated the late Richard Wright like crap.
And it was Gilmour that saw to it that Syd Barrett was well taken care of financially.
That is mind blowing. I grew up listening to this band in the 1970s and even then, they were considered among the "dinosaurs" of rock.
The Rolling Stones have been recording and touring even longer than Pink Floyd.
That is something I did not anticipate when I was a kid.
Wot’s Uh The Deal?
I doubt that Waters will ever repent of his anti-Semitism....................
More Waters’ news:
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/roger-waters-pink-floyd-london-palladium-audience-b1112377.html
“They could make a fortune by putting aside their differences”
Silly me. I thought they already had a fortune.
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Homer Simpson: You know, Mr. Burns, you’re the richest guy I know. Way richer than Lenny.
Mr. Burns: Oh, yes. But I’d trade it all for a little more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcYLVdfFro
Waters just turned 80.
I knew nothing of this “war”. It kind of taints the the love I have for their music. What a shame.
David needs to keep his wife out of his music too. Saw D.G. about 3 years or so ago. They played a bunch of songs that she “helped” with. Made me regret paying for the ticket to the show. Thankfully they shuffled her ass off stage and started to play old school Gilmour which is phenomenal.
How do you know it is true? How do you define antisemitism? Will god punish people for harsh words? Another thing, there were 12 tribes of the Hebrew people, why are the jews special today? Their role is finished, from them Christ came, they rejected him and killed him as prophecied, and in fact.
Old Testament words that God will bless those who bless them, meaning ALL of Israel, and curse those who curse them. Is not one tribe specific. Yeshuas words to the Jews, goes something like ...Woe to the those who say they are Jews but are not, they are the Sons of Satan, need to be in there somewhere too.
I don’t really know any jews, just ones on TV and on the world stage. But from what I can see, politically, they are insufferable. They can’t move on from people being killed. They are quite comparable to the BLM people, who can’t move on from Slavery and Jim Crow. To this day BOTH, act oppressed, when they are basically on pedestals culturally.
There, your antisemitic post of the day, and all I did was state my opinion.
For the record, quit pointing back at the Holocaust. You are not the only ones who have been victims. Talk to the Native Americans about, or the Micks.
Needs to get his WIFE under control? How very Muslim.
I’m part Irish and yeah they went through some suffering that’s for sure but let me tell you, it seems to me that no race of people has been persecuted throughout the ages quite like the Jews have.
It’s got nothing to do with religion. She is being a destructive force where HIS career is concerned. So yeah, she needs a talkin’ to.
They definitely get more publicity. We believe, what we are told. When the tally is so one sided, I tend to believe it is heavily laden with BS. Hitler rounded up and marked Jews. It is true it is history, but identity politics is killing America. I support Israel as a nation, but that doesn’t mean I stand with the Jews. I support America, I don’t stand with the Caucasians, though I am one.
You have believed faulse Replacment Theology. Jesus wept overIsrael and still does today
Never liked this band.
Hated Grateful Dead. Tolerated the Who, even after they sat through our set at the Troubadour. Some bands just rubbed me the wrong way.
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