“If you want to give Ringo less, that’s up to you.”
-PJ
Posted on 10/02/2024 7:49:24 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
After years of false starts, the iconic British rock band Pink Floyd has agreed to sell their recorded-music and name-and-likeness rights to Sony Music for approximately $400 million, sources confirm to Variety.
The deal, one of the largest of many in recent years, apparently has finally concluded despite decades of ongoing infighting and bitter words between the bandmembers, notably chief songwriters Roger Waters and David Gilmour;
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Great question. They ought to!
Hahhahahahahahah! Right, sure! Hahahahahahaha!
Finally going to get that Lear Jet they had their eye on.
Below are select inflammatory and/or antisemitic statements from Waters:
In a May 2024 video, Waters advocated for the dismantling of Israel as a Jewish state, denied the Jewish connection to Israel, and called on Jews living in Israel to “go back to Eastern Europe, or the United States, or where you came from,” adding “Goodbye, Israel. It’s over.”
In April 2024, Waters tweeted in support of an anti-Israel Jewish actress, whom he characterized as belonging to the “real Jews,” and labeled Zionism a “death cult” and “genocidal.”
In a November 2023 interview, Waters justified the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel, and denied the atrocities committed by the terrorist group.
In May 2023 concert in Berlin, Waters desecrated the memory of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, compared Israel to the Nazis and paraded around on stage wearing an SS Nazi uniform.
In an October 2022 webinar on Grayzone with anti-Israel activist Max Blumenthal, Waters vociferously advocated for comparing Israel to the Third Reich and called for Israel to “join the human race” and “stop imposing your hated, hated apartheid regime on the indigenous people of the Middle East.”
In a wide-ranging August 2022 interview with World Beyond War, Waters repeatedly promoted antisemitic conspiracies and themes, including that a nefarious “Israel lobby” prevented the election of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK.
In response to a question about fighting between Israel and Gaza-based terror groups, Waters claimed that Israel thinks Jews are superior to everybody else on the planet, saying: “...religious supremacy, the idea that the Jewish people are somehow superior to everybody else on the planet but particularly the Arabs, the Palestinian Arabs...the Israeli state who believe that the Jewish people are superior, more important than any of those people, those people’s lives are worthless.
In a July 2022 video interview with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Waters demonized Zionists as “settler-colonialist,” insinuated that Jews had no connection to the land of Israel, and referred to Zionists with the antisemitic canard “cabal,” saying: “It’s about a bunch of Europeans back in the middle of the 19th century deciding that they were going to take over this piece of land, and kick out anybody that lived there and take it over for themselves and their own little cabal.”
In a May 2021 video, Waters accused Israel of committing genocide, and labeled Israel as an apartheid state.
In an April 2019 op-ed regarding Madonna’s performance in the Israel-hosted Eurovision contest, Waters wrote: “To perform in Israel is a lucrative gig but to do so serves to normalise the occupation, the apartheid, the ethnic cleansing, the incarceration of children, the slaughter of unarmed protesters … all that bad stuff.”
In a September 2018 interview with a German publication, Waters argued that there is a conspiracy to block criticism of Israel in the mainstream US news media, stating: “At any rate, in the USA, the press is controlled by corporations. Journalists there who deviate from the narrative that ‘Israel is just defending itself’ can encounter difficulty. Regarding Israel, the mainstream media are still biased. I get my news these days from blogs, some of which are written by people who used to work for mainstream periodicals and lost their jobs because they criticised Israel.” In a bizarre display in August 2018, Waters projected the phrase “resist Israeli anti-Semitism” during a concert in Poland.
In a July 2017 online interview with BDS movement founder Omar Barghouti, Waters made a number of anti-Israel and pro-BDS statements, including:
“I’m not sure that there any much harsher regimes around the world than this [Israel], actually, if you look at it.”
In reference to a question about how Israel uses Hasbara (translation: “explaining” as in public diplomacy) to reject being labeled an apartheid state: “The thing about propaganda – again, it’s not hard to go back to Goebbels or the 1930s. You understand the tactic is to tell the big lie as often as possible over and over and over and over again. And people believe it.”
In October 2015, Waters accused musician Jon Bon Jovi, who had recently performed a concert in Israel, of standing “shoulder to shoulder” with “the settler who burned the baby,” a reference to the extremist Israeli Jews responsible for the Duma firebombing of a Palestinian family that killed a toddler and members of his family. In December 2013, he gave an interview to CounterPunch.org where he accused the “extraordinary powerful” American “Jewish lobby” in the music industry of silencing critics of Israel.
In March 2013, Waters was interviewed on The Electronic Intifada. In the interview, Waters accused Israel of maintaining an apartheid state and claimed that he has asked other musicians to not play concerts in Israel. He also stated that he played a role in convincing Stevie Wonder to not play a concert at a fundraiser for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and alleged that the U.S. media takes instructions from somewhere to “not report these things to the American public.” An article about the interview with Waters was published in Rolling Stone. Waters spoke in the United Nations on November 29, 2012 to mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Waters accused Israel of “international crimes,” such as “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” and also alleged that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people is similar to the Nazi treatment of citizens in France, Holland, Poland, or Czechoslovakia during World War II. Waters said, “History tells us that the invasion and occupation of a land and the subjugation of its people almost always creates a resistance. Ask the French or the Dutch or the Poles or the Czechs, the list goes on. This crisis in Gaza is a crisis rooted in occupation.”
For a period of time in 2010, Waters’ shows featured video of an array of symbols that placed the Jewish Star of David next to dollar signs. Waters defended himself, writing on his website that “there are no hidden meanings in the order or juxtaposition of these symbols.” However, by an October 6, 2010 show in New York City, the video no longer showed the two symbols next to each other.
“If you want to give Ringo less, that’s up to you.”
-PJ
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
Great and underrated song.
FYI... the dog that is howling throughout the song is not a guitar effect, it's a real border Collie belonging to Humble Pie leader Steve Marriott.
-PJ
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it riding the gravy train
They’ve done their time, paid their dues, lost a base founder to acid . . . the years . . . live well, guys, you will always be great.
Sony is going afrer IP. Own the content and license it out.
The article below discusses their strategy.
One may disagree with Waters ( I do on some things , don’t on others ) he is very intelligent , well spoken and sincere about his beliefs .
Waiting for Sony to start licensing that song for bank and investment advisor advertisements.
It's always a shock to hear a classic song advertising coffee or a toilet cleaner.
All these “idealistic” hippy-dippy 60’s artists (Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young, Pink Floyd) grabbing the almighty dollar from their catalogues.
Ain’t saying they’re wrong for cashing out, but they’ve made a career selling the gullible public the ideals of socialism (in their lyrics and public pronouncements) while reaping huge rewards from capitalism. Total phonies.
that commie capitalist H2Os will still bitch if Trump uses any of the music...
And I say that with full acknowledgement and appreciation of the many outstanding solos of Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Beck, and the other guitar gods whose works I have also had the honor of learning and playing over the years. I have thought about what music I might request for when I shuffle off this mortal coil some day. The closing solo in Comfortably Numb is at the top of the list.
That was great. Rick and David sang so well together right to the end. Rick was treated so badly by Roger.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_x0p26gWU&pp=ygUVUGluayBmbG95ZCBkaWNrIGNsYXJr
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