Posted on 10/15/2026 2:28:36 PM PDT by Cronos
Waters didn’t pull any punches when discussing Metallica frontman James Hetfield.
The Pink Floyd rocker was a guest on the Katie Halper Show podcast, where the topic of politics’ place in music was brought up. The host pointed to Hetfield’s recent comments during a Metallica show at the Sphere, where he declared: “Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their bull—-, OK? We’re here to forget about all of the outside s—. Metallica's agenda is love, energy, and heavy music, baby
In response to those comments, Waters tore into Hetfield.
“Can we stop talking about this prick?” the Pink Floyd icon remarked. “I’m so bored with him. He’s just showing that he’s a complete prick. He's got an IQ of about three and why we're talking about him, I honestly don't know because he's a nobody and he'll always be. He may have a few hundred million dollars or whatever, but he's a prick and he's no musician. I heard them. I told you I heard them playing acoustic instruments and they couldn't. It was appalling.”
Waters went on to note the importance of empathy in society, suggesting that Hetfield was never taught to care for others.
"Obviously I wish he had grown up with a mama or a dad or a friend or even a cousin or somebody in the family who taken him to one side when he was little,” he said. "It's a shame this prick didn't have somebody around him to explain that being kind is way more important than all that loud music and bouncing around and whatever. Being kind, have some empathy for your fellow human beings because we need that to spread through across the whole world."
Waters has been one of rock’s most outspoken supporters of Palestine.
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Didn’t Waters get BOOED at one of his “concerts” BY HIS OWN FANS for stopping his show to GLOAT ABOUT HIMSELF for what seemed an eternity?
Dunno. I saw Chicago right after their first album and there were no political speeches on stage. No lectures like Roger likes to give now. Just music.
“he’s a nobody and he’ll always be.”
lol - yeah, he’s only the head of the world’s most successful metal band. ....said by a person I never knew the name of.
Comment of the day!!!
“I heard them. I told you I heard them playing acoustic instruments and they couldn’t. It was appalling.”
Says the mediocre bass player and worst musician in every band he’s ever played with.
Hypocrite.
As the Stones sang so many years ago...”What Can A Poor Boy Do, ‘Cept To Sing in a Rock N Roll Band...”
“ Plus Waters treated Richard Wright like crap. Thankfully Gilmour brought him back.”
Yes that always bothered me. In the early years after Syd, Rick’s organ was the core sound with the rest playing off him. Roger was an ungrateful SOB to do that to Rick.
I wanted to add this to my above reply...I don’t mind bands reminding the audience to either register to vote or to ensure they vote. That’s fine, but telling me how to vote is something different. But I do remember Frank Sinatra stumping for Hubert Humphrey...nice concert at Oakland Coliseum back in 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-nwlb2SyLw
Now That Were Dead!!!!!
fug Watwrs.
All in all he’s just another prick in the wall.
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Waters is a world class prick for sure and one of the few human beings who is so ugly he actually looks better as a decrepit old man.
Pink Floyd is as overrated as Bruce Springsteen. And waters has aged like milk
Another Mega fan! I went to see their concert last year and shook Dave’s hand.
Waters must have run out of Jews to hate on.
How can someone that has created such great music be so freakin’ stupid?
Seriously, what makes Waters think that we need to hear commie lies at a concert?
Right?
Paging dr.freud!
If you are going to publicly insult someone, get a 3 or 4 word vocabulary first.
Funny how the Left blames Nixon for that war.
1964–68—especially 1965–68—was the biggest U.S. escalation. The U.S. shifted to a major ground war, and troop numbers reached their high point in 1968. From 1969 onward, U.S. troops were being withdrawn.
Even to this day the Left’s double standard is glaring:
The corner of my street and PA route 232 constantly had loud angry anti-war protesters from 2002-2008, and then they suddenly were gone from 2008-2016. Never made a peep during Zero’s 8 years. Then they were back gang busters from 2016 to 2020 - disappeared again during the Biden “presidency”..
It’s pathetic.
Roger Waters is the Tucker Carlson of Rock and Roll.
Added, “standwithhetfield,” to the keywords for this thread...
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