Posted on 02/19/2024 7:32:30 PM PST by nickcarraway
“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 music festival Supernova.
“In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence,” he told the crowd before launching into a performance of ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’. “But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So sing with us… and those beautiful kids at that music festival.”
He then played the song with altered lyrics, singing “Early morning, Oct. 7, the sun is rising in the desert sky… Stars of David, they took your life but they could not take your pride,” in place of the original lines.
Now, Waters – who has been a longtime critic of the State of Israel – has taken aim at the musician for his comments during a new interview with Al Jazeera (via Clash) , and branded the comments made at the live show “disgusting”.
“My mother told me, when faced with difficult problems, the first thing to do is to read—read, read, read. Then, the next part is easy: do the right thing,” he told the outlet, referring to his own family background that saw his father killed in the Second World War.
“Anybody who knows Bono should go and pick him up by his ankles and shake him… until he stops being an enormous (Explitive).”
“We have to start saying to these people, your opinion is so disgusting and so degrading… sticking up for the Zionist entity,” he added. “What he did a couple of weeks ago in the Sphere in Las Vegas, singing about the Stars of David, was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
This is far from the first time that Waters has openly criticised Israel. Over recent months, the outspoken former Pink Floyd member has been in the news for his comments on the conflict in Palestine and accusations of anti-Semitism.
He has repeatedly denied all accusations of anti-Semitism and explained that his disdain is towards Israel, not Judaism. He also accused Israel of “abusing the term anti-Semitism to intimidate people like me into silence”.
He was recently the subject of a documentary, The Dark Side Of Roger Waters, which was produced by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and collates various incidents of alleged anti-Semitism levelled against the musician.
Rogers spoke out against the documentary with a post to his official website, dismissing the project as “a flimsy, unapologetic piece of propaganda”. He later claimed that it “indiscriminately mixes things I’m alleged to have said or done at different times and in different contexts, in an effort to portray me as an anti-Semite, without any foundation in fact”.
The documentary highlights a controversial concert in Germany back in May 2023, which was criticised by the US State Department who described it as “deeply offensive to Jewish people”. The gig saw him appear on stage wearing a black trench coat with a swastika-like emblem. At the time the musician defended the choice, claiming that the segment was a statement against fascism, injustice and bigotry and called criticism of it “disingenuous and politically motivated”.
In April, Waters won a legal battle to play a concert in Frankfurt after it was initially cancelled over claims of anti-Semitism, and last month it was reported that he had been dropped by his label BMG over his comments on Israel.
As for U2, over the weekend the Irish rock band once again used their residency shows in Las Vegas to make a political statement – using their Saturday show to pay tribute to the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, who was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony and suddenly died on Friday (February 16).
Honestly, the only reason I had the CD was for sound system testing. I never really cared for it.
I’ll find suitable music elsewhere.
I dislike Bono a LOT, but he got this one right, unlike Roger Waters, who has been an anti-Semitic clown for longer than I even knew his music.
Mr. Waters has some serious daddy issues as well.
Dark Side of the Moon was exceptionally well engineered / produced / recorded. Following “Abbey Road”, it really put Alan Parsons on the map. It was one of the best demo records for rock music to sell audio gear to sound quality conscious kids with a bit of money, that one could hope for.
You think your woofer can do bass? Hah! Crank up the opening to “Time” and see what comes or blows loose. Do that on the ol’ “ESS Rock Monitors” with the grill off and you’d likely blow stuffing out the port and into the sales room! Many a speaker would just crack and / or pop.
But, this was not a “bass heavy” record. The sound was beautifully balanced.
On the other hand, David Gilmour is probably one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. And he’s pretty much 180 from Waters on these issues, although he is still pretty much a lefty as well.
Eye in the Sky, Alan Parsons Project, was very Pink Floyd-ish sounding................
World’s biggest turd.
Couldn’t you just use I.G.Y. by Donald Fagen?
Why he blames the Jews instead of the Nazis utterly mystifies me...but he serves as an example of how endless money can't buy happiness. That he makes a guy like Bono look heroic is proof he's lost in a whirlpool of his own hatred.
But hey; the fans had a video-making contest with incredibly great submissions. Here's one.
You posted to the wrong guy....................
Bono is holier than thou with his statements. Watters is hate. Still I see the bot equally repulsive.
When did Waters became an all Jew hater? The last few decades he’s really been at it. But I don’t remember that from the 70s. He’s a very tortured soul. He gave into bitterness and bad drugs.
Waters is and has been a POS.
Who knew Roger would end up more batxxxx crazy than poor drug-addled Syd.
Now we have Waters and Bono beefing like two dumbass rappers.
Arabs are half-Semitic and half-Hamitic if the assertion that they are descended from Ishmael is true, whose mother was Hagar, an Egyptian.
Those who used the term “antisemite” to describe themselves explicitly used it in the context of their hatred of Jews only.
Bono doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that you wanna talk like this about. I detect that dude has an irish temper. Waters could turn up one day to have gone to the Harry Reid fitness center for a special ‘gym device accident’. Busted eye socket bandaged up all black and blue, broken ribs. Everyone will wonder what really happened.
Yes. it seemed like every hi fi store I visited was using it for a demo. I must admit that I also used it to demo my own system, before I seriously downsized and took up playing an instrument rather than spending my most of time listening to music made by others.
If Waters had just started talking like this a few yrs ago, you might think it was something to do with his age, but he’s an a**hole, always has been.
Oh boy, the anti-gaelics come calling out of the woodwork.
Just kidding. The temper is true.
Both Watters and Bono are pompous a-holes, imo. The likes of John Kerry type pompous a-holes. Don’t care what any of them have to say.
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