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Posted on 04/11/2026 2:41:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"There's one missing link: somebody who can sing everything that I could sing 50 years ago"
Roger Waters is on the lookout for a new singer to front his son’s Pink Floyd tribute group – after firing him from his touring solo band.
Harry Waters previously played keyboards for his father on the road for 14 years. However, Harry revealed in 2023 that Roger had let him know that his services would no longer be required.
“I was fired, it was pretty miserable,” he said at the time, adding that his dad “wanted a change of blood, something new, something fresh”.
The younger Waters went on to join tribute act Brit Floyd, alongside one of Pink Floyd’s former background singers, Durga McBroom, and their ex-saxophonist, Scott Page.
Now, Roger has put out an “open invitation” for a singer to join a brand-new tour scheduled for next year, ‘Roger Waters Presents LEGACY – A Pink Floyd Show Performed By The Harry Waters Band’.
The announcement for the upcoming dates is accompanied by the tagline: “The father’s legacy, the son’s band.”
In a statement, Roger wrote: “My son Harry Waters has put a great band and show together to go on the road next year to pay tribute to the music from the golden era of Pink Floyd, and maybe a couple of songs from my subsequent solo career.
“Harry’s band is missing one thing: The voice I had when I was young.”
He continued: “Back in the day, I could sing everything from the soft urgency of ‘Hello, is there anybody in there?’ from ‘Comfortably Numb’, to the high-pitched scream of ‘You know how I need you to beat to a pulp on a Saturday night’ from ‘Don’t Leave Me Now’.
“Can you do that? Are you that missing voice? If you are, this is your chance. This is an open invitation to audition for Harry’s band. I’m serious.”
In a video message, the former Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist said: “Harry has a great band put together for next year, but there’s one missing link: somebody who can sing everything that I could sing 50 years ago.”
Those who wish to apply for the role can do so here before April 30. “Please be sure to submit a Pink Floyd song, with Roger on lead,” the online form reads.
It also sets out the “tentative tour plans”, stating that it will kick off next February and run for 20 weeks. The dates are set to take place for five weeks at a time, with breaks in between. Find more information here.
When confirming that he’d been fired by his father in 2023, Harry explained: “I’m not sure of his exact reasoning, but everyone except two people got fired. But the other guys that got the sack weren’t his son, so it was doubly hurtful for me.”
Speaking about joining Brit Floyd, he said: “I’ve never met any of them, but I’ll just turn up and play. I’ve been playing this music for 30 years or so. I think we’ll be OK without rehearsal. I think we all know the material pretty well.”
Meanwhile, Pink Floyd have announced a new compilation album titled ‘8-Tracks’, celebrating the band’s 1971-1979 era.
Last autumn, David Gilmour said there was “no possible way” that he would ever work with his former bandmate Waters again. The start of this year saw Waters double down on his insensitive comments about Ozzy Osbourne, asking: “Do I have to like every rock group that ever was or people who bite the heads off bats?”
Gilmour celebrated Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ landing the Christmas Number One album spot last December.
It marked the group’s second UK Number One record of 2025, following on from ‘Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII’. The live album of a 1971 show was first released as a concert film in 1972, and re-released with newly mixed audio in 2025. A 4K version of the movie arrived, too.
Pink Floyd also shared the music video for the ‘Wish You Were Here’ title track over the festive period, 50 years after its release.
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Well, I’ll at least say that Roger Waters is consistently an absolutely horrible prick and evil person to everyone.
What a tool.
He goes through band members like a recessive gene through the Biden family tree.
Maybe the muslims will find out where he lives.
“”There’s one missing link: somebody who can sing everything that I could sing 50 years ago””
How about someone who can sing what David Gilmour can still sing? Roger’s voice was high, whiny and harsh. Roger did do a nice job on Grantchester Meadows and a few others.
David and Rick had the most pleasant sounding vocals.
If you’re Jewish it would be best not to apply... Roger really hates Jewish people, so it’s highly unlikely he’ll hire a Jewish person to sing his parts.
I dunno. Harry doesn’t strike me as a fully-fledged grown-up yet. Sounds like Roger is looking forward the day he fully retires (or can’t play) and is making sure Harry already has a comfortable gig he can handle by being ensconced in a Pink Floyd tribute band!
…For example: “Speaking about joining Brit Floyd, he said: ‘I’ve never met any of them, but I’ll just turn up and play. I’ve been playing this music for 30 years or so. I think we’ll be OK without rehearsal. I think we all know the material pretty well.’”
…That doesn’t sound to me like something a professional with his own ideas about his own band would say.
New music sucks, the old stuff is still popular, but the original artists are either too old, too retired, or too deceased to keep the tour going.
So they get younger guys to play the part, often physically resembling the artists whose roles they are playing. They use the same instruments, the same gear, the same stage setups, dress in the same clothes, and with the blessing of the original copyright holders (who get a cut of the proceeds).
A couple:
Roger Ioves the Nazis. Muslims love Nazis. They’d probably get along great.
I saw Brit Floyd recently. It was excellent.
Unofficial videos
Pink Floyd - Marooned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-TKul0pfPQ&list=RDH-TKul0pfPQ&start_radio=1
ZZ Top - Rough Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxAvQrt7bQ&list=RD0PxAvQrt7bQ&start_radio=1
There is a place about 45 minutes from us that has a different cover band about 5 nights a week in the main room, and then has a lesser cover band on the patio similar. They seem to be doing very well with it.
I saw a Neil Diamond show recently. I had no idea Neil Diamond was so loud - not at all what I remembered.
I didn't know that, but the Brit Floyd tribute band is really good - lots of YouTube videos. In a way, their concerts are better than the original Pink Floyd concerts because of modern recording equipment and editing that can be done after the concert is over.
Don't take this to mean that I think they're better than the original Pink Floyd. Remember, millions of people have played Beethoven, but there was only one person who could write Beethoven! It's the same with Pink Floyd.
I was in Branson MO a bit ago and that’s the big thing there now. All the old pop and country performers that made the place in the 80s and 90s are either dead or retired, so now you can watch tribute bands for everything from the Blues Brothers to Pat Benatar. Pretty entertaining from what they say.
Movies are retreads, bands are retreads…
David Gilmour said it pretty well:
“A lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.” David Gilmour and his wife have some choice words for Roger Waters and say a Pink Floyd reunion is out of the question”
And Gilmour is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, so coming from him, that says a lot.
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