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{ex pink Floyd}Roger Waters Rips ‘Prick’ James Hetfield {Metallica}Over Apolitical Stance
Ultimate classics rock ^ | 15th October 2026 | Corey Irwin

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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Waters is a has been.

Good on Metallica for keeping politics out of their concerts

1 posted on 10/15/2026 2:28:37 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

One of the things I love amount Metallica is they will play songs of the countries they are playing in. For example they played “Sen O Warszawie” when they played in Warsaw.


2 posted on 10/15/2026 2:30:15 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Cronos

Waters appears to
be obsessed with pricks.


3 posted on 10/15/2026 2:30:54 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Texas Eagle

All in all he’s just another prick in the wall.


4 posted on 10/15/2026 2:33:22 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Texas Eagle

When even David Gilmour hates your guts, that says a lot.


5 posted on 10/15/2026 2:33:56 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Cronos

My life wiĺl be considered complete without another Waters opinion.


6 posted on 10/15/2026 2:34:14 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: dfwgator

👏 👏 👏 Well played.


7 posted on 10/15/2026 2:35:32 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Cronos

Oh, that’s rich, Roger Waters lecturing anyone on kindness.

Few recording artists in history have shown less capacity for introspection than the man who spent decades rewriting history so that every conflict was someone else’s fault and every mirror was defective.


8 posted on 10/15/2026 2:36:43 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: dfwgator

BWAHAHAHAHA


9 posted on 10/15/2026 2:36:48 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Cronos

I walked out on Waters when he started his liberal bloviating.


10 posted on 10/15/2026 2:38:02 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Cronos

Waters is completely nuts.


11 posted on 10/15/2026 2:42:05 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: The Unknown Republican

Plus Waters treated Richard Wright like crap.

Thankfully Gilmour brought him back.


12 posted on 10/15/2026 2:44:15 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Hetfield is apolitical? lol.


13 posted on 10/15/2026 2:44:25 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Seruzawa

Crazy, toys in the attic, he is crazy.


14 posted on 10/15/2026 2:45:28 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Seruzawa

I do believe he is mentally ill.


15 posted on 10/15/2026 2:45:37 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: proust

At least at their concerts he is.


16 posted on 10/15/2026 2:45:48 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Cronos
Waters crafted ‘The Wall’ while being enlightened on targeting actual violent tyrannical rulers who he blamed for his father's death, in his case Hitler. Then transitioned after he got wealthy to propping up both violent (Islamic false Gospel) and benevolent tyrants.
17 posted on 10/15/2026 2:47:00 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Not this world but the next. Faith, justice, humility, hope, and most important, agape.)
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To: Seruzawa

And that’s why there will never be a Pink Floyd reunion.


18 posted on 10/15/2026 2:47:47 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: rollo tomasi

He got the idea for doing The Wall, after spitting on a fan at a concert during the Animals tour.


19 posted on 10/15/2026 2:48:17 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: bigbob

And that’s why there will never be a Pink Floyd reunion.


Other than Richard Wright’s passing.


20 posted on 10/15/2026 2:48:45 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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