Posted on 06/04/2014 6:32:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Recently, two surviving founders of Pink Floyd sent the rock band equivalent of a diplomatic cable — an open letter published in Salon — to the Rolling Stones. They asked Mick Jagger and his crew to cancel their first-ever concert in Israel to demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle against occupation.
But Pink Floyd hit a wall.
The Stones not only went on with the show Wednesday night in Tel Aviv but delayed their opening by 45 minutes to allow devout Jews time to reach the concert after the end of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, during which Orthodox Jews cannot drive, handle money — or press “Play” on the Stones’ “Exile on Main Street” album.
The Stones’ decision to ignore Roger Waters and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd underscored Israel’s growing popularity as a stop for major musical acts, and it signaled a setback for a campaign known as boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS). The movement seeks to apply international pressure on Israel to end its military occupation of the West Bank, guarantee the right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes they fled or abandoned after 1948, and grant full rights and equality to Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel.
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Oops. David Gilmore wasn’t mentioned in the story.
FUPF
Drummers usually just blow up. Just ask spinal tap
“Johnny Rotten had the best Pink Floyd t-shirt.”
I Hate Pink Floyd.
“Oops. David Gilmore wasn’t mentioned in the story.”
Gilmore doesn’t buy into that crap. And Pink Floyd is Gilnore’s. Mason and Waters are ex members.
Instead of Comfortably Numb, they are Comfortably Dumb.
+1 for the Stones.
With The Stones “Sympathy For the Devil” is a song.
Evidently with Pink Floyd it’s a philosophy.
I’m sorry to hear Floyd has pink eye, but why does his opinion matter?
So if Israel, tomorrow, pulled back to the original borders, handing responsibility back to the nations which held that ground, would Pink Floyd then boycott Egypt & Jordan? Would they call for sanctions against Syria?
No?
Oh, I see, it is all about a fictional state which has never existed which is ‘occupied.’
repro for sale. :>} LOL!
Waters hasn’t been Pink Floyd for a lot of years. F him.
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Interesting, IIRC Blues Traveler opened for the Stones in 1997.
That may have been when it happened. not sure. I know Popper was there at the concert and Mick wouldn’t let him jam with them as I mentioned. It was described in Keith Richard’s book.
Stones to Floyd: You can’t always get what you want.
Puck Fink Royd!
LOL - I’ll have to check my drum stool watch for that!!!!
Good for the Stones....And Pink Floyd? They need to stuff a brick in it...
I’ve known for years that Roger Waters was anti-semitic scum. He has that special brand of upper-crust British racism, which would see him doing things like referring to Israel as “Palestine” in interviews. A few of my older Brit relatives were the same way: just absolutely never accepted the fact that t3h j00000z could have their own country, and would make statements like: ‘there were no Jews in Palestine before 1948’.
Awesome. Pink Floyd can cram it.
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