No Holds Barred: Roger Waters' unnatural preoccupation with Jews

Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/05/2015 | SHMULEY BOTEACH

[Slings and Arrows]

In a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone magazine this week, former Pink Floyd front man and Israel-hating obsessive Roger Waters demonstrated his all-consuming preoccupation with the Jews.

He speaks about watching Jewish Life Television late at night and reading about "old local Jewish ladies" who organize protests against him. Like most anti-Semites, he peddles central Jewish coordination theories, asserting that pro-Israel efforts, such as this very column, are organized by the prime minister of Israel's office. "Hasbara, the arm of the Prime Minister's Office that we all know starts with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. It’s very organized, and I see it all over my Facebook page all the time. It's this hugely organized thing."

But for all his loathing of Israel, including flying pigs with Mogen Dovids on them as his concerts, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and Israel's policies to the Holocaust, and publicly condemning far more successful performers such as Jon Bon Jovi for performing in Israel, Rogers insists he is not a Jew-hater. "It's not the Israeli people, not Jews, not Judaism. I would never dream of attacking them."

[Red Badger]

It’s sad when 1960’s rockers have flashbacks of grandeur.....................

[Red Badger]

PINK FLOYD
“Brain Damage”

The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me ‘till I’m sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There’s someone in my head but it’s not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon

“I can’t think of anything to say except...
I think it’s marvellous! HaHaHa!”

[joethedrummer]

Excellent point!!!

The guys in Floyd were all a bunch of rich, spoilt kids who got to loaf around in a rock band instead of doing anything real with their lives.

So now, they’re richer old men who think they’re soooooo important and brilliant because they sold a lot of records to drugged up teenagers and had a few music critics call them geniuses... Oy...

[omniscient]

Gilmour’s guitar was the one indispensable element in the group’s sound. Waters’ tedious political yammerings were an annoying distraction.

Rattle that lock!

[Ancesthntr]

54 y.o. dittos. Some of the music is pretty decent, some I listen to just because it was played so much while I was young, but it is definitely over-rated.

And Waters is a POS.

[Slings and Arrows]

Should’ve trademarked it. ;^)

[Slings and Arrows]

Yep.

[Joe 6-pack]

Gilmour has a private pilots license and collected vintage aircraft. I believe at one point he even owned his own Spitfire (or possibly Hurricane) IIRC.

[ruination]

Good man, although he’s a raging LGBTQ activist. I heard a son or cousin of his is an imprisoned arms dealer and that he used to live next door in New Jersey to a home owned by Gaddafi!

[Norm Lenhart]

It’s music for two people primarily. Drug types and musicians. Musically and from the standpoint of a sound designer type, it’s awesome. Unique and complex sounds and interaction between sounds. Art basically. The thing is, some like Piccaso and some like the guy at the street fair. Both are valid.

But Floyd never really made pop/Rock music to enjoy in the way we enjoy Merle Haggard, Led Zepplin or other radio tunes. they made sounds and added words to them. Some like it, some dont. Different strokes. But I get why people don’t.

[DesertRhino]

“Gilmour was by far and away the more talented, and by all accounts I’ve read, pretty much a gentleman, albeit a little left leaning, but mostly quiet about his politics.”

Fully agree. And clearly demonstrated from the last 25 years too.

[eddie willers]

It’s music for two people primarily. Drug types and musicians. Musically and from the standpoint of a sound designer type, it’s awesome. Unique and complex sounds and interaction between sounds. Art basically. The thing is, some like Piccaso and some like the guy at the street fair. Both are valid.

The only thing of their's I really liked was the opening bars of "Money". The song goes on to do little for me but the opening with the cash register, bass line etc. was sweet.

BTW, my Beatles #1+ Cd with two Blu Rays of videos showed up today. Now THAT'S a fairly good band! :)

[plain talk]

Too much money and too much time spent doing drugs. He probably has brain damage.

Waters has always been an radical leftist. Drugs had nothing to do with it. In fact in the Gilmour interview he said Roger did not take drugs. In fact the rest of Floyd did not take drugs as much as one would assume.

[Norm Lenhart]

I like the story and flow of the Wall. I liked the ‘sound’ of Dark Side. The only album I actually ‘like’ as a whole to listen to for fun is the one everyone hates. The Final Cut. Story, sound and music fit like a glove IMO.

Then again I think Alice Cooper’s Special Forces album was his best and absolutely NO ONE agrees with that one ;)

[newfreep]

Rick Wright’s keyboards were the underlying foundation of the Pink Floyd sound.

David Gilmour/Rick Wright “Comfortably Numb” new york session - GREAT live version!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cPxKq-gMDo

[plain talk]

It’s music for two people primarily. Drug types and musicians. Musically and from the standpoint of a sound designer type, it’s awesome. Unique and complex sounds and interaction between sounds. Art basically.

Fairly accurate characterization for early PF. However that changed after Dark Side of the Moon and especially after the Wall when PF became mainstream and gained mass appeal. Perhaps not mass appeal in the way of huge pop acts but after the Wall their support moved way past musicians and druggies.

They were the first major band to feature quad sound in concerts starting in the 1960s.

[Norm Lenhart]

ACtually I was thinking about DSOTM on. Prior they were basically experimental and all over the map to me (IMO).

I think of Bike and then something like Ummaguamma (however it’s spelled). Totally different worlds. That stuff was just out there entirely.

I’ll agree they moved past it to a point but mostly Floyd music was a trip with or without drugs. Today thay call that sort of thing chillwave and a couple other names. But it comes down to strapping on the cans and just going somewhere in your head pretty much. Whether it;s into the music analytically or out in space floating. But I never really knew anyone but the hardcore that popped Floyd in the CD to go out on Cruise night without a bong or that type of thing.

[plain talk]

personal impressions like you stated can be subjective as you know. PF became real big and mainstream after the Wall.

“The Wall ... was one of the best selling of 1980, and by 1999 it had sold over 23 million RIAA-certified units (11.5 million albums), making it the 3rd best-selling album in the United States. Rolling Stone placed The Wall at number 87 on its list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

[Salamander]

Special Forces?

I love it to death.

:)

Pink Floyd?

I’d probably say Umma Gumma but then, I also say the epic Along Came A Spider is really the natural sequel to Welcome To My Nightmare.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

I think Syd Barrett wasn’t the only mentally ill member of that group. Actually, I think Waters gets more dangerous as he gets older. Serious “Mother” issues.

It’s a shame because I love their music. Especially the “Wish You Were Here” LP.