I liked Pink Floyd back in the day and listened to a lot of Waters’ albums, but the human being Roger Waters, the front man, is one terribly mixed up guy, and if he gets it right, it’s usually by accident. But one hell of a musician, I’ll give him that.
I sense he likes being a contrarian.
I despise Roger Waters. I don’t care if he happen to be or not be right on any given occasion.
I used to love music by Pink Floyd. I listened to their work all the time.
Back in 2004, I went to a Roger Waters concert. I was in a large group of 10-15 people, all good friends.
In retrospect, I should have seen what was coming, but...I didn’t.
It turned into a 3 hour political audiovisual tirade against Bush, neocons, conservatives and Israel, with some music mixed in. It looked like Code Pink put together the slide and video shows they had going on.
I didn’t want to ruin the evening for the people I went with, but I was steaming mad. I grit my teeth and sat there. At the end of the “concert”, they released a 40 foot high ballon of a pig with “F*ck Bush” on one side and “Vote Democrat” on the other.
Now, it doesn’t make any difference to me what the actual sentiment is with respect to Bush, Russia, or anything else is. When I go to a concert, I expect music, not indoctrination.
I have been unable to listen to any Pink Floyd music since then. It STILL pisses me off. I try, but just don’t enjoy it the same way.