![]() ![]() If I don’t do them now, I’ll probably never do it.'” “I’ve had a lot of time on my hands over the past year,” Waters says in a new Instagram video. During the downtime, Waters has just revealed, he began work on a memoir. Waters was supposed to spend the past year on the road with the This Is Not a Drill tour, but the pandemic caused him to delay the dates until 2022. ![]() “I think he thinks because I left the band in 1985 that he owns Pink Floyd, that he is Pink Floyd,” Waters said last year, “and that I’m irrelevant, and that I should keep my mouth shut.” Waters claims that he’s been banned from posting on them and therefore cannot promote his tours and other projects directly to the fans. One of their big points of contention is access to the Pink Floyd official website and the group’s social media accounts. The news comes during a particularly frosty period in the relationship between Waters and Gilmour. He does not dispute the veracity of the history described in Mark’s notes, but he wants that history to remain secret.” “Gilmour has vetoed the release of the album unless these liner notes are removed. “These mixes have languished unreleased because of a dispute over some sleeve notes that Mark Blake has written for this new release,” Waters writes. There’s no exact release date at the moment, but Waters announced in a post on his website and Instagram page that it’ll contain new stereo and 5.1 mixes. He has also been urging artists such as Radiohead to reconsider concerts in Israel.After years of quiet conflict, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have finally agreed on a release plan for a deluxe edition of the 1977 Pink Floyd masterpiece Animals. He recently did not rule out staging a performance of The Wall in some geographically significant place such as the Mexican border in response to Trump’s plan to build a wall there. Water’s outspoken opinions on political issues have drawn criticism and praise. In “Picture That” Waters is even more blunt, with an expletive-laden diatribe leading to a repeated invite for the listener to “picture a leader” with no brains. Bush was in the White House, Waters clearly thinks the point is relevant now. While the lyric was based on a poem written when George W. In the new title track, Waters refers to “a nincompoop” becoming the president. While they suggested it was not very likely, both agreed it would depend on a decision of Gilmour. ![]() Mason and Waters (Photo BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)Īt a news conference in February to announce the V&A show, Waters and Mason were asked if there was any possibility that the band might reunite, possibly for Glastonbury. The band is the subject of a blockbuster touring exhibition, first being shown at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum through October 1. Individual volumes of much of the material are now available. The Early Years on Legacy has more than 12 hours of audio and 15 hours of video. Its 27-disc box set of early recordings was priced $699.98 in 2016. The Floyd money-making machine is in top gear. 1 group albums in the U.K., most recently with 2014’s The Endless River featuring guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and late keyboardist Rick Wright. Waters is no stranger to the top spot with his former bandmates. Pink Floyd has sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, 75 million in the U.S. The new release is one of the singer-songwriter’s most accessible with many echoes of his work as principal composer with Pink Floyd: sound effects, washes of instruments and vocals now a little gruffer and deeper but still recognizable. Ça Ira 12 years ago was an operatic experiment. Is This the Life We Really Want? is the first rock studio album by Waters in nearly 25 years. ![]()
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