ROGER WATERS SAYS ‘WISH YOU WERE HERE' IS POLITICAL AS WELL AS PERSONAL
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In 2011, I interviewed the Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters about the making and meaning of the album 'Wish You Were Here'
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My hero! I've been in love with Roger since "Meddle". His words move my soul. I have seen him 6 times and will see him in Sept 2022, having bought tickets 2 years ago. I will be 80 years old and will probably be standing thru the whole concert. Of course seeing "The Wall" live was the greatest thrill of my life, literally. Keep on rockin' Roger.
Yes, his words move our soul.
I’m convinced the fountain of youth is listening, and dancing, to the music of our teens. (I’m 67.)
Shine on! You crazy diamond 💎
I lost a lot of respect for him recently. He totally lip synchs his concerts. Its a joke.
@@HeronCoyote1234 he wrote great lyrics and pink floyd my favorite band. But im bit upset he lip synchs his concerts. That makes me think of him differently. I know gilmour doesnt lip synch
I don't care what people say about Roger but I like Roger.
A very smart man who gets the real meaning of life & knows about politics & so much morel.
I've always been impressed by Mr Waters.
I'm taking mom to see Roger. She got to see Pink Floyd with me on the last tour, now she gets to see Roger. We're big fans, I can't wait.
Roger is a genius. Beautifully explaining the human condition. He was instrumental in forming my politics. He is a beautiful soul....... So thank you for the 52 years that you've been in my mind and soul. Thank you 😍
The Final Cut is a brilliant album and I don't normally care too much about lyrics, but the lyrics in that album are very meaningful and reality aligning. I like Rogers quest to uncover the truth and express it. In a world full of lies and liars it is very refreshing to hear someone telling it like it is and cutting through the fantasy BS
"Reality Aligning" is such a great phrase
thank you I'll remember that!
I was going to talk about The Final Cut too...I agree an absolutely amazing concept album. Roger made me think about it when he mentioned concept albums....I think it's a mind blowing piece of art.
he is such a beautiful person!
Absolutely Brilliant, shame some people don't get this. Thank you RW🤔😀😇😇
Such a pleasure to listen to this great artist/maestro. Thank you!!!
Thank you Waters! Enlightening people on the possibility to help out Julian Assange and others.
For me WYHW is the darkest most melancholic piece of work Floyd have ever done. All Floyd is dark to an extent but this album is on another level of artistry. The personal connection the band had to some of it makes it extra poignant for me. It has this heaviness, weight, and bleakness to it no other Floyd album has, it’s a beautiful cathartic piece of art. It can really weigh me down if I’m in the right mood listening to it, and I mean in that in the best possible way. For me Dark Side is the most profound, philosophical, and musically interesting, Animals is a beautiful angry scream of rage, and WYWH is the one I have the deepest emotional connection with. There’s just something about the depressive hopelessness to it that’s so timeless.
Dude youre spot on
@@P3-mz8ps Thanks man, one of my most favorite albums of all time. Never get sick of listening to it.
This album always means a great deal for me. When I was 10 or 11 my brother was first taken away in an ambulance when he tried to top himself. He has since been in and out of hospital for the past 25 years. That feeling to when someone you love has that look in their eyes, like black holes in the sky..
A rarity today. Intellectual conversations with freedom of expression. Brilliant 😊
Every interview i see of him, makes me ask questions, of myself, and in general. A brave man.
I Remember asking a bemused shop assistant in 1971 for a Roger Waters tee shirt. The man made the plain black short sleeved round neck tee shirt his own. So good to see him keeping the faith 👍
Roger is a modern day Shakespeare....He is so honest and open.....A beautiful human being and I think a portal to what god wants us to be....
The genius of Roger Waters!
"Barriers between us and the reality of our lives." You know....how often does a true philosopher become an accomplished musician that is able to incorporate those ideas and principles into song. It's just a pleasure to listen to a human with such good sense talk about his ideas and his art. Would be a damn interesting friend to have...
The gift of helping someone else how eloquently spoken and true!
Rogers being very honest about his time in Pink floyd it looks like he's finally coming to terms with talking about it without getting annoyed by interviewers wanting to ask the same questions about the Floyd over and over again he's having a good time here and actually praises the contributions from the other 3 even if youre the songwriter with a direction you need to have the best musicians
around you to understand and help you to realize the project with the right music to compliment the lyrics etc. so Wright ,Mason and gilmour were very important because they were very gifted musicians even though they didnt always agree with waters on politics they supported him with great music
LEGEND... ROGER MY DAD WAS TAKEN AWAY at just 57 on Christmas night 2 years ago.....YOU are his hero.......I say Are , because I knows he's on the darkside of the moon 🌙 blasting HAVE A CIGAR with his Floyd shirts.......he's an absolute legend if only you knew him.........If ever you u was to see this I'd like to show u my tattoo 💙 PINK FLOYD RUNS THRU MY VEINS.........I'm not going to be here much longer mate.....my time is done as I'm very poorly......GODBLESS You & your HERO DAD 💯......
I wish this man could live forever
Great interview! Roger is a genius, certainly lyrically, even if I don’t really find his general personality and ego particularly appealing. But ultimately he’s responsible for much of the best records I’ve ever heard.
If you think Roger Waters has an ego, I think you fail to understand him. He has strong spirit and is passionate about what he cares about, but it's not vanity or narcissism.
Roger is strongly against the evil or corrupt members of authority we have in the west, and wishes for a better more just world.
@@bigbasil1908 yeah I think it’s you who doesn’t understand him. He’s a huge narcissist. Even people who have worked with him know he has a sizeable ego. So sit down sunshine
@@kjek1 You mean the people who earned loads of money from his songwriting.
@@bigbasil1908 is that in an alternate reality where the bands best songs weren’t dominated by Gilmour and Wright’s music? An alternate reality where Roger’s solo works didn’t suck and actually left some sort of mark in the music industry?
Typical Waters fanboy tit. No surprise you’re on other videos claiming Gilmour’s a snob etc etc. You truly are a ball licker for Putin’s little puppet, who btw, hasn’t written a brilliant song since about 1979.
@@bigbasil1908 Roger's lyrics are nice and all, but nobody would have ever cared about the Floyd or listened to their albums if it weren't for the great music that was largely created by Dave and Rick.
If only our country and our world had more people with Rogers empathy....Outlook, and his utter goodness....I love this man, protect him at all cost...
Lol
Glad Roger is doing well. ❤️ pink floyd.
I'll always love this man's anger, passion and standing up for those in pain and suffering against media narratives. I could almost forgive him being a gunner....
wdym "gunner"
@@Qaptyl he supports Arsenal
@@ceciliagrantham4689 whats arsenal
@@Qaptyl a football team in England
@@ceciliagrantham4689 oh ok
I’m 28 and I love Pink Floyd. Roger waters messages are so deep and carry so much truth. I love David Gilmour too for his awesome solos. He’s not jimmy Paige lol but he brings a different kind of art in his music.
"He's not Jimmy Paige"?? C'mon. That's a true contrast. Paige in no way, shape or form was anywhere near Gilmour. Completely different guitarists, one playing roughly recycled riffs and, ahem... More than 'inspired' from other artists (near theft comes to mind) vs the other who created his music based on his feelings and extreme experimentation with absolute flawless technique and intricacies (Gilmour).
While I dig Paige and he's truly a legend, but saying David is no Jimmy is borderline hilarious. Gilmour is very far and beyond in essentially every aspect as a player and composer than Paige that it's nowhere remotely close.
Covering Paige is is fairly easy task for any good player. Covering Gilmour is another story. Sorry bud, Paige is no Gilmour.
Thanks John. Great clip. I get the sense of the mind that makes Roger a genius, and that doesn’t alway happen in his interviews.
What Roger was describing at the table was not insanity. It was nothing like what we've heard about Syd. It was anxiety. I've been there several times in my life, sitting with superiors after a screw up. It's a combination of feeling smaller, and distance from the source (people).
Near the end, he's so right about song writing. Tom Petty survived on Rock n Roll for 40 years, because he was an excellent song writer. There's no other way he could have done that without changing his style for the times, as bands often do
True that, but I think his point was that Syd now saw the world in a VERY different way than normal people. But just like his idea of his songs, HE doesn't get to be the final arbiter of what things are about. I don't think there is anyway of saying with certainty ANYTHING about any musical artist without getting stuck in too much mud. There are lots of songwriters who didn't change much, and many did, and all places in between. What works for one persone isn't necessarily true for others. Roger hasn't come up with many new songs, so he's reinterpreting the old stuff for a new world, thats fine, just like Steve Hackett is doing that for Genesis tunes. The thing about art and artists is every one is unique, which is a VERY hard thing to wrap our heads around in a world where we are used to putting labels on things.
Yes, it's a sane reaction to an insane set of unnatural situations. I've had similar episodes after a battering from grief, unrelenting stress and pressure from all angles. It's slipping into a dissociative state, something the mind does when it can't take being overwhelmed anymore. Obsessive compulsions are another thing it does, trying to place some sort of order on the chaotic world around it. A lot of what is perceived to be madness is, in a way, it's opposite or a defence against it at least.
@@NicholasBerry-ku9rd That's very well put. The term I was searching for, dissociative. There are people who have this disorder all the time, and that's a huge mental issue. But lots of people can experience it for a very brief period, as it's a defense mechanism. You just can't live your whole life on a defense mechanism. Roger is a very smart man, but it sounds as if this might have been the only time in his life that it was triggered.
The way I see it, Syd was very similar in some ways to Peter Green as in they both were in it for the music and not for the fame and money (the commercial BS). Sure they were both a little crazy but then I don't know anyone who isn't a little crazy. They both turned their backs on the corporate mincing machine.
@@bigbasil1908 I agree Basil. I'm not sure this is relevant but I saw Peter Green Splinter Group play live at the Boardwalk in Sheffield about fifteen years ago. He was accompanied by a second guitarist. A big, heavily bearded bear of a man who acted as both musical support for when Peter faltered on guitar and moral support as a friend on stage. For the first few songs, Peter's guitar playing was very erratic and discordant. He'd stop playing altogether for long periods and let his companion take over and rescue the songs. The big man- I've just reminded myself that it was Nigel Watson- would often make gentle humour to the audience and to Peter about the chaotic guitar work.
He encouraged Peter to keep going and the audience to be patient. In turn, the audience were very supportive and members called out reassuring messages to Peter. After about four songs, Peter suddenly transformed. He became confident and his playing was beautiful and elegant. When Albatross was played it was incredible. The only way I can describe it is transporting and dreamlike. It was moving to see the love and respect that Nigel held for him and the way the audience held him up with their perseverance. It was one of the greatest concerts I've attended. I'm sad to find that Nigel has also passed away.
It isn't clear whether Syd would have responded to a similar approach. He was done with music after 1974 I think and had no interest in returning to the fold, unless his appearance at the Wish You Were Here recording was a muddled and badly communicated attempt to be allowed back in. It seems Dave Gilmour made strong efforts to support Syd musically in recording his solo work and the few live appearances he made. He certainly made sure that Syd was financially secure thereafter. It might have been too late by then. We can't know how Syd felt that night when the band decided not to collect him from home. He might have been devastated, relieved or completely oblivious.
This is gold!And you're master for putting these extended interviews up.
Thanks so much !
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES So great to know you conducted a lot of these excellent interviews i have on all kinds of band profiles and musicdocs in my collection.I Think its very special that i get the chance to give you the well deserved acclaim for them.
Simply awesome Man 💝😇❣️
I love these interviews so much. No superfluous interruptions. And even as a LONG-time Pink Floyd fan, because of this great interview, I always discover something new. Thank you!
Glad you like them!
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES stellar work mate
We were waiting to the follow up to DSOTM...When WYWH was released in Sept,1975, DSOTM was high on the charts!
I saw my first of 9 PF shows in June,1975.
Philadelphia Spectrum
Outstanding quad sound and visuals!!
Jeesh, he's a good looking man, now. I remember back in the 70's & 80's I thought he looked like a skinny creepy guy. But his voice back then in the 70's & 80's was so exceptionally beautiful. I felt a strange cognitive dissonance back then when I watched him sing. Now in 2023 his rugged attractive looks match this voice from back in the 70's & 80's. Some men do age like fine Dionysian Wine.
Gold! thanks again
We share the same birthday Mr. Waters. You were a very influential person in my personal life. Thank you!
For a band in such turmoil, they sure produced some great music. 🤟❤❗
P.S. Excellent interview, I thoroughly enjoyed it, Thanks 🤟
My pleasure!
Without Rick and Dave tha whole album (Wish you were here) was been not the same at all, the group is much more important than the individuals, even if one of them is more important than the others.
Not all know how important Roger was in the group. He is a true genious. I like that he is complex and disagrees with others too 😂
Many smart people have a more unfiltered brain, and I assume it can be a heavy burden.
Who doesn't know?
@@aaronm.3581 … David Fuckin Gilmour 😂
the thing is... if he was *really* genius, why haven't any of his solo albums been genius?
@@LPerezDancer He has several brilliant albums, but all artist has their peak creative period.
His was definately in the 1970's. He did bring ideas for more or less complete albums at the start of the recording sessions.
@@la7dfa I wish any of his albums were anywhere near as good as Animals or The Wall, and those are weak Pink Floyd albums, so I'm setting the bar low. Spent a lot of good money buying all of Rogers albums only to be disappointed time and time again.
Anyone else think he looks a bit like Richard Gere?
Bf and I are going to see Roger Waters next week. Finally!! After two postponements due to Covid.
Yeah I've always thought there is a bit of Richard Gere in him!
Hello Professor John! I found what Roger said about "not all of the "Shine On" track being about Syd" really interesting. Maybe to us, it feels "all Syd" because of the space and cathartic atmosphere we (the listener) kind of needs in order to make sense of the loss of Syd, and the effect his condition and his circumstances had on those who clearly loved him. It's probably the best requiem in recorded history, it's not a competition, but it hands down (with the extra space around it) beats "Here, Today" (McCartney), "All Those Years Ago" (Harrison) and "Only The Good Die Young" (Queen), those three tracks (as you well know) come from artists who have suffered enormous creative losses, and yet Syd wasn't lost in an exceedingly dramatic way, but losing someone effectively to their own mind is quite torturous. My Nan had both Alzheimers and Parkinsons combined, she was admitted into a care home in 1980, and I would visit with my Dad over an 18 year period, gradually Iris succumbed to a fetal position and passed away. Some of the places she went for treatment were the very same places Syd went to in Cambridgeshire. Syd's story is very sad, and what you are doing is a great service to his memory and his legacy, and the serious reality of the effects of mental health. Sending you much love, Bob.
Thank you for your appreciative comments. Yes mental illness can be a terrible burden for the sufferer and their loved ones.
That is a great story about Wish you were here sessions
Roger love your mind about this terrible war 👍🌹thank you !!!💕
I love Roger. I hate to hear him slagging Dave Gilmour, but other than that, he’s such a king.
Well done, as ever, John. God, he’s a difficult sod - the type of man who could start a fight in a phone box :)
Hah! Yes an alpha male personality. Best not to disagree with him or interrupt him when he’s on a roll.
This man is an Epic Gem.
WYWH in my opinion is probably the 2nd best ever album behind Animals which is definitely the best ever album and I’m the biggest ever Stones fan.
Roger’s comments are illuminating and go to the heart of the conflict with Gilmour and Rick Wright. Roger was not a gifted musician, he was merely competent on the bass. He was nowhere near Gilmour or Richard Wright in terms of musicianship and maybe he is subconsciously ashamed of it. He literally says “I don’t care about that” in reference to the actual music. He cares about the words, the song, the ideas (because their his) He is probably jealous that so many fans speak of Gilmour and the casual fans don’t really know that it’s Roger’s ideas and songs that really made Pink Floyd possible. To me a band is a group of individuals whose sum is greater than their parts so there is no point playing favorites and figuring out who is more important. They all are,
Totally agree!
I think its conscious. On the WTF interview he says that at The Wall, dave and rick were actively deriding his musical abilities. In another interview he goes to great pains to talk about the opera he penned and almost seemed to be trying to justify his abilities as a musician. It was odd to hear it, because while he's only competent on bass, come one, who ISN"T competent on bass? Sting hardly has to justify his role as a musician. But people who SEEM egomaniacal often are very insecure people.
One of the funnier Floyd moments was an interview in the mid nineties when Dave was literally carrying Nick and Rick and I remember that in the interview HE was talking very much like Roger often talks. So power corrupts it seems. And on Momentary lapse, Dave started to learn that just being the guitarist means you have to employ all those other people, just as Roger had to do. Now, any one of them can just turn into Roy Harper and be a folk singer with their guitar, but you don't get as many groupies or as much money that way.
Well Roger claims that he’s twice as good of a musician that David and Rick ever were
I like to hear ☄️Roger, he's very well spoken and I love hearing about his days with the Pink Floyd and ☄️ Syd Barrett . He talks sort of nonchalantly in this interview about when his friend Syd went crazy . I guess that's true somewhat about Syd . Anyway, he doesn't stay too much on topic about wywh record but he's interesting to listen to.
Very intelligent man. Brilliant songwriter.
Quoting Roger, "after Syd went crazy" Now in my own life. I don't see myself as crazy. I see crazy people.
Roger Waters is my babe I love him his politics I've seen him from early 60s and I I follow Roger I go to his concerts he is meant to be on stage. I'm in my 70s just like Roger is regardless of his age his is still a good looking man.
He looks a bit like Robert deniro now. Hes a good looking aged well. I hope another Roger album is soon. I love Roger Waters
Hi John, thank you for posting all these wonderful PF interviews! I have a mate who's an idle, out-of-work first responder who can't even be bothered to get dole money. I keep telling him to 'sign on you lazy fireman' but I don't think he really gets the joke... can't say I blame him
Cos it’s shit
I can't think of a more difficult interview to carry out than with Roger Waters, which isn't an insult to him or to Mr. Edginton. Really enjoyed this!
Thanks! Difficult ? Not really if you understand that he’s always got to be right !! That’s the key to getting Roger to open up in an interview. Not a good idea to disagree with him. Just let him speak his mind.
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Do you say that from experience or from the stories of others? Thanks for uploading this!!!
@@MrKayley10 obviously my experience. These interviews on here were all done by me
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES funny what you mention about him always having to be right, when he commented in another interview his mom was like this as well, which was difficult for him growing up
He's actually softened up since then since he got into politics and is a bit out of his league. There have been several interviews where he's been pretty open that he doesn't know that much about the issue, he's acting on what he thinks.
I'm not quite positive that thats 'alpha male' OR 'always wanting to be right', its more a mode of expression, and I say that as somebody who talks much like that in conversation, but I ain't an alpha male OR much ever right. There's another interview, I can't remember which, but a guy mentions that he knew Roger and that Roger ALWAYS talked like that. And yet we know he had no problem being second banana to Syd. And from the production interviews we know he's fully capable of giving in when its been shown that he's wrong. And when he talks about WYWH he fully admits that HE really had no real direction either, thats when he came up with the 'album of household objects'. And Roy Harper says that he thinks he kind of helped kick it into gear.
And people tend to forget that Gilmour never kicked him out, and was fully prepared to do MLOR without OR with him. So its not like the guy can never be a team player. But again, I argue like that so maybe I'm just trying to defend myself "hey, I'm not REALLY an ahole".
But I'm reminded of the album by album interviews with the Genesis guys, and Peter talks both about being really stubborn AND getting really excited about ideas. When you are around people talking ideas, and the ideas are going to lead to something, its hard NOT to talk like that.
But in an interview its hard to know how else to talk. My interviews wouldnt last long because my first question would be "why is a guy who talks so much about peace and seeing things through others eyes such a dick?" But again, GE Smith said he became a great friend of Rogers, and he's a pretty good judge of character.
That was a great question about 'the guy with the plan', but Rogers plans don't always pan out. Jon Anderson said he ALWAYS had to keep pushing YES because the guys would just be a garage band. A lot of musicians seriously lack in ambition and are notoriously hard to deal with. I read that even Howlin Wolf had to take his band to task....PHYSICALLY sometimes. I remember a music manager hearing that story and just kind of nodding 'sometimes you gotta do what you need to do". Johnny Ramone was supposedly like that, Anthony Phillips said Peter was actually the guy hustling agents. So yeah, music is a business, you need peopel to MAKE the music, but you need somebody to work the machine as well. I liked that Anthony Phillips gave thanks to Tony Smith as being one of those guys. We might not have had Monty Python or Genesis without him. HEre in Canada the guys from RUSH are always singing the praises of their management AND even the Cleveland DJ"s who started their career.
Another golden addition John, thanks a lot. 😊 Roger is my all time favorite artist, I wonder how he is in real life? Did you have a good time working with him on this and Syd’s 2001 interview?
Yes Roger was a terrific interviewee in my experience
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES I'm very happy to know that :) Thanks John for quality content as always.
The Greatest gift we are given, is the gift of Love.✌️
yeah, but it costs too much.
It seems like music geniuses don't analyze their own music the way everyone is. They just make great music.
It's a shame it's all about politics these days collectively Pink Floyd were a seismic force & one of the best bands who ever picked up instruments'..total respect to you all...your legacy is timeless..❤️🎶✌️
Love Roger ❤️
A fabulous man!
I think I've watched most all of the content on this channel relating to the Floyd. It's very striking that Animals is almost never talked about. Syd, DSOTM, WYWH and occasionally The Wall, but no one ever touches on Animals. Why? Why isn't there a documentary about that album done with as much gravitas and comprehension as this documentary and the Classic Albums DSOTM film? Always bothered me.
My hero! Tanks!
He speaks of the lyrical couplets in Shine On and it being about growing out of dogma as a human being. I know exactly what he means, because I had that exact experience when I was 18 years old and at Uni. Wonderfully expressed by that song.
I have never heard this interview before when he speaks about students helping others. It is a beautiful sentiment and it is precisely my experience as well.
I note some blossoming of Roger here compared to say a couple of years back, both physically and mentally. Amazing what being in love can do :-)
A very good man
Classic snarky Roger. “I don’t remember back that far”
Proceeds to remember everything, including a potential nervous breakdown
Syd was the right guy at the right time to start the band. The other 4 guys worked really well together but only with Roger, apparently. Floyd without Roger was just a shadow of its previous self.
Rogers solo albums are abysmal. All Floyd albums post Waters are superior.
@@aaronm.3581 Umm not Amused to death. That album is amazing good, better than Momentary and as good as Polly Samsons Division Bell. 😉
@@thescramble4309 I forgot about his most recent album. It's actually pretty sweet.
@@aaronm.3581 Pros and Cons, like Radio KAOS, both seem dated at this time in my life, but at some point in my past, I'm sure I listened to them daily.
Amused to Death, however, seems timeless and as monumental as Dark Side of the Moon. His last solo album I also enjoy greatly.
Making such blanket statements and denouncing his solo work causes me to think that either you are not very familiar with his solo work, and hence unqualified to opine, or simply another troll who gets a kick out of disparaging Roger.
I've always thought that this "Team David" camp who proclaim so much animosity to Roger certainly had no complaints against him while he was guiding the band from DSOTM through The Final Cut.
@@aaronm.3581 Are you referring to Is This the Life We Really Want? Or ATD?
Oh Roger, all the best and love to ya
I love how Roger says it's important to have a song writer and a bloke with an idea and that playing guitar and singing, lots of people can do that. LOLZ. He still hadn't realized that without Dave and Rick, nobody would even know his name. There are a million poets who have written far better you never heard of. But Roger was and always will be a supreme ego maniac who never realized what made The Floyd so popular and so good. His unique abilities coupled with some truly gifted musicians who together through a particular process were able to create something very unique. But Roger, even with the likes of Jeff Beck, and Eric clapton couldn't even come close. Because he never understood what made them what they were. Probably because he didn't care.
You underestimate man who didnt sell ABITW to Zukerberg.
Waters for world president ... who's with me?
I had tunnel vision like that once, but it from being at the verge of passing out from running laps around the track.
El grupo tan querido por todos. Genero por sus amor al querido y admirado syd ... yo tambien los quiero. Y les agrdesco hacer el mundo mas interesante
Roger - The Man with a Plan
With all due respect to Dave and the fact that I wasn't there... It seems less and less that Roger was the "monster" that tried to break up the band and more and more that he was reacting to situations created by the aforementioned. Meanwhile, Nick and Rick played the role of Switzerland.
Roger got mad that Dave played a few cords then Roger went home wrote the lyrics and the music, but David got a 50% credit. But i want to say Rick seemed to add a lot to the band
@@turokforever007 Rick really did. He was a bit of an unsung hero. (No pun intended.) But his influence (and voice) can be heard all through Meddle, especially harmonizing with Dave on Echoes. If you haven't watch Live in Pompeii 1972, I highly recommend it. I guess ... What I was trying to say was that, as much I liked Dave and all he's done, he's always kinda struck me as being more immature about the whole arrangement.
@@sunspot478 Well said. I have watched several interviews with both David and Roger and for whatever reason I feel that Roger is a bit more of a straight shooter and says what he thinks whether you like it or not while David often seems like he is holding something back and at times a bit disingenuous.
@@richardwestmoreland4796 Yea, I get that impression too.
Uh, you do know that Roger LITERALLY left the band and LITERALLY kept telling the guys not to use the name. He also ADMITS that he did that.
The 'monster' was that both Dave and Rick say he was on his ego trip, while Roger says that Dave and Rick were always shitting on his musical skills. But Nick sums it up with "its hard to imagine ANYBODY being mean to Roger".
So I suspect Roger really was the monster. The fact is with those songs and accolades its hard NOT to. I can remember wriiting poetry when I was twenty to a girl, definitely the wrong move, but one compliment filled me up like a balloon. And this is a guy who millions of people praise to the sky. So hard to NOT get an ego.
Bob Ezrin says the first thing Roger said to him on The Wall was "I need you to work with these guys because I can't work with them". And to be fair, Nick's book says that Rick did almost nothing, then wanted production credit, then refused to do any producing, THEN pissed off for the summer when he was supposed to contribute some music.
So THAT is less 'monstrous'. But these a middle class british boys, healthy emotional states clearly were still not in the cards. Roy says Rick was the kind of guy that needed baby hands, and thats not Roger.
I have a conspiracy theory that the whole recent twitter argument thing was Dave and his wife just fearing that Roger may fall back into his old megalomaniacal ways and needed some humbling.
Mr. EDGINTON, Could you post the entire thing? Thanks
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I generally find myself siding with Roger on most things, but I'm genuinely quite stunned by his statements about not all Shine On parts being about Syd. As a listener and a fan, all nine parts are absolutely about Syd. I'd love to hear Gilmour and Mason's thoughts. This is very, very surprising.
What you mean is, you're annoyed that Roger has demolished something you always thought was true, so you're trying to justify it to yourself.
Of all the people who would know about this, I suspect Roger might be that person, and not you.
I don’t think have a cigar has much to do with Syd at all
@@DanLetts97 Well it kind of does, because it's a song about your first experience of working with a record company. And them giving it all the "Oh yeah, we love you and your stuff! We need your next album now" bullshit, and you being taken along for the ride and getting burned by it.
And the "By the way, which one's Pink?" was an actual question asked of the band by record company executives on many an occasion, including when Syd was in the band.
Keep in mind on another interview Roger says at the very front, actually, maybe it was this interview, that he really does not remember much. I've heard him tell two different stories of the same story. Thats memory for you. I've heard other interviews where he has said it was all about Syd, and others where he says its more 'universal'. I've heard him say songs are about HIS experience, and others that they are more universal.
@@mikearchibald744 Totally agree. The other thing I notice as that as Roger gets older and 'forgets - what he mostly (conveniently) forgets are the contributions from other band members. Examples:
1.) This year, when Waters released that awful reinterpretation of DSOTM, he said, "I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap." Obviously - NOT TRUE.
2.) This year, on his website, Waters said that Gilmour was telling 'whopping porky pies;' (lies) about his contributions to the band and it has been going on for decades. As an example, Waters cites an interview that Gilmour did in 1981 where Gilmour described the process of producing the cash register sounds in DSOTM, Waters said he did that all by himself and that Gilmour won't know anything about it 'unless he was hiding under the fucking chair". However, in a 1976 interview with Alan Parsons, who was the sound engineer for DSOTM, he describes Gilmour as the most 'technically gifted' of the group, and he used an example of producing the cash register sounds on 'Money'. He described the unique process for getting the sound to match the music, which exactly describes what Gilmour said in his interview, and Parsons credits Gilmour for coming up with the idea.
So Waters is actually the one telling 'whopping porky pies' about his contributions and I don't put much weight on anything he says lately.
Amazing stuff. Can you upload the whole thing? (like some of the other interviews you have up)
Some of the interview is personal chat between us that is not usable. Some of it is already used in the documentary Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here which I directed but I do not own the rights.
@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Gotcha. Oh well. Keep up the great work. I love these uncut interviews you are putting up, just love them
@@CommuneRecords great to know that!
Roger forgets Rick’s See Emily Play quote
in the last moments of the album.
If that’s not to do with Syd then I’ll eat my hat.
Totally agree!
I was in the kitchen,
Seamus, that's the dog, was outside
Well, I was in the kitchen,
Seamus, my old hound, was outside
Well, the sun sinks slowly
But my old hound just sat right down and cried
The task to face the truth of you is heavy; body is just apparatus of mind, sweet.
It's called WYWH and it is sandwiched between a few concept albums. I ain't surprised.
We dont often hear many voices of empathy and genuineness like that from Roger Waters.
What is wrong with the Music Industry? There should be far more voices speaking out.
i'd like to know where Roger came up with the idea for Pros n Cons'
I am producing a retrospective film on Roger Waters..could I please ask permission to maybe use a small clip of this video?
Kind regards
Barry
Hi Barry. Please email me info@otmoorproductions.com
"You shouldn't really talk to me about that. You should talk about someone who cares about that", "Then there is the other stuff like singing or guitar playing". This speaks volumes. He's not a musician. He might be a visionary, a writer, a politician, I don't know, but he is not a musician. It just so happened that being in that band for a couple of years is the thing that he is most famous for. The problem is that he doesn't care about that. And you can hear that in the final cut and his solo work, and partly in the wall. Before that his ideas, his visions, his plans, were "kept in check" by the musicianship of the others, that created a balance, and in that balance great things happened. But then they lost that balance.
The greatest musical tragedy was Roger leaving Pink Floyd, it was never the same for any of them again...
Of course songwriting is the core, but it's neither easy to find guitar players and singers like David or to say, Robert Plant. It's clear he says that referring to Gilmour. Any ways, I'm still in team Roger 😆
Classic roger here. “Oh Rick did some chords and Dave did that riff.” Please. If you would have taken your original tune of shine on and put it on a solo album without Dave and Rick it would not be the iconic progressive rock song that it is. The wine glass chord sequence with the airy synth playing into David’s riff sets the mood for the vocals in a way waters solo could never accomplish. Pink Floyd was always sum greater than the parts, waters just hates that aspect of it
He said Rick was super important.
You completely didn't get it. He was complimenting Dave and Rick.
Yes, Waters definitely said at the end he didn't care about the musical aspects of Wish You Were Here. So whilst he may have complimented Dave and Rick, he had to diminish their legacy at the end. Typical Roger.
@@DrittAdrAtta come on.. he dug Gilmour at the end of this interview with the 'theres lots of those people' comment. he says these things to this day.. I know death metal guitarists who tell me Gilmour is their favorite guitarist. he isnt just one of 'lots of those people' but Roger truly believes he would have had the success in his creative peak with literally anyone in the band.
@@itsArtificialred he’s always been an egotistical bell end. Hes undoubtedly a bit of a genius, but he really hates the idea of anyone viewing Gilmour as being of equal importance to the band. Still one my musical heroes, but he’s a bit of a knob and always will be. The ultimate champagne socialist too.
Roger I can size the bracelet on your watch if you need... I heard it jangling around, it's loose. ☺
aint you the gift that keeps on giving. i cant beleive roger said SOCCOR... oh rog youre english man... you know its FOOTBALL
No it's called soccer in the rest of the world except USA
@@jessymasvidal8997 I don't give a shit if its called soccer in 99% of the countries or Mars or Venus or Saturn... its game formed in England and that game is called FOOTBALL. Roger is british he knows better than to call it soccer...and IT IS CALLED SOCCOR IN THE U.S... derp
@@daveelson213 Football is an American sport. Soccer is soccer. Look up soccer & see what comes up.
@@jolo8146 um.... NO. American "football" is just that...and they hardly use the fukkin foot.. FOOTBALL IS FOOTBALL NOT SOCCOR. Not 1 british or European says soccer... Stop being a silly boy
Roger is Pink Floyd. God bless you Roger, you are someone who cares about truth and lives ☨ ❤ ☭ 🇷🇺 𝒵
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John, also, please correct your text above (album "wish you were here")
Thanks 😊
Oh , By The Way , Which One's Pink ? well roger of course Genius
RogerS.... Roger "Syd" Barrett...
Awakening.
Move on, to something different, before age prevents it. Roger and Roger Hodgson should get together and use their visionary, realistic minds to come up with a joint project that will be phenomenal.
Hey, why a RW interview right now? Syd Again? Cheers
He's on tour