Pink Floyd Roger Waters The Wall interview 1999
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- Video with Roger Waters from Pink Floyd 1999 interview and talks about The Wall and touring concept.
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A few years ago, I was at a juice bar in Malibu and Roger Waters was in line next to me. I literally got dizzy. None of the Millennial workers knew or cared who he was. I said to him, "you must like this anonymity," and I noted that I couldn't believe no one recognized him. He agreed. Got to spend a few minutes chatting with Roger. I actually said some stuff that made him laugh aloud. And, I thought, "Damn, I made Roger Waters laugh." Forgot what I said but must have been hilarious.
No I’d die because that’s my dream scenario (living vicariously through you for a sec)
Unless he's an alien, he's an ordinary human too
Lord you must be an emotionally needy person constantly seeking validation. “A drugged-out, washed up musician laughed at me politely while I pestered him in line.”
That’s really cool
Roger Waters disappeared for nine years, then came back without the sunglasses and with a bright gleam in his eyes. He seems to be always smiling, even when he's not. This is completely the opposite of his previous public image! He is a changed man. He has proved you're never too old to change. He used to refuse to do interviews. Now he'll go everywhere from Al Jazzera to Howard Stern, and he's interesting, and seems to be having a good time!
Despite everything that's been said about him over the years, despite things we _know_ he's said and done, he NOW seems like a warm, fair-minded, and compassionate man. Maybe I'm imagining things, but he and his music fascinate me.
There is much to admire about David Gilmour, as well. Not the same things. But his musical genius, his charitable donations, his _homages_ to Syd Barrett and Rick Wright (keeping their music alive, may they rest in peace). I have criticized him a lot, but he is a class act.
*The Mudman* -- You have posted a lot of great Pink Floyd stuff, and I'm sure I've commented on many of your channels. Thanks for sharing!
Ben Culture Im glad he changed. He was not a nice person.
+Ben Culture A bit of the old Rog comes out, but when only discussing current events and the things that matter to him now. I think after Live 8 he was buzzing for a long time after, and seemed more interested in doing more shows with the band. Then the reality set in that they were apart as people, and now he seems way more disinterested in doing anything with Pink Floyd again. Same with Gilmour now it seems, apart from The Endless River which was done as a tribute to Rick Wright without whom (for me at least) a true Pink Floyd reunion is impossible.
Roger during this period seemed definitely more optimistic in general. He was playing the old songs in a manner much closer to the originals than he'd done before. If you hear any stuff from the Pros & Cons or the KAOS tours, most of if not all the PInk Floyd songs were heavily reworked. I think those first tours back in '99 and 2000 thawed his persona and gave him a new energy towards performing.
+Bryan8329 Yeah, I attended a KAOS concert, and I've listened to a lot of Pros and Cons bootlegs. The songs were, yes, heavily re-worked, even re-written in some cases. And though the re-arrangements don't all hold up, I still feel it was the ballsy way to go about it. Most of my favorite songwriters don't give a fuck about preserving the "classic" sound, and just do what they want. You could never tell somebody that _Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ and _The Final Cut_ were made by the same band. Not at all.
As for Pink Floyd, everybody has to just accept that it's over! They're done. It could have ended a number of different ways. I would have preferred Live8 to be the last word of the Pink Floyd story, but for whatever reason, Gilmour felt compelled to release a new Pink Floyd product that Waters wasn't involved in making.
It's almost like, after Roger Waters re-claimed _The Dark Side of the Moon_ on his 2006-2008 tour, Gilmour responded with, "Well, we were just as good before that, when we were improvising instrumentals about nothing, so here's more of that, then." That's what _The Endless River_ is: Perfectly nice, enjoyable instrumentals about nothing. And one last stab from Polly Samson's wretched pen. That's how the Pink Floyd story ends now.
+Ben Culture its a front....he made up with the others as a pr stunt because his live shows were not pulling crowds. With Floyd no lnger touring there was a gap that he has now filled but he first had to make up with the others which then let him back in the fans heart.
Deep inside he hates them all and he hates us all.
You might want to adjust your meds or see a different therapist.
So nice to see Roger at peace with himself and his ex-bandmates. Also, to see him having this late career peak, to sell out stadiums all over the world, to release an acclaimed album of new material, and to have been granted the Rock God status he deserved all along. Rock on Roger, we love you.
That didn't last long, did it. Going online in 2020 and bad mouthing Gilmour and his wife Polly. Waters has no friends and supports terrorism states.
@@neilouellette3004 Not true at all
@@neilouellette3004 david Gilmour became the bitter and insecure one. He knows he could never write like roger and resents his talent.
@@neilouellette3004 Any right-thinking individual opposes the oppression of the Palestinians, including moderate Israelis. But sure, accuse a very moderate individual of supporting terrorism. We're in the post-truth world, I guess, so why not?
@@neilouellette3004 David and Roger should just let bygones be bygones and just make up. Not even saying they should just be friends, but they shouldn't be hating each other until they pass away. Life is too short for that.
The look on his face after he remembers and says "Lake Tahoe!" He's so proud.
One of the best Wall interviews..I have ever seen with Roger...and I have seen alot.......and was also an attendee at one of the Original shows.....
“If we all have some natural human decency...if you allow that to be crushed under the weight of numbers and money where that is more important than the connections with other humans...chances are you will regress into some less attractive form of life than you were originally.”
That’s dead on.
Roger was and will always be the creative BOSS of Pink Floyd. The whole 70's decade proves it with the great concept albums hatched by him. .
The Wall is the greatest Rock Opera ever created.
@@AnnaLVajda A great rock opera is like a polished turd... It remains a turd.
@@Diggnuts but a polished one
@@Diggnuts Yeah, well... that's just like, your opinion, man. Tommy and The Wall are two of the greatest rock albums ever recorded.
@@zlh67 What a pathetic cop-out! Yeah, it's my opinion, but there are opinions and then there are opinions.
What tasteless shits like you do not seem to grasp, is that certain opinions, sustained by fact, are superior to you feeble opinions supported by nothing but your own bad taste and mediocrity.
Tommy is even worst than the wall, but that is just arguing which turd smells better.
The Wall Live in Berlin 1990 by Roger Water is the greatest thing I've ever seen
Yeah that was an epic show. I still have the DVD.
As a fan I can just enjoy this interview
This unseen before Roger Waters video cover is An Awesome Insight into his and so many other world renowned music artists historical Then & Now
Era's Love It.
Thankyou to the interviewer..great interview Q & As. 👌
Unseen before? This was uploaded a decade ago...
He's right about the stones using inflatables in tours after he saw the wall. They had huge ones when I saw them in Shea Stadium in 1989.
The Floyd were pioneers in so many aspects of performing live and it's not surprising that the Stones, Beatles, and dare I say even Zep can't hold a fuckin candle next to Pink Floyd, the greatest band of all time!
@@moealagha At least in the 70's when Roger was the creative boss of the group. I'm not a huge fan of their psychedelic earlier stuff and the post Roger Water PF albums were pretty hollow compared to their 70's run.
@@moealagha youre completely correct
good to see roger looking peachy
He just described...every audience in the US.
Wow...This really was a great interview. It's kind of funny to hear Roger explain why he didn't want to do The Wall in 2000 (because of corporate sponsorships), but then for his most recent Wall shows, couldn't you purchase tickets with American Express pre-sale/VIP tickets? I guess that's just the nature of the beast nowadays.
He’s a rocker I genuinely really care about.
This is a gem. Thanks Mudman.
im happy hes back... big
Something about the way this is shot makes it feel more like a deposition than an interview at first.
Three songs from the concerts exist under his bed? I found an interview on the Smithsonian Institute website where he said that there is no video except for a few bits and pieces and he said he had never put it together because it's too dark and he didn't feel that it would look right on TV. From what I've seen on various websites, there is more professionaly shot multi camera footage of the show. I heard in a documentary on The Wall where Andy Brown who was in the surrogate band said they filmed every night for a week at Earls Count with cameras everywhere because of the original idea of using it for the movie. Unfortunately for us it sounds like he has no intention of ever releasing any of it. I think if he was going to put it out he would have done by now. 😢
Do you have a link for that smithsonian site?
@NWStuff-yl5jm I have tried to find it again but I have not been able to. I was looking around for interviews one day and I stumbled upon it. I have the audio recording from the interview saved as a mp3 file.
I remember watching Floyd in Pompei on VHS back in the early 90s and you see the band coming into their own in that video, you see them experimenting and putting together Dark Side of the moon. You see Roger and Dave messing with the Synthi making those sounds that would eventually be used on Dark Side , this was back in 72 and there was nothing even close to it, I mean these guys were light years ahead of their time , for anyone that remembers the first time playing Darkside from beginning to end especially if you were a tad high , it literally takes you to the moon , no bullshit , I mean I actually think I had an out of body experience laying in my dark room on my bed with my head phones on as my stereo cd player blasted Darkside of the moon that year for me would have been 1992. It's my fav album it's not even close , The Wall would be a pretty close 2nd and so would wish you were here and animals. But f...k me., Darkside takes you to another dimension.
Pink Floyd were so posh they considered spitting at someone once an extreme turning point! "This won't do, we're going to have to build a wall across the stage." Imagine if Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious had similar sensibilities, they'd have been constructing housing estates between them and the audience by the end of the Pistols.
He’s absolutely right about the reactions of audiences. I hate sitting next to people who have spent a lot of money to talk loudly all through. I paid the same amount and I have to put up with them but they don’t respect me.
14:51 This cracks me up every time!!
that cracked me up so much, and seeing how just recalling it cracks him up just reveals a very similar sense of humor. a priceless piece of Rog.
That's my sexy baby love Roger Waters talking about the show they did
The Wall LIVE In Berlin
Amazing show. Still have it on DVD
He has stated over and over again that the model plane that crashes during In 'The Flesh' is a Messerschmitt. Sorry to correct you, Roger, but it has always been a Junkers model, not a Messerschmitt.
In his solo Wall tour it was a Messerschmitt but yeah in the original it was a Junkers.
Music to my fucking ears. Even back then PINK FUCKING FLOYD ain't selling out to Fucking Coke a Cola. Me sleep good tonight. :)
Free Julian Assange
Without Gilmour, the sound would not be the same............
+Chennit David without Gilmour we would have never even heard of Pink Floyd.There's even some proof about that statement. They have albums with Syd. It's noise.
Without Roger, you would have had no Wall, no Dark Side, No Animals, No Wish you were Here. Concepts Hatched by Roger Waters - the true visionary of the band.
MrAitraining Then please explain why no one heard of Pink Floyd until Echo's came out? They put out 4 prior albums before Gilmore. Gilmor's second album which was Dark Side of the Moon holds the record still to today for amount of time on BillBoards top 100 albums. They were number one for 4 years than the next 13 years fell to about 15 to 20. You can have an opinion but I'm doing the math. 4 albums which sold under 10,000 copies prior to Gilmore replacing Sid. After Gilmore there sound changed and are in the 10s of millions per album. Including the one album after Roger quit. Look the guy writes some kick ass lyrics but he wasn't selling dick until Gilmour got there. Look up the statistic's pre Gilmour and post Gilmour and then explain to everyone why they failed miserably until the Gilmour sound and voice started. Roger has minimal background singing and bass playing in Dark Side. That sound ,that voice is all Gilmour and Richard Wright. Google it and stop being a fan.
John Pandolfo I don't think we are discussing the same chronology here. I am not a fan of the Syd Barrett years myself. After Syd left, Roger took creative control and was the "vision BOSS" of the band. "we're going to call this next album Animals. This is what I'm picturing..." then they all pitch in. I understand Gilmour's importance and was a huge improvement to the lineup but the entire immortal decade of the 70's - and that is when Pink Floyd became immortal, it was because of Roger's vision for the band and the concept albums by which Dave and the others contributed and made them all great finished work. But without the first coating on the canvas, you have no painting. I'd also add that Gilmour had his shot at being the top creative guy in the 80's and imo it was nowhere near the complexity of the 70's era.
MrAitraining I hear you and appreciate the respectful return comment. Unfortunately I disagree. After Sid left two very important things changed. One is literally called by musicians and people in that industry "The Gilmour sound". His guitar playing combined with his very unique voice was tranquilizing. Roger wrote the majority of the lyrics but he would be where he was before Gilmours arrival, no where. In 1977 I was in 8th grade living in NYC and saw both the Animal's tour and Led Zeppelin's Song Remains the Same concert in MSG. That doesn't make me an expert. It means i've been listening to Floyd since I was a child and the best way for someone to understand The Gilmour Sound is to watch Pink Floyd live doing the song Comfortably Numb. You can find it now on RUclips. Watch the video and listen to the fans. Roger started singing in that album but it was still Gilmour's unique sound. So watch the video and listen to Roger start off Com Numb. Then listen to the crowd the moment David starts singing. You can't even hear him in most video's because the fans were screaming so loud. If ur a Floyd fan you should be angry at Roger. He tried to kill that band twice in a court room and after both long trials Roger lost. They ruled both times that he is a cog in the wheel. Not Pink Floyd. That doesn't make my point but it's a sign that the person you're admiring is the reason we don't have another 10 Floyd albums. Also you should watch some solid documentaries. Esp Dark Side when they broke every record in history of record sales. David's the reason that band gave us 5 fantastic albums. It's really simple to understand that if you do some digging.
Is the cameraman filming this interview just now figuring out how to use the camera? what’s with the constant zooming in and out? I got motion sickness.
Mudman. I love you. How did you hunt down all this? Seriously. You in Canada man? If so we gots to get together with a bottle or other...lol
Wished I’d never put my children in school. The damage was done. Brilliant brilliant song only I was too young then to understand.
12:39 He mentions coke and instinctively wipes his nostrils LOL
Rumour (and Bob Ezrin) have it that the big bad white thing is why Rick was so messed up at that time - While David has openly admitted he did coke (and Roger probably did) Rick actually got hooked on the stuff - hence the walking mess he was during the making of the album
Interviewer is Australian - what's this from?
Roger's my surrogate father.
That's a very measured interview by Roger, he seems to have calmed down a bit by 1999. I couldn't disagree with anything he says, he's spot on. I mean, it's pretty tiring to hate 24/7 for years on end. Having said that, in 2022 he's talking bollocks again and playing the role of armchair socialist to the hilt, so he had a relapse at some point. The ego hasn't been completely dormant - in 2005 with the PF reunion he turned up and announced which songs they were going to play, until David Gilmour very tactfully announced that the three of them were PF and not Roger. He took it well, though.
I love Roger, one of my heroes, but you can be a rock n roll genius and a blowhard all at the same time. To pick out certain politicians and spew bile towards them, while ignoring the current bullshit is disingenuous. Selling out to corporate America is inevitable, otherwise you would disappear into obscurity, the rockstar ego will not allow this, otherwise you would not be a rockstar would you? Therein lies the conundrum I reckon.
14:36 😂😂
'...hovel ....' sneers the multimillionaire.
14:51 🤣
Fucking debilitates you in the end?? Oh shit!
12:40 😂
Later on he became less content with his lot lol
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Casey Bowman yea to get sucked down the alt right rabbit hole
14:35 Waters why didn’t you spit on the paying customer for being excited at the concert? You know how to do that.
Waters is delusional - he must think he’s performing a concert recital. Why they cheer for your Yoko Ono screeches is beyond all understanding.
Ha ha charade you are.
He was crawling on the Fucking stage!
I expect a lot of his work goes above your head.
As a musician I know exactly where Waters is coming from. Nothing more annoying than a rowdy crowd. A bouncy, singing crowd is one thing. Arguably that's part of experiencing music. But a rowdy crowd with no respect for the experience of everyone else is one of the most annoying things in the world.
You DOLT. One thing I'm certain of, Roger Waters is not delusional. He's a genius. Now that's not to say that someone who is delusional can never be a genius. It just so happens though in this case you're speaking about one of the greatest lyricists that ever put pen to paper in the rock and roll world...... while you sadly have to go collect your aluminum cans.
You are the DOLT for falling for this “persons” pretentious word salad’s.
The old guy is almost 80 years old, and still shows jealousy and envy of Gilmour - waters believes that he is reliving his youth.
He will die. All that will be left is his hatred for life.