![]() Indeed, the age of his fans leads co-directors Waters and Sean Evans to make the odd choice of limiting audience reaction shots primarily to tattooed and pierced men and women in their 20s and 30s. If they blink and miss its two-days-only theatrical release in October, the DVD is set for store shelves in early 2020. Shot over three nights in June 2018 during the Us +Them tour stop in Amsterdam, the film looks and sounds fantastic and should easily rope in his aging fan base. The album’s most biting songs, featuring ferocious lyrics tailor-made for tweet-sized social media messages, are also the highlight of his latest concert film, “Roger Waters Us + Them,” a sonically superior if sometimes draggy affair that earns its stripes by affirming the timelessness of Waters’ thematic concerns and proving that fresh material doesn’t have to be the medicine we’re forced to swallow to hear the classics. In 2017’s principled and tuneful “Is This the Life We Really Want?,” his first solo album of all-new rock material since “Amused to Death,” Waters turns his skeptical yet hopeful eye toward refugees and President Trump, among other topics. The former Pink Floyd front man is practically defined by his decades-spanning collection of songs and concept albums that dive headlong into hot-button social and political issues that include capitalist greed (1977’s “Animals”), youthful alienation (1979’s “The Wall”), and the futility of war (1992’s “Amused to Death”). He is currently taking advice as to his positions.”Īfter Waters’ response, Gilmour injected himself in this back-and-forth by retweeting his wife’s comments and adding, “Every word demonstrably true.If you had to guess which legendary rock and roll artist has a new concert film featuring characters that include “Refugee,” “Drone Pilot” and “Palestinian Girl”, there’s a good chance your guess would be Roger Waters. Enough of your nonsense.”įollowing Samson’s tweet, Waters shared the following statement to social media: “Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. She wrote, “Sadly you are antisemitic to your rotten core. ![]() Samson took to Twitter in response to Waters’ interview. Waters, himself, shared the translated interview to his official website prefacing it with a personal message saying, in part, “Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the Israeli Lobby to denounce me as an anti-semite, which I am not, never have been and never will be.” He also alleges the “Israeli Lobby” tried to cancel his “85% sold out series of concerts in Germany.” Earlier this month, Gilmour and his wife, Polly Samson publically called out Waters for comments he made in an interview with German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. Waters praising Gilmour certainly seems like an interesting development between the oft-feuding former bandmates. ![]() He concluded, “So, Stuart Maconie, you little prick, next time, please check your copy with the subjects of your grubby little piece, before you go to print.” RELATED: Roger Waters on the ‘Dark Side of the Moon’/’Wizard of Oz’ Connection In my, albeit biased view, Dave’s solos on those albums, constitute a collection of some of the very best guitar solos in the history of Rock and Roll.” Waters added, “I was there, I love Dave’s guitar solos on DSOTM, both of them, and on WYWH and on ANIMALS and on THE WALL and on THE FINAL CUT. He continued, “When talking about a new recording I have made of DSOTM, he writes, with an unearned condescending authority, about the process of making this new recording, and I quote, ‘Part of this will involve him removing, as quoted in Spain’s El Pais newspaper, Gilmour’s ‘horrible guitar solos’.’ Now, I don’t know who he thinks he’s quoting when he says Gilmour’s ‘horrible guitar solos” but it sure as sh*t ain’t me.” However, there is, in the article, something upon which I need to set the record straight,” begins Waters in a note via social media. ![]() It’s the usual, sh*t-stirring, ill-informed nonsense. “There is a crappy article in ‘The New Statesman,’ written, if you can call it writing, by a chap called Stuart Maconie. In the interview, Waters touches on how he re-recorded Pink Floyd’s landmark album The Dark Side of the Moon. The interview in question was with Stuart Maconie for The New Statesmanand was published on February 15. Roger Waters is praising the guitar solos of former Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour after saying he was misquoted in a recent interview.
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