{"id":806447,"date":"2020-04-16T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=984579"},"modified":"2020-04-16T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:00:26","slug":"rs-interview-special-edition-with-roger-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rs-interview-special-edition-with-roger-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RS Interview: Special Edition\u2019 With Roger Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/roger-waters-thumb-cleanC.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Who better to speak to in these times than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/roger-waters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roger-waters\" data-tag=\"roger-waters\">Roger Waters<\/a>, who wrote about living in \u201cperfect isolation\/here behind my wall\u201d back in 1979? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pink-floyd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pink-floyd\" data-tag=\"pink-floyd\">Pink Floyd<\/a> co-founder and stadium-filling solo artist, who had to postpone his This Is Not a Drill Tour \u2014 which was supposed to kick off in July \u2014 until 2021, joins senior writer Brian Hiatt for a wide-ranging conversation on the latest episode of the <em>Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition<\/em> video series.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Waters offers a preview of his tour (which he\u2019s still working on while continuing to pay his employees), explains the full truth behind a recent failed Pink Floyd \u201cpeace summit\u201d with David Gilmour and Nick Mason, and discusses his relationship with the late John Prine. He also makes it clear that he would never reunite with his former bandmates. \u201cNo, it wouldn\u2019t be nice,\u201d he says. \u201cIt would be fucking awful. Obviously if you\u2019re a fan of those days of Pink Floyd, you would have a different point of view. But I had to live through it. That was my life \u2026 would I trade my liberty for those chains? No fucking way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Water offers his unvarnished thoughts on politics and the current crisis, including his dismissal of Donald Trump as a \u201cdistraction,\u201d why he believes Americans are \u201cgullible,\u201d his hesitancy to endorse Joe Biden for president, his fervent support for Julian Assange, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth installment of&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s latest new video series, <em><a id=\"auto-tag_rs-interview-special-edition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rs-interview-special-edition\/\" data-tag=\"rs-interview-special-edition\">RS Interview: Special Edition<\/a>,<\/em> featuring in-depth conversations with notable figures in music, entertainment, and politics. New episodes premiere every Thursday afternoon on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RollingStone\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rolling Stone\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/roger-waters-tour-postponed-2021-984579\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who better to speak to in these times than Roger Waters, who wrote about living in \u201cperfect isolation\/here behind my wall\u201d back in 1979? The Pink Floyd co-founder and stadium-filling solo artist, who had to postpone his This Is Not a Drill Tour \u2014 which was supposed to kick off in July \u2014 until 2021, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 23:30:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}