{"id":807586,"date":"2020-05-19T07:28:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1002172"},"modified":"2020-05-19T07:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:28:49","slug":"roger-waters-david-gilmour-thinks-he-is-pink-floyd-and-that-im-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/roger-waters-david-gilmour-thinks-he-is-pink-floyd-and-that-im-irrelevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters: \u2018David Gilmour Thinks He Is Pink Floyd and That I\u2019m Irrelevant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Waters<\/a> took aim at his former Pink Floyd<\/a> bandmate, David Gilmour<\/a>, in a video Tuesday claiming that the singer and guitarist would not allow him to use the band\u2019s website or social media to promote his own work.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing from me is on the website \u2014 I am banned by David Gilmour from the website,\u201d Waters said at one point. \u201cDavid thinks he owns it,\u201d Waters said later in the clip. \u201cI think he thinks because I left the band in 1985 that he owns<\/em> Pink Floyd, that he is<\/em> Pink Floyd and that I\u2019m irrelevant that I should keep my mouth shut. We\u2019re all welcome to our opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, Waters told Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> that he had met with Gilmour and Floyd drummer Nick Mason with the hope of squashing their differences. \u201cWe spoke in June,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had a big meeting where I came up with a big peace plan that has come to nothing, sadly.\u201d<\/p>\n

He expounded on the summit in another interview<\/a> this year: \u201cI wrote out a sort of a plan, but my plan didn\u2019t bear fruit,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was just, \u2018Can we release the remastered vinyl version of Animals<\/em> without it turning into the third world war?\u2019 I said, \u2018Why don\u2019t we have a vote, and at least we can just get on with it?\u2019 But they wouldn\u2019t have that. God knows why.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his video Tuesday, Waters referenced the meeting again. \u201cA year ago, I convened a sort of Camp David for the surviving members of Pink Floyd at a hotel at the airport in London, where I proposed all kinds of measures to get past this awful impasse that we have and the predicament we found ourselves in, and it bore not fruit, I\u2019m sorry to say,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of the things I asked for, I suggested that because whoever the 30 million of you are that subscribe to the web page, you do so because of the body of work the five of us created. \u2026 In consequence, it seems to me that it would be fair and correct if we should have equal access to you all and share our projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waters said in the clip that he wished the Pink Floyd socials would feature his recently released socially distanced rendition of \u201cMother,\u201d<\/a> a song off Pink Floyd\u2019s The Wall<\/em>, and mention that his Us + Them<\/a><\/em> concert film<\/a> was now available digitally and that his planned 2020 This Is Not a Drill tour<\/a> was postponed. He posited that fans have been saying, \u201cWe should rise up or just change the name of the band to Spinal Tap and then everything will be hunky-dory,\u201d before he digressed and said, \u201cI\u2019m not gonna get all weird and sarcastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Gilmour \u2014 who recently dipped into the solo catalog of Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett<\/a> in a video performance \u2014 did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985<\/a> and mounted a legal battle to prevent Gilmour and Mason from using the band name without him. Ultimately, he lost, and the Gilmour-led version of the band ended up releasing A Momentary Lapse of Reason<\/em> in 1987 and touring stadiums into the Nineties. In a 2013 BBC interview<\/a>, Waters conceded regret for suing Gilmour and Mason. \u201cI was wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course I was. Who cares?\u201d<\/p>\n

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