{"id":807593,"date":"2020-05-19T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1002266"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:35:30","slug":"flashback-pink-floyd-say-goodbye-with-louder-than-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-pink-floyd-say-goodbye-with-louder-than-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Pink Floyd Say Goodbye With \u2018Louder Than Words\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pink Floyd<\/a> have been little more than a memory for the past quarter-century, and the three surviving members are now in their mid-seventies, but their ancient feud somehow lingers on. The latest battle revolves around Waters being locked out of the band\u2019s official website and Facebook page. That means he can\u2019t share news of any of his solo projects, including his upcoming This Is Not a Drill Tour<\/a> and his new rendition of \u201cMother,\u201d<\/a> with Floyd fans. He recently took to his own Facebook page<\/a> to vent about the situation.<\/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. \u2026 I 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, and that I should keep my mouth shut. We\u2019re all welcome to our opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pink Floyd Facebook account<\/a> has recently shared numerous videos of Gilmour, his wife (Polly Samson), and their children singing songs and reading selections from her new novel, A Theatre For Dreamers<\/em>. They refer to themselves as the Van Trapped family because they are in lockdown together.<\/p>\n

Waters is not a fan. \u201cThere have been rumblings and grumblings in the ranks, I\u2019m told by friends of mine that follow these things,\u201d he says. \u201cSome of the questions being asked are things like, \u2018Why do we have to sit and watch Polly Samson for year after year, month after month, day after day, and the Von Trapps reading excerpts from their novels to get us to go to sleep at night?’\u201d<\/p>\n

If his goal is establishing peaceful relations with Gilmour, making a statement like this probably isn\u2019t going to help. But he did sit down with Gilmour and Nick Mason<\/a> in London a year ago and attempt to hammer out these. \u201cI proposed all kinds of measures to get past this awful impasse that we have,\u201d he said. \u201cIt bore no fruit, I\u2019m sorry to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things weren\u2019t always quite this bad. The classic lineup of Waters, Gilmour, Mason, and keyboardist Richard Wright reunited at Live 8 in 2005,<\/a> marking the first time they\u2019d appeared onstage together since the end of The Wall<\/em> tour in 1981. Five years later, Gilmour and Waters played a brief set together at a charity concert.<\/a> In 2011, Gilmour and Mason made a surprise appearance at a Waters show<\/a> at the 02 arena in London.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, the fragile peace did not last. And in 2014, when Gilmour and Mason decided to craft a new Pink Floyd record around vintage Richard Wright recordings, Waters was not asked to be a part of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy on earth anyone thinks what we do now would have anything to do with him is a mystery to me,\u201d Gilmour told Rolling Stone<\/em> at the time.<\/a> \u201cRoger was tired of being in a pop group. He is very used to being the sole power behind his career. The thought of him coming into something that has any form of democracy to it, he just wouldn\u2019t be good at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Endless River<\/em> is largely instrumental, but the final song, \u201cLouder Than Words,\u201d features lyrics by Samson and vocals by Gilmour. They envisioned it as a grand goodbye from the band that summed up the whole saga. Check out the video above.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe bitch and we fight,\u201d Gilmour sings. \u201cDiss each other on sight\/But this thing we do\/These times together\/Rain or shine or stormy weather\/This thing we do\/With world-weary grace\/We\u2019ve taken our places\/We could curse it or nurse it and give it a name\/It\u2019s louder than words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barring a small miracle, that will likely be Pink Floyd\u2019s final musical statement. The bitching and fighting, however, will probably never end.<\/p>\n

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