Apparently I am allowed to openly like Waters-era Floyd now
There’s a nice piece at the Guardian about the history of perception of Pink Floyd, that glances off history and current projects of various band members. The key thing is that apparently I don’t have to be embarrassed about knowing all the words to The Final Cut anymore.
There’s lots of nice quotes in it:
“My big fight in Pink Floyd,” Waters once told me, “was to try and drag it, kicking and screaming, back from the whimsy that Syd was into - as beautiful as it is - into my concerns, which were more political and philosophical. Even now, people talk about ’space’. What the fuck is that? None of it had anything to do with that. I don’t know what’s wrong with people. [Dismissively] Space - what the fuck are they talking about?”
and
“I don’t miss Dave, put it that way. I think we’re both quite truculent individuals, and I don’t think that’s going to change.”
But the biggest news for me is that Roger has two new songs he’s put up on the net “aimed at subverting the Bush-Blair take on the politics of the Middle East.” (Annoyingly these songs are in Real, Quicktime, and ASX formats, which means I have to spend an annoying 10 minutes changing them into MP3s. Why do you make me do this Roger?)
Kira
Richard B.
November 5th, 2004 at 11:58 pm
I missed Roger.