Roger Waters Rejoices About Another Pink Floyd Reunion, Really!

‘’Roger Waters Rejoices About Another Pink Floyd Reunion, Really!’’

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright October 8, 2005

Yeah, you heard right. No, your ears aren’t clogged. The perpetually scowling, forever angry young man, now angry old man, Roger Waters, has gone all warm and fuzzy on us.

In the October 2005 issue of ‘’Word Magazine’’, Waters discusses his new album, pride and joy, ‘’Ca Ira’’, a classical opera (NO, not a rock opera, we’re talking all Pavarotti like here), which he composed, the forever infighting Pink Floyd, the Floyd’s landmark ‘’Pigs DID fly’’ one time reunion, performance, July 2, 2005, at the Hyde Park, London leg of Live 8, and….his fond openness to possibly reuniting with Pink Floyd yet again!

In an exclusive interview, a ‘’what the f**k happened’’, genuinely affable Waters opens up about such lovelies as the similarities between the storyline of ‘’Ca Ira’’ which is set during the French Revolution and the Bush administration, his understandable resentment of the press’s hounding of former Floyd founding member, recluse, and diagnosed schizophrenic, Syd Barrett, David Gilmour’s reformation of the Floyd after Waters left and dissolved the band following rancorous (read Waters: leggo my EGO!) blowouts with his bandmates, furiously watching Gilmour’s Floyd pack some 80,000 into a U.S. stadium while Waters’ solo tour stalled at a mere 3,000 people in attendance at a venue that held 6,000, and the decades long inner group dynamic bitterness that has become as infamous as the musical legacy of Pink Floyd.

But, then, ultimate peacemaker and equally acerbic friend, Sir Bob Geldof approached Waters, Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright to play at Live 8, and via much ado about something, convinced the bile spewing, feuding Waters and Gilmour, that the starving, dying people of Africa…we think were a bit more important than as Gilmour stated when the Live 8 reunion performance was officially announced, the ‘’petty differences’’ of the aging rockers.

Thus…bingo, voila! Pink Floyd reunited for their legendary performance at Live 8. Waters and company have since turned down numerous offers to tour the USA in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Waters goes on to say that ‘’The day they announced the Pink Floyd were to play Live 8, I went out to dinner with a friend and an offer arrived, literally, BANG, on the dinner table, for the 4 of us, the Pink Floyd to tour again. An offer of $250 million. Guaranteed.’’

But, when Waters is asked if he would be open to the Floyd reuniting again, it seems the Live 8 fever and cause, lit a fire under Waters that has softened the grimacing rocker up, if there was a significant positive platform, a cause, that their reuniting and performing at, could help to further.

Waters replies that Live 8 ‘’was terrific. I really loved it. I hope we do it again. It was more than good. If some other opportunity arose, I could even imagine us doing ‘’Dark Side Of The Moon’’ again, if there was a special occasion. It would be good to hear it again. Live 8 was SO great.’’ But it would have to be ‘’a good reason. Something with a political or charitable connection.’’

Hey Sir Bob…if you get to thinking about organizing a Live Aid 3….Roger’s speed dial phone number is 510-pigsfly-yetagain.

Muse News & Micro Muse October 8, 2005

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright October 8, 2005