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Happy Birthday Roger
may you shine on for many more years
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I find it hard to "like" Roger Waters.
I have been what you might call a "distant" Pink Floyd fan since the 1960s (I am now in my sixties) and I know about the problems between Roger and the rest of the band.
I know there are stories of him trying to "sack" other members of the band like Nick Mason and Richard Wright.
Recently I watched a documentary about the making of Dark Side of the Moon (an old documentary). It was obvious the album was a "team" effort, and the success of the album was because everyone contributed to it.
I remember one part in the documentary where lovely Richard Wright was saying how he loved jazz and remembered a chord from the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue. He seemed really pleased that he had managed to get this chord on the DSOTM album.
The DSOTM album had light and shade, because there was input from all the members of the band, including obscure chords from Richard Wright.
But Roger Walters did not seem to appreciate this, and felt he was the leader of the band and had the right to sack who ever he wanted.
As he got stronger and stronger I found the music got harsher and angrier and nastier. I find I cant listen to albums like Animals or The Wall because Roger's anger is too much to the fore, and it is not tempered so much by the subtly of for example Richard Wrights piano and organ.
It is a shame Roger is so arrogant because I believe the band could have gone on longer, and made better albums, if he had realised it was a TEAM effort and not just about him.
I have been what you might call a "distant" Pink Floyd fan since the 1960s (I am now in my sixties) and I know about the problems between Roger and the rest of the band.
I know there are stories of him trying to "sack" other members of the band like Nick Mason and Richard Wright.
Recently I watched a documentary about the making of Dark Side of the Moon (an old documentary). It was obvious the album was a "team" effort, and the success of the album was because everyone contributed to it.
I remember one part in the documentary where lovely Richard Wright was saying how he loved jazz and remembered a chord from the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue. He seemed really pleased that he had managed to get this chord on the DSOTM album.
The DSOTM album had light and shade, because there was input from all the members of the band, including obscure chords from Richard Wright.
But Roger Walters did not seem to appreciate this, and felt he was the leader of the band and had the right to sack who ever he wanted.
As he got stronger and stronger I found the music got harsher and angrier and nastier. I find I cant listen to albums like Animals or The Wall because Roger's anger is too much to the fore, and it is not tempered so much by the subtly of for example Richard Wrights piano and organ.
It is a shame Roger is so arrogant because I believe the band could have gone on longer, and made better albums, if he had realised it was a TEAM effort and not just about him.
I am a fanatical Floyd fan.
As a music journalist, I disucss band dynamics with musicians all the time.
Over years, people change, and previous non-assertive people can take on a more 'leadership' role in a band, which sometimes works, sometimes not.
I believe that all the band were complicit in the split with Waters - Waters for his 'takeover' attitude, Gilmour for not necessarily understanding his viewpoint, and Wright and Mason for fence-sitting.
But the truth is, we don't know, we are not them and we were not there.
We get edited interviews, and media soundbites, which don't address the situation in any depth, or lead to any understanding - for them as much as us.
As a music journalist, I disucss band dynamics with musicians all the time.
Over years, people change, and previous non-assertive people can take on a more 'leadership' role in a band, which sometimes works, sometimes not.
I believe that all the band were complicit in the split with Waters - Waters for his 'takeover' attitude, Gilmour for not necessarily understanding his viewpoint, and Wright and Mason for fence-sitting.
But the truth is, we don't know, we are not them and we were not there.
We get edited interviews, and media soundbites, which don't address the situation in any depth, or lead to any understanding - for them as much as us.
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