Just a few days after releasing a remote version of “Mother,” Roger Waters has shared a new clip, speaking against former bandmate and longtime adversary David Gilmour over the use of PinkFloyd.com.
“Why is this [“Mother”] video not available on a website that calls itself the Pink Floyd website? Well the answer to that is because nothing from me is on the website. I am banned by David Gilmour from the website,” Waters vents.
Waters goes on to say he recently assembled the surviving members of Pink Floyd in London to “get past this awful impasse we have.”
Waters allegedly suggested that all members have equal access to the Pink Floyd website to publicize their respective projects, a request that was promptly denied.
“David thinks he owns it. I think he thinks that because I left the band in 1985 that he owns Pink Floyd, that he is Pink Floyd… That I should just keep my mouth shut,” Waters continues.
“I’m not gonna get all weird and sarcastic, though as you know that is a direction in which I am known to sometimes lean temperamentally,” Waters chuckles near the end.
Watch the clip below:
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Tulsa Chris
May 22, 2020 at 3:58 pmCarney Chics put OUT
just scrub well when you’re done
I remember one time it was my weekend with my kid. Took him to a Fair, I disappeared for like 10 mins.
Best 20 I ever spent.
DJ Damage
May 22, 2020 at 12:53 pmIs this the real Dave the slave from the good old meth fueled, carny chick banging’, trailer park living’ days? Something tells me no, as much as I wish otherwise. I’ve missed ya buddy, I hope that is you, and look forward to some Phish / BFMcT banter going forward!
Tulsa Chris
May 21, 2020 at 12:17 pmHi, Bob!
Long time!
Yeah I’m still a chronic masterbator.
I get a lot of use out of those pictures of Lynn from back in the old Philzone days.
I can’t imagine she aged well.
Stay in touch!
Sideshow Bob
May 21, 2020 at 11:39 amLast time I saw Roger’s show a decade or more ago it was a good show & all that, but do I really need to be lectured for 3 hours about how bad Capitalism Sucks after I paid $150 for nosebleed seats? Apparently he (& Neil Young, who’s also supposedly for “the little guy” but whose tics cost an arm, leg, 1st born) are both too Thick to understand the concept of Irony.
Tulsa Chris
May 20, 2020 at 8:53 pmI finger banged the shit out of this divorcee I’m dating to that latest Waters video.
It was awesome.
Deadnet.com needs to link to Vince Welnick’s new record. Oh wait… that’s right… he cut his own head off.
My bad.
Sideshow Bob
May 21, 2020 at 11:31 amTC – A blast from the past! You drilled thru the Yellowstone Supervolcano yet whilst pulling your pud?
Robert LeMieux
May 20, 2020 at 6:31 pmGet over it Roger.The battle between you two is old news.If you can’t get over it and move on…then just fade away,
Duffman
May 20, 2020 at 4:02 pmIt’s all part of the legal dealings that happened years ago. Quit your whining Roger!
Rubber Road
May 20, 2020 at 3:09 pmGilmour makes and produces the most boring music I’ve heard so far. He’s a Pink Floyd shadow. A Roger Waters wannabee.
L in Massachusetts
May 20, 2020 at 2:56 pmRoger Waters has always been an angry, bitter, paranoid, selfish and difficult man.
That said, the band “Pink Floyd” is a business that owns a variety of intellectual property. Who has the rights to what, and who earns how much from royalties and licensing is none of our business; that’s a private matter between the people involved. Waters is old enough to deal with the band’s business as business and not as an endless personal vendetta.
As a creative professional myself who often works with co-creators, I know that there are always ways to work things out. IF everybody wants to work things out. There are professional mediators who can hash out business and money issues without everyone in the room together if they can’t get along.
Bitching and trashing former co-creators in the media is just never acceptable. Or productive; it never results in a solution.
Waters doesn’t want a solution. He wants to lash out at David Gilmour, as he has for decades. Shame on Relix for giving Roger Waters this platform to vent his resentments.
Roger and David
May 20, 2020 at 2:53 pmYou people need lives.
MUSIC??
May 20, 2020 at 1:49 pmWhy should we give a shit about this cranky old man who hasn’t put out any good music in as long as I could remember? All I care about is the music. Ignore this Hatfield McCoy nonsense.
Harrison H Yoss
May 20, 2020 at 1:39 pmWaters is an anti-semetic fuck who hasn’t come up with any new material since he left Pink Floyd. Just lives on rehashing the Wall and fighting with Gilmour who actually does put out new material.
Zev
May 20, 2020 at 1:36 pmPlain and simple, Roger Waters is a horrible hate-filled individual. I have no interest in anything he says or does.
D of KC
May 20, 2020 at 1:26 pmBottom line is WHO went back on Tour first in 1987 (and before then) to exploit the Pink Floyd songs? That would be the anti-Semite hate-bag known as Roger Waters! I had tix to see him in 1987 in St. Louis but then couldn’t go from KC, but did later (Nov. 87) see two Floyd shows in St. Louis which were incredible! Can you say, same show, different musicians??? Shame Roger has hogged the writing since how long ago? Say Wish You were Here or Animals ON….. Roger should shut up and play music….
DBrooks
May 20, 2020 at 1:11 pmRog reaps what he sows. He’s not what you’d call a ‘good guy’.
Left Sed Fred
May 20, 2020 at 1:06 pmIt’s time for Roger to retire to the Fletcher Memorial…
BillyBob
May 20, 2020 at 12:53 pmMaybe one contributed more than the other and maybe each has done and continues to do and say stuff we wish he wouldn’t. These are creative geniuses, and it’s not unexpected there would be rubs.
That said, I really really hope the turmoil can be brought to it’s permanent end.
Slamdunkeroosky
May 20, 2020 at 12:48 pmRoger Waters is an anti-Semitic homosexual! Because he’s anti-Israel and spreads anti-Israel lies, Roger Waters is an automatic homosexual!
The Seeker
May 21, 2020 at 11:02 amRoger can be an insufferable anti Semite
AND
Israel can be a rogue terrorist state performing abject extermination on the people of Palestine.
Those two facts are not mutually exclusive.
Trump
May 20, 2020 at 12:17 pmRoger is turning into the left wing Trump
rizzo
May 20, 2020 at 11:56 amNot that Floyd was the same or even as good after Waters left the band but Gilmour has been Pink Floyd for almost all of the 40 years I’ve been alive.
This Guy
May 20, 2020 at 11:33 amHe walked away. Now he wants access. Um, no.
Imagine if you worked at a place, hell, even if you helped build the business but then you quit and walked away… Then years later you strut back in demanding access. It just doesn’t work that way.
KB
May 21, 2020 at 11:06 amThis guy totally gets it. This is the correct take on this.
Winner, winner...
May 20, 2020 at 11:08 amJim & Ditto – well said.
And glad to see Dave the Slave back, hope you are well!
Jim
May 20, 2020 at 11:03 amBitterness between rich musicians who have money because of each other. So much easier to just get along. Nobody says you have to play together. The bitterness wrecks the band’s history, never mind bitterness is unhealthy.
user123
May 19, 2020 at 10:15 pmWe’re sick of it, Rog, just give up the public complaining
Todd
May 19, 2020 at 9:06 pmRoger waters definitely comes off as a dick. But he did write the majority of the songs. So in my opinion he obviously has the right to speak his mind and say his piece.
onenitemike
May 19, 2020 at 8:19 pmDTS is bang on. Roger is not right in the head.
Puts on a hell of a show, but hes fucked up. I cant imagine working with a pompous ass like him. DG is the man!
ditto
May 19, 2020 at 9:06 pmnot sure I’d want to hang with either of them in general, but they are artists…would want to hang with me either I doubt, but the little tiff is childish. Roger wrote all the lyrics. He is a poet. He was the leader of the group and he left. The group won the court case to continue on without him. Not sure why they can’t just get on with their lives. It was magic what the 4 and 5 of them did together. PF after Roger is sub-par but many people love it. Roger’s solo stuff after PF is waaay out there, but many people love it…. sooooo, long easy story short. the band broke up. it happens. Not sure why Roger is not happy, though. His solo tours are successful to say the least. Animals doesn’t need to be re-released. I still have my copy. and a live performance on digital tape. All is well with the material we have available. the world is satisfied with the entire catalogue available…just chill out…and peace out. Love the FLoyd…I hope both men keep making music. It doesn’t have to have a specific name to be apreciated
me
May 19, 2020 at 5:48 pmRoger Waters is who he is and his point is more than reasonable. Because he’s not very likable doesn’t mean he isn’t just as much Pink Floyd as David Gilmour… saying otherwise is absolutely laughable. That said, I certainly don’t think he is entitled to money earned by PF after his departure but, for fuck’s sake, maybe the fans could be considered when these two whine and cry about each other, get over it! Pink Floyd wouldn’t be known if it weren’t for BOTH David and Roger’s incredible musicianship, not to mention Nick & Richard’s contribution. Sid too played an integral role and though he was a founding member and I’m sure many a Floyd purist would argue with me, he was not part of what turned PF from a really cool psychedelic rock band of the 60s into what the world thinks of when they think PF. David & Roger have created some incredible music for this world but they’ve also shown the world just how much of an asshole two men can be for, from what I’m aware of, so little. Create a fucking contract which allows Roger info on PF website, and visa-versa, and be sure that the almighty dollar remains in the hands of those who earned it… it’s not that hard… of course, I realize I’m pissing into the wind with such a simple idea that would be good for fans…
phuckdat
May 19, 2020 at 4:53 pmRogers Waters has been, and always will be, an insufferable little bitch.
Go feed geese, faggot
Ron
May 19, 2020 at 6:43 pmAre you ten? Or terrified by your secret late night all male sex fantasies? What’s up with the horribly dated and pathetic insult? Jeez, already.
phuckdat
May 19, 2020 at 8:21 pmI’m sorry. Can you spit that cock out and speak more clearly please? And you got a little hair on your chin. Might want to clean yourself up.
Jim
May 20, 2020 at 10:59 amWhat a sad little miserable person YOU are. Its 2020 not 1955.
Patrick J Logan
May 20, 2020 at 3:26 pmYou’ll get to High School one day.
Dave the Slave
May 19, 2020 at 4:38 pmDavid does own the rights. So F off Rodger. You bailed on the other three years ago. Go away you bitter old man. Love David. Rodger not so much.
KB
May 19, 2020 at 5:21 pmMe agreeing with DtS, the world must really be turned upside down. I actually miss the old days when DtS would rail on any and everyone.
That being said, I used to be a massive fan of Roger, but man, he makes it hard to like him. I agree, he bailed on Pink Floyd and now he wants access to the spoils. Just another example of Roger being impossible to work with.
KBx2
May 19, 2020 at 5:23 pmDave, what’s your take on the Black Crowes still not cancelling their tour? It’s supposed to start on June 17. We all know it isn’t happening. Are they just trying to hold on to ticket money for extra interest?
Jake
May 20, 2020 at 12:51 pmKBX2, you have a choice to get a refund back by a certain date. Otherwise, possibly pay more next year. Last, but not least, who’s paying Interest Income these days??
KB
May 21, 2020 at 11:02 amJake, when you are sitting on 100 million bucks, I bet someone will.
Shannon Smith
May 20, 2020 at 1:04 pmExactly!
DeSwag
May 20, 2020 at 1:44 pmI bet you don’t even know how many of you favorite PF songs are actually written by Roger. You’re probably one of those PF fans that thinks division bell is their best album lol.
Al
May 20, 2020 at 2:09 pmNailed it, Waters is a bitter old man
Tim
May 20, 2020 at 7:04 pmAgreed. U went to court over it. U left the band. Get over it
Paul Gibson
May 21, 2020 at 10:39 amI think it’s humours there fighting over the name, which fucking one in the band is named Floyd?
Actually they don’t know who or what is Floyd is! None of them Floyd is the name I gave the band it’s the initials of chemicals that I used to break the law of physics.
If your in the UK I have it documented in 3 colleges. I went to 3 to make sure there is no mistake. By the way the reptilian band owes me some big fucking money. The money you trusted them with to pay all members including the freelance songwriter me never got in my hand and I’m homeless been asking for 50 years.