David Gilmour insists there may be nothing that would conceivably get him again onstage with Roger Waters.
Throughout a Q&A with The Guardian, a fan queried whether or not Gilmour and his former Pink Floyd bandmate may ever carry out collectively once more.
“Completely not,” the guitarist responded. “I are inclined to keep away from individuals who actively help genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin and Maduro [president of Venezuela]. Nothing would make me share a stage with somebody who thinks such remedy of girls and the LGBT group is OK.”
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Whereas Gilmour was adamant that he has no real interest in reconciling with Rogers, he expressed his fondness for a distinct Pink Floyd alumnus.
“Alternatively, I’d like to be again on stage with Rick Wright,” Gilmour confessed, describing the late Pink Floyd keyboardist (who died in 2008) as “one of many gentlest and most musically gifted individuals I’ve ever recognized.”
The Ongoing David Gilmour Versus Roger Waters Feud
Whereas the feud between Gilmour and Waters has an extended historical past, it’s gotten particularly contentious lately.
In 2023, Gilmour’s spouse and collaborator Polly Samson tweeted that Waters was a “Putin apologist and a mendacity, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac.” Gilmour retweeted the message, saying: “Each phrase demonstrably true.”
Extra not too long ago, Pink Floyd bought their music catalog, title and likeness for $400 million. The long-rumored deal got here as a aid to Gilmour, who had been trying to detach himself from his former band.
“To be rid of the decision-making and the arguments which might be concerned with protecting it going is my dream,” Gilmour mentioned previous to the sale. “I’m not considering [a catalog sale] from a monetary standpoint. I am solely considering it from getting out of the mud tub that it has been for fairly some time.”
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