Waters would later remark: “It’s one of the few times that the legal profession has taught me something. It was eventually settled out of court, in a Christmas Eve meeting on Gilmour’s houseboat. The resultant legal battle lasted for two years as both sides argued that they had contributed to something that they should be able to maintain, they just found themselves on different sides of the same coin, so to speak. His High Court battle was to prevent them from using the name claiming that the group was a “spent force of creativity” and they would ruin its legacy after he left. This irreparable rift grew between them once Waters took his former bandmates to court.
VALUE OF PINK FLOYD THE WALL ALBUM FREE
I’m free to do exactly what I want to do and how I want to do it.” I’m all for Roger doing whatever he wants to do and enjoying himself. Speaking to Guitar Player magazine about rumours of a possible reunion, the six-string legend revealed: “It has run its course, we are done. Since then, any lingering hopes of a Pink Floyd reunion have been met with a pretty definitive no, like Oliver Twist’s request for more, as David Gilmour has even recently announced” “I absolutely don’t want to go back.” When he did so, he assumed that the whole group would disband. In December 1985, Waters finally formally quit the band that he had co-founded. This dark inspiration may have been creatively conducive, but it came with its own inherent pitfalls to boot.Īs David Gilmour would later declare: “I think things like ‘Comfortably Numb’ were the last embers of mine and Roger’s ability to work collaboratively together.” In the end, Waters would leave the band in a bitter dispute, and The Wall’s creation was their last edifice as a whole, with the subtitle to 1983’s The Final Cut clearly indicating the end: “A requiem for the post-war dream by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd.” While the ‘end of the post-war dream’ was ostensibly a shot at Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, it could just as easily have been about the death of Pink Floyd’s flowery 1960s vision. Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett had already succumbed to the snares of the rock ‘n’ roll realm, and Waters wanted to exorcise this bedevilment in a sonic serving of deliverance. Later, while speaking to Howard Stern, he confirmed the truth to this rock ‘n’ roll legend, declaring: “It is (true), to my eternal shame.” Waters had lost sight of himself after the tour had played games with his head, and The Wall represented the change that had gradually taken place. During which, Waters approached the front row and spat in the face of a rowdy fan. As the band were midway through their set, a skirmish emerged at the front of the crowd. However, the lowest part of the night came earlier for Roger Waters, and it may have gone unnoticed to most. Once more, the performance was subpar, so they decided to take to the stage one more time, but during ‘Drift Away Blues’, the roadies had already started dismantling the stage. On the final night of their 1977 tour at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, David Gilmour refused to take the stage for the encore after a disastrous performance, so touring guitarist Snowy White stepped in. They were drained, and more often than not, that is infertile soil for creative fruit, but The Wall provided a mechanism whereby they could flip the drawback on its head.Īfter a long tour in which the strain became self-evident, tensions culminated in a multitude of mishaps. The project arrived at a curious time for Pink Floyd they had reached a period in their career where stardom was secured, but the toil of keeping it lofty was taking its toll. As we all know by now, the pitch got the vote, and the band heeded Waters’ creative vision.
The first option was a 90-minute demo with the working title Bricks in the Wall. In July 1978, at Britannia Row Studios, Roger Waters pitched his bandmates two new ideas for concept albums.
The life of Syd Barrett and the dark side of the swinging sixties