Roger Waters has never been one to hold back when criticizing his former bandmates. While recently chatting with the Telegraph, the rocker decided to hit at David Gilmour‘s ‘Faux Floyd,’ how the pair lacked talent and the one Waters quality they all envied.
Before we get into Waters’ statements regarding his ‘talentless’ former bandmates, it might be safe to point out that this interview came only days after Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, made a few not-so-friendly remarks on Twitter, calling the bassist anti-semitic, a Putin apologist and megalomaniac.
So, things have got heated again in the decades-long feud between Gilmour and Waters. At least, this is what we can infer from Roger’s snides. He is still pissed off that David and Nick went on to record and perform as Pink Floyd after he departed in 1985. The bassist pointed out how the pair had millions and millions of dollars while touring under the band’s name, singing his songs, and accusing him of being ‘autocratic.’
He then criticized the pair and late keyboardist Rick Wright’s lack of talent in songwriting. Waters noted that Mason was aware that he had no talent, so he never pretended, but Gilmour and Wright always tried to come up with lyrics, and when they could not do so, they would get frustrated and possibly, envy Waters’ talents. So, for the bassist, Gilmour, Mason, and Wright were no true artists.
The musician’s statements on what he called ‘Faux Floyd’ and his former bandmates:
“‘Faux Floyd’ went touring round the world and made millions and millions and millions of dollars. They said I was autocratic. Well, Nick never pretended [to write songs]. But Gilmour and Rick? They can’t write songs; they’ve nothing to say. They are not artists. They have no ideas, not a single one between them. They never have had, and that drives them crazy.”
Even though Wright died in 2008, Waters decided to address him using the present tense, not sparing him from this intense slamming session. For Roger, it was evident that the three of them, Mason, Gilmour, and Wright, had no talent when writing a few lyrics down, and yet, ‘Faux Floyd’ made millions by playing the songs he wrote.
