Fact #169810
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Short story:
Pink Floyd begin their Momentary Lapse Of Reason tour at Landsdown Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Full article:
David Gilmour : At the beginning of the Momentary Lapse Of Reason tour Gary Wallis was playing all the drums, because Nick couldn't, and I got Jon Carin to play the keyboards, because he can do Rick Wright better than Rick Wright can. But then I encouraged them both, and by the end of the first three-month leg Nick and Rick were playing great. Their confidence was restored. That tour brought them back to being functioning musicians. Or you could say I did.
Roger Waters (former Pink Floyd leader) : When those people went out calling themselves Pink Floyd, it made me very, very gloomy. And it made them very happy. Well, I don't know if it did make them happy. I don't think they are happy, actually. You should ask them. Ask them: 'Are you happy? You sold out. You sold out everything. Did it make you happy?' I mean, how can they find it within themselves to go on stage and do my songs - songs from The Wall? I wrote The Wall as an attack on stadium rock and there's 'Pink Floyd' making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Oh well, that's for them to live with. They have to bear the cross of that betrayal. They have to live with the denial of what the work was about. But when all that nonsense started, it made me fucking gloomy. I stood by a river and stared at myself in the water. Pathetic, I said. They despoiled my creations and there was nothing I could do about it.
My one pathetic victory was that they had to put testicles on the pig. If the pig had been exactly the same as the pig that I designed (for the cover of the album Animals), I could have stopped them using it in their shows. So they put balls on my pig. Fuck them. Gilmour and Mason now own the name 'Pink Floyd'. They keep it in a box.
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Roger Waters (former Pink Floyd leader) : When those people went out calling themselves Pink Floyd, it made me very, very gloomy. And it made them very happy. Well, I don't know if it did make them happy. I don't think they are happy, actually. You should ask them. Ask them: 'Are you happy? You sold out. You sold out everything. Did it make you happy?' I mean, how can they find it within themselves to go on stage and do my songs - songs from The Wall? I wrote The Wall as an attack on stadium rock and there's 'Pink Floyd' making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Oh well, that's for them to live with. They have to bear the cross of that betrayal. They have to live with the denial of what the work was about. But when all that nonsense started, it made me fucking gloomy. I stood by a river and stared at myself in the water. Pathetic, I said. They despoiled my creations and there was nothing I could do about it.
My one pathetic victory was that they had to put testicles on the pig. If the pig had been exactly the same as the pig that I designed (for the cover of the album Animals), I could have stopped them using it in their shows. So they put balls on my pig. Fuck them. Gilmour and Mason now own the name 'Pink Floyd'. They keep it in a box.
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