The Who und Pink Floyd waren besser.

08.11.2005: In der aktuellen Dezember US Playboy Ausgabe findet man in der Music Rubrik auch eine Q&A mit Roger Waters.

What would genuis do? Return to Pink Floyd and compose an opera. The Live 8 benefit concerts didn't solve the world's problems, but Bob Geldof's project did achieve one miracle: a reunion of the classic lineup of Pink Floyd, with Roger Waters joining the band for the first time in 20 years. Waters also released an opera, Ca Ira, this fall.

Playboy: Now that you and David Gilmour have reunited onstage, will you work together on an album?

ROGER WATERS: I might be prepared to make a record, but there's no ####ing way I'm going to argue with him about how to make it. It was horrible to have to fight with somebody about how to make Wish You Where Here, Animals, and The Wall. Of course, the results were spectacular.

Playboy: What do you think of bands such as Coldplay and Radiohead that are obviously influenced by Pink Floyd?

ROGER WATERS: If I had some influence thatgave people permission to be serious about what they did, to express their inner feelings and not give a #### about what anyone thought, to go for it in a passionate way that exposed their weknesses as well as their strengths, then I couldn't be happier. Because so much rock and roll is posturing bollocks. You know, poodle rock, all that hair and tight trousers. I never had time for that crap. It's just bollocks.

Playboy: Did you like any of the bands at Live 8?

ROGER WATERS: I don't mena to put down any of those bands, and maybe I'm totally biased, but I felt the Who and Pink Floyd were just better. When the Who came on and played "Wont Get Fooled Again," I just thought, Wow. There's something extraordinarily powerful about the melody, the words. I watched a bit of Coldplay and thought they were very engaging and nice, but I haven't the faintest idea what the songs were about. Not the faintest idea.

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