Roger Waters Another Look at "Dark Side".

27.04.2008: Mark Brown Musikjournalist der Rocky Mountain News interviewte Roger Waters. Waters erzählt ihm wie es zu der Mini-Tour 2008 kam, was er von George Bush hält, Buhrufe während Leaving Beirut, sein Leben in Amerika, The Wall am Broadway und vieles mehr. Foto: Jimmy Jenner jr.

Ein wirklich sehr interessantes Interview, dass ihr hier nachlesen könnt: Rocky Mountain News oder Waters Interview. Waters erwähnt wieder einmal, dass er sich das The Wall Konzertfilmmaterial 1980 angesehen hat. Das Material ist zwar nicht großartig aber gut. Er hofft es eines Tages in etwas sehr sehenswertes zu verwandeln. 

Hier ein paar Auszüge.

I'm told you're recording an album called Heartland. Any truth to that?

Roger Waters: "That might well be. It might be called Heartland or it might be called something else. I have a ton of songs I've written. I keep meaning to get around to going in the studio and making it into an album. But the recording I'm involved with in the moment, I wrote a song for ALAS. Although I'm not longer doing the gig... I have recorded a 13-minute piece for them. In fact I'm in West Palm at the moment and Eric Clapton has very kindly agreed to record a solo. So I'm recording him tomorrow or the next day. We'll be working with the Venezuela Youth Orchestra in another two weeks. ... that's the recording I'm doing at the moment."

Pink Floyd's one-off reunion at Live 8 has been analyzed to death. But are you yourself a fan of reunions?

Roger Waters: "I don't think you can generalize about it. It's hard for bands. Often half of them are dead. I'm not really keen on the reunion when there's only one bloke left standing. However if everybody's alive and enthusiastic about doing it I think they're great. The Live 8 thing was quite extraordinary. Even at our advanced years we all still seemed to be able to play a bit and sing. I thought those songs we did sounded great. It was very moving for me personally to hear those four musical voices joined together again onstage. And equally very moving to experience the enormous waves of love that were coming off the field at us. It was just fantastic. I loved it."

Will you consider releasing music from the vaults like the 1973 BBC broadcast?

Roger Waters: "I think it's all out there on bootlegs. I'm not that interested in it. I have started work on the original Wall shows. We already mixed the music and it came out but I own all the film. We did do a multi-camera shoot on videotape back in 1980. We also have some 35-millimeter footage as well. I'm looking at all that at the moment."

The story fans heard was that the footage was shot but unusable.

Roger Waters: "It's not unusable. It's not great but it's not unusable. I will find my way through it and make something that is very watch-able, I hope. We'll see."

Info: Pete Zahlten