Yes, his words move our soul.

I’m convinced the fountain of youth is listening, and dancing, to the music of our teens. (I’m 67.)

Shine on! You crazy diamond 💎

I lost a lot of respect for him recently. He totally lip synchs his concerts. Its a joke.

@@HeronCoyote1234 he wrote great lyrics and pink floyd my favorite band. But im bit upset he lip synchs his concerts. That makes me think of him differently. I know gilmour doesnt lip synch

"Reality Aligning" is such a great phrase thank you I'll remember that!

I was going to talk about The Final Cut too...I agree an absolutely amazing concept album. Roger made me think about it when he mentioned concept albums....I think it's a mind blowing piece of art.

Thanks so much !

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES So great to know you conducted a lot of these excellent interviews i have on all kinds of band profiles and musicdocs in my collection.I Think its very special that i get the chance to give you the well deserved acclaim for them.

Lol

"He's not Jimmy Paige"?? C'mon. That's a true contrast. Paige in no way, shape or form was anywhere near Gilmour. Completely different guitarists, one playing roughly recycled riffs and, ahem... More than 'inspired' from other artists (near theft comes to mind) vs the other who created his music based on his feelings and extreme experimentation with absolute flawless technique and intricacies (Gilmour). While I dig Paige and he's truly a legend, but saying David is no Jimmy is borderline hilarious. Gilmour is very far and beyond in essentially every aspect as a player and composer than Paige that it's nowhere remotely close. Covering Paige is is fairly easy task for any good player. Covering Gilmour is another story. Sorry bud, Paige is no Gilmour.

Glad you like them!

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES stellar work mate

Thank you for your appreciative comments. Yes mental illness can be a terrible burden for the sufferer and their loved ones.

If you think Roger Waters has an ego, I think you fail to understand him. He has strong spirit and is passionate about what he cares about, but it's not vanity or narcissism. Roger is strongly against the evil or corrupt members of authority we have in the west, and wishes for a better more just world.

@@bigbasil1908 yeah I think it’s you who doesn’t understand him. He’s a huge narcissist. Even people who have worked with him know he has a sizeable ego. So sit down sunshine

@@kjek1 You mean the people who earned loads of money from his songwriting.

@@bigbasil1908 is that in an alternate reality where the bands best songs weren’t dominated by Gilmour and Wright’s music? An alternate reality where Roger’s solo works didn’t suck and actually left some sort of mark in the music industry? Typical Waters fanboy tit. No surprise you’re on other videos claiming Gilmour’s a snob etc etc. You truly are a ball licker for Putin’s little puppet, who btw, hasn’t written a brilliant song since about 1979.

​@@bigbasil1908 Roger's lyrics are nice and all, but nobody would have ever cared about the Floyd or listened to their albums if it weren't for the great music that was largely created by Dave and Rick.

My pleasure!

Cos it’s shit

True that, but I think his point was that Syd now saw the world in a VERY different way than normal people. But just like his idea of his songs, HE doesn't get to be the final arbiter of what things are about. I don't think there is anyway of saying with certainty ANYTHING about any musical artist without getting stuck in too much mud. There are lots of songwriters who didn't change much, and many did, and all places in between. What works for one persone isn't necessarily true for others. Roger hasn't come up with many new songs, so he's reinterpreting the old stuff for a new world, thats fine, just like Steve Hackett is doing that for Genesis tunes. The thing about art and artists is every one is unique, which is a VERY hard thing to wrap our heads around in a world where we are used to putting labels on things.

Yes, it's a sane reaction to an insane set of unnatural situations. I've had similar episodes after a battering from grief, unrelenting stress and pressure from all angles. It's slipping into a dissociative state, something the mind does when it can't take being overwhelmed anymore. Obsessive compulsions are another thing it does, trying to place some sort of order on the chaotic world around it. A lot of what is perceived to be madness is, in a way, it's opposite or a defence against it at least.

@@NicholasBerry-ku9rd That's very well put. The term I was searching for, dissociative. There are people who have this disorder all the time, and that's a huge mental issue. But lots of people can experience it for a very brief period, as it's a defense mechanism. You just can't live your whole life on a defense mechanism. Roger is a very smart man, but it sounds as if this might have been the only time in his life that it was triggered.

The way I see it, Syd was very similar in some ways to Peter Green as in they both were in it for the music and not for the fame and money (the commercial BS). Sure they were both a little crazy but then I don't know anyone who isn't a little crazy. They both turned their backs on the corporate mincing machine.

@@bigbasil1908 I agree Basil. I'm not sure this is relevant but I saw Peter Green Splinter Group play live at the Boardwalk in Sheffield about fifteen years ago. He was accompanied by a second guitarist. A big, heavily bearded bear of a man who acted as both musical support for when Peter faltered on guitar and moral support as a friend on stage. For the first few songs, Peter's guitar playing was very erratic and discordant. He'd stop playing altogether for long periods and let his companion take over and rescue the songs. The big man- I've just reminded myself that it was Nigel Watson- would often make gentle humour to the audience and to Peter about the chaotic guitar work. He encouraged Peter to keep going and the audience to be patient. In turn, the audience were very supportive and members called out reassuring messages to Peter. After about four songs, Peter suddenly transformed. He became confident and his playing was beautiful and elegant. When Albatross was played it was incredible. The only way I can describe it is transporting and dreamlike. It was moving to see the love and respect that Nigel held for him and the way the audience held him up with their perseverance. It was one of the greatest concerts I've attended. I'm sad to find that Nigel has also passed away. It isn't clear whether Syd would have responded to a similar approach. He was done with music after 1974 I think and had no interest in returning to the fold, unless his appearance at the Wish You Were Here recording was a muddled and badly communicated attempt to be allowed back in. It seems Dave Gilmour made strong efforts to support Syd musically in recording his solo work and the few live appearances he made. He certainly made sure that Syd was financially secure thereafter. It might have been too late by then. We can't know how Syd felt that night when the band decided not to collect him from home. He might have been devastated, relieved or completely oblivious.

Hah! Yes an alpha male personality. Best not to disagree with him or interrupt him when he’s on a roll.

wdym "gunner"

@@Qaptyl he supports Arsenal

@@ceciliagrantham4689 whats arsenal

@@Qaptyl a football team in England

@@ceciliagrantham4689 oh ok

yeah, but it costs too much.

Yeah I've always thought there is a bit of Richard Gere in him!

Yes Roger was a terrific interviewee in my experience

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES I'm very happy to know that :) Thanks John for quality content as always.

I have never heard this interview before when he speaks about students helping others. It is a beautiful sentiment and it is precisely my experience as well.

Thanks! Difficult ? Not really if you understand that he’s always got to be right !! That’s the key to getting Roger to open up in an interview. Not a good idea to disagree with him. Just let him speak his mind.

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Do you say that from experience or from the stories of others? Thanks for uploading this!!!

@@MrKayley10 obviously my experience. These interviews on here were all done by me

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES funny what you mention about him always having to be right, when he commented in another interview his mom was like this as well, which was difficult for him growing up

He's actually softened up since then since he got into politics and is a bit out of his league. There have been several interviews where he's been pretty open that he doesn't know that much about the issue, he's acting on what he thinks. I'm not quite positive that thats 'alpha male' OR 'always wanting to be right', its more a mode of expression, and I say that as somebody who talks much like that in conversation, but I ain't an alpha male OR much ever right. There's another interview, I can't remember which, but a guy mentions that he knew Roger and that Roger ALWAYS talked like that. And yet we know he had no problem being second banana to Syd. And from the production interviews we know he's fully capable of giving in when its been shown that he's wrong. And when he talks about WYWH he fully admits that HE really had no real direction either, thats when he came up with the 'album of household objects'. And Roy Harper says that he thinks he kind of helped kick it into gear. And people tend to forget that Gilmour never kicked him out, and was fully prepared to do MLOR without OR with him. So its not like the guy can never be a team player. But again, I argue like that so maybe I'm just trying to defend myself "hey, I'm not REALLY an ahole". But I'm reminded of the album by album interviews with the Genesis guys, and Peter talks both about being really stubborn AND getting really excited about ideas. When you are around people talking ideas, and the ideas are going to lead to something, its hard NOT to talk like that. But in an interview its hard to know how else to talk. My interviews wouldnt last long because my first question would be "why is a guy who talks so much about peace and seeing things through others eyes such a dick?" But again, GE Smith said he became a great friend of Rogers, and he's a pretty good judge of character. That was a great question about 'the guy with the plan', but Rogers plans don't always pan out. Jon Anderson said he ALWAYS had to keep pushing YES because the guys would just be a garage band. A lot of musicians seriously lack in ambition and are notoriously hard to deal with. I read that even Howlin Wolf had to take his band to task....PHYSICALLY sometimes. I remember a music manager hearing that story and just kind of nodding 'sometimes you gotta do what you need to do". Johnny Ramone was supposedly like that, Anthony Phillips said Peter was actually the guy hustling agents. So yeah, music is a business, you need peopel to MAKE the music, but you need somebody to work the machine as well. I liked that Anthony Phillips gave thanks to Tony Smith as being one of those guys. We might not have had Monty Python or Genesis without him. HEre in Canada the guys from RUSH are always singing the praises of their management AND even the Cleveland DJ"s who started their career.

Who doesn't know?

@@aaronm.3581 … David Fuckin Gilmour 😂

the thing is... if he was *really* genius, why haven't any of his solo albums been genius?

@@LPerezDancer He has several brilliant albums, but all artist has their peak creative period. His was definately in the 1970's. He did bring ideas for more or less complete albums at the start of the recording sessions.

@@la7dfa I wish any of his albums were anywhere near as good as Animals or The Wall, and those are weak Pink Floyd albums, so I'm setting the bar low. Spent a lot of good money buying all of Rogers albums only to be disappointed time and time again.

Some of the interview is personal chat between us that is not usable. Some of it is already used in the documentary Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here which I directed but I do not own the rights.

@@JOHNEDGINTONDOCUMENTARIES Gotcha. Oh well. Keep up the great work. I love these uncut interviews you are putting up, just love them

@@CommuneRecords great to know that!

Sorry. Restricted by copyright

Totally agree!

I think its conscious. On the WTF interview he says that at The Wall, dave and rick were actively deriding his musical abilities. In another interview he goes to great pains to talk about the opera he penned and almost seemed to be trying to justify his abilities as a musician. It was odd to hear it, because while he's only competent on bass, come one, who ISN"T competent on bass? Sting hardly has to justify his role as a musician. But people who SEEM egomaniacal often are very insecure people. One of the funnier Floyd moments was an interview in the mid nineties when Dave was literally carrying Nick and Rick and I remember that in the interview HE was talking very much like Roger often talks. So power corrupts it seems. And on Momentary lapse, Dave started to learn that just being the guitarist means you have to employ all those other people, just as Roger had to do. Now, any one of them can just turn into Roy Harper and be a folk singer with their guitar, but you don't get as many groupies or as much money that way.

Rogers solo albums are abysmal. All Floyd albums post Waters are superior.

@@aaronm.3581 Umm not Amused to death. That album is amazing good, better than Momentary and as good as Polly Samsons Division Bell. 😉

@@thescramble4309 I forgot about his most recent album. It's actually pretty sweet.

@@aaronm.3581 Pros and Cons, like Radio KAOS, both seem dated at this time in my life, but at some point in my past, I'm sure I listened to them daily. Amused to Death, however, seems timeless and as monumental as Dark Side of the Moon. His last solo album I also enjoy greatly. Making such blanket statements and denouncing his solo work causes me to think that either you are not very familiar with his solo work, and hence unqualified to opine, or simply another troll who gets a kick out of disparaging Roger. I've always thought that this "Team David" camp who proclaim so much animosity to Roger certainly had no complaints against him while he was guiding the band from DSOTM through The Final Cut.

@@aaronm.3581 Are you referring to Is This the Life We Really Want? Or ATD?

But alone he's not as good. All did masterpieces together, all are not so "good" on their own. Although I agree, RW was the "mastermind" and his lyrics and ideas were the skeleton of their work. And he's got maybe the only "solo" work I can handle from all of them. Yet, he's not Pink Floyd by himself neither... I'm sad this had to end. But I'm also happy that it all happened. They gave us part of the best blend of music and lyrics in space time. And the band's "lore" is deep, epic and inspiring.

@@garryiglesias4074 yes I guess you are right. One can only be the sum of his parts

@@garryiglesias4074 They are good to great on their own and with others, and out of this world together. Amused To Death, Wet Dream, Fictitious Sports & David's first self titled album are all excellent records, though not as good as the big 4 Pink Floyd albums that they did together, but better than a lot of the other PF records where they were just starting off or weren't all together.

@@Chr1551 I don't really appreciate post-Waters Floyd. They are not "bad", but it's not The Pink Floyd I appreciate, they are just another "forgettable" band. And yes, for what I know, I'm closer to Waters POV with lyrics, but not enough to reach the "stratospheric level" of Pink Floyd up until "The final cut". I'm also a huge fan on Syd Barrett's work, and the Pink Floyd's dawn is very important to me, as their firsts albums paved the road to Dark Side and co. and are above anything of their solo work. The only solo work I regularly listen to, is Syd's one. For me, without Roger (Syd), there's no Roger (Waters).

@@garryiglesias4074 I'm a big fan of Piper & Syd's first solo album. Don't care for the 2nd.

Totally agree!

Thanks 😊

What you mean is, you're annoyed that Roger has demolished something you always thought was true, so you're trying to justify it to yourself. Of all the people who would know about this, I suspect Roger might be that person, and not you.

I don’t think have a cigar has much to do with Syd at all

@@DanLetts97 Well it kind of does, because it's a song about your first experience of working with a record company. And them giving it all the "Oh yeah, we love you and your stuff! We need your next album now" bullshit, and you being taken along for the ride and getting burned by it. And the "By the way, which one's Pink?" was an actual question asked of the band by record company executives on many an occasion, including when Syd was in the band.

Keep in mind on another interview Roger says at the very front, actually, maybe it was this interview, that he really does not remember much. I've heard him tell two different stories of the same story. Thats memory for you. I've heard other interviews where he has said it was all about Syd, and others where he says its more 'universal'. I've heard him say songs are about HIS experience, and others that they are more universal.

@@mikearchibald744 Totally agree. The other thing I notice as that as Roger gets older and 'forgets - what he mostly (conveniently) forgets are the contributions from other band members. Examples: 1.) This year, when Waters released that awful reinterpretation of DSOTM, he said, "I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ crap." Obviously - NOT TRUE. 2.) This year, on his website, Waters said that Gilmour was telling 'whopping porky pies;' (lies) about his contributions to the band and it has been going on for decades. As an example, Waters cites an interview that Gilmour did in 1981 where Gilmour described the process of producing the cash register sounds in DSOTM, Waters said he did that all by himself and that Gilmour won't know anything about it 'unless he was hiding under the fucking chair". However, in a 1976 interview with Alan Parsons, who was the sound engineer for DSOTM, he describes Gilmour as the most 'technically gifted' of the group, and he used an example of producing the cash register sounds on 'Money'. He described the unique process for getting the sound to match the music, which exactly describes what Gilmour said in his interview, and Parsons credits Gilmour for coming up with the idea. So Waters is actually the one telling 'whopping porky pies' about his contributions and I don't put much weight on anything he says lately.

Roger got mad that Dave played a few cords then Roger went home wrote the lyrics and the music, but David got a 50% credit. But i want to say Rick seemed to add a lot to the band

@@turokforever007 Rick really did. He was a bit of an unsung hero. (No pun intended.) But his influence (and voice) can be heard all through Meddle, especially harmonizing with Dave on Echoes. If you haven't watch Live in Pompeii 1972, I highly recommend it. I guess ... What I was trying to say was that, as much I liked Dave and all he's done, he's always kinda struck me as being more immature about the whole arrangement.

@@sunspot478 Well said. I have watched several interviews with both David and Roger and for whatever reason I feel that Roger is a bit more of a straight shooter and says what he thinks whether you like it or not while David often seems like he is holding something back and at times a bit disingenuous.

@@richardwestmoreland4796 Yea, I get that impression too.

Uh, you do know that Roger LITERALLY left the band and LITERALLY kept telling the guys not to use the name. He also ADMITS that he did that. The 'monster' was that both Dave and Rick say he was on his ego trip, while Roger says that Dave and Rick were always shitting on his musical skills. But Nick sums it up with "its hard to imagine ANYBODY being mean to Roger". So I suspect Roger really was the monster. The fact is with those songs and accolades its hard NOT to. I can remember wriiting poetry when I was twenty to a girl, definitely the wrong move, but one compliment filled me up like a balloon. And this is a guy who millions of people praise to the sky. So hard to NOT get an ego. Bob Ezrin says the first thing Roger said to him on The Wall was "I need you to work with these guys because I can't work with them". And to be fair, Nick's book says that Rick did almost nothing, then wanted production credit, then refused to do any producing, THEN pissed off for the summer when he was supposed to contribute some music. So THAT is less 'monstrous'. But these a middle class british boys, healthy emotional states clearly were still not in the cards. Roy says Rick was the kind of guy that needed baby hands, and thats not Roger. I have a conspiracy theory that the whole recent twitter argument thing was Dave and his wife just fearing that Roger may fall back into his old megalomaniacal ways and needed some humbling.

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Thank You Sir. Have you done any Gilmour interviews?

@@onemorething100 yes check out my channel DAVID GILMOUR 1hr24min FULL INTERVIEW UNFILTERED. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLeYq6ihvavFfnU.html

You underestimate man who didnt sell ABITW to Zukerberg.

RogerS.... Roger "Syd" Barrett...

No it's called soccer in the rest of the world except USA

@@jessymasvidal8997 I don't give a shit if its called soccer in 99% of the countries or Mars or Venus or Saturn... its game formed in England and that game is called FOOTBALL. Roger is british he knows better than to call it soccer...and IT IS CALLED SOCCOR IN THE U.S... derp

@@daveelson213 Football is an American sport. Soccer is soccer. Look up soccer & see what comes up.

@@jolo8146 um.... NO. American "football" is just that...and they hardly use the fukkin foot.. FOOTBALL IS FOOTBALL NOT SOCCOR. Not 1 british or European says soccer... Stop being a silly boy