Roger Waters

Roger Waters was recently interviewed by CNN's Michael Smerconish and went hard on his opinion on the war in Ukraine and China, saying that in fact, ...

In his album The Wall he explored the conflict of war and its consequences on a personal level, furthermore, in Animals, he separated human society into 3 farm animals and called each track what part of society they represent: Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep. Waters was also adamant in saying that the United States is not supposed to be liberators, and it is not their place, he also cited an example of the destruction that the US has caused in the middle east and their support of Israel against the Palestinian people. In the conversation he even sided with China, saying that Taiwan is part of China and that it has been like that since 1948, not only that but he also doubles down by saying that the international community has approved of that since then.

Ever-controversial former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has made something of a social media splash after appearing on CNN's Smerconish show at the ...

Sep 23: San Francisco Chase Center, CA Waters said that the message was a way of "setting things straight" before going on to say that, "It also encourages a lot of the people who've come to the show because they have listened to everything I've written since, you know, 1965 or wherever I started writing songs. Thank you, and please enjoy the show."

Roger Waters challenged a TV reporter's position regarding politics and war – but said it was a “pleasure” in August 2022.

Drawing the debate to a close, Smerconish said that when he read, he read Waters’ liner notes. The interview – which can be seen below – began with a question about the introduction to Waters’ This is Not a Drill shows, where he tells the audience: “If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politics’ people, you might do well to fuck off to the bar right now.” Asked if he really wanted people to leave, the musician replied: “You never know; those people, if they sit in a community like my audiences… The discussion turned to Waters’ labeling of U.S. President Joe Biden a “criminal” who was “just getting started” after he’d previously hammered Donald Trump during an earlier tour. … Thank God the Russians had already won the bloody war, almost, by then. Drawing a comparison to the Russian view of the current East European conflict, Waters said: “Try to figure out what the United States would do it the Chinese were putting nuclear armed missiles into Mexico and Canada.” Smerconish countered that China was too busy “encircling” Taiwan to turn on the U.S. but Waters argued: “They aren’t encircling Taiwan – Taiwan is part of China and that’s been absolutely accepted by the whole of the international community since 1948.” He continued: “If This is Not a Drill has a message, it is that we have to communicate, one with the other.” That led Smerconish to say he didn’t always agree with Waters’ messages, but he countered: “I’ve only got one message: ‘Two strangers passing in the street / By chance two passing glances meet / And I am you and what I see is me.’ That is my message and that was on Meddle which was in 1970; and basically my message hasn’t changed – I recognize your humanity but I recognize all the Russians and the Chinese and the Ukrainians and the Yemenis and the Palestinians.”

“If you're one of those 'I love Pink Floyd but I can't stand Roger's politics' people,” you might do well to fuck off to the bar right now.”.

Instead, by digging into his back pages (rarely played Pink Floyd songs such as the big business-raging “Have a Cigar” and the master and servant cataclysm of “Sheep”) as well as poring over newer, self-penned solo songs such as the piano-heavy “The Bar” and its plea for community, free press and human rights, Waters is connecting the dots of his social conscious past to that of his present. But in Roger Waters, that mad decay can have a glimmer of hope to go with the possibilities of equity and humanity. That emotion, mournfully ruminative but ultimately warm, is held in dedication to Syd Barrett, the boyhood high school friend of Waters with whom he co-created Pink Floyd and whose wild, avant-garde and psychedelic vision and manic guitar playing fueled the ensemble’s initial albums The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) and A Saucerful of Secrets (1968). That all presidents are bad and that the end is near. “We saw that in the Weimar Republic,” said Waters from high atop Columbia Records’ tower in Manhattan. “I hate to bring up the Germany of the ’30s, but there are models you can see that are deeply important for us to understand why things happened… It is very easy to convince people that somebody else is responsible for the trouble; that if you only corralled them, everything would be all right.”

Roger Waters has insisted he's right to call Joe Biden a "war criminal" amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Twenty-three million Russians died, protecting you and me from the Nazi menace.” He said: “I would suggest that you… He went on: “Well, any war, when did it start?

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters is calling President Biden a "war criminal" during his latest US stadium tour -- blaming him for "fueling the fire" with the ...

Complete nonsense — you should go away and read!” Go and read about it!” Asked about the display over the weekend by CNN, Waters said, “President Biden? Well, he’s fueling the fire in the Ukraine, for a start – that is a huge crime.”

Roger Waters explained why he's labelled President Joe Biden a 'war criminal' on the This Is Not a Drill Tour in an August 2022 interview.

Waters later offered a comparison: "Try to figure out what the United States would do if the Chinese were putting nuclear armed missiles into Mexico and Canada." "There is such a great feeling of communication in that room between me and the audience," he said, "and between us combined, with all of our brothers and sisters all over the rest of the world, irrespective of who they are, where they live, their ethnicity, their religion, their nationality, or anything else — because if This Is Not a Drill has a message, it is that we have to communicate one with the other." Roger Waters has clarified some of the messaging presented on his current This Is Not a Drill Tour, which includes an image of President Joe Biden with the words "War Criminal" and "just getting started ..." projected to the audience.

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Former RAINBOW and DEEP PURPLE singer Joe Lynn Turner has apparently thrown his support behind Roger Waters over comments the PINK FLOYD co-founder made ...

"The people had a great time [and] we had sellout houses," he said. 30 percent of the American people have passports, so 70 percent of you are isolated and know dick about it — you have been nowhere and done nothing. "So we need to hate somebody all the time [and] create a war. We need to hate somebody, because of the military industrial complex," he said. "We've lost God, we've lost a lot of things that made that country great. 'Oh, we don't wanna hear about that.' 'We don't wanna know about that.' " "There were gangsters in my family, in the Mafia, and they were good people," he explained. "He still is [telling the truth]," the singer told Kraig Casebier's "American Barber In Prague"in a 2017 interview. "They were the safest neighborhoods, and they protected everyone on the block, and they took care of a lot of people. This is not the first time Turner has publicly taken a political stance. "That is a huge crime. Thank you Roger. Someone has to say it..."

Roger Waters explained labeling Pres. Biden a 'war criminal' on his current tour and defended China and Russian's aggressive actions to CNN.

You can’t have a conversation about human rights and and you can’t have a conversation about Taiwan without actually doing the reading.” For the record, Taiwan has been governed independent of China since 1949, though the People’s Republic of China sees it as a break-away province and has repeatedly vowed to “unify” Taiwan with the mainland. When the host suggested that Waters almost always comes down against the side of the West, the musician animatedly disagreed, responding, “The Chinese didn’t invade Iraq and kill a million people in 2013… “Bollocks!” Waters responded. “They’re not encircling Taiwan! Taiwan is part of China! That has been absolutely accepted by the whole of international community since 1948,” Waters said adamantly. Why won’t the United States of America encourage [Volodymyr] Zelensky, [Ukraine’s] president, to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war?” he said, as Smerconish pointed out that Waters was blaming the country that was invaded, not the invaders. The outspoken 78-year-old rocker — who railed against twice-impeached former Pres. Donald Trump and denied suggestions that his support of a boycott against Israel was spurred by anti-Semitism during his pre-COVID 2018 Us + Them solo tour — continues to provoke on his latest outing.

After labelling US President Joe Biden a war criminal, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has offered a defence of his divisive comments.

What are you talking about?” Smerconish then used World War Two as an example, which Waters promptly undermined: “You [the US] got into World War II because of Pearl Harbour. You were completely isolationists until that sad, devastating, awful [inaudible] in 1941.” What you need to do is look at the history, and you can say, ‘Well it started on this day.’ Michael Smerconish of CNN sat down with Waters to discuss the controversial slideshow.