Their only other joint appearance since the “Final Cut” album was a reunion set at Live 8 in 2005.
Waters, Gilmour and Mason last played together at a Waters show in London in 2011, a rare moment of detente between frontmen who have often been at odds, to say the least, since they last recorded together as Pink Floyd in the early 1980s. “Wild horses couldn’t keep me away,” he wrote, “and neither can this apartheid rabble.” He tore into what he called “an outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the Israeli lobby to denounce me as an anti-semite, which I am not, never have been and never will be.” In a statement on his website prefacing the interview reprint, he vowed not to back down. Waters has had concerts in Poland canceled over his views. Challenged repeatedly on his anti-Ukraine statements, he said, “You seem to be asking me to see Russia from the current Russo-phobic perspective. “Moscow does not run an apartheid state based on the genocide of the indigenous inhabitants,” said Waters. The article found Waters reiterating that he would play in Moscow but never Israel, which, as a supporter of the Palestinian cause, he considers a “genocidal” nation. Huh? Anyone with half a brain can see that the conflict in Ukraine was provoked beyond all measure,” he said. “What everyone in the West is being told is the ‘unprovoked invasion’ narrative. Waters called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “probably the most provoked invasion ever.” I mean, they haven’t made the point of demanding, ‘Stop the war, stop the slaughter, bring our leaders together to talk!’ It’s just this content-less waving of the blue and yellow flag.”
To associate that name now with something like this… proxy war makes me sad. That was a huge time in my life, a very big deal. Pink Floyd is a name I used to be associated with. It encourages the continuation of the war.
It’s so alien to me, this action is so lacking in humanity. “I have seen the video” released under the Floyd banner, Waters said, “and I am not surprised, but I find it really, really sad. In it, he said it was “sad” that Gilmour and Nick Mason joined up with Ukrainian musician Andrij Chlywnjuk to record a song protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The interview with German newspaper Berliner Zeitung was reprinted in an English translation on Waters’ website. Samson and Gilmour did not say what it was that triggered this explosive statement, but the most likely source of their suddenly public ire is an interview the singer-bassist did in which he criticized his former bandmates for having reunited to record a pro-Ukraine song last year and otherwise doubled down on some of his most polarizing positions. Waters has given many interviews in recent years that some fans who support Israel and/or Ukraine have considered a last straw. CIIy5r6SyA- Roger Waters February 6, 2023
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