| Waters, Roger - Roger Waters on Howard Stern |
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| Recorded at the Howard Stern Show. Great interview. From the info file: 2012-01-18 Roger Waters on Howard Stern (DVD) Roger Waters made a stop on Howard Stern's radio show on Jan. 18 to promote the return of his 'the Wall' tour to the U.S., and he chatted openly about all things Pink Floyd and beyond. On the matter of leaving Pink Floyd, Howard asked, 'Don't you think the bravest thing you ever did was getting out of that band and going off on your own? Cause you could've stayed in the security of that band if you put up with their bullshit.' To which Waters replied, 'Yeah I could have done that... but no, no, I had to leave.' In fact, Waters was very open about this part of the Floyd story. When asked about the band carrying on very successfully without him while he played much smaller venues on his own, he said frankly, 'it was character forming.' 'Were they wrong to play those songs without you?' Stern continued. 'No I don't think so,' replied Waters, 'I think I was wrong to think they were wrong.' When the radio host asked what portion of 'the Wall' Waters wrote, his guest was quick to take credit where it was due, but equally fast to give his bandmates their due on other projects: 'Well all the ideas generated (on 'the Wall')...I think 96% of it is officially down to me,' Waters said. Stern continued, 'So would you say most of the Floyd stuff is just you, do you ever just wish you'd done it solo?' 'Oh absolutely not, no!,' Waters shot back. 'We were a cracking team when we were younger. From '68 to 'Dark Side Of The Moon' we were a pretty tightly knit group.' Labeling 'the Wall' 'one of the angriest records ever,' Stern went on to ask about the much-discussed concert incident that inspired it: 'I love that story about how one night you got so angry on stage that you spit on somebody in the audience and that's where the idea came that you wanted to build a wall between yourself and the audience. Is that correct?' Waters humbly replied, 'It is...to my eternal shame.' So why did he spit on a member of the audience? 'Cause he was climbing up the front of the fucking stage!!!', yelled Mr. Waters (humorously). Talk turned to money, the physical entity, not the song, as Stern asked when the band first started to make real bank, and how that affected band relations negatively. The answer? '1973, 'Dark Side Of The Moon' was the first time we made any cash,' replied Waters, 'we were reasonably generous with one another at that time. I think once you've achieved that measure of success, you've really done what it was that you set out to do together. From then on it was really about clinging to the trademark in a kind of frightened way, not wanting to lose the umbrella with the words Pink and Floyd together.' (text source: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/roger...ern-interview/) Video ID : 224 (0xE0) Format : MPEG Video Format version : Version 2 Format profile : Main@Main Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, Matrix : Default Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=12 Duration : 00:59:54 Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 8 950 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 576 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate : 25.000 fps Standard : PAL Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 40 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.863 Audio ID : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80) Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Muxing mode : DVD-Video Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy |