Roger Waters has corrected a wrong after an article in The New Statesman quoted an uncredited source who said his decision to re-record Pink Floyd‘s The Dark Side of the Moon includes the removal of David Gilmour‘s “horrible guitar solos.”
Waters responded saying, “It’s the usual, [crap] stirring, ill informed nonsense. However, there is, in the article, something upon which I need to set the record straight. When talking about a new recording I have made of The Dark Side of the Moon, [Stuart Maconie] writes, with an unearned condescending authority, about the process of making this new recording, and I quote, ‘Part of this will involve him removing, as quoted in Spain’s El Pais newspaper, Gilmour’s ‘horrible guitar solos.’
“Now, I don’t know who he thinks he’s quoting when he says Gilmour’s ‘horrible guitar solos’ but it sure as [hell] ain’t me…I love Dave’s guitar solos on The Dark Side of the Moon, both of them, and on Wish You Were Here and on Animals and on The Wall and on The Final Cut.
“In my, albeit biased view, Dave’s solos on those albums, constitute a collection of some of the very best guitar solos in the history of Rock and Roll. So, Stuart Maconie, you little prick, next time, please check your copy with the subjects of your grubby little piece, before you go to print.”
What Waters did say in a recent interview is that Gilmour, Nick Mason and the late Rick Wright “can’t write songs, they’ve nothing to say. They are not artists! They have no ideas, not a single one between them. They never have had, and that drives them crazy.”
Gilmour or his novelist and lyric-writing wife Polly Samson, who both recently called Waters an anti-Semite, have not commented.
Waters’ version of the iconic 1973 album will be released in May.
The original The Dark Side of the Moon, which will be reissued as a deluxe package in March, is the fourth bestselling album in history, with more than 50-million copies sold.
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