In recent days, Waters had spoken of the failed "peace summit" with David Gilmour and Nick Mason. Than he released a video message on Facebook in which he says he has no space on the band's channels and after, yet, he fired a heavy broadside at DG on the release of the new remix of Animals.
“I had a lot of time on my hands over the last year, and I thought, Bugger me, if I don’t do it now, I’ll probably never do it, so I decided to do it,” he explained about his decision to write. As chance would have it I was doing a bit of delving in a book of press clippings and came across an interview David Fricke of Rolling Stone Magazine did with DG in a hotel room in NY in 1982, DG’s talking about the Cash register tape for the defining 7/8 rhythm on Money. The interview was published in Musician Magazine, so even back then DG was sowing the seeds of the false narrative. I quote this bit of the article verbatim:
David Fricke: “You recorded the sounds for ‘Money’ on a loop of tape.” Gilmour explains: ”You’re trying to get the impact from the cash register, ‘the snap, crack, crsssh,” You’d mark that one and then measure how long you wanted that beat to go, and that’s the piece you’d use. And you’d chop it together. It was trial and error. You just chop the tapes together, and if it sounds good, you use it. If it doesn’t, you take one section out and put a different one in. Sometimes we’d put one in and it’d be backwards, because the diagonal cut on the tape, if you turn it around is exactly the same. We’d stick that in and instead it would go ‘chung, dum, whoosh.’ And sound great so we’d use that.”
Well! The reason everything DG is saying here to David Fricke sounds like gobbledygook is because it is fucking gobbledygook. He has no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Why? Because unless he was hiding under the fucking chair, DG wasn’t there when I made that SFX tape loop for Money in the studio I shared with my wife Judy at the bottom of our garden at 187, New North Road, Islington, next door to the North Pole Pub where I used to play darts!
I've already talked to Pink Floyd fans, and that's what I will do again now. First of all thanks for all the wonderful comments on the new version of Mother that my band and I have put together, it was a lot of fun and it reminded me of how much I miss them ». Thus began the video that Roger Waters published this morning on his Facebook page. But it continues in a decidedly less conciliatory way.
«About a year ago I had organized a sort of summit for peace among the members still alive of Pink Floyd in London, where I made several proposals to overcome this impasse. I'm sorry to say it didn't lead to anything. Precisely because, if more than 40 million of you are registered on the site, it is thanks to all the work that the five of us created together, one of the things I asked for was to have all equal access to the page and to the social networks to share our projects, it seems right to me. Since I left the band in 1985, David thinks he owns everything: I think he is convinced that he owns Pink Floyd, that he "is" Pink Floyd and that I am irrelevant, that I should keep my mouth shut ».
