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September 2, 2024

David Gilmour says speaking about Roger Waters is “boring” Guitar Contact

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Ask David Gilmour about his new album Luck and Unusual, his upcoming solo tour, or the potential sale of Pink Floyd’s catalogue – something, however his relationship with former bandmate, Roger Waters.

In a latest chat with Rolling Stone, Gilmour says that discussions surrounding Waters have develop into tiresome, and that he has little need to talk on a subject he now considers “boring”.

The pair had been on amicable phrases again in 2010 once they performed a charity present collectively; Gilmour even made a visitor look at one among Waters’ The Wall gigs in London.

Requested what had modified between them since that seemingly pleasant collaboration, Gilmour replies: “Properly, it’s one thing I’ll discuss at some point, however I’m not going to speak about that proper now. It’s boring. It’s over.”

“As I stated earlier than, he left our pop group after I was in my 30s, and I’m a fairly previous chap now, and the relevance of it isn’t there. I don’t actually know his work since. So I don’t have something to say on the subject.”

With a brand new album and solo tour on the way in which (“I’ve the band prepared,” says the musician), Gilmour a lot prefers to look ahead as a substitute. And whereas he beforehand referred to as Luck and Unusual the “greatest album” he’s made since The Darkish Facet of the Moon, prompted on the subject as soon as extra, Gilmour says: “It’s a flip assertion, actually. I imply, it’s not like Darkish Facet of the Moon is even my favorite album.”

“I believe I want Want You Had been Right here,” he provides. “Anyway, it feels to me prefer it’s one of the best factor I’ve finished in roughly my residing reminiscence, as a result of a few of these issues really feel like they had been another person, again in these eons in the past. I used to be in my 30s when Roger left our pop group and I’m 78.”

Luck and Unusual arrives on 6 September by way of Sony Music. Take a look at the newest single Darkish and Velvet Nights beneath.




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