David Gilmour has no regrets about his relationship with Roger Waters

David Gilmour has spoken out about his strained relationship with former Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Watersstating that he has no regrets about what recently happened between them.

In particular, Gilmour stated to Mojo that a tweet he sent in January 2023 about Waters’ alleged anti-Semitism “was boiling over… It had to come out – and I have no regrets about it. No regrets whatsoever.”

In April 2022 Gilmour and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason They released a single, “Hey Hey Rise Up”, under the band’s name, as a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a song which Waters called “devoid of content and flag”.

Gilmour’s wife and lyricist, Polly Samsondid not spare criticism and comments on Water, writing on Twitter that the bassist is a “Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-dodging, lip-synching, misogynistic, envious megalomaniac.”

“Every word is demonstrably true,” Gilmour said following his wife’s tweet. For his part, Waters, when asked about the tweet in an interview this year, said he had no comment, considering it a private matter.

In the Mojo interview Gilmour was also asked what he thought of the remake Waters’ 2023 take on Pink Floyd’s classic ““The Dark Side of the Moon”. He said he didn’t listen to it and that questions about his relationship with Waters are ‘weary’. “Do you know what decade of my life I was in when Roger left our pop group?” she asked. “My 30s. I’m 78 now. Where’s the relevance?”

Moreover, regarding the original version of “The Dark Side Of The Moon”, Gilmour had expressed himself by declaring, in an interview with Il Venerdì di La Repubblica “I always think that I would find it magnificent if only I listened to it again, which however I never do.”

Gilmour recently released his fifth solo album, “Luck and Strange” (read the review here) and has a tour planned that will kick off with a series of dates at the Circo Massimo in Rome on September 27, 28 and 29 and October 1, 2 and 3, 2024.

He had previously stated that he would not perform any songs from Pink Floyd’s 1970s albums at upcoming shows. But Gilmour made his stance clear to Mojo. “There are songs from the past that I don’t feel comfortable singing anymore,” he told the publication, noting that he loves the music of “Run Like Hell” of “The Wall,” “but,” he said, “all that ‘You better run, run, run’ now I find … a little terrifying and violent.”Another Brick in the Wall” is another song I won’t do. I don’t think I did it with my band, but I certainly did it with the post-Roger Pink Floyd, against my better judgment. Same goes for “Money“. I won’t do that – and he concluded by saying – I will remain faithful to what is essentially my music and what I feel I own: ‘Comfortably Numb’‘Wish You Were Here‘, ‘Shine on You Crazy Diamond‘, Perhaps”.