The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking: Roger Waters Interview Tonarskvall 3 Radio, Stockholm, Sweden. Sept. 10, 1967

2012/03/15

Roger Waters Interview Tonarskvall 3 Radio, Stockholm, Sweden. Sept. 10, 1967

RW: Um, there's me, I play bass, my names Roger Waters, Syd Barrett, who plays lead guitar, Rick Wright who plays organ, and Nick Mason plays the drums.

Interviewer: And you four together make The Pink Floyd. Why that certain name?

RW: Uh... No reason. You know, it's just, uh, sounds like a nice name to us. It's really just a registration mark. It's better then called ourselves CCE338, or something like that.

Interviewer: Uh, when was the group formed?

RW: Um, a couple of years ago, I guess. Just playing back rooms, you know, around when we were all students.

Interviewer: All the music you're performing with now, is original material, or is there somebody else writing it?

RW: No, it's all stuff we've written ourselves. Well, most of it's written by Syd.

Interviewer: Yes. Could you please try, at least in words, to express the kind of music that you're performing?

RW: No.

Interviewer: You say it's impossible, or...

RW: Yeah. Uh, it's almost impossible to express it in music, let alone words.

Interviewer: Uh, OK, to which kind of music is it connected?

RW: Um, I don't know. I really don't know.

Interviewer: Ok, your first, your first record (laughs). Arnold Layne. When was that released?

RW: In England, um, three weeks ago.

Interviewer: And that's all orignal stuff on it too, no?

RW: Yeah. Yeah.

Interviewer: Your latest single is See Emily Play. Who is Emily?

RW: Um... Uh, you know, if you can find out who she is, write us and tell us, 'cause we don't know. She could be anyone. You know, she's just a hung-up chick, that's all.

Interviewer: Uh, is there any new single release planned for the near future?

RW: Well, there's one planned, but we havn't written the song yet.

Interviewer: Are there any future plans planned for you in the near future? Are you going to the States or something like that, or are you staying in England?

RW: Well, obviously we'd like to get to the States, 'cause, uh, there's a lot of bread over there, but whether anyone will ask us to go is another question. You know, it really depends on the record breaking in the States. If the record breaks, you know... that's cool. If it doesn't, we don't stand a chance.

From www.pink-floyd.org

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George Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitars in recordings and in concerts. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their future use of the group's name and material. The dispute was settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. It is estimated that as of 2010, the group have sold over 200 million albums worldwide, including 74.5 million units sold in the United States.

Waters' solo career includes three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987) and Amused to Death (1992). In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the animated movie When the Wind Blows based on the Raymond Briggs' book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most elaborate rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance. In 1996, he was inducted into the US and the UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tours of 2006–2008. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto based on the early French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour for the Live 8 global awareness event; it was the group's first appearance with Waters in 24 years.

In 2010, he began The Wall Live, a worldwide tour that features a complete performance of The Wall. During this tour, at The O2 Arena in London on 12 May 2011, Gilmour and Mason once again appeared with Waters, Gilmour performing "Comfortably Numb", and Gilmour and Mason joining Waters for "Outside the Wall".

He has been married four times and has three children. In 2004 he became engaged to actress and filmmaker Laurie Durning; the duo married in 2012.

2012/03/15

Roger Waters Interview Tonarskvall 3 Radio, Stockholm, Sweden. Sept. 10, 1967

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