Band members don’t always get along like peas and carrots.
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have been bickering for decades, but they always make up in time tour with The Who’s music. The friction between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards is the stuff of rock legends, but they also make amends when it’s time to hit the stage.
The bad blood between Pink Floyd’s Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters runs much deeper.
Gilmour and Waters went their separate ways in 1985, with Waters launching a legal fight to shutter Pink Floyd for good. That effort failed, legally, but that hardly stopped the ex-bandmates from attacking each other through the years.
Their 2008 one-night reunion for the Live 8 concert seems a distant memory today, as are brief, unsuccessful attempts to mend fences.
The chances for reconciliation may be officially zero after this week’s Twitter tirade. Maybe less than zero.
Polly Samson, a British novelist and Gilmour’s wife, shared an incendiary Tweet targeting Waters.
“Sadly, @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.” rated the Tweet
That’s when Waters’ old bandmate weighed in. Hard.
“Every word demonstrably true,” Gilmour Tweeted, backing his wife and savaging his old mate.
Every word demonstrably true https://t.co/KWk4I3bMTN
— David Gilmour (@davidgilmour) February 6, 2023
The anti-Semitism charge has dogged Waters for years. The rocker’s constant attacks on Israel burnished that brand, with many suggesting his critiques move far beyond political disagreements.
It’s personal, his critics routinely cry, a charge he vehemently denies.
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It hasn’t stopped Waters from touring well into his 70s, and he hasn’t softened his voice about geopolitical matters.
He’s still ready and willing to fight back against his detractors. He shared a cryptic Tweet in response to the Samson/Gilmour volley hours ago.
— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) February 6, 2023
The fighting is far from over, most likely. So are any chances the aging rockers could reunite one more time, either for the fans’ sake or an attempt at a late-in-life reconciliation.
In fact, the next fight might just happen in a court of law given the band’s fractured legacy.
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