Roger Waters on the Howard Stern Show.
Inside the mind of one of the most influential composers of the last 50 years.In the year 2010 radio show host Howard Stern had Roger Waters the creative mind behind Pink floyd on his program in the frame of the promotion for Water´s tour of The Wall. Here are some of the questions that the interviewer asked Roger Waters.
One of the first questions asked was, when he started to play music.
Waters responded that he had an aunt that gave him his first guitar for his fourteen's birthday. He said that it was very hard because it was a metal string guitar so it made his fingers bleed due to the harshness of the strings.
I believe that this fact might have helped him, he became a bass player after all so harder strings could have given him more strenght in his fingers wich is very necesary for playing the bass.
Another interesting question was about the composition credits for The Wall, if that record generated completely from his head or if he colaborated with his bandmates.
The answer from Waters was that all the ideas just came, he thinks about 96 percent from his head and they´re officialy his.
I think this is unfair because there were great musicians by his side, the keyboard player Richard Wright was a classically trained musician wich helped a great deal with the arranging and composing of the songs, the intelectual idea of the album was indeed Water's creation but without the talent and inspiration from the rest of the band the album wouldnt have been as good as it is and it would have sound diferent in my opinion.
Following on this question Howard Stern asked Waters if he believed that most of Pink Floyd stuff were his and if he wished that he has done it solo instead of with the rest of the band.
He said, absolutely not, that they were a very good team when they were younger and that in the beggining Sid Barret was writing everything but then he had to quit the band because of health issues, then David (Gilmour) joined in the band and from 68 to the release of Dark Side of the Moon they were a tightly knit group.
My opinion on this is that before fame became undeniable the band had it's best years, after the release of The Dark Side of the Moon the band achieved their goal, they had conquered financial traquility and worldwide fame so the urge of being an important band was gone and they could never find another goal as clear an important as that one.
Roger Waters is without a doubt one of the most important song writters of his time and his involvement in political causes had made him an even more relevant figure. He's an artist with strong believes and a very inteligent person. To my opinion his contribution to music has made the world a better place and the influence of his creation are imposible to deny by any musician.
