God loves you.’ I’m an atheist, but it was still a very moving moment to have my childhood hero do that.” “He touched my cast and said, ‘I’m so sorry. “I had broken my arm, and it was in a cast,” Waters says. tour, and even share a tender moment backstage with Little Richard at Wembley Arena. “It just sounds weird to me with that reverb on the snare drums.”īeing the son of a rock legend, he had the chance to sing “Barbara Ann” onstage with the Beach Boys when he was nine, see Bruce Springsteen play Wembley Stadium on the Born in the U.S.A. “I just didn’t like the way music sounded in the Eighties,” Waters says. He grew up in southwest London just as the New Romantic scene was taking off, but was far more interested in musical acts from an earlier generation, including the Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, the Allman Brothers Band, and Dr. And shortly before our interview, he agreed to play three shows with Brit Floyd, the world’s premier Pink Floyd cover band, alongside ex-Floyd background singer Durga McBroom and former Floyd saxophonist Scott Page. He recently wrapped up a 57-date tour with Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade where he played Pink Floyd‘s Animals in its entirety every night with Claypool and Sean Lennon. It would be quite understandable if Harry Waters never wanted to perform his father’s music again after this hurt, but that wasn’t his attitude. But the other guys that got the sack weren’t his son, so it was doubly hurtful for me.” “I’m not sure of his exact reasoning, but everyone except two people got fired. “I think he just wanted a change of blood, something new, something fresh,” Waters says. Harry claims he doesn’t know why his own father let him go. “I was fired,” Harry tells Rolling Stone. Harry had spent the past 14 years playing keyboard and organ in his dad’s band, which included three extensive world tours, but Roger was making changes for his upcoming Us + Them tour. Shortly before Christmas 2016, Roger Waters visited his firstborn son, Harry, at his Santa Monica, California, home to deliver some rather bad news.
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