As for his songs, they're not saying eduction or money are bad per se.
Its interesting when you criticize Pink Floyd and especially Roger Waters someone defends him and sounds offended which causes debate.
Although his followers will have none of it. I wasnt going to say much about this, it was just meant to be a passing comment, my opinion so to speak, but as usual in the world of Zipp you have to prove your point in a direct confrontational way
As you did a few times in my Song Of The week series.
Firstly, I must admit I was wrong about the PF guys going to Oxbridge, I read that somewhere and took it as fact. Probably because of their very posh accents I believed it, and I remember Eric Clapton stating after he did the Pro's and Con's tour with Roger that he felt uncomfortable, as the rest of the band were dining out at posh restaurants, where he felt slightly embarrassed and uncomfortable and out of place, not knowing what to order, sounding like aheathen etc. so he ended up visiting a McDonalds with some of the crew instead.
It seems Roger the outspoken socialist found himself at odds with even himself over money, so a capitalist singing in sarcastic tones about monied people. (Pigs, Money)
"Money interested me enormously," Waters remarked on the twentieth anniversary of Dark Side. "I remember thinking, 'Well, this is it and I have to decide whether I'm really a socialist or not.' I'm still keen on a general welfare society, but I became a capitalist. You have to accept it. I remember coveting a Bentley like crazy. The only way to get something like that was through rock or the football pools. I very much wanted all that material stuff."
The Floyd guys were even not even above not paying the schoolkids who sang on their hit record:
This from 2012.
Now the 23 ex-pupils are suing for overdue session musician royalties, taking advantage of the Copyright Act 1997 to claim a percentage of the money from broadcasts.
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/pink-floyd-pupils-sue-for-royalties-7257969.htmlI never heard the outcome, probably/maybe out of court settlement.
Roger's opening song on PF's final album The Post War Dream, sounds very much like John Prine's 1971 song Sam Stone. Not only did Roger's song have the same melody, but the chord structure as well, and the key Fmajor.
https://youtu.be/Sl9ZkYViEIsNowadays he's a very rich left wing socialist again, who hates the Israeli government.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-waters-blames-israel-george-floyd-death/He lambasts other artists for playing shows in Tel Aviv, like Madonna and others yet conveniently not mentioning his shows in Russia.
How did he make the decision to play there given Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine?
