Roger Waters released another video on his social media this week to answer fan questions. A few fans asked him why his recent video performance of Pink Floyd’s classic song ”Mother” wasn’t posted on the official Pink Floyd website. He used the questions as another chance to shade his former band mate David Gilmour.

He said Gilmour has banned him from the website, and all of Pink Floyd’s social media, even though they all share rights to the songs from up to when he left the band in 1985. He claimed Gilmour wouldn’t even allow his ”Us and Them” tour dates and concert film to be promoted on their site and social media. The tour featured several of the band’s classic songs.

Waters also stunningly dragged Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, into the situation. He said the official site is now used to promote her and her poetry. In his usual calm and condescending tone, he said her poetry puts people to sleep.

Members of Pink Floyd have had animosity with each other for decades. Richard Wright left the band in 1979 because he and Waters weren’t getting along. Waters left in 1985 and then got in a big legal fight over the rights to the band’s name. He sued to try to get the other members to stop using it. They came to a decision where he would let them still use the name in exchange for them giving him rights to all of their past albums he was on and the intellectual property to “The Wall” concept.

The band continued as Pink Floyd in 1986 with David Gilmour, Nick Mason and the returning Richard Wright. Polly Samson joined them as a co-writer on ”The Division Bell” album in 1994. She also co-wrote Gilmour’s solo albums “On An Island” and “Rattle That Lock”.

Waters moved forward doing solo albums and tours with Paul Carrack (Mike & The Mechanics co-lead singer), Katie Kissoon (Van Morrison’s and Eric Clapton’s backing vocalist) and Mel Collins (King Crimson’s saxophonist) backing him as ”The Bleeding Heart Band” in 1987. Since 2006, he’s toured “Dark Side Of The Moon” and “The Wall” as political statements against U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump and other world leaders.

In past years, Gilmour has criticized Waters over his lyrics and sound. He said Waters’ ideas were ”too wordy” and produced like monologues instead of songs. He also didn’t like how Waters treated the late Richard Wright because Wright was like a brother and uncle to the Gilmour family.

Shannon Walsh @WrestlingDemons

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