Roger Waters has revealed additional particulars behind his decision to re-record Pink Floyd’s traditional 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. In a publish to Facebook, Waters defined that the preliminary concept got here to him whereas engaged on the Lockdown Sessions, a group of minimalist variations of Pink Floyd and solo materials that he recorded in the course of the pandemic.
“Once we recorded the stripped-down songs for the Lockdown Classes, the fiftieth anniversary of the discharge of Darkish Aspect of The Moon was looming on the horizon,” Waters defined. “It occurred to me that Darkish Aspect of the Moon might nicely be an acceptable candidate for the same transforming, partly as a tribute to the unique work, but in addition to readdress the political and emotional message of the entire album.”
Waters mentioned the concept with a few of his collaborators. “Once we’d stopped laughing and shouting ‘You have to be fucking mad’ at each other, we determined to take it on,” he defined.
A launch date for the up to date model of The Darkish Aspect of the Moon has not but been introduced, although Waters famous he was “within the technique of ending the ultimate combine.” The singer’s Fb publish was accompanied by a video, that includes a snippet of the brand new rendition of “Us and Them,” which you’ll be able to watch within the beneath publish.
“It is turned out actually nice and I am excited for everybody to listen to it,” Waters boasted. “It is not a substitute for the unique, which, clearly, is irreplaceable. However it’s a approach for the 79-year-old man to look again throughout the intervening 50 years into the eyes of the 29 12 months and say, to cite a poem of mine about my father, ‘We did our greatest, we stored his belief, our dad would have been happy with us.’ And in addition it’s a approach for me to honor a recording that Nick [Mason] and Rick [Wright] and Dave [Gilmour] and I’ve each proper to be very happy with.”
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Three completely different eras, one nice band.
