Roger Waters, A Journalist Who Said He Didn't Like Solo Guitar, David Gilmour, In The Dark Side Of The Moon

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JAKARTA - Roger Waters criticized an article that insinuated he did not like the music of his former group mate at Pink Floyd, David Gilmour.

In Stuart Maconie's latest article on The New Statesman entitled 'The war within Pink Floyd', the author refers to Waters' current project to re-record Pink Floyd's iconic album, The Dark Side Of The Moon (DOSOTM).

The article discusses the process, saying: "Some of this will involve him removing, as quoted in Spanish newspaper El Pais, Gilmour's 'terrible guitar solo'."

In a Facebook post, Waters took exceptions to the quote, calling the story "unaccepted nonsense, mixing, poor information" and criticizing what he called "unaccepted degrading authorities" of the work.

"There's a bad article on The New Statesman, written, if you can call it writing, by a man named Stuart Maconie. It's normal nonsense, mixing, bad information," Waters started writing.

"However, there is, in that article, something I need to clarify. When talking about a new recording I made from 'DSOTM', he wrote, with unacceptable authorities, about the process of making this new record, and I quote, 'Some of this will involve him deleting, as quoted in Spain's El Pais newspaper, Gilmour's 'terrible guitar solo'.

"Now, I don't know who he thought he quoted when he said 'terrible guitar solo' from Gilmour, but it's definitely not me. I was there, I liked Dave's guitar solo in 'DSOTM', both, and in 'WYWH' and in 'ANIMALS' and in 'THE WALL' and in 'THE FINAL CUT'.

In my view, despite being biased, Dave's solos in those albums, are a collection of some of the best guitar solos in Rock and Roll history. So, Stuart Maconie, the afterwards guy, next time, please check your copies with your dirty little article subject, before you print it.