04-08-2007, 08:27 PM
FEB-22-2007...
But time has been good to him and his contrition -- displayed notably at the time of Barrett's death last year -- has given Waters a chance to redress the ogre-like image he'd acquired.
"I don't think any of us came out of the years from 1985 with any credit, really," he says. "It was a bad negative time, really. And I regret my part in that negativity.
"I was actually more attached to the philosophy and politics of Pink Floyd than the others were -- certainly more so than David was. In a way whatever I did I did in a way to protect the integrity of what I saw as being important about the work that the four of us did together.
"I realise now that move was doomed to failure ... and why should I have imposed my feelings about the work and what it was worth on the others if they didn't feel the same? I was wrong in attempting to do that."
Edited By chromeboomerang on 1176092871
But time has been good to him and his contrition -- displayed notably at the time of Barrett's death last year -- has given Waters a chance to redress the ogre-like image he'd acquired.
"I don't think any of us came out of the years from 1985 with any credit, really," he says. "It was a bad negative time, really. And I regret my part in that negativity.
"I was actually more attached to the philosophy and politics of Pink Floyd than the others were -- certainly more so than David was. In a way whatever I did I did in a way to protect the integrity of what I saw as being important about the work that the four of us did together.
"I realise now that move was doomed to failure ... and why should I have imposed my feelings about the work and what it was worth on the others if they didn't feel the same? I was wrong in attempting to do that."
Edited By chromeboomerang on 1176092871