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Roger Waters<\/a> has never been known as the most diplomatic artist that has ever lived whenever you get a microphone in his face. <\/p>\n I mean, who are we kidding here? This is the same guy who spat at one of his fans when he felt that they were getting too close to the stage and would routinely tell people wanting to hear \u2018Money\u2019 to piss off whenever they came to a Pink Floyd show. Naturally, he had a little bit of an aversion to the more nonsensical aspects of rock and roll, but that didn\u2019t mean that he couldn\u2019t lean into that style every now and again when making some of his masterpieces.<\/p>\n After all, what is The Wall if not a beautiful condemnation of stadium rock? It\u2019s still one of the most entertaining shows that anyone has ever put on, but the core part of the story is about how Waters wanted to vent a lot of his frustrations about being so far removed from the audience whenever he was performing. That probably explained why he had to revamp his entire setup when performing solo, but even when he was filling venues everywhere, it\u2019s not like he was comfortable leading thousands of people in a singalong.<\/p>\n All of his musical statements needed to mean something, and if you look at the heroes that he followed in, a lot of them felt the same way. The likes of Led Zeppelin had helped bring out the harder side of rock and roll, but given Waters\u2019s disdain for heavy metal and especially people like Ozzy Osbourne, it\u2019s not like he was going to write any of the traditional sex, drugs and rock and roll songs that would make Spinal Tap proud.<\/p>\n He had grown up in a different world, and while Syd Barrett helped steer the Floyd ship at the very beginning, Waters was also looking at what was coming out of the singer-songwriter scene at the time. Floyd\u2019s music was a lot more cerebral than what most of the James Taylors of the world had to say, but when you look at Waters\u2019s lyrics, they do apply to the same thing. Both genres are about looking at the humanity behind people, and that was what he got out of people like Neil Young.<\/p>\n And aside from the main singer-songwriters of the world, Waters felt that there was no other genre that really needed the time of day as far as he was concerned, saying<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019m not very up on rock history. I\u2019m not interested in most popular music. There are certain people that I am big fans of, the singer-songwriters. People like Dylan and Neil Young. It\u2019s that end of the spectrum that I\u2019m more interested in. I\u2019m not so much interested in loud rock and roll, which some people are and they love it, but I\u2019m not particularly interested.\u201d<\/p>\n