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Roger Waters<\/a> never wanted to forget the importance of writing music. <\/p>\n He knew that being able to come up with that next great lyric is like riding a bike, and he needed to keep exercising that muscle if he was going to have any shot of becoming one of the greatest songwriters in the world. But whereas he was the creative force behind the conceptual pieces of Pink Floyd, he knew that there was some dead weight in the band that he needed to cut himself from if he wanted to make the best tunes that he could.<\/p>\n At the same time, it\u2019s not like Waters always had the best judgment when it comes to his own songs. His idea of remaking The Dark Side of the Moon is still one of the most misguided choices that he ever made, and even on some of his true solo works, he could put his hand up and admit when he was wrong when making a record like Radio Kaos. But the sense of compromise that he had to accept for the rest of the band had become far too great for him to handle after a while.<\/p>\n The Final Cut had already sounded like the band was exhausted<\/a>, so Waters figured that he needed to cut himself loose where he could. The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking was already an idea that he had in his back pocket for a while when thinking about the next phase of his career, and while the crowds didn\u2019t turn up as much when he went out on his own, he would have much rather have kept expressing himself than watch David Gilmour make a mockery of what his band used to be.<\/p>\n A Momentary Lapse of Reason was nothing but garbage<\/a> as far as Waters was concerned, and he had more than a problem with them performing a lot of the songs that he wrote with them every single time they got onstage. But even after being kicked out of the band during The Wall recording sessions, Waters seemed to have a lot more disdain for what Richard Wright was doing behind the scenes.<\/p>\n Wright had been the one colouring the sound every single time that they played, but Waters felt that the pianist couldn\u2019t write to save his ass, saying<\/a>, \u201cRick has been burnt out since 1979, when Gilmour, [Bob] Ezrin and myself unanimously decided to fire him. Ezrin was the person to first call Rick during Rick\u2019s odd little vacation that fall to Greece, just as The Wall was being completed. He wasn\u2019t performing in any way for us; he certainly wasn\u2019t doing the job he was paid to do. On The Wall\u2026Rick didn\u2019t play many keyboards.\u201d<\/p>\n If we\u2019re talking about serving the song, though, Waters didn\u2019t ever seem to grasp what Wright was capable of as a musician. The entire point of his inclusion in the band was about adding different textures to their sound, and while he may not have been the one crafting all of the band\u2019s lyrics or coming up with some outlandish ideas, it\u2019s not like he couldn\u2019t find ways to add his signature touch in other ways.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n The entire reason why Wish You Were Here works is because of his chords guiding the track along, and even when he was welcomed back into the band on The Division Bell, his vocals on \u2018Wearing the Inside Out\u2019 were some of the best on the album. And given that Waters had worked with people like Jeff Beck to get the best out of his own songs<\/a>, it\u2019s hard to believe that he didn\u2019t understand what a bandmate could do to add texture to his music. <\/p>\n Wright may not have been the right person for the job on absolutely everything that Floyd ever did, but when you look at the fact that Waters constructed many of his solo tunes, you can definitely feel something missing without Wright\u2019s voice and keyboard sounds. He didn\u2019t need to get along with him all the time, but despite everyone working on the remake of The Dark Side of the Moon did what they were told, the lack of Wright is the reason why any remake of the album will always have a slightly faded rainbow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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