Waters meets Mason

In an interview for the german newspaper 'Sueddeutsche Zeitung' http://www.sueddeutsche.de/aktuell/sz/ artikel122133.php Roger told he was out for dinner with Nick. He saw him accidental in the Karibik for weeks ago and go to see if this is really the old Nick. 'Suddenly i thought: What´s all the shit! There we stand now. We make an appointment for London and yesterday we meet us. It was really fine, very long, really fine!'

Greetings from Berlin Andreas

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Greetings from Berlin Andreas

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Nice link, Andreas. Fancy doing a bit of a translation? I would, but I don't have the time right now.

There are a few words in this that aren't in my dictionaries. So far (and this is really funny too) it's the poor guy being warned not to mention the names Gilmour wright and Mason and feeling like John Cleese in the Fawlty Towers episode with the German tourists - 'don't mention the war'. There doesn't seem to be much about the meeting between Waters and Mason. Here's what I have so far...

Roger Waters, former leader of Pink Floyd, is on a solo tour. A conversation in London with an unexpected ending.

One of the better pieces by Pink Floyd, by the way, is called 'One of These Days'. First the wind whistles, Roger Waters steel scaffold, then the whole band and David Gilmour skates around on the steel guitar. Shortly before it goes to a dreadful affair, a voice says the beautiful sentence: 'One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.'

The stupid mobile phone rang? for a couple days in the office. On the machine, a man from London.

The man: You have written an email for a long time. At that time you batted(?) around a one on one conversation with Roger Waters. ' - Yes but that is truly very long ago. That was in New York, like Mr. Waters in Madison Square Gardens, this concert.

Don't mention the war!

Now, as you know, Roger doesn't like to give interviews. Strict quite not. Will you still conduct the interview? ' - Strange, Mister, first I have David Gilmour's concert in London in a few weeks.'

Yes, evidently. ?

(HOW THE HELL DOES ANYONE DO THIS WHILE PEOPLE ARE TALKING??!!)

Tomorrow at 12 in Berkeley, Knightsbridge. Please few questions to Pink Floyd.(?) Roger looks forward to it. '- What do you mean looks forward to it?'

In the Berkeley hotel lobby the hotel person serves tea, it smells fragrant(?) A woman appears, the colleague of the manager from the telephone call. Roger Waters should certainly be complicated. The woman: 'Don't panic. Ask good questions and he will give good answers. Don't mention the names David Gilmour, Rick Wright, and Nick Mason. Strike the words Pink and Floyd from your vocabulary. Keep that in mind(?) lest he terminate the interview. In the elevator one thinks about John Cleese in Fawlty Towers. ' - Just when the German guests arrive and he says to himself(?) Don't mention the war! Grins, but not laughing now.

'At the apparatus: a gentleman from London.'

LOL! This is a classic line.

When I looked that word up the first word in the dictionary was apparatus and I almost thought about doing a goof version of it but the translator can do it better. There's something about the machine making the choices...

I TRY TO TRANSLATE

.....People are like here eyes. In that light it was bound to go wrong with David Gilmour and Roger Waters after the momentous nightmare 'The Wall'. Since 1980 they only had quarrel. 1985 Roger Waters and the Band went her different ways. The presumably most hate fulfilled and - measured by the lawyer's charges - most expensive separation of the younger entertainment history. A war of alpha-animals which themselves saw being forced to a cooperation by the record company which did not want it anymore. The former (?) P.F. - guitar player and singer D.G. has warm and a little arrogant eyes. He looks during the interview in to the distance. The former P.F. - bass player, major writer and singer R.W. has exhausted and worried eyes, which fixed the partner permanently during the interview. W. talks thrice as much G., and you can say: In contrast to G. he works like a horse. He's going on tour for 2 years with extraordinary charges and he makes first class concerts, which also be to be afraid of. Because in the front is someone - how solemnise in this year his 58. birthday - how not end very metaphoric open up old and new wounds. Because he is very sarcastic but uncommon ironic, and because if he quoted he quoted from his own work, he was thrashed from journalists from the beginning of the ironic-addicted 80. But as he started for 2 years to tour USA, with his show, in which the old heartbeat sounds, the thunder of the fighting jets and the babble of the TV-people swish through the halls and intermixed with the elegys on the stage still to something breathtaking. So all concerts are sold out. And in the end of the tour W. stood surprised in the raving Madison Square Garden.

He is not a prophet!

London, The Berkeley. He is sitting there in good jeans, a good shirt and very good leather shoes. He looks no longer so cubist like on the old photos; the big nose, the big eyes, the big mouth, The whole beanpole became blurred in a friendly manner with the years in itself.. But he has still the fragile psycho-voice, thereto a actable accuracy in his pronunciation, so that the consonants pops to the hotel suite. For example when he say prophet and that she is no one, even if other take this for granted. When he scolds about the rubbish, that welled out of TV, and how hard it is for him to switch off all the rubbish, and how hard it is for him to bear at least all the rubbish with easiness. It's hard for him, he has backache. He says: 'Excuse me' and than to bawl out the manager on the phone: 'I don't need a doctor who is joking me around! What I need is heat!' Gorgeous. It would be placed on the 'Wall' between 'Run Like Hell' and 'Waiting For The Worms'.

30 years ago today that P.F. presented 'Dark Side Of The Moon' in London Rainbow Theatre. The people were all excited. The in musical cinemascope of the record visualized solitude abode Waters theme ever. In comparison to February 1972 today not his fans are all excited. This are perfectly normal people. But rather is the rest of the world all excited.

Therefore sounds Waters stories about religious and capitalistic fundamentalism, about animal hunger of old and new economy, about the escape of people in pictures and candy colored media in the meantime so morally. He says: 'It´s perfect fantastic and excellent, that the world markets over years sells paper, paper that stands for nothing, of no account, nothin' else, jussst rubbisssh!' And that the people has known, and that is irrelevant what people knows but rather what they imagine. And that he for this 30 years ago bang with nails into the wall, says, that Nietzsche has justified. 'You must this enormous balloons filled with shit simply let grow. If they are bursted outcome something news. But i don't care to claim something news. I like only to sit on when the balloons full of shit explodes.'

He leand on meantime rather Naomi Klein than his early goes crackers friend Syd Barrett.

He says that he wants to viewed as a form of painter. He paints big pictures, well that is his style, 'oil on canvas, if you want'. Therefore still whole expenses, the lot of light, the whole theatre of sounds, cinema for the ears. He paints pictures like Francis Bacon, who give the saints on earth grimaces. But Waters still provide side by side flower miniatures, low songs. For someone sentimental. Or tangent. Result: You find it in your upper store sometimes sentimental and in the area of your chest tangent.

Where he is arrived on his voyage? 'At me. And apart the stage: At the simply things. It´s maybe sounds hypocritically: But i see in my life more lucky people if i kept away from celebrities.'

He means very, very business!

He lives with his family in a cottage near the river in Hampshire. He works since 10 years on a opera about the french revolution for Sony Classics. He works since 8 Years on a new rock album. 'It won´t ended anyhow. I can't end, here a little bit, there a little bit, you must give the album time to find out where it want to go.' That means no harm: So not speaking young musician today, so speaking hippies who means very, very business. Whether meanwhile it can declare itself, that one as he - with this will and these ideas of the world and the things - has occurred his nearer environment impolite and uncompromising. 'Impolitely no, uncompressing yes. The 'Wall' is my history. Differently that did not work. Only so it could be told. Who do you mean after all with nearer environment? You can not mean my band with which I am now since three years on tour. Ask that one once whether I am an impolite human being!' Then it looks at last also once into the distance. So as Gilmour. Then again into the eyes. And then he smiles.

He paid unbuzzing (futile) in order to prevent that the guitarist David Gilmour, the keyborder Rick Wright, and the percussionist Nick Mason under the holy name give Pink Floyd of another two world tours and mainly play his songs in this case - End of the eighties, in the middle of the nineties. He has not talked with any of the three of them since 1985 in factt. It is told by the shy Rick Wright it is since the separation in a psychoanalysis. After a Waters concert before a few years in the USA Wright summoned up all courage and went backstage. They gave the hand, Wright said a few nice things, Waters has answered hardly. After two minutes Wright was again outside. Incomprehensible. But don't mention the war!

It is a few seconds quiet in the room. Keep waiting. Still a few seconds. Then Roger Waters says suddenly: ' I met Nick Mason yesterday evening for the dinner.' Ooops!

The socks ! The socks !!

That was like this: They saw themselves before some weeks in the Caribbean. Random. He went nearer because he wanted to know whether in fact that is the old Nick. They founded a band 35 years ago, but they have not seen themselves anymore since 17 years. 'I thought suddenly: Something should the whole shit?' And then? 'There we stood now. We arranged to see for London. Yesterday we met.' And? 'It was nice, very long, really fine!' The old times? 'Sure, yes.' What one does again together? Softly he says something, that one at the best with 'Och noe' translate. And again he smiles.

Not Pink and not said Floyd. He began with that. One has a look at the man still once. And one sees suddenly, that it carries not only a good, but inconspicuous jeans, a good, but inconspicuous shirt and very good, but inconspicuous shoes. But also: pink socks.

Jesusmaria! There it goes out for the first time since 17 years with his old pal. Then he goes into the bed. And at the next morning he chooses the Pink color for his socks. Touched by your presence, Mr.Waters!

In front of the room the manager. Something looks in a fidgety way into a grinning journalist face. Ask: 'Hat he told it to you?' Yes, Sir!

The manager sighs. Outside pours it as from buckets. No wind, no cloud race. Only rain. There are great appearances in London sometimes at the sky. However, often also at the ground.