Roger Watersa 79-year-old British musician and composer, is known worldwide for having been one of the founders of Pink Floyd, one of the most important psychedelic rock groups in the history of music. But it is also because of his controversial statements and positions in certain situations. Not to vary, the composer also revealed what bands are the ones he hates the most.
A couple of days ago, he commented that, although he does not usually listen to modern music or music made by contemporary music groups, he believes that what these new bands make is, for the most part, narcissistic music and totally oriented towards mass consumption, a statement that It is not strange to him, but it did not go unnoticed by colleagues and the public, who divided opinions on social networks.
But back to the topic of bands he hates the most Roger Waterswhich are?
The bands that Roger Waters hates the most
The Sex Pistols
Formed in the city of London in 1975, this punk band was one of the initiators of this musical movement in the capital of the United Kingdom, as well as an inspiration and influence for other later groups. However, for Roger Waters it is an artificial group that was led by a man who had a ridiculous clothing store.
u2
The band led by Bono is also one of the most hated by Waters, a sentiment that derives from the public dispute with the Irish, after the leader of U2 scorned his project “The Wall”, which the former member of Pink Floyd It didn’t do him any good.
The Weeknd and Drake
Despite stating in an interview for Vanity Fair that he has no idea who they are, Roger Waters He didn’t just say that the Canadian singer-songwriter, like rapper Drake, isn’t nearly as important in music as he is, even with the billions of streaming views they may have.
Pink Floyd
And although in some way it seems strange, for Roger Waters Pink Floyd is now one of his most hated bands, with everything and that in the last century it was an iconic and indispensable group for hundreds of musicians and musical projects that have them as a reference. However, this hatred is not so rare, taking as a background the rivalry that he maintains to this day with David Gilmor, a 77-year-old British multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter whom he cannot even see before a supposed exclusion from the website official of the group, among other differences.
In addition to these bands, Roger Waters He has also made public his rejection of AC/DC, as well as Van Halen, this after having said that he did not like noisy rock like the one that both musical projects do.