Roger Waters is making clear that he has no involvement in the new Pink Floyd record, which arrives nearly three decades after his departure. “Phew! This is not rocket science, people,” he says in a new Facebook post. “Get a grip.”
Fellow co-founding member Nick Mason and longtime guitarist David Gilmour have completed never-before-released archival recordings featuring the late Richard Wright for a forthcoming album titled The Endless River. The project marks the third studio effort released since Waters’ mid-1980s exit.
Yet, he says, questions remain. “Some people have been asking Laurie, my wife, about a new album I have coming out in November,” Waters says. “Errhh? I don’t have an album coming out; they are probably confused. David Gilmour and Nick Mason have an album coming out. It’s called Endless River. David and Nick constitute the group Pink Floyd. I, on the other hand, am not part of Pink Floyd. I left Pink Floyd in 1985; that’s 29 years ago. I had nothing to do with either of the Pink Floyd studio albums, Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell, nor the Pink Floyd tours of 1987 and 1994, and I have nothing to do with Endless River.”
Waters has released released a pair of solo albums of his own since the split, including 1987’s Radio K.A.O.S and 1992’s Amused to Death. He has also mounted globe-trotting concert treks focused on his two best-known projects as a member of Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall. More recently, Waters has also discussed the prospect of new album.
Mason, Waters and Wright were joined by the late Syd Barrett for Pink Floyd’s debut album, 1967’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Gilmour joined a year later. The Endless River grew out of left-over material from the early-1990s sessions for The Division Bell. Wright died of cancer in 2008.
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