Waters Roger is known as one of the leaders and founders of Pink Floyd. For a very long period of time, it was this musician who authored most of the texts and music, and also put forward the most significant ideas for promoting the team.
Childhood and youth
Roger Waters was born in England in September 1943. He spent all his childhood years in Cambridge with his brother and mother. There was no father, he died when the boy was 5 months old, on one of the fronts of World War II. Since Roger could not accumulate many memories of dad, he had to endure the bitterness of loss through all his creative work.
The youth of the musician bore the banner of political struggle, because his mother was a fierce communist, and the guy himself considered nuclear disarmament to be the right way of the state.
At school, Roger was fortunate enough to meet David Gilmore and Sid Barrett. After the guy went to study at the Polytechnic Institute, the guys also pulled themselves up to London. And all together they began to actively engage in music.
"Pink Floyd"
In 1965, the group was founded, the name of which still sounds loud. The group "Pink Floyd" originally included 4 people: Waters Roger, Sid Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright.
Three years later, the musical group left Sid Barrett because of mental problems, so David Gilmore was invited in his place. By the end of the seventies, relations between the new guitarist and Waters had deteriorated significantly. At the same time, the founder of the team at that time began to influence the group more and more, which affected the creation of the album “The Wall”.
Relations between Gilmour and Waters have deteriorated so much that even their joint album, The Final Cut, which saw the world in 1983, was indicated as Roger's album, played by the Pink Floyd band.
Two years later, the team broke up. Roger Waters, whose discography consists not only of the band’s music, but also of solo albums, tried to defend the rights to use the name “Pink Floyd” in court. As an argument, he used the fact that initially the team, apart from him, included Richard Wright, Nick Mason and Sid Barrett, and Gilmore was not even close. Waters Roger claimed that after the departure of one of the founders of the band, he wrote the predominant number of lyrics, but as a result he lost the lawsuit. The rights to most of the compositions and the name "Pink Floyd" passed to David Gilmore, who, along with Wright and Mason, resumed their creative activities. With Roger there were only his compositions and the album “The Wall”.
Despite the collapse of the classical composition, the group continued to exist. Only 20 years later, all the musicians got together and performed at the concert “Live 8”, playing four old songs.
Solo career
This part of Waters' creative life was not as successful as the career of the illustrious collective, but despite this, a dozen albums were recorded and many performances were performed, starting in 1970. The British musician also created a rock opera and many soundtracks for cult films.
Waters Roger has an exquisite and elegant style of playing the bass. His bright riffs immediately sit in the head and do not leave it. Personal preferences were embodied by the musician in the Roger Waters Precision Bass name instrument. This is a four-string bass guitar with a pickup manufactured by Fender.