Why why why hasn't Roger Waters released an album?

Ran out of space there. This thread is for real ROG fans who sort of understand what I mean!

• Roger Waters hasn't released an album since 1992 (Amused to Death!)
• He released two updated political tracks in 2004 (Leaving Beirut and To Kill A Child)
• In 2007 he released a fillerish song for a movie track entitled Hello I Love You
• Earlier (before 2004) he had released one or two songs (for instance Each Small Candle)

excuse my shouting, but:

WHERE IS MY ALBUM!

He did release that opera who I do not care to name... that doesn't count.

• Those who have followed Roger will know he tours frequently and impressively,
•  also that he is much more political and a whole lot smarter than he ever was.
• He has become quite an imposing intellectual with a good historical consciousness (his awful opera is an example).
  
• He said in an interview in 2008 that he mainly continues touring for political reasons.

Now, with the recession and expanding wars in Afganistan and now Pakistan and the great crisis of modern society... why isn't Roger Waters in the recording studio? I mean, even the practically clueless David Gilmour got an "album" cut in 06. Even Richard Wright was working on an album and Nick Mason wrote a great book!

Why why why? What events, personal situations, changes etc. forced Roger to abandon studio work (he has done quite a bit at various times this decade) and make virtually the only really political progster silent at such an important time? What do proggers out there think a Roger Waters album would look like circa 2010 anyway?

BTW in the ancient guys coming up with new albums category , thanks to Peter Gabriel at least for the brilliant Burn You Up, Burn You Down on Big Blue Ball. It may not be an album, but it rocks! No thanks to the WHO, for their flat as H Endless Wire in 2006.


Edited by RoyFairbank - September 21 2009 at 20:08

"even the practically clueless David Gilmour "

Because last time I checked, he wasn't a slave.

Because he doesn't have anything new to say.

Why should he have to make another album?

Don't forget that the process of making an album is not an easy one, and Roger isn't exactly a young un' anymore.

I'd have also thought that his discography would have spoken for itself by now too.

One think is for shure. If he would release a new record it would be either great or awful. Some feeling I have...

fuxi wrote: Waters has treated us to exactly ONE decent solo album, and that was nearly twenty years ago. Why bother him?

I'm not a fanboy either! - I'm a deranged disciple!

Seriously before I read Hume or Aristotle I listened to the lyrics of Roger Waters. It probably greatly sparked my interest in Nietzsche and later Marx

I was just new to middle school (actually probably late elementary but I can't remember) when I discovered Pink Floyd and bought "all their discs in a hat"!

IN SHORT I'M COMPLETELY BIASED AND UNREALISTIC

but pulling myself together:

IF i was rational I could still claim that Roger has given us less than he should have, for reasons I have already cited.

• He is not to old to tour or record here and there
• He did a whole opera
• He's Roger Waters

all valid refutations

And I apologize for bashing David Gilmour, but the man simply does not understand what PF was really about - only a little of the emotional feeling and the best guitar playing in Rock... although he almost gets there sometimes. Roger too, of course, retreated from PF's main political/sociological direction even with the Wall in some way and definitely by the time of Pros and Cons. Radio KAOS was just bad, but he was trying to popularize the PF approach (by selling out and junking every aspect of it). Amused to Death proved he still had it, despite falling apart a bit at the end (Watching TV?).




EDIT: if you guys can't tell Alan Parsons Project is in my Pantheon (sic?)


Edited by RoyFairbank - September 22 2009 at 10:36

RoyFairbank wrote: excuse my shouting, but: WHERE IS MY ALBUM!

He obviously doesn't need the money, and presumably doesn't need the hassle

RoyFairbank wrote: excuse my shouting, but: WHERE IS MY ALBUM!