Roger Waters talks about the new album and his memories from the Pink Floyd concerts

The 80-minute discussion’s biggest music revelation came when Waters disclosed that he is working on a new album — his first in 20 years. His succinct synopsis of the album’s storyline included the character voices of a six-year-old Northern Irish boy and his grandfather who comforts the child after he’s had violent nightmares which include children being killed. The grandfather “enters into a covenant with the boy that he will take him on a quest to find an answer to his question, ‘Why are we killing the children?’ And that’s what the record’s about,” Waters explained.

The musician fondly recalled Pink Floyd’s first U.S. gig in 1967, at San Francisco’s Winterland, which featured the group on the bottom of a bill with Big Brother and the Holding Company, Richie Havens and Headlights. He laughingly recalled buying a pint of Southern Comfort, having a slug before going onstage only to return after the set to find Janis Joplin had drank the entire bottle.

Waters spoke fondly of Live 8’s Pink Floyd reunion show before Richard Wright died, which he called a “very important moment.” While he as also gratified by the band’s historic Berlin Wall show in 1990, “he lost a fortune” because he had financed the show.

Source: Billboard