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Roger Waters<\/a>\u00a0never needed to be nice to others to get what he wanted all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ever since leaving Pink Floyd, there was always a vision that he had for every album that he worked on, and even though he was willing to give credit to the all-star musicians that he worked with on record, there was a good chance that a lot of the music that he came up with didn\u2019t need all that many bells and whistles to sound great. He could normally write the most perfect songs he could on his own, and he felt the same way even when he was in his prime with the members of his band.<\/p>\n But becoming a great songwriter wasn\u2019t something that happened overnight when Waters was first starting out. Syd Barrett was the key member of the band<\/a> ever since they first formed, and when he was removed from the band due to his mental issues, the band lost their heart and soul in lots of ways. They had to start back at zero, but Waters felt that he could at least step up and try something new every now and again.<\/p>\n Becoming a great prog-rock band<\/a> involved a lot of fumbling around in the dark across many of their albums, but \u2018Echoes\u2019 was the first time Waters thought that he had hit upon the right lyrical approach that he would be defined by. He wanted to empathise with his fellow man throughout his songs, and even when he was at his most confrontational on records like Animals and The Wall, he was still trying to deliver a message that there is some compassion left in the world if you know where to look for it.<\/p>\n That only leaves out one tiny caveat in Waters\u2019s career, and that\u2019s that there are other members of Pink Floyd. The band didn\u2019t suddenly become \u2018The Roger Waters Experience\u2019 when he started writing lyrics, and a lot of the greatest tunes that he ever made wouldn\u2019t have been half as good as they were if not for David Gilmour\u2019s immaculate guitar parts or Richard Wright contributing his beautiful keyboard lines across every single one of their classic albums.<\/p>\n They were the ones who were filling in the spaces in Waters\u2019s productions, but he was going to be dead in the ground before he let someone like Gilmour tell him how his songs were supposed to go. A piece of music that Gilmour made may have inspired him to make a tune like \u2018Shine On You Crazy Diamond\u2019<\/a>, but the idea most fans had of them being like John Lennon and Paul McCartney was far from the truth whenever they worked together.\u00a0<\/p>\n Waters would be thankful for the inspiration Gilmour gave him, but he didn\u2019t think that anything the guitarist created made him a co-writer with him, saying<\/a>, \u201cDave and I never wrote together. I don\u2019t ever remember writing with Dave. Sometimes he\u2019d bring in a chord sequence and I\u2019d the make a song out of it. Or he\u2019d bring a guitar riff in and I\u2019d make a song out of it, like \u2018Wish You Were Here.\u2019 I love that riff, it\u2019s fantastic. But we never wrote together, ever. Never. And Dave was never interested in drama, ever. In my experience. He never showed any interest at all.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n If you really think about it, though, Waters was thinking about the concept of songwriting all wrong. The entire idea of composing has to do with every part of the song, and while the bassist was fantastic at writing lyrics that could leave people absolutely dumbfounded by what they heard, there was a reason why people were so interested in hearing an album like Amused to Death<\/a> when they found out that Jeff Beck would be appearing on the final mix.<\/p>\n So, despite Waters insisting that he was the brains behind Floyd and no one else could have possibly taken his place, his own version of Dark Side of the Moon really proved how wrong he was. Floyd always considered the spaces in between the notes to be just as important as the central song, and it took all of them working together in the late 1970s to churn out the kind of masterpieces that they ended up with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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