Roger Waters’ son Harry has revealed that his father fired him from playing in his band, and he is now planning on playing his dad’s music in a Pink Floyd tribute band instead.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, the younger Waters claimed that it was in late 2016 that the former Pink Floyd bassist let him know that he would no longer be required to play keyboards in his dad’s touring band.
“I was fired, it was pretty miserable,” Harry said.
“I think he just wanted a change of blood, something new, something fresh. I’m not sure of his exact reasoning, but everyone except two people got fired. But the other guys that got the sack weren’t his son, so it was doubly hurtful for me.”
Harry had been part of his dad’s band for 14 years, but was dropped ahead of the ‘Us + Them’ tour. Nevertheless, Harry has continued to play the material that he is so familiar with, recently completing a tour with Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, covering Floyd’s album ‘Animals’ in full.
And now, Harry has accepted an offer to play three shows with Floyd tribute act Brit Floyd, alongside one of the band’s former background singers Durga McBroom and a former saxophonist Scott Page.
“I’ve never met any of them, but I’ll just turn up and play,” he said. “I’ve been playing this music for 30 years or so. I think we’ll be OK without rehearsal. I think we all know the material pretty well.”
In the same interview, Harry also addressed his dad’s recent political controversies.
Last week, a court in Chile ruled that Roger Waters’ upcoming concerts in the country can go ahead, despite attempts to block them over accusations of anti-Semitism.
Waters, who has repeatedly denied accusations of being anti-Semitic, had been challenged by the Representative Committee of Jewish Entities in Chile over bringing his ‘This Is Not A Drill Tour’ to Santiago, citing what they describe as Waters’ “history of incitement to antisemitic hatred”.
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