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The surviving members of Pink Floyd reunited, more or less, for Rolling Stone‘s new cover story: With Floyd re-releasing their entire catalog, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Nick Mason all spoke with senior writer Brian Hiatt for the new issue. They discuss the band’s fraught history, the making of their 1973 masterpiece Dark Side of the Moon and the delicate current state of their relationship.
After years of tension, Waters and Gilmour have played together on three occasions in the past six years – leading to many to think that relations between them are better than they have been in a long time. “You would think so, yeah,” says Gilmour, before pausing for a moment. “You could say that, but when I hesitate, it’s almost nonexistent. I played on Roger‘s Wall show here one night a few months ago, and I haven’t heard a word from him since.”
The classic line-up of Pink Floyd reunited onstage after 24 years at Live 8 in London, but don’t expect that to happen again anytime soon. “Roger spent a lot of time afterwards saying how he would roll over gracefully for that one occasion, but it wouldn’t happen again,” says Gilmour. “Which strengthened my views: I understand how other people want that sort of [reunion] thing to happen, but I’m entirely selfish in thinking that I want to enjoy my declining years exactly the way that I want to do it. And that wouldn’t be part of it.”
The article appears in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone on newsstands Friday. More highlights at: http://www.rollingstone.