Roger Waters says "no Pink Floyd tour"

If you were hoping that Pink Floyd's reunion at last month's Live 8 show might lead to more, you can pretty much forget it. Singer-bassist Roger Waters, who performed with his former bandmates in London for the first time since 1981, told rollingstone.com that although he enjoyed the experience, he can't imagine touring with singer-guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Rick Wright, and drummer Nick Mason. Waters said, "I was very happy - I definitely felt warm and cuddly toward everyone in the band. I decided that if anything came up in rehearsals - any difference of opinion - I would just roll over. And I did...I didn't mind rolling over for one day, but I couldn't roll over for a whole fucking tour."

He added that a Floyd reunion "would be a very hot ticket," but he's not interested, even with the reported $150 million offer for a tour. He said, "I don't really need it."

Waters did say that he had a great time in Hyde Park: "It was more fun than I can remember having with Pink Floyd 25 years ago. When we did The Wall, we'd have four Winnebagos parked in a circle, with all the doors facing away from the circle. It was really, really bad. Everybody was kind of jealous -- definitely Dave. He was so pissed off that I was writing everything and doing all the work. He wanted to be that person, but he wasn't. But at Live 8 everything was easy. I was there to enjoy myself."

He also said that Gilmour expressed his pleasure for them having done Live 8 -- "(Gilmour) did send me an e-mail afterward, saying, 'Hi, Rog, I'm glad you made that phone call. It was fun, wasn't it?' So he obviously had fun."

Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof had called Gilmour to do the show, but Gilmour declined. Then Geldof called Waters, who thought it was a good idea, and Waters called Gilmour to make what turned out to be a successful personal appeal. Mason told the U.K.'s Radio Times magazine, "We all felt that it was a shame we didn't play Live Aid, but we didn't really exist as a band at the time. So Roger rang David and that cemented it. There's not been much conversation in the past 10 years. So this was a fairly hefty thing for us."

Waters will release his French-English opera called Ca Ira on September 27th. He also told rollingstone.com that there's a rock album in the pipeline - "I've written a bunch of songs. When I discover what it's actually about, I'll finish it and put it out for better or worse."
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