Roger Waters Has "No Idea" Why He Didn't Release a Solo Album for 25 Years

Roger Waters says the 25-year gap between his last two solo albums was not for lack of material.

"There's so much stuff I've produced over the years that I never put out," he tells Rolling Stone in a new interview. 

"I don't really think about it. I'm focused now on what I'm doing, so I can't really remember why I didn't make a record for all that time. I have no idea."

The Pink Floyd bassist and visionary released his latest politically-charged solo effort, Is This the Life We Really Want?, in June. His previous full-length solo album was 1992's Amused to Death.

Waters says he did a lot of writing around 2000 with his longtime guitarist Doyle Bramhall II. He emerged from those sessions with six or seven songs, he says, one of which—"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"—he included on Is This the Life We Really Want? after rewriting some of the lyrics.

Timeliness is crucial to Waters' current work.

"We are all on board a runaway train, and it's scary as shit, coming off the rails at every turn," he says. "There could be nuclear war, easily, and nobody gives a shit."

He continues saying the album title is a reference to the world's "perpetual state of war" and how people are apathetic about their personal liberties being stripped away.

"Do you have any choice? Or is the train going so fast that there is no way of finding where the brake is?"

Waters is taking his Us + Them Tour across North America through this fall. Get all the tour dates here

Read the full interview here.


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