Roger Waters Says Re-Recording ‘Dark Side’ Was a ‘F—ing Mad’ Idea

Roger Waters has revealed additional particulars behind his determination to re-record Pink Floyd’s traditional 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. In a put up to Facebook, Waters defined that the preliminary thought got here to him whereas engaged on the Lockdown Sessions, a assortment of minimalist variations of Pink Floyd and solo materials that he recorded in the course of the pandemic.

“When we recorded the stripped-down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the fiftieth anniversary of the discharge of Dark Side of The Moon was looming on the horizon,” Waters explained. “It occurred to me that Dark Side of the Moon might properly be a appropriate candidate for a comparable transforming, partly as a tribute to the unique work, but in addition to readdress the political and emotional message of the entire album.”

Waters discussed the idea with some of his collaborators. “When we’d stopped giggling and shouting ‘You must be fucking mad’ at one another, we decided to take it on,” he explained.

A release date for the updated version of The Dark Side of the Moon has not yet been announced, though Waters noted he was “in the process of finishing the final mix.” The singer’s Facebook post was accompanied by a video, featuring a snippet of the new rendition of “Us and Them,” which you can watch in the below post.

“It’s turned out really great and I’m excited for everyone to hear it,” Waters boasted. “It’s not a replacement for the original, which, obviously, is irreplaceable. But it is a way for the 79-year-old man to look back across the intervening 50 years into the eyes of the 29 year and say, to quote a poem of mine about my father, ‘We did our best, we kept his trust, our dad would have been proud of us.’ And also it is a way for me to honor a recording that Nick [Mason] and Rick [Wright] and Dave [Gilmour] and I have every right to be very proud of.”