Roger Waters admitted that the decision to re-record Pink Flolyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was “f**king mad”.
In a recent Facebook post, accompanied by a small clip of the re-record version of ‘Us and Them’, Waters goes into further detail about why he decided to re-record the album, 50 years after it was released.
“When we recorded the stripped down songs for the Lockdown Sessions, the 50th anniversary of the release of Dark Side of The Moon was looming on the horizon,” he wrote.
“It occurred to me that Dark Side of the Moon could well be a suitable candidate for a similar re-working, partly as a tribute to the original work, but also to re-address the political and emotional message of the whole album.”
“I discussed it with Gus and Sean, and when we'd stopped giggling and shouting 'You must be fucking mad' at one another we decided to take it on. We are now in the process of finishing the final mix,” he continued.
“It's turned out really great and I'm excited for everyone to hear it. It's not a replacement for the original which, obviously, is irreplaceable.”
“But it is a way for the seventy-nine-year-old man to look back across the intervening fifty years into the eyes of the twenty-nine-year-old 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 and Rick and Dave and I have every right to be very proud of. Happy 50th to Dark Side of the Moon,” he finished.
He did not give a release date for the re-recorded version but it should be here soon seeing as he’s about to wrap up the final mix.
